WikiLeaks Releases State Department Cables
Saturday 27 November 2010
by: Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers | Report
Editor's Note: The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel have published stories this afternoon revealing details of the State Department cables.
Washington - U.S. diplomats and officials said they're bracing Sunday for at least three newspapers and WikiLeaks to publish hundreds of thousands classified State Department cables that could drastically alter U.S. relations with top allies and reveal embarrassing secrets about U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. diplomats frantically have been reaching out to their counterparts around the world as intelligence officials pleaded with WikiLeaks and the newspapers, including The New York Times, the Guardian in London and Der Spiegel, a German newsweekly, to not publish information that could endanger lives and U.S. policy. Some of the documents are expected to reveal details about how some U.S. diplomats feel about top foreign leaders.
While this is the third time this year that WikiLeaks has released a large batch of documents related to U.S. foreign policy, officials told McClatchy that Sunday's expected release will be far more damaging than the first two combined.
The first batch dealt with Afghanistan and the second with Iraq. Both releases largely gave details about what many thought the U.S. military was doing in those wars. This batch however, is expected to include never released private cables between diplomats.
Publicly, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley warned that releasing the documents could put "lives and interests at risk." But privately, administration officials are far more concerned about what they contain and implications of releasing them.
NBC News reported Friday that some of the documents would reveal damaging details about U.S. efforts to renegotiate the START nuclear arms treaty with Russia and U.S. anti-terrorism efforts in Yemen.
Speculation is rampant in Washington about what's in the documents.
Germany's Der Spiegel briefly published a story on its website Saturday saying that the documents include 251,287 cables and 8,000 diplomatic directives, most of which date after 2004. About 9,000 documents are from the first two months of this year, the newspaper said.
About 6 percent of the documents were classified as secret, the newspaper said before taking down its story. The majority was unclassified, the newspaper said, but all were intended to remain confidential.
The newspaper said it would release all the documents at 4:30 p.m. EST. WikiLeaks and the newspapers are expected to release the documents and their findings at the same time. However, the release time has changed several times over the past few days.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reached out Friday to leaders in Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, France and Afghanistan, Crowley said via Twitter. Diplomats throughout the State Department have spent days reaching out and warning allies of what's coming.
Newspapers in Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, India, Pakistan, Israel and Belgium, among others, said they expect the leaked documents to include details about U.S. relations with their countries.
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN in an interview to be broadcast Sunday that: "I would hope that those who are responsible for this would, at some point in time, think about the responsibility that they have for lives that they're exposing."
Although WikiLeaks hasn't said how it obtained the documents, U.S. officials think that Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, while a 22-year-old intelligence office stationed in Iraq, downloaded thousands of documents, at times pretending he was listening to music by Lady Gaga.
Manning and other soldiers had access to the documents as part of an effort by the military to get as much information as possible to soldiers on the battlefield about their communities so that they had the best intelligence possible.
Manning has been charged with illegally downloading thousands of classified documents and is being held in a military jail.
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In my opinion, those in our
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 14:01 — Larry Glick (not verified)In my opinion, those in our military responsible for the WikiLeaks revelations should be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their courage and devotion to the ideals of our Founding Fathers.
"..interest and selves be at
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 14:16 — Anonarcmous (not verified)"..interest and selves be at risk" after doing so to others--think that is called the harvest law.
Want to know is not need to
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:37 — jh (not verified)Want to know is not need to know.
I predict that nothing in
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:42 — Christopher Marlowe (not verified)I predict that nothing in the released documents will be harmful to israel. I believe that wikileaks is being run by the mossad and AIPAC. Wikileaks is a FAKE.
BRING IT ON, AND LET'S GET
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:47 — BRAVA, BRAVA! (not verified)BRING IT ON, AND LET'S GET SOME KIND OF INTEGRITY GOING AGAIN. I am SOOOOO tired of all the illusion with which we've been steered in this country.
No matter whether bringing forth VERY dark truths within a family, within a dyad relationship, within a community, tribe, a country or the global community, is one of the most difficult experiences that happen, but when something SO contaminating is happening over time, it is the ONLY way there is ANY hope of going forward with a clearer and more honest and honorable set of information.
We have a responsible to "sit in circle" while this is revealed. And a responsibility to support whoever is trying to bring forth the truth here.
