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US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks
An anonymous reader writes "This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN), 32-page US counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks (PDF). 'The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the US government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out.' It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses 'trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whistleblowers,' the report recommends 'The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site.' [As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective.] As an odd justification for the plan, the report claims that 'Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website.' The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks — US equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable US violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay."
identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers...
I can understand that the government can harass, hound, and persecute those it does not like into oblivion. Comes with the turf. But if their objective is to destroy wikileaks, then this method, is, to put it bluntly, bass ackwards. How is it that the armchair wafflebutt who came up with this crock of sh*t never heard of the Streisand Effect?
Seriously, these are the people keeping the US safe? That their brilliant plan is to do precisely the kind of thing the Internet is really good at defeating?
Epic fail.
... because we all know what counts for journalism in that part of the world: Iran hacks US Spy Sites http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/15/147201/Iran-Hacks-US-Spy-Sites.
I sincerely hope all your family and friends die in terrorist attacks that could have been prevented.
Easy there, Chief. You have been doing well until now. Don't blow it by sounding like Shawn Penn.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Hence indecent exposure laws.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.