If Osama Bin Laden had read the latest batch of WikiLeaks documents a bit closer, he would have known that one of his couriers had been compromised and that we were hot on his trail.
Still on the fence about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks? Maybe this will change your mind.
If Osama Bin Laden had read the latest batch of WikiLeaks documents a bit closer, he would have known that one of his couriers had been compromised and that we were hot on his trail.
The Atlantic reveals a heretofore unrevealed document:
We follow the news pretty damn closely, yet we didn’t know that a new batch of WikiLeaks documents had been released just a few days ago.
Looks like Julian’s 15 minutes of fame expired even before Bin Laden did.
According to newly released information, our Commander in Chief wanted the Russians to sign the dubious START Treaty so badly that he gave them the UK’s nuclear secrets as an incentive.
Thanks to Wikileaks, we’ve finally found someone more traitorous than Wikileaks itself – President Obama.
According to newly released information, our Commander in Chief wanted the Russians to sign the dubious START Treaty so badly that he gave them the UK’s nuclear secrets as an incentive.
The lesson to be learned: America can't be trusted by her friends
The Telegraph UK has the horrifying story:
The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that…
…A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.
Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
This is what you call a win-win for Russia and a traitorous-traitorous for everyone else.
Bradley Manning, the turncoat U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, is unhappy with his jailers. Poor baby doesn’t like his pillow and wants his MTV, so his attorney has officially complained that Manning is being mistreated.
Bradley Manning, the turncoat U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, is unhappy with his jailers. Poor baby doesn’t like his pillow and wants his MTV, so his attorney has officially complained that Manning is being mistreated.
CNN.com has the details:
That's what we'd tell the other prisoners. "Help yourself to some free Bradley."
His lawyer, David Coombs, formally objected to Manning’s treatment, filing an Article 138 complaint Wednesday, according to a posting on the lawyer’s blog. Manning has been in solitary confinement and for part of this week was again placed on suicide watch by the Quantico brig commander, according to his lawyers.
“He was stripped of all clothing with the exception of his underwear. His prescription eyeglasses were taken away from him,” Coombs wrote in the blog entry. “He was forced to sit in essential blindness with the exception of the times that he was reading or given limited television privileges. During those times, his glasses were returned to him.”
… Manning is confined to his cell 23 hours a day with no pillow, sheets or personal items, according to Coombs.
His only exercise, according to his lawyer, is when he is taken to an empty room and allowed to walk. When he sleeps he must strip to his underwear and surrender his clothing to the guards.
Hard as this may be for you to believe, the military dismisses Coombs’ complaints and says they’re much ado about nothing:
Quantico public affairs officer Lt. Brian Villiard said under military rules he could not confirm whether the complaint had been received. He said all the conditions of Manning’s confinement are in line with his maximum custody status and to prevent Manning from harming himself.
“He is not being treated any differently than anyone else in maximum custody,” Villiard said. “We’re not treating him any differently than anyone who could pose a risk to life, property or national security.”
In December, a Pentagon spokesman said that even under the restrictive conditions, Manning is allowed to converse with other prisoners, receive visitors and exercise for an hour a day. In addition, Manning has pillows and sheets made from a material that cannot be torn into strips, according to Villiard.
We realize that the purpose of waterboarding is to coerce secrets out of a prisoner, but in the case of Manning we’d say the waterboarding should be applied retroactively for all the secrets he’s already spilled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not a physically imposing man. In fact, he’s really not much of a man at all. That’s why we weren’t all that surprised when Wikileaks revealed that the Iranian leader had been smacked up the side of the head by a guy named Mohammed Ali Jafari.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not a physically imposing man. In fact, he’s really not much of a man at all. That’s why we weren’t all that surprised when Wikileaks revealed that the Iranian leader had been smacked up the side of the head by a guy named Mohammed Ali Jafari.
In the blue corner, fighting out of Tehran, is Mohammed Ali Jafari.
Yeah, you read that right, the guy’s name is Mohammed Ali. File that under weirdly appropriate.
New York Daily News has the blow-by-blow:
The February 2010 cable, classified secret and puckishly headlined, “He Who Got Slapped,” quotes an intelligence source recounting a contentious meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
The Iranian bigs were trying to figure out what to do in the wake of Tehran’s explosive pro-democracy street protests of 2009.
“Ahmadinejad claimed that ‘people feel suffocated,’ and mused that to defuse the situation it may be necessary to allow more personal and social freedoms, including more freedom of the press,” the cable says.
It continues, “Ahmadinejad’s statements infuriated Revolutionary Guard Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali Jafari, who exclaimed ‘You are wrong! [In fact] it is YOU who created this mess! And now you say give more freedom to the press?!’
“Source said that Jafari then slapped Ahmadinejad in the face, causing an uproar.”
Now a lesser despot might have slinked off to lick his wounds in private or, rather, let his favorite goat do that for him. But not our man Mahmoud.
The five foot four inch piker picked himself up. He dusted himself off. And, as soon as the opportunity presented itself, he promptly bitch slapped Barack Obama. Over and over and over again.
Specifically, we’d like to see Obama’s original birth certificate, his college transcripts and records of who paid for his college education.
We would say that Julian Assange should be set free, cleared of all charges and maybe even given a damn medal if he would just release a few additional secret documents.
Specifically, we’d like to see Obama’s original birth certificate, his college transcripts and records of who paid for his college education.
C’mon, Julian, if you can get your hands on sensitive military and diplomatic documents, how tough could it be to procure a couple documents Americans are really interested in?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tried to hide his bail address from the public in an astonishing move for the man responsible for leaking thousands of diplomatic secrets.
This is not just your ordinary, run of the mill hypocrisy. No, this is world class hypocrisy on a scale rarely seen.