If this will get us out of
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:48 — Anonymous (not verified)If this will get us out of Afghanistan and Iraq for good then fine. If however, it is just a smear job on the U.S. and endangers lives then I say that it is irresponsible. Freedom of speech comes with responsibility to do no harm to others, reckless, mean spirited behavior is unAmerican and should be treated as such and those who engage in it should be prosecuted. I note that the documents are since 2004. I am sure some of Bush's indiscretions will finally be exposed and we should probably go back to 2001.
Mullen can go to hell. I
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:52 — tedbohne (not verified)Mullen can go to hell. I don't give a rat's a** about US interests. The US doesn't have any friends except Israel and the UK. Both of those two pools of sewage are implicated in these memos. THIS IS NOT HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS! I wish these people who are exposing the necrotic flesh of the US Government smooth sailing, and smooth "cutting!"
I think it's past due that
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:54 — Dr. Bill Bushing (not verified)I think it's past due that American policy in so many countries becomes "endangered" by the release of this information. We reap what we sow. Openness might bring about a less self-centered policy and fewer dealings with criminals in other countries (as well as in our own).
Tell me. What aspect of US
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:58 — Anonymous (not verified)Tell me. What aspect of US Government Policy, foreign OR Domestic, is not an embarrassment?
There are so many lies and cover-ups and deflected funds, that there is nearly no Truth-in -Government at all any longer.
Even our Elected Representatives, Presidentially appointed Secretaries, and all operative staff, can no longer discern their own Facts from Fictions. Tangled within their own lies.
Enter now, 'Impostors', of all sorts, to play upon this rat's nesty of chaos. Rather funny. Impersonators of Al Qaida Representatives. Our own representatives are also Impersonators as they no longer represent We The People.
Is confusion, enormous waste, deadly conflicts, Brutal Accidents (murders of those whose mouths did open too far) not inevitable?
this sounds like the type of
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:00 — long ron daniels (not verified)this sounds like the type of thing that will be used by the gov't (and their lapdog media) to sell an Internet lockdown. we'll be hearing how dangerous these leaks are, and how for our safety - of course - the gov't will take control of the Internet. and like the porno scanners, most of the sheep will enthusiastically accept it.
"...reckless, mean spirited
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:07 — Anonymous (not verified)"...reckless, mean spirited behavior is unAmerican and should be treated as such and those who engage in it should be prosecuted"
so you mean like bush, cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, choo, bybee, rice, congress, cia, corporations, banks, financial institutions, not to mention the current enabler...right?
DAMN RIGHT.
I find it hilarious that
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:08 — A. Stone (not verified)I find it hilarious that unamerican is supposed to be derogatoey :) and I say release it all, it is about time for a honesty reboot. And if endanger people then that is a sad neccesity in my opinion. We're happy to endanger lives to get Oil, force our culture om others, dictate society to other Nations and supposedly to protect freedom, why not to protect honesty?
Right on as usual, Mr. Glick
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:37 — bh (not verified)Right on as usual, Mr. Glick (in the comments section). Real patriotism, not the reflexive nationalism that's cropped up in its place these past 9 years, is to be thanked for all three of these massive releases of incriminating information showing the cynical maneuvering of our increasingly authoritarian government. Cheers to the leakers and to Julian Assange, doing the right thing with a target on his back.
Talk as if everyone is
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:51 — Anonymous (not verified)Talk as if everyone is watching and hearing, make transactions which will not embarrass you let alone incriminate you, become an honest broker and everyone will respect you. If you deal with thugs and engage in thuggish activities, you are not representing the people of the US nor abiding by international law which forbids digging tunnels under other peoples' homes. Assange is doing a service to humanity and hopefully others would take his mantle. He is the type of man who should lead the UN, an impartial human bent on doing the right thing. We need more leaks to see what is done in the name of the American, British, French, German, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and other people.... The people of the world need to know what crimes are committed and should bring the criminals to Hague just as it was done in Nuremberg!!!
It is a certainty that the
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:57 — Douin (not verified)It is a certainty that the release of documents is not instigated by Israel. Why would Israel bite the hand that feeds it ? The Mossad and AIPAC are definitely responsible for many things that are detrimental to the entire world..not only the USA. Maybe, just maybe these released documents will further our understanding of exactly who, what and the Why of 911, for we all know it was not carried out by a dozen cave dwellers with box cutters. How insulting to our intelligence ! My thoughts are that is precisely what is feared the most..the truth of 911 being divulged. Nothing could stem the tide of hatred against whoever is responsible for that satanic deed.
