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Quote:Bloomberg: Pentagon Warns House, Senate Defense Panels of More WikiLeaks Documents

Tony Capaccio writes that "The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org “intends to release several hundred thousand” classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26," in conjunction with The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.

Must be damning if the Warsters are prepping all the straw-men about it. The full story follows (my emphasis):

Quote:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24...ments.html

Pentagon Alerts House, Senate Panels to New Classified WikiLeaks Release
By Tony Capaccio - Nov 24, 2010 6:23 PM GMT

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The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org “intends to release several hundred thousand” classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26.

The documents “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King wrote yesterday in an e-mail to the defense panels.

“We anticipate that the release could negatively impact U.S. foreign relations,” she wrote, telling committee staff members that “we will brief you once we have a better understanding of what documents the WikiLeaks publication contains.”

King said The New York Times, the U.K.’s Guardian and Der Spiegel of Germany “are each currently working with WikiLeaks to coordinate the release of these State Department documents.”

These three publications were given advance access to two earlier WikiLeaks releases of U.S. military documents: almost 400,000 related to the Iraq war dated between 2003 and 2010 and about 75,000 from the same period on the Afghanistan war. The Iraq documents were published on Oct. 22 and the Afghanistan documents on July 25.

‘Raw Observations’

When the Iraq documents were released, a Pentagon spokesman, Marine Colonel David Lapan, described them as “raw observations from the tactical level of combat operations” and said their publication posed a risk to national security. In her e-mail to lawmakers yesterday, King had similar comments about the State Department documents.

“State Department cables by their nature contain everyday analysis and candid assessments that any government engages in as part of effective foreign relations,” she wrote. “The publication of this classified information by WikiLeaks is an irresponsible attempt to wreak havoc and destabilize global security. It potentially jeopardizes lives.”

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed that the e-mails had been sent to the two committees.

The Pentagon “had indications for some time” that WikiLeaks planned to release more documents, Whitman said in an interview yesterday. “As a result, we felt we had a responsibility to notify key leaders with oversight responsibility of the department like we normally do,” he said.

State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said WikiLeaks has previously said that it plans to release additional classified documents.

‘Due Diligence’

“We are doing due diligence,” Crowley said in an e-mail yesterday. The department is “assessing the possible impact on our on-going diplomatic activity and notifying both Congress and other governments what may occur.”

Crowley told reporters today in a briefing that “we’re in touch with our posts around the world,” which “have begun the process of notifying governments that a release of documents is possible in the near future.”

The State Department has had similar conversations with members of Congress “to let them know what we are prepared for,” Crowley said.

“The kinds of cables that posts send to Washington are classified,” he said. “They involve discussions we’ve had with government officials, with private citizens. They contain analysis, they contain a record of the day-to-day diplomatic activity that our personnel undertake.”

WikiLeaks receives confidential material that governments and business want to keep secret and posts the information on the Internet.

I wonder if "due diligence" actually means a coordinated international propaganda campaign to downplay the information shortly to be released and to tar and feather wiki?.

I think it probably does mean that.

I think 'due diligence' would also include new countermeasures and black ops against Wikileaks and Assange.

Magda Hassan Wrote:http://wikileaks.info/

Magda, this link for me didn't work - got a 404.

Has anyone checked out if the torrent on Pirate Bay is the real deal. If it is, I'd help them with their insurance....but reading that there are several to many files [different] named that...likely some spoof ones that could be dangerous to one's computer by the NSA/CIA/DIA/etc. I'd feel better getting it from the source. Wouldn't they just love to **** over anyone's computer who supports Wikileaks leaks!

Just looked and see no apparent new material there on Wikileaks nor any insurance...I suggest great caution here for all!

Sorry. It worked for me before but it may well be inaccessible now.

Comments on Pirates Bay....

ag3nt1337 at 2010-07-31 02:48 CET:
This torrent passes a SHA1 checksum verification.

From: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010

SHA1: ce54d3a8af370213d23fcbfe8cddc8619a0734c

asc11 at 2010-07-31 03:09 CET:
from cryptome dot org
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29 July 2010. Wikileaks has added a very large new file to the Afghan War Diary [wikileaks.org[slant]wiki[slant]Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010]:

Insurance file: 1.4 GB

(SHA1: cce54d3a8af370213d23fcbfe8cddc8619a0734c)

The file, "insurance.aes256," is ten times the size of the seven other files combined. Appears to be encrypted with AES Crypt [www dot aescrypt dot com]. Wonder if it includes the 15,000 Afghan files withheld, or the original raw files, or perhaps much more, pre-positioned for public release ("insurance") against an attack expected to come from DoD and Justice or parties unknown. A passphrase to be distributed or published widely in case of a takedown.

