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WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal
Atmanman writes "When WikiLeaks announced it was releasing 251,287 US diplomatic cables, we all thought we knew what was meant by its earlier ominous words that, 'The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined.' It now appears the organization is sitting on a treasure trove of information so big that it has stopped taking submissions. Among data to be released are tens of thousands of documents from a major US banking firm and material from pharmaceutical companies, finance firms and energy companies."
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think he was talking about terrorist as "terrorist" is commonly defined. I.e.: not U.S. citizens in some conspiratorial manner defined by enemies of the U.S..
Maybe he was talking about Iran who 'smuggled arms' to Hezbollah on ambulances so they can randomly attack civilians in Palestine (no? Ask any remaining Fatah) and Israel. You know the nice guys who "made numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel". . A real partner in peace. More likely than not he was talking about these types of guys, not people pissing off the RIAA as is the commonly held belief.
Our new president does not allow for your litigious mind to try and infer hidden meanings in his words.. He makes clear who his enemies are so there can be no “redefining” of the words. The man did say he would bring transparency to government.
I added the square brackets so lazy people would not need to read the context of the link.
What exactly does freedom have to do with releasing state secrets? It's never good to reveal the content of diplomatic communications, especially without any specific reason for doing so. Releasing the private communications means less diplomacy, and without making you think too hard, please tell me what happens when diplomacy fails!
So great job, we've now discovered though the release of these documents... well nothing really that we didn't already assume. We spy on our enemies at the U.N.? Well I should hope so! China is pissed at DPRK? Big surprise! Iran is fucking evil, who knew! And the cost? We have soured diplomacy as we know it and can use it less to prevent bloodshed! I don't care how much less we can use it, the fact stands that diplomacy as an enterprise to prevent bloodshed has been damaged and for what? So wiki leaks can have their name in the paper? Where is the crime that was being exposed by leaking these documents?
So all you Monday morning quarterbacks who are trumpeting the release of these documents, don't forget that now we will move to war that much faster because diplomacy has been dealt a blow by your so-called "right to see state secrets".