The TRUTH will set you free!
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 17:08 — Cathy (not verified)The TRUTH will set you free!
"Some of the documents are
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 17:15 — unarmbears (not verified)"Some of the documents are expected to reveal details about how some U.S. diplomats feel about top foreign leaders."
Embarrassing and not very "diplomatic."
Check me out on TLC's new
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 17:16 — Trig.Paxson.Van.Halen.Palin (not verified)Check me out on TLC's new show, "Sarah Palin's An A s s H a t!" I'm the one in the poopy-diaper being held in the arms of the r e t a r d!
Christopher Marlowe at 20:42
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 17:29 — Bill O'Rights (not verified)Christopher Marlowe at 20:42 may be onto something - the last big dump from WL contained questionable items that tacitly justified the wars - the embarrassing behaviors being the 'loss-leader' to authenticate the planted message, which is that we need to continue the wars along with the police state here at home. Don't be surprised if there is something in this 'data dump' that justifies obligatory body scanning and groping at airports and maybe shutting down the internet. I am suspicious like Christopher. I think Assange may be a pawn in this though - maybe he's being fed this information and doesn't know that some of it is not legitimate.
Thank you, Cathy! My
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 18:08 — Greg Smith (not verified)Thank you, Cathy! My thoughts exactly! I also liked the comment that distinguished the difference between true patriotism and reflexive nationalism. "My Country, Right or Wrong." Well yeah! that's why we need to stand up to the Government when they are wrong! We the People still have the power in this country but about the only tool we have left is civil disobedience on the order of WikiLeaks. Civil Disobedience! It's as American as apple pie! If everyone disobeyed every unjust law in this country, what are they gonna do? Lock us all up? HMMPH! Yeah they'll try to lock up the WikiLeaks perpetrators, and they'll probably succeed because juries have become the tool of law enforcement because people have not been taught that the jury system is in place to put a check on government by refusing to convict based on their own sense of Justice, not the Judges instructions. It's called Jury Nullification, look it up! The tools the People have are three! The Jury, The Ballot Box, and the Streets! Most people know how to use the Ballot Box and the Streets, but we need to reclaim the Jury as ours, not the government's.
Right now, many Germans are
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 18:13 — Anonymous (not verified)Right now, many Germans are laughing at the *very* realistic descriptions of Merkel and Westerwelle. Undiplomatic, sure, not flattering at all but oh, so true.
Anyhow, I reckon diplomatic relations might be a tad... err... stiff in the next few months.
Just keep in mind that the
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 18:16 — whistleblowerdr (not verified)Just keep in mind that the Bush Administration set the stage for leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press. It is a felony to leak the name of a secret agent. They got away with it. The are the example for the citizens.
If these leaks reveal
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 18:27 — Anonymous (not verified)If these leaks reveal systematic criminal activity by the government then I grudgingly accept them being published. However, if these leaks revel the legal, classified workings of our government, then the publisher is an enemy of the US and should be treated as such. He is as much an enemy as any terrorist. He will have earned a drone with his name on it.
Only in America Only in
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 18:41 — The God Father (not verified)Only in America
Only in America can a pro-life mass murderer and war criminal ride around in a taxpayer funded jet and a bullet-proof limo protected by an army of secret service agents while making millions of dollars selling a poorly written book filled with lies and deception.
May God forgive all the so-called Christians and self-proclaimed Patriots who supported George W. Bush during his Reign of Terror, and may God forgive Barack Obama for following in his footsteps.
Re "Only in America" the so
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 19:06 — muriel schnierow (not verified)Re "Only in America" the so called GodFather has ststed a position i agree with. It is a very good siogn that the truth is coming out.
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This is great. Wikileaks,
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 19:37 — Anonymous (not verified)This is great. Wikileaks, and others are the only heros I've seen in a long time.
I love the idea of those
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 19:40 — Anonymous (not verified)I love the idea of those dirty little cockroaches destroying this country being brought into daylight. One and all can see how ignorant and mendacious they are.
Newspapers used to be the
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:20 — goobagooba (not verified)Newspapers used to be the way to get this sort of information. Competition in the "free press" was a great stimulus for investigative journalism.