Anybody got a AES Crypto passphrase to share? Send PGP encrypted to: cryptome[at]earthlink dot net. Cryptome public key: cryptome dot org [slant] other-stuff dot htm#pk

See also (the torrent may be bogus, no file size provided, no verification):

Wikileaks Insurance

www dot torrentdownloads dot net [slant] torrent [slant] 1651759583 [slant] Wikileaks+Insurance

Torrent added: 2010-07-28 22:21:03
Last Updated: 2010-07-29 21:01:07

Note also that there are a slew of torrents related to Wikileaks that use "insurance" in the title. Some appear to be spam, but spam is useful for transmitting cloaked material.

Roys at 2010-07-31 19:16 CET:
How many of the seeders are intel trying to measure the spreading effects and registering recipients? Stats per country ao...

cantrellg at 2010-07-31 20:24 CET:
Who gives a shit ?

cantrellg at 2010-08-01 00:24 CET:
Number of seeders constantly growing. Seeing in excess of 250 as I post this.

klipuips at 2010-08-01 04:39 CET:
Various checksums for the original file on WikiLeaks:

MD5: 94a032849b1f446e3a1ed06cf4867a56

SHA1: cce54d3a8af370213d23fcbfe8cddc8619a0734c

SHA256: 15bac5e815a38a998f4705945bd41975b736e7c723cfe851b9ed0e50c49316b4

SHA512: 1279dc1e09a06dbc60cfbe9b1e66ada0e1e5de1df5b37a2f9f532b60db07b75ca953765dd24d347328f0ae417bd66478b22693be538104cefb6cc64ae2b7cc5c

WHIRLPOOL: 1612d44096ec0b3a28239682164dfa584e743cce1a724404b84ef20910db61c39fb0fe9c0448d93d2fa7dd29b042d20fbfc1dcb93106ffb73bb581eae00e3833

Results of the checksums for this torrent:

MD5: 94a032849b1f446e3a1ed06cf4867a56

SHA1: cce54d3a8af370213d23fcbfe8cddc8619a0734c

SHA256: 15bac5e815a38a998f4705945bd41975b736e7c723cfe851b9ed0e50c49316b4

SHA512: 1279dc1e09a06dbc60cfbe9b1e66ada0e1e5de1df5b37a2f9f532b60db07b75ca953765dd24d347328f0ae417bd66478b22693be538104cefb6cc64ae2b7cc5c

WHIRLPOOL: 1612d44096ec0b3a28239682164dfa584e743cce1a724404b84ef20910db61c39fb0fe9c0448d93d2fa7dd29b042d20fbfc1dcb93106ffb73bb581eae00e3833

They match! Nice work Anonymous

cantrellg at 2010-08-02 01:12 CET:
Please keep seeding after d/l

2bpirating at 2010-08-02 01:45 CET:
Let's all show the power of the p2p-network. None of the tree lettered organisations can stop p2p and track down everyone who might could have the files and destoy the HHD's. Show all politics they can't hide such important things. Lets show them that we don't accept things like this to be kept as a secret to the people. All download this and seed like hell ! Print it and hide it somewhere when we have the code. Tell other people to do the same. The more people help the more safe this operation will be.
Let's all help WikiLeaks !

Valmont1982 at 2010-08-05 20:26 CET:
Go Wikileaks!

If the US attacks Freedom, Freedom can strike back.

chopmax at 2010-08-06 12:35 CET:
The warlords of our era truly do not understand the concept of internet.

midnightrider20000 at 2010-08-06 16:30 CET:
Very good work, Anonymous! By downloading this file, everyone is doing a great work for the freedom of speech. And one day, when WikiLeaks has been destroyed by the government, the files will still be here.

DMCFX35 at 2010-08-14 14:25 CET:
Good luck tracking me America, I'm using a vpn!

arg.noodles at 2010-09-19 15:05 CET:
Good luck backtracing me, cyber police, I'm behind 7 proxies!

B.S.O.D at 2010-10-28 04:35 CET:
http://activepolitic.com:82/blog/2010-10...rture.html

ltinn at 2010-11-26 02:51 CET:
is wikileaks.org site down?

WvBrsci at 2010-11-26 03:06 CET:
Good luck tracking me -- and I mean it! I'm not breaking any national or international law, and in my country, you'll have to break the law to track me.

I'm waiting for the welcome opportunity to vent both general and specific frustrations on whoever tracks me. Nothing is more relaxing than the legal opportunity to bring some pain down on asshole authoritarians.

They'd have to shoot me to stop me, and that would be a nice addition to the next wikileak! Sharing this, we're safer than ever.

PeteZafase at 2010-11-26 09:17 CET:
I cannot connect to the tracker

Magda Hassan Wrote:Sorry. It worked for me before but it may well be inaccessible now.

As of this moment the Wikileaks sit is DOWN and OUT!

Yup, just checked, their server[s] are DOWN!....no Coincidence! Cyber-Warefare care of our US tax dollars [and drug/weapons/etc. money, no doubt too]!

Supply and demand. :flute: