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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."
"If you have nothing to hide..."
...Then you're doing it wrong...
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Or at the very least, Slashdot it into oblivion?
Wouldn't an easier plan to destroy the credibility of wikileaks be to overflow it with bogus leaks and fake whistleblowers, flooding them with misinformation?
Yeah, like posting a fake document outlining the governments secret plans to discredit wikileaks.org. That would be the kind of thing that those rubes would eat right up.
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Wow, better get those leaks fixed...
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I read through some of the PDF file. Nothing new there, just the usual "if someone tells of the uber-sekret stuff we're doing, the bad guys might get us" type of information.
However, one thing caught my attention on the 4th page: "The Wikileaks.org Web site could be used to post fabricated information,
misinformation, disinformation, or propaganda and could be used in perception
management and influence operations to convey a positive or negative message to
specific target audiences that view or retrieve information from the Web site."
Um, you mean like, Fox News? http://www.foxnews.com/
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Look where all this talking got us, baby.
"it truly is a matter of life or death in many circumstances. "
Yes, the government's life or death. The government keeps secrets so we don't string them up by their fucking necks.
That's about to happen anyways. Civil war is brewing in the USA and it's about to come to a head. Silent meetings, etc. about 50 million people are about to rise up and end this bullshit once and for all.
Thank god the US Military is only about 1.7 million people and a fair majority of the type of citizens that would fight the government far outnumber those, almost 40:1.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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There, corrected it for you.
Example of a reputable source? I'd say WikiLeaks, but the CIA seems to have discredited them....
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It depends on who is doing the pat down.
Have you seen the people who work for TSA?
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