Now that the news media have been reduced to talking heads and entertainment at regular hours during the day through corporate piracy, we are left with Wikileaks as a means to the same end.
Business is business, whether it be in the guise of government diplomacy or the musical chairs played in the boardrooms of America. It would be my personal preference to see more exposure of the latter, with actual prosecution of the wrong-doers.
I have been thinking some
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:38 — S. Wolf Britain (not verified)I have been thinking some more about Wikileaks, Assange and all of the document releases; and Assange may not be CIA, aka "al-CIA-duh(!)", or know what he is a part of; but I think this whole thing may be being orchestrated by world government in order to completely discredit the U.S. as part of claiming that "there's (supposedly) no choice" but to dissolve the U.S. as we know it and bring it under global government.
Foreign and U.N. troops are already stationed on U.S. military bases on U.S. soil, all over the country, many where concentration camps are believed to be located, in preparation for quelling and imprisoning the millions of Americans who will rise up against the completely unconstitutional dissolution of U.S. sovereignty and independence; and, if one connects the dots, everything all added together fits "nicely"...
...The U.S. is about to be
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:40 — S. Wolf Britain (not verified)...The U.S. is about to be taken down and turned into another China, but as part of world government. Martial law is going to be formally declared, the country is going to be completely locked down, and everyone who doesn't bow down to all of it like good little cowed sheep are going to mercilessly dealt with. The U.S. government, military and law enforcement have been practicing more and more for this for a long time now.
Assange is probably a globalist who WANTS to see the U.S. dissolved and absorbed into global government; and believes, like all of the other brainwashed globalists, that it will all supposedly be "the best thing that could happen". This has all been being orchestrated since the formation of the U.N., and now the globalist plans are coming to their climax, and their "endgame" is now being brought out of the shadows, and to completion...
...H.G. Wells was not just a
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:41 — S. Wolf Britain (not verified)...H.G. Wells was not just a "sci-fi writer"; he was also a globalist like the "Huxter" (I mean Huxley) brothers (one of them of Brave New World fame) and others we've been fraudulently led to believe are supposedly "innocent", "harmless" and "benign", etc. Wells wrote a book called, The New World Order, which was NOT sci-fi or fiction whatsoever, in which in 1939 he called for world government and the NWO:
"Countless people will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it."
Most of the "American" people have been being prepared for this a very long time now, and most of them will gladly bow down to it, literally selling their souls to the devil, and betray their fellow-citizens who won't go along with it. They have been turned, by and large, into spineless, narcissistic cowards who would sellout their own mothers to "save themselves". I see it in most people I deal with every time I go out into society...
...It is final decision
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:43 — S. Wolf Britain (not verified)...It is final decision time, people. Either you get truly, fully and completely restored to your Maker / Creator, the Christ / Messiah, the Lord Jesus (John 14:6), truly, fully and completely transformed by Him, and infilled with His character of Love, or you will be part of the betrayal of your fellow-humankind to the most awful fate(s) imaginable, to internment in FEMA concentration camps, and to their mass-murder...
...The vast majority of
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:43 — S. Wolf Britain (not verified)...The vast majority of "Americans" and others have also been prepared to believe that those who tell them the truth like I'm telling you now, are supposedly "insane"; and, thus, they are willing to do almost, if not, anything to silence the truth from reaching their consciousness. So they will "happily" surrender all True Compassion and betray those who will not willingly sell their souls to evil and lose their souls for eternity as a result.
What is it going to be, sheople? Are you going to truly, fully and completely wake up out of the darkness that has been enshrouding your minds for generations, get truly, fully and completely restored to your Maker / Creator and become courageous people who stand up against all of this evil? Or are you going to sell your souls to evil, surrender all of the True Humanity you were originally designed by God to exemplify, and betray all True Freedom?
