Will WikiLeaks unravel the American 'secret government'?

[Peter Lemkin]

WikiLeaks 'tweets' Kennedy speech on secrecy :top::top::top:
December 3, 2010 - 10:05AM

WikiLeaks, defending its decision to publish thousands of classified US diplomatic cables, sent out a link on Twitter on Thursday to excerpts of a speech by John F. Kennedy in which the former US president denounced excessive secrecy.

"Kennedy on why WikiLeaks matters," WikiLeaks said in a message on its Twitter feed, @wikileaks, which was accompanied by a link to a YouTube video of the April 27, 1961 speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association.


"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings," Kennedy said.

"We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it," he added.

[Ed Jewett]

Peter, do you have a source for that State Department material?

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/3/he...s_students
State Dept. Bars Staffers from WikiLeaks, Warns Students

Many thanks, Peter. I like to shape these tender and juicy morsels into explosive tidbits I called IED's (improvised educational devices).

[Peter Lemkin]

peter, do you have a source for that state department material?

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/3/he...s_students
state dept. Bars staffers from wikileaks, warns students

many thanks, peter. I like to shape these tender and juicy morsels into explosive tidbits i called ied's (improvised educational devices).

bombs_away!

[Jan Klimkowski]

French industry minister Eric Besson called Friday for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers when the whistle-blower website ended up there after being kicked out of the United States.

"This internet site ... is apparently since Thursday partly hosted by French host OVH," Besson wrote to the CGIET, the highest body governing the internet in France. "This situation is unacceptable."

"France cannot host internet sites that violate the confidentiality of diplomatic relations and put in danger people protected by diplomatic secrecy," Besson wrote, asking the CGIET to find a way to remove the site.

That would be Eric Besson, neocon lackey whore, known throughout France as a collaborator, "the traitor", and core player in the disgraceful French stigmatization and forced expulsions of the Romani.

Given the ever more scummy castlist of those seeking to "Whack Wikileaks" or otherwise denounce it, my admiration for the site is increasing.

Even if Assange, and we, are being played...

[Christer Forslund]

State Department tells students at Universities that they mustn't read WikiLeak-connected documents.
Because they might learn something!

[Peter Lemkin]

Military contractor Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems has informed employees in El Segundo that they are forbidden to access the controversial whistle-blower website WikiLeaks either on company or personal computers.

Hmmm - fixed the quote:

"The Military-Industrial-Complex said we own your sorry ass: when you're slaving for us, when you're shopping in Walmart, when you're playing football with your kids, when you're shagging your wife, when you're asleep deep in the world of dreams. Awake or asleep. 24/7. You belong to US!"

Love it! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :alberteinstein:

[Peter Lemkin]

The incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says WikiLeaks should be officially designated as a terrorist organization.

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the panel's presumptive next head, asked the Obama administration today to "determine whether WikiLeaks could be designated a foreign terrorist organization," putting the group in the same company as al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway.

"WikiLeaks appears to meet the legal criteria" of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, King wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reviewed by CNET. He added: "WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."

King's letter was prompted by a massive document dump totaling more than 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables, which WikiLeaks gave in advance to news organizations, including Germany's Der Spiegel and Spain's El Pais, and that began appearing on the Internet this morning. The White House has condemned the release, which Der Spiegel called "nothing short of a political meltdown for U.S. foreign policy."

King also wrote separately to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him to "criminally charge WikiLeaks activist Julian Assange under the Espionage Act" for conspiracy to disclose classified information. The Espionage Act makes it illegal to disclose "information relating to the national defense" if that information could be used "to the injury of the United States."

If the State Department adds WikiLeaks to the terror list, one effect would be to prohibit U.S. banks from processing payments to the group. WikiLeaks currently takes donations through PayPal, bank transfers, and Visa and Mastercard payments.

[Danny Jarman]

Would be ironic if the wanted man Julian, was found and arrested a week or so after this witch hunt, while Mr Osama Bin Laden still roams free!

[Magda Hassan]

But Julian is a genuine threat to empire. Osama is a useful idiot.

[Keith Millea]

It was interesting to watch the WikiLeaks segment on Democracy Now!

Here in the US we have the State Department running around frantically warning people,"whatever you do don't you dare take a look at the Wiki documents".


Collage students are warned about their future work if they even look at the secret documents and want to get a job that requires a security clearance.


Well OK,but the camera has just panned to the audience visiting the DN studio.There we see a busload of high school students,whom I'm sure are getting a damn good lesson on the realities of our system of Government.Interesting,and shows how useless all this "huffing and puffing"really is.


Silly Hillary