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Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

Posted by timothy on from the just-a-few-words dept.

clustro writes "The Pentagon is desperately seeking the 'cooperation' of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in order to stop him from releasing over 250,000 pages of confidential foreign policy documents. The documents were allegedly provided to Assange by Bradley Manning, the same solider who leaked a video showing a US Army helicopter killing unarmed civilians and international press correspondents."

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  1. Re:As they should be. by calmofthestorm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good thing he's not a United States citizen then, or else he might be violating his social contract.

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  2. Re:This started over 12 hours ago by LoneHighway · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, I submitted this story 8 hours ago and it was ignored.

  3. Wikileaks doesn't possess these documents by mentil · · Score: 3, Interesting

    according to WikiLeaks' twitter feed: "Allegations in Wired that we have been sent 260,000 classified US embassy cables are, as far as we can tell, incorrect."
    Would Wikileaks have a reason to lie and withhold these messages, if the US govt. has the capability to find out if Manning sent them to Wikileaks? Maybe he leaked them, but to someone else, and it was simply assumed to have been to Wikileaks?

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    1. Re:Wikileaks doesn't possess these documents by klui · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Maybe it's a psyop trail balloon so the US government would have public support going after WikiLeaks. Kinda like WMDs against Iraq.

  4. Re:Give him a Nobel Prize by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree 100%

    What are we afraid of? our own actions? Well then we certainly shouldn't be hiding them. We should be rethinking them.. but first we must know the truth.

    Release it all.

    The government has screwed over our own people for many years now. Time for a little pay back.

  5. Re:As they should be. by sirsnork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually that would be an interesting experiment. Every law reviewed by the population every few years. This would give the population control, it would also limit the amount of laws that could be feasibly enacted ehich is something everyone should agree is a good thing. Every first world country is burying itself under the new laws it creates every year when we all have perfectly good laws already on the books to punish those same crimes.

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  6. Re:Give him a Nobel Prize by BoberFett · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That may be the only way to wake Americans up. If the world gets pissed at us because abused our privilege as one of the worlds most prosperous countries, and abdicated our authority to corrupt politicians as we drank Starbucks and watched American Idol, we will simply be getting what we deserve. The citizens of the US needs a wake up call before those assholes in Washington destroy this country.

  7. Re:We promise we won't hurt you. by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >>>According to the Daily Breast

    Now THAT'S my kind of newspaper. ;-) I think the Wikileaks founder should ignore the Pentagon. The leaking of video showing soldiers killing reporters, children, and other innocents is exactly what this country needs to erase the myth that government is "good" for us. Or that leaders can be trusted. Fucking bastards. They promised to end this damn war years ago, and yet here we are. The only way it will end is if, like Vietnam, we turn public opinion against the war and the government.

    Keep up the good work Mr. Manning.

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