The Australian government is looking to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tonight following the publishing of the remainder of the unredacted US State Department cables, saying that at least one member of Australia’s spy agency has been named in the documents.
The release of the unredacted cables has caused a number of media outlets, including those that were once pro-WikiLeaks, to angrily condemn the group and Assange in particular, though interestingly enough the official release from WikiLeaks came days after the cables had already gone public.
Indeed, WikiLeaks had been redacting documents and releasing them at a snail’s pace before the release of a book by The Guardian’s David Leigh, who in telling the tale of opening up the cables actually published the password for the encrypted file. WikiLeaks is thus blaming the Guardian for the release.
At any rate, by the time WikiLeaks released the unredacted cables today, they were already available to the public from a myriad of sources, and journalists (and presumably intelligence agencies) around the world were already eagerly rifling through them for information. It seems hard to believe that Assange, in admitting that one cannot unring a bell and releasing the documents straight from WikiLeaks, was doing anything all that revolutionary.
They're so stupid they're actually gonna make a martyr out of him.
The mainstream reporting on this has been mindboggling pathetic. Greenwald touches on some of it in his article. Both Slate and AlterNet condemn Wikileaks by quoting the Guardian and Domscheit-Berg. the two entities most responsible. For Security Editor David Leigh of the Guardian to publish the real password in the book for no reason whatsoever == he could have told the story just as well by glossing over the password or he could have made one up if he was that hot to be seen as an insider — is incredibly stupid. If Domscheit-Berg isn't CIA, they couldn't have paid somebody to do as much damage as that snake has done. Assange bares some blame for assuming a mainstream reporter would abide by a security agreement they all signed and for leaving the file on a public server for the papers to be able to access it if needed. But it boils down to Leigh publishing the password and Dumbshit Berg continually telling the press that 2 and 2 were out there thanks partly to him stealing much of wikileaks uploads including the diplomatic cables and then finding out that the password was right in the chapter section at the beginning of the book. And so far it's all on wikileaks which shows where the mainstream media stands.
The "reporting" has indeed been pathetic. I'd say it was intentional.
They will do anything to put him in jail and hurt him because he is helping show how criminal they are.What good has America done in the last 40 years that was not a lie.
Assange has obviously been set up, otherwise the Guardian’s David Leigh would be the target for criminal action. Everybody knows that Leigh actually published the password for the encrypted file, but they go after Assange?
The People of Australia deserve to know the truth about where their war Pounds are going!
NATO's mission in Afghanistan is only to secure absolute Chaos. Chaos causes cash for war contactors and bankers but is doing unmeasurable harm to the Women and children of South West and Central Asia not to mention the economic harm to Australia and all the Common Wealth.
I love to watch this guy make liers and murders every where squirm, Thank you Mr. Assange for proving the day has come where evil Corporate Structures that profit from human misery and suffering will be held acountable for their crimes against humanity. Please expose them all!
Dear Australians; Please listen to the truth about what's really going on in Afghanistan, Ex Afghan MP Malalai Joya will be in New South Whales on Sept 5 2011 to teach contemporary history of NATO's occupation of her Country and her Peoples desperate struggle against the Tyranny of the Taliban and NATO. forces. Please help support her Women and Childrens mission in Afghanistan, you could help ease the suffering of this war too. malalaijoya.com
"NATO's mission in Afghanistan is only to secure absolute Chaos."
Bingo! I have previously posted similar thoughts. Few believe we are de-stabilizing the entire Middle East and the Horn of Africa in order to generate profits for Blackwater, KBR and the rest of the MIC. But that is in fact what our institutions do. It's in the institutions' interest to create instability in order to justify their continued existence and profits. They are adapted to it, as are many of their individual members. Our foreign policy elites are heavily vested in empire. It's very easy to convince someone that a policy is in the "national interest" or "humanitarian" if they're also profiting from it or getting promotions. They actually believe their own propaganda, largely because they profit from believing it. Those who fail to believe are selected out of the institutions, like Matt Hoh, the fellow who resigned from his post in Afghanistan when he realized the truth.
Democratizing the world, oil, keeping markets open, fighting terrorism, humanitarian interventions, resisting aggression are all justifications we use to make war or station our troops all over the world. But they're only justifications and distractions from the real reason for our militarism. Even those evil enough to justify it solely on the basis of the "great game" of international relations and world domination miss the point. It is as Keith Olbermann said years ago, "The purpose of the War in Iraq is to have a war in Iraq."
When you finally understand the true purpose of our imperial policies, it becomes clear why we repeat these same policies over and over again, always failing to achieve our publicly stated objectives. It's because those justifications and distractions are not the real reason for these policies, and these policies are not failures. They are wildly successful. Only when people realize how deeply depraved our military and foreign policy establishments are will there be any hope of changing our policies. We have to stop playing along and pretending they are noble institutions, or even that they are fighting to secure our energy resources that God mistakenly deposited under foreign soil. They are not. They are fighting for the glory of the generals, the careers of the "experts" and the profits of the corporations. All else is mere distraction.
Nice! Australia has now become an official US proxy. May their god help 'em all. They seem to be one of the few Western countries that had resisted the ChristoZionNazi invasion. Guess I was wrong.