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It's absolutely a shame. The dog and pony show of foreign leaders expressing shock and dismay in return for their electorate's goodwill is embarrassing. Angela Merkel grew up in East Germany, and didn't know phones could be tapped? Please.

Victoria Nuland, a State Department official, was recorded in a private phone call dismissively saying "Fuck the EU" and suggesting names for post-Yanukovych leadership America would be content in a phone call with the US Ambassador to Ukraine, and it's released to the press as if it were some kind of CIA plot to instill a puppet government! Who recorded it? How was it leaked? It was even edited to change the context! And it was basically shrugged off as "good Russian tradecraft".

Snowden receives a large amount of praise for having, and from people with, a very, very American distrust of government. To lump in political favors for foreign governments with that praise is reprehensible, especially knowing that they can be used as political leverage against America for years, if not decades. At some point you have to question his motivations for it and what he was looking to gain from it.

Chelsea Manning is even worse. Here are two cables detailing events and predictions about Ukraine:

http://wikileaks.org/cable/200...
http://cablegatesearch.net/cab...

They are both remarkably accurate considering the timeframe. It's unlikely that Russian strategists would be unable to come up with these ideas on their own, but it serves as confirmation in a world of geopolitics where that is a priceless commodity.

I think you forgot ACTA. SOPA and PIPA are just the US instances of the ACTA virus. They expect the EU (and actually the whole world) to have them too.

Yes they do. Sadly.

Just like they expected EU and the rest of the world to either look the other way or join them in their other wars.

http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=07TUNIS1286&q=linux

"
US companies selling quality products cannot compete on a
price basis. Microsoft gave the example of PC procurement,
in which the GOT procurement commission does not specify an
operating system in their RFPs. This results in the PCs
being shipped with the Linux,s open source operating system,
which does not support Microsoft software. The Microsoft
representative argued that this has encouraged piracy and
resulted in GOT PCs using pirated Microsoft software. She
continued that the fact that the EU Commission and the
African Development Bank accept these GOT procurement laws
only encourages the GOT to maintain government procurement on
a lowest cost basis.
"

in other words, not shipping Windows with a PC = piracy

then there is the whole Tunisian Certificate Authority being put into Internet Explorer updates thing (which should have been the real story IMHO)

go through the cables at http://www.cablegatesearch.net/

type in something interesting like 'microsoft' or 'cisco'

find some interesting ones

submit a slashdot story on it ....?

profit!

It is when the US Gov forces Genetically Modified food down everyone's throat, often in the face of overwhelming democratic opposition to them - even in some cases the political elite objecting (See this India cable: "Very serious fears [...] of Monsanto controlling our food chain"), that things start to get really questionable.

(05:13:21 PM) bradass87: oh, btw... china has a massive botnet
(05:13:31 PM) bradass87: 45+ million, grows 100,000 every two weeks
(05:14:44 PM) bradass87: it pings eucom and pacom servers every two weeks at the same time... spread out slightly to prevent the bandwidth from being detected (it was identified at 20 million in late 2008)
(05:15:53 PM) bradass87: 45+ million ip addresses... i figure they must have a pre-installed system on consumer electronics
(05:20:00 PM) bradass87: are you familiar with the Byzantine problem sets?
(05:22:15 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: nope
(05:23:10 PM) bradass87: Byzantine is the code word for all the chinese infiltration problem sets... the ones that get .mil info... as well as penetrate google (like what became public earlier this year)
(05:23:16 PM) bradass87: yahoo, etc
(05:23:23 PM) bradass87: mostly .gov and .mil
(05:23:46 PM) bradass87: there are several sub-problem sets...
(05:24:15 PM) bradass87: Byzantine Candor, for instance
(05:24:51 PM) bradass87: its what 95% of information warfare people work on in DoD
(05:25:15 PM) bradass87: china can knock out any network in the world with a DDos
(05:36:07 PM) bradass87: their gateways throughout the world are clearly identified, and are being tracked carefully