Why should the government
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:47 — Anonymous (not verified)Why should the government keep its behavior secret? If they have military secrets, they should be kept secret, not available to journalists, as necessary, in a time of a legitimate war, but otherwise: the spying on people, the atrocities committed in the name of patriotism, the derogatory descriptions of foreign officials, the condoning of prisoner torture should not be kept from the knowledge of a society that boasts its democracy.
whistleblower's comment
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:55 — Cap'n Canard! (not verified)whistleblower's comment above hit the nail on the head: our former leader and his impoverished morality (George W. Bush and his team of nincompoops) have set the standard for this slimy behavior. These crude Wiki-leaks have only continued what the liars of the Bush administration had started.
flag waving patriots make me
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 21:07 — not america (not verified)flag waving patriots make me wretch
the rats at the state dept are on the run
now lets publish some documents from congressional e-mail accounts with the lobbyist in the beltway
a mother-load of dirty dealing to be had in those e-mails and rats abounding
s. wolf...i've read many of
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 21:17 — Anonymous (not verified)s. wolf...i've read many of your comments here at TO over the years, and while having a penchant for long-winded-ness (i know that may not be a word) you do at times raise some interesting points and i certainly respect the spirit of serious intention your comments portray. but i think your current post is incorrect in its possible conclusions. i have no 'evidence' to back up my opinion here, but its my opinion nonetheless.
Peace will only come with
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 21:23 — Sam (not verified)Peace will only come with absolute transparency and the complete demolition of the military/corporate imperialists. I say anyone involved with WikiLeaks should be considered to be a global hero.
sam _02:23 second that
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 21:32 — not america (not verified)sam _02:23
second that
America is the scourge of
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 21:46 — antigreed (not verified)America is the scourge of the world. Nothing more than a lot of scum secondhand car salesman. Their greed for profit over ALL is grotesque. Their war mongering and pilaging any country for its resources is incorigable,what a sess pool of humanity, and thats supposedly the country of freedom.
Unfortunately it seems the American public believe whats spoon fed to them as propoganda, we need more HONEST people showing the glaring deceit of its government and policy makers for what they are and theiving of the public purse for their own short sighted greedy ends.
AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC We
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 22:49 — hogorina (not verified)AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC
We the people:should ever more honor and protect any and all political attestations as is enclosed within the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. But, when we witness our Republican form of government being subverted by universal socialists functioning through the mechanization of an international stock exchange, then; this scheme to bring about a futuristic One World Government should be exposed! With an oath of speaking the following truths: fear is no shield for actual truth.
myself is to believe that the National Educational Association is an ever expanding ruthless method to invade sovereign state's rights. It is believed that this organization is a front for embedded social engineering, hand-picked by Presidents of whom are merely tools that intend to completely Marxianize
the Southern United States.
Further, it is believed this is fast becoming attuned to a fifty state provincial Third World dictatorship, as a collective pawn, as intertwined with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. Originally, it can be shown that our Declaration of Independence was some what Gerrymandered through European finance coming from Spain, France and Belgium.
It is known that through treaties that our country is in the hands of a pro-commie affiliations with every Oriental government. Article 6, Sec. 6 of the Constitution was the very beginning of the now ending United States Republic.Too, that the U.N. is a law unto alien political philosophies.
Consider: The very fo7undation of incipient Communism is thought control. America is fast developing into a police state along the lines of which the Trotsky's and leninist's helped to establish a police state in the new Red Russia of 1917.
I see the wikileaks as a
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 23:28 — Anonymous (not verified)I see the wikileaks as a form of civil disobedience, too. It is a protest against American foreign policy, and the military industrial complex that has come to dominate world affairs so, that we are witnessing, one war after the next, unceasingly. Assange, IMO, is an anti-war activist.
As far as "embarrassment" is concerned - however - I don't really see it with what I read in the NYT today (now that it is released). Yes, there is the implication of great corruption in the Afghan government we are enabling -- alluded to with the millions in briefcase cash -- but, for the most part, it reflects poorly on the Saudi king and the Russian government.
The American official quoted was reluctant to take a more aggressive attitude toward Iran, for example, when the Saudi and Israeli government were urging such a posture. The stuff with North Korea -- typical, nothing surprising.
What is most revealing to me are the personal, subjective opinions *leaped* to by people, whether American or any other nationality, without any basis in empirical reasoning; how little world leaders know each other and communicate with one another; and the utter decadence and moral depravity in the halls of power -- which, in this case, the Americans come out looking rather civilized.
The people screaming about embarrassment must be Saudi and Russian government supporters.
It is all part of the
Sun, 11/28/2010 - 23:46 — tioche (not verified)It is all part of the collapse of the fascist amerikan empire- long overdue !
We sure do have a lot of
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 00:07 — Anonymous (not verified)We sure do have a lot of disloyal Americans who only loathe the country that respects their freedom to be self-hating fools. In most places of the world they would be rounded up, tortured, and shot. I can only hope for the best.
