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US in deep shit over wikileaks, again!

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...s-release?bn=1

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LONDON—U.S. allies around the world have been briefed by American diplomats about an expected release of classified U.S. files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations’ relations with the United States.

In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman, Steve Field, said Friday that the government had been told of “the likely content of these leaks” by U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman. Field declined to say what Britain had been warned to expect.

“I don’t want to speculate about precisely what is going to be leaked before it is leaked,” Field said.

Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said he spoke Friday with the U.S. State Department, which told him that there would be documents regarding Italy in the leak, “but the content can’t be anticipated.”

“We’re talking about thousands and thousands of classified documents that the U.S. will not comment on, as is their custom,” Frattini said.

The governments of Canada and Norway also said they had been briefed by U.S. officials. Israel’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on a report that it, too, had been informed.

The release is expected this weekend, although WikiLeaks has not been specific about the timing.

The Obama administration said earlier this week that it had alerted Congress and begun notifying foreign governments that the whistle-blowing website is preparing to release a huge cache of diplomatic cables whose publication could give a behind-the-scenes look at American diplomacy around the world.

“These revelations are harmful to the United States and our interests,” U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. “They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world.”

Diplomatic cables are internal documents that would include a range of secret communications between U.S. diplomatic outposts and State Department headquarters in Washington.

WikiLeaks has said the release will be seven times the size of its October leak of 400,000 Iraq war documents, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history.

The U.S. says it has known for some time that WikiLeaks held the diplomatic cables. No one has been charged with passing them to the website, but suspicion focuses on U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak.

Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, said Friday that he had been “told that the person responsible for this leak has been arrested.” The Italian Foreign Ministry later said Frattini was talking about Manning.

WikiLeaks, which also has released secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan, was founded by Julian Assange.

The Australian former computer hacker is currently wanted by Sweden for questioning in a drawn-out rape probe. Assange, 39, is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. He has denied the allegations, which stem from his encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden.

propaganda!!!! if its leaked its leaked on purpose!

ya no shit, why dont they just shut the site down if its so harmful?
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Wikileaks used to be cool... not its just becoming plain ridiculous

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Originally Posted by DC5-S (Post 7204356)

ya no shit, why dont they just shut the site down if its so harmful?
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http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/10/23/...hed-wikileaks/

can someone summarize what these leaks are all about ...

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Originally Posted by EmperorIS (Post 7204487)

can someone summarize what these leaks are all about ...

I believe they were just leaking hundreds of thousands of documents in-distinctively...which is retarded.

I am all up for uncovering government scandals/wrong doings..etc
But there are definitely some secrets they should not make public... such as military undercover operations, strategic plans, units positions..etc

they havn't been posted yet, something to do with Turkey, not sure how relaible this is:

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A new batch of documents set to be released by WikiLeaks includes files that reportedly show the United States has supported the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

The diplomatic cables are also alleged to show that Turkey has aided al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Post reported, citing the London-based daily al-Hayat.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/10...t-reports.html

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Originally Posted by The Star (Post 7204312)

... expected release of classified U.S. files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations’ relations with the United States.

Making international terror and genocide is embarrassing, just like when I farted in grade 8 math class during a test... funny no one said anything and I even glanced back looking for the culprit.

I think Canada is the champion of human justice and I disapprove of Wiki Leaks because Im a robot.

why the EFF would the US allow a site like this to continue?
they are harming our allied troops overseas. eff freedom of information and free country..
especially when our brothers in arms are dying for our right to live..

wikileaks are just fueling the fire and giving our opposition an upper hand.

I don't agree with where our militaries are deployed, but it doesn't help them by doing stuff like this.

I miss the good old days when guys like that would end up dead

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Originally Posted by mx703 (Post 7205084)

why the EFF would the US allow a site like this to continue?

Did you read the link posted by InvisibleSoul?

The "Insurance" file is some pretty "James Bond shit," as a friend put it.

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Originally Posted by mx703 (Post 7205084)

The Afghan and Iraqi deployments are for strategic reasons for the most valued commodity known, energy. And to take over those countries the strategy is to break the populations... may it be to kill as many males as possible (watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0) or to drop plums of white phosphorus over a city, its happening.

I think bringing the situation in-front of the worlds eyes, via Wikileaks, will not only help the soldiers conduct a more professional campaign, but it will also ease friction with the local natives.

You cant expect to drop a bomb on a wedding and think no ones going to want vengeance when the soldiers are sitting ducks in foreign land.

No wonder the leaks are originating from soldiers them selves.

Problem here is that Canada is not a republic or a democracy, even if our country comes away with the riches, it will not be handed out to its citizens.
This is an illegal war

^Sorry bro. but your car is an illegal mess

3 million documents supposedly in this next batch

rumors have been flying for the past week and everyone the USA included expects extremely bad PR for the state

the problem is most people don't care about the atrocities they know something must be going on but they'd rather not know about it because maybe they'd be forced to speak out or god forbid Do something about it
Of those like minded people most will just be mad at Wikileaks for airing the dirty laundry rather than speaking out against the perpetrators of those atrocities (as witnessed in this thread; etc)

willful ignorance should not be something anyone would want to be a party to its just a shame most of the dirty stuff will likely never be aired

Time for some history lessons, RTS style ;) . Oldie but still a goodie.

http://i45.tinypic.com/11cci6e.jpg

To comment on the Wikileaks "insurance" file:

I'm certain it'll be underwhelming to the public once its opened. Maybe it'll have some information about the Iran-Contra scandal. Or the Noriega thing. Maybe some documentation about the locations of a few hidden Gitmo-style camps but it won't be anything really juicy.
No Roswell. No JFK. No moon landing. No 9-11 secrets.

I'm not sure that the NSA or any other US gov'ment agency knows whats in those documents yet. But I'm willing to bet that they're wary about what -could- be in them.

a lotta the ppl in this thread need to watch less movies lol
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Originally Posted by Captain Picard (Post 7204413)

Wikileaks used to be cool... not its just becoming plain ridiculous

Information is ALWAYS good.

When you have a lack of it, you get countries like Russia, China, North Korea...

Notice how states with better standards of living always have a free press?

prob that 911 was an inside job ?

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Originally Posted by darkfroggy (Post 7205794)

Information is ALWAYS good.

When you have a lack of it, you get countries like Russia, China, North Korea...

Notice how states with better standards of living always have a free press?

exactly!

also is wikileaks based in u.s? a lotta these hacker guys know how to set their shit up so that no one can touch their stuff haha
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Whos the owner of WikiLeaks?

Reminds me of Mission Impossible with the list of CIA undercover agents.
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Originally Posted by CamryV6Sport (Post 7206899)

Whos the owner of WikiLeaks?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=founder+of+wikileaks