Suddenly, when it comes to his home address, Julian Assange believes in secrets
The Daily Mail UK has the story:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tried to hide his bail address from the public in an astonishing move for the man responsible for leaking thousands of diplomatic secrets.
Assange’s lawyers argued that the location – a 10-bedroom stately home – should not be disclosed on grounds of privacy during yesterday’s hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
But the move was dismissed by District Judge Howard Riddle, who ruled not to reveal the address would conflict with Assange’s commitment to open justice.
The judge insisted the address – Captain Vaughan Smith’s Ellingham Hall on the Norfolk/Suffolk border – was read out in open court as usual.
Fat filmmaker Michael Moore just ponied up $20,000 to help spring Wikileaks spokeshole Julian Assange from his English jail cell. Far as we can tell, the only thing keeping this story from being a perfect left wing trifecta is the absence of the Daily Kos.
Fat filmmaker Michael Moore just ponied up $20,000 to help spring Wikileaks spokeshole Julian Assange from his English jail cell. Far as we can tell, the only thing keeping this story from being a perfect left wing trifecta is the absence of the Daily Kos.
C'mon, admit it. You're not convinced that Michael Moore isn't really Sean Penn in a fat suit.
Oh, wait, we spoke too soon. Michael Moore just took to the pages of the Daily Kos to explain his actions:
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.
We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again.
So why is WikiLeaks, after performing such an important public service, under such vicious attack? Because they have outed and embarrassed those who have covered up the truth. The assault on them has been over the top.
Now if only Hugo Chavez can be worked into this story somehow, our lives will be complete.
According to NBC, Manning is a victim. A poor, innocent victim who only did the things he did because he was teased about being gay when he was a child. And that, friends, is why “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” needs to be repealed. Or something like that.
The armchair psychologists at NBC have determined why Pvt. Bradley Manning turned on his country and released more than 250,000 secret documents. It’s your fault, damn it.
According to NBC, Manning is a victim. A poor, innocent victim who only did the things he did because he was teased about being gay when he was a child. And that, friends, is why “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” needs to be repealed. Or something like that.
For god’s sake, man, is there nothing the liberal media won’t forgive or explain away?
The Editor was teased unmercifully as a child because he was so skinny. And the Administrator was teased unmercifully for being so damn good looking. And neither of us has ever given away any state secrets.
Of course, that may be explained by the fact that no one has ever trusted either of us with state secrets. Or any other kind of secrets.
O’Reilly couldn’t take it anymore. Just couldn’t take it. “I don’t think there’s anybody in the world who fears Barack Obama,” he ranted. “I don’t think anybody does!”
Brit Hume got together with Bill O’Reilly to talk about the Wikileaks mess. After discussing Obama’s weak response to the issue, O’Reilly couldn’t take it anymore. Just couldn’t take it.
“I don’t think there’s anybody in the world who fears Barack Obama,” he ranted. “I don’t think anybody does!”
Bill is correct. The only thing they still fear is that he’s going to start talking again.
Good god, man, will someone please shut down this WikiLeaks thing before they team up with the TSA. It’s one thing if they leak enhanced X-rays of Sarah Palin or Nikki Haley or Megan Kelly, but do you really want to see Barney Frank in the buff?
Good god, man, will someone please shut down this WikiLeaks thing before they team up with the TSA.
We’d say the odds are pretty good that WikiLeaks will eventually run out of top secret documents and team up with some rogue TSA agent to release millions of x-rays showing intimate details of your, shall we say, carry on baggage.
It’s one thing if they leak enhanced X-rays of Sarah Palin or Nikki Haley or Megan Kelly, but do you really want to see Barney Frank in the buff?
Missouri’s Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill showed up on Fox News Sunday this week and told Chris Wallace that the Wikileakers “need to do a gut check on their patriotism.” Don’t look now, Claire, but none of these guys are American.
Missouri’s Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill showed up on Fox News Sunday this week and told Chris Wallace that the Wikileakers “need to do a gut check on their patriotism.”
Don’t look now, Claire, but none of these guys are American.
Julian Assange is Australian. Wikileaks servers are located in Sweden. And although the actual creators of Wikileaks haven’t been identified, the site says it was “founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa”. Chinese, English, Brazilian and Australian citizens are listed on its board of advisors.
So what country does the Show Me State genius expect these lunatics to be patriotic toward?
Pvt. Bradley Manning leaked 80,000 documents about the Afghanistan war, endangering the lives of hundreds of our agents in that country. Naturally, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin rallied her band of America-hating lunatics in support of Manning outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia.
Pvt. Bradley Manning leaked 80,000 documents about the Afghanistan war, endangering the lives of hundreds of our agents in that country. Naturally, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin rallied her band of America-hating lunatics in support of Manning outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia.
CNN reports the details of the Manning lovefest:
Activists rallied outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, Sunday to applaud the man military officials suspect leaked scores of military documents to the WikiLeaks website — a 22-year-old Army private named Bradley Manning.
“We are here to say that if he, indeed, was the whistle-blower, then we are proud of him,” said Medea Benjamin, founder of anti-war group Code Pink. “In the United States that I know and love, transparency is a positive thing.”
Manning, who served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, is the military’s focus in the investigation into the largest-ever intelligence leak in American history, to WikiLeaks.org.
He is being detained at Quantico pending a military investigation in a separate case, in which he’s charged with eight violations of the U.S. Criminal Code, including for allegedly leaking a secret military video from the Iraq war to WikiLeaks.
Let’s see if we understand this:
Dick Cheney was condemned for leaking the name of a secret agent, except he didn’t and she wasn’t. And now the same people who condemned Cheney support Manning.
It’s not easy being a liberal. Nor being a lunatic. But we repeat ourselves.