I would hope all my antiwar
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 00:15 — Anonymous (not verified)I would hope all my antiwar friends are viewing this
site and I am hoping that this brave young man who downloaded all the trashy truths we may see tomorrow on the news will be recognized as we are made t
look like prelates of the demonic silent churches
who are sitting still andnot voicing their OBJECTIONS
to the U. S. ACTIONS AND FAKE DIPLOMACY
OVERSEAS IN 181 COUNRIES WHERE WE ARE
PEDDLING OUR WARES UNDER THE GUISE OF
DEMOCRACY. PITY THE AWE-FULLY IGNORANT
CITIZENS OF AMERICA WHO ARE NOT READING
THIS GLARE OF SPOTLIGHTING AND EXPOSURE OF CRASS PLUTOCRACY AND SIN IN AMERICA NOW. THANKS FOR THE REVELATIONS FROM GERMANY AND ENGLAND--FROM REAL AMERICANS.
This WL thing must be
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 00:22 — S.O.Teric (not verified)This WL thing must be really, really scary. I have never read such a long litany of paranoid ramblings as this article has prompted. Get a grip, people.
i think the government's
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 01:04 — www.the2013collection.com (not verified)i think the government's response to this is "don't tell mommy where uncle sam touched you". our so-called leaders need to stop hiding the record of their crimes behind "security" and "special interests".
people may refute our remarks by saying that we would be put in jail for making these comments in some other countries. well, that's true, but it's not because or government wants to protect our rights. it's because they're not in a position to take those rights away... yet.
the best defense is a good offense. watergate helped end the vietnam war and depose richard nixon (who was a quaker, oddly enough; just a side-note). let's keep hacking at them and GOD BLESS WIKILEAKS!... and america, along with all the peoples of the world. time to take the helm!
The government is not
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 01:30 — Anonymous (not verified)The government is not telling us the truth, so this is what happens ! They also spy on us, as ordinary citizens, feel us up at airports -- well, now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. Now the government is getting spied on and x-rayed!
Disloyal? Are you kidding me? Our government is betraying the People !! These leaks show that we are supporting drug dealers toppling other governments, not to mention that we don't even know who's bombing who!
continued
continued Putting lives at
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 01:31 — Anonymous (not verified)continued
Putting lives at risk? Who the hell are they to talk about putting lives at risk? They went in and demolished Iraq, driving them into civil war - with about a million Iraqis dead and thousands of American dead for the sake of their "desire to spread Democracy" (Hypocrites!) -- and now we can't get them out of Afghanistan either -- where they're chumming up with Afghanis (at the taxpayers' expense, mind you) who walk around with suitcases filled with millions of dollars in cash ... or Russians who throw hundred dollar bills at exotic dancers who are little girls .. or Saudi kings who want to implant tracking devices used for horses and falcons in released prisoners who were unlawfully imprisoned to begin with ... Sounds to me like the government ---- and many governments in this world, for that matter - need some spying on ! Not by governments but the People !
I was a little sceptical
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 04:29 — Tony (not verified)I was a little sceptical when I first looked at this: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/27/gordon-duff-wikileak-predictions-sticking-my-neck-out-2/
After listening to the BBC news today, I'm no longer sceptical.
Ok, so where's the kompromat
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 04:45 — Catherine Fitzpatrick (not verified)Ok, so where's the kompromat promised about Russia a month ago in an article you reprinted from Fred Weir on Oct 26 from the Christian Sicence Monitor, "Wikileaks Ready to Drop a Bombshell Russia but Will Russians Get to Read About it?
Not seeing anything that you could qualify as kompromat against Russia in this latest dump.
A cable about a wedding in Dagestan featuring Kadyrov isn't undermining the Kremlin but reinforcing it. And there only seems to be one cable on Russia.
So...Was this entire article a master of spin of the sort we've come to expect from self-acknowledged red-diaper baby Fred Weir?
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when a nation stands
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 07:10 — hogorina (not verified)when a nation stands tall.myself is to believe that the National Educational Association is an ever expanding ruthless method to invade sovereign state's rights. It is believed that this organization is a front for embedded social engineering, hand-picked by Presidents of whom are merely tools that intend to completely Marxianizethe Southern United States.Further, it is believed this is fast becoming attuned to a fifty state provincial Third World dictatorship, as a collective pawn, as intertwined with the United Nations.
