Wikileaks is a terrorist organisation?

[Shaedys]

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/is-wikileaks-a-terrorist-organization-rep-peter-king-thinks-so/19736963

New York Rep. Peter King, the ranking Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, wants to designate WikiLeaks as a "foreign terrorist organization."

So, they should be tried as a terrorist organisation now?
I'm slightly scared, but also slightly amused.

Also great fun, the fox news article on it, so fair and balanced as always: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/29/lawmakers-administration-prosecute-wikileaks-designate-terror-group/

 

[FaithlessThinker]

I don't know much about wikileaks, but I guess free speech terrorizes governments.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Now, publishing things that are embarrassing to government officials qualifies as terrorism? Are they fucking kidding?

It isn't just Republicans, either. Democrats are willing to put aside their differences with Republicans in order to go after the real threat: the truth.

 

[Aught3]

That's pretty warped, even for America.

 

[televator]

So liberals are that much closer to being tried for treason in the US.... If you support Wikileaks, you support "terrorists". I think it's safe to declare that the US is finally nearing the slippery slope point.

Meanwhile Darth Cheyenne and his imbecile apprentice Bush get off scot free....

 

[lrkun]

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/is-wikileaks-a-terrorist-organization-rep-peter-king-thinks-so/19736963

New York Rep. Peter King, the ranking Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, wants to designate WikiLeaks as a "foreign terrorist organization."

So, they should be tried as a terrorist organisation now?
I'm slightly scared, but also slightly amused.

Also great fun, the fox news article on it, so fair and balanced as always: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/29/lawmakers-administration-prosecute-wikileaks-designate-terror-group/

In a way he is right, some information needs to be kept confidential, especially when it relates to public security.

 

[Prolescum]

That's pretty warped, even for America.

Especially for America; its forefathers must be spinning in their graves.

 

[SpaceCDT]

In a way he is right, some information needs to be kept confidential, especially when it relates to public security.

Yeah, I have some concerns about Wikileaks. One day some of our soldiers will get killed because some idiot released the wrong thing on Wikileaks.

 

[Prolescum]

In a way he is right, some information needs to be kept confidential, especially when it relates to public security.

Yeah, I have some concerns about Wikileaks. One day some of our soldiers will get killed because some idiot released the wrong thing on Wikileaks.

As I understand it, information given to wikileaks is vetted before release with data of that nature redacted.

 

[Gnomesmusher]

Palin, O'Reilly and FOX NEWS want the leakers to be executed for treason.

 

[Andiferous]

Well, Palin's personal Yahoo email was hacked and posted on wikileaks a while ago, so I can see her being rather upset. Most of the rest of this is just diplomatic gossip - and judging from those unflattering descriptions of other diplomats, I have to rather wonder if half of what those other diplomats tell the Americans is true, anyway.

 

[Doc.]

can somebody please explain what the hell was in those documents? and how did it get to wikileaks? and hypothetically, why do people even trust it's not fake?

 

[RichardMNixon]

Didn't O'Reilly consider the East Anglia hacker a hero?

This strikes me as shoot the messenger, where's the anger for the people who said the things in the leaked cables? You can't sling mud if there's no dirt.

 

[Andiferous]

Essentially they are correspondence from American consulate from all over the globe, taken from the SIPRNet government network, creating an enormous archive of documents. They think that an American intelligence officer, Bradley Manning, was the source of the leak. The previous leak released secret information and facts not released to the public about the Afghan war, and this latest leak has opened a spider's nest of issues in global politics. The Guardian was one of the first papers to receive a copy of the archive and has a tonne of information here if you're interested. How can anyone know they're accurate? Well, they are only as accurate as the word from the embassy. They are official documents and the American government personally apologised to governments all over the world because of the leaks. Were they fakes, I suspect the American government would have said so.

 

[SagansHeroes]

Palin, O'Reilly and FOX NEWS want the leakers to be executed for treason.

It's funny and a little sad just how predictable fox news are. On nearly any issue, you can "stereotype" guess what their stance is/will be and it's always the same.

 

[Case]

Well, Palin's personal Yahoo email was hacked and posted on wikileaks a while ago, so I can see her being rather upset. Most of the rest of this is just diplomatic gossip - and judging from those unflattering descriptions of other diplomats, I have to rather wonder if half of what those other diplomats tell the Americans is true, anyway.

Is that so?

â–º The US asked its diplomats to steal personal human material and information from UN officials and human rights groups, including DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, credit card numbers, internet passwords and ID photos, in violation of international treaties. Presumably Australian UN diplomats may be targeted, too.

â–º King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked the US to attack Iran.

â–º Officials in Jordan and Bahrain want Iran's nuclear program stopped by any means available.

â–º Britain's Iraq inquiry was fixed to protect "US interests".

â–º Sweden is a covert member of NATO and US intelligence sharing is kept from parliament.

â–º The US is playing hardball to get other countries to take freed detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Barack Obama agreed to meet the Slovenian President only if Slovenia took a prisoner. Our Pacific neighbour Kiribati was offered millions of dollars to accept detainees.

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