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Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
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."
You, sir, are a troll. If you had a clearance you'd know that the info is either banal or humiliating to the U.S.
He is right on the money in saying that:
His comment is not a troll, and this level of moderation is clearly and abuse of the moderator system. Ironically, it seems to have been perpetrated by people who believe information should not be obstructed! Hey, assholes, if you really believe in it, how about you prove it by not shouting down or drowning out opposing viewpoints! If you modded this down, and you're reading this post, please comment in this thread to undo it. If isn't fair to mod him down just because you disagree with him.
That said, what does it say about the government of the US that they failed to release the Collateral Murder video on their own? How many other incidents like this have happened in Iraq that the government has covered up? Don't the people of the US have a need to know how their tax dollars are being spent? How would these videos hurt our military effort? Don't the people of Iraq know they've been given the shaft? And don't the other nations in the region assume the same anyway? Anyway, food for thought. It does bother me that he wasn't willing to come out in the first place, but I don't know all the details either.