Here we have multiple
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 07:17 — hogorina (not verified)Here we have multiple sinister personalities, ( ministers ), politicians, claiming devine guidance, foaming at their mouths, preaching to impassioned souls. Moses gave the Law and Israel obeyed. Shilo never wavers.It would be an absolute miscarriage of contemporary religious journalistic impropriety, in unraveling nature's laws, not nature's good advice on health and commercial goods, by interested individuals regarding Holy writ impli- cations, based upon lore and hearsay. Simply, none would dare dwell upon the very roots of a twin isareli,
Lets face it, we live in a
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 08:20 — AnonymousDV (not verified)Lets face it, we live in a corrupt society. It is only when compared to the rest of the world that we appear decent. We live on a lunatic planet!
As was alluded to earlier on
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 08:23 — mysterioso (not verified)As was alluded to earlier on in the comments, America need a reboot. We need to get back to the America we were all once proud of living in. Now the shame is a cloak we can't shake off and a stain that won't wash off. Destroy the military industrial complex and the federal reserve.
Is this just another sidebar
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 08:44 — Anonymous (not verified)Is this just another sidebar to distract everyone from the real matters at hand? Of course the media is all over it and we will be drowned in all the findings. The real news is that there is too much money in the hands of too few, the vested interests do not give a rats ass about you and me. Their game is to control everything from the food we eat to the so called news we watch.
OMG!! The sky is falling!!
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 10:29 — Horus (not verified)OMG!! The sky is falling!! Time to repent and except Jesus, for the NWO IS BEHIND THE WHOLE THING! Yes, the Hulkster, Scott Hall & the gang are working for the Devil now & their mission to make America (this very GODLY land) submit! Do you see the 4 horsemen riding on the horizon? I thought I heard somebody yelling WHOOOOOOOO!!!....
I watched the movie "V for
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 12:10 — David Brookbank (not verified)I watched the movie "V for Vendetta" again last night with friends. I would recommend that if you have not seen it you see it tonight or tomorrow night. The revolution is in your hands, my brother and my sister.
Release every last US "diplomatic" communique, every last plotting, conniving, and spying "diplomatic" note. The US is a rogue state which needs to be reigned in. US policy, its invasions, its war crimes, and its coercion, its arrogance, all of it is fair game for the people of the world to know. Given that the US is spying on anyone and everyone, turn it all loose and turn it all over to people of the world to make sense of it from their perspectives and try and judge us in an international court of our global peers.
Former US Vice Consul (Mexico, El Salvador, and Cuba) 1991-1995
kinda like NSA evesdropping
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 15:31 — Anonymous (not verified)kinda like NSA evesdropping in reverse
This article only gives the
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 17:21 — Jeff Semmerling (not verified)This article only gives the official take on the leaks. It's author hasn't bother to read any of them or translate them to us. If my Hero Mr. Manning is to go to jail for this at least let us see what it is. I understand that policies in South America against illegal coups and how Clinton admitted that they were such, yet our government chooses to back the new military dictators. Things like this are not the transparent government that Obama promised.
Tell us what's in the leaked documents, not just what Hilary Clinton and Adm. Mike Mullen want us to think of them.
How about some journalism guys?
Feel free to read the cables
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 17:57 — David Brookbank (not verified)Feel free to read the cables yourself.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
What they(our fearless
Wed, 12/01/2010 - 13:20 — Anonymous (not verified)What they(our fearless leaders) are really afraid of is "us" after we discover the fact that our government has been feeding us a bunch of lies about practically everything!
First off, Hillary Clinton should resign! What should also be pointed out is how the US State Department and the Israeli government is using the department's diplomatic communiques (exposed in these latest wikileaks documents)to publicly(via major media) promote a lie, as pointed out by Noam Chomsky in Democracy Now. The lie being 70% of Arab countries consider Iran the major threat to Middle East stability. Of course that number is purely deceitful and only "polls" the heads of the Arab dictatorships our government keeps in power, not the opinions of the general Arab population, who in real polls consider Israel and the United States the greatest threats to stability in the region by a margin of 80% and 77% respectively. 57% feel exactly the same even if Iran had a nuclear weapon. But as Chomsky points out, our leadership is not interested in public polls, only those of dictators! The truth of course is the last thing they are interested in!
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/30/noam_chomsky_wikileaks_cables_reveal_profound
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