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Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment?
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks announced on Mar 21 (via its twitter account) its intentions 'to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am.' It appears that during the last 24 hours someone from the State Department/CIA decided to visit them, by 'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours. Apparently, the offending leak is a video footage of a US airstrike."
'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours
Following someone for 22 hours and detaining someone for 22 hours are so incredibly different they should not be lumped together like that. It's the difference between a creepy stalker and an oppression of basic freedoms.
Don't leave it up to my imagination how long each of those 4 actions took place. Because I'm imagining the "detaining" being about 15 seconds as they accidentally walked into each other, and then they both stepped to the side, oops still in the way, stepped to the side again, oops, and did this about 5 times.
I'm sure this ambiguity was completely accidental. Surely the Wikileaks folks would ever sensationalize anything, or present it out of context.
Yea, but they do get distracted pretty easily by porn site passwords and pedo-pix, so not the most reliable army I suppose.
A Twitter page is now the source /. is running with?
I suppose when you put "it appears" and "apparently" you can just pass anything off as "news".
Would you trust a source more if it was on the radio?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds
Maybe you'ld just like it if I got off your lawn.
But but but I just got on the Starcraft 2 beta! And there's all this anime I need to watch! Anime!!! Don't you see? That's WAY more important, and I'm sure someone else will do it.
Wow, 5 for 5. I'm playing Republican Talking Point Bingo right now and you just won me $250!
Thank you CrimsonAvenger!
Any grade school teacher knows what's happening here. They announce it this way so the naughty children get to stew for a while, then hopefully come clean and admit the crime + learn a valuable lesson about honesty.
Thankfully, health care is one of four things that Canadians love so much that they're willing to stand up and fight for it (the other three things being: beer, hockey, and that god awful Tim Horton's coffee).
You need the health care and coffee to counteract the hockey and beer.