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There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks
adeelarshad82 writes "German paper Der Freitag claims it has uncovered a batch of online unredacted diplomatic cables that came from WikiLeaks. Editor Steffen Kraft said he found a 'password protected csv file' that contained a 1.73GB cache of diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks. Its pages contained 'named or otherwise identifiable "informers" and "suspected intelligence agents" from Israel, Jordan, Iran, and Afghanistan.'"
Is that based on the honor system?
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In light of the sensitive nature of the information, Der Frietag has not published these documents, nor provided proof of their existence, but Der Spiegel, another German paper, has chimed in to confirm that they're real.
Scooter Libby got away with treason, why shouldn't Manning?
Der Freitag is associated with Daniel Domscheit-Berg (DDB) and the OpenLeaks project. I find it curious that Der Freitag "discovered the file on the internet" right when DDB has been making an ass of himself by deleting thousands of documents leaked by whistleblowers, and at a notable point of his campaign to discredit Wikileaks.
That is just it. Wikileaks is not in any way unbiased or frankly professional. Wikileaks was never a good thing. It is like a guy that goes around punching people in the face. When he punches a bully you don't like it is great. When he punches you or your buddy it sucks.
There is a good reason why diplomatic cables are usually kept secret.
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So information to commit identity fraud should be kept private, but information that can probably get a person and their family killed should be passed around for all the world to see? Glad you have your priorities straight.
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"There has been no 'leak at WikiLeaks'. The issue relates to a mainstream media partner and a malicious individual."
Except that's mostly not what happens. Sure, there's a few assholes out there who take advantage, there always are. Most of these people are simply reporting things like "I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure Ali down the street is planting all those bombs that are killing your soldiers and my neighbors indiscriminately." You see, mostly US soldiers aren't out to randomly and indiscriminately arrest and torture people. Yes, yes, bad shit happened, people abused their positions, it was all over the news and I'm not defending it. There's no excuse for the scum bags that use a war as an excuse for thrill murders, or treat prisoners like dogs. Unhappily they exist, happily they aren't nearly as common as you seem to think.
I spent a year in Iraq. We dealt with these informers regularly. We verified and double checked everything they told us, because that's our responsibility. We caught some people trying to to settle scores or cause trouble. We also caught people with the information we were given. People that did some truly horrifying things. Not just to our guys, to their neighbors and countrymen. At the time I was over there, the bombs killed civilians as often or even more often than they killed soldiers. These days the balance has shifted even farther. The majority of casualties for these types of attacks are civilians.
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Manning didn't get away with treason, why should Scooter Libby?
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WikiLeaks came under fire for refusing to redact names of civilian volunteers in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to the volunteers getting death threats. Assange told a reporter that if people want names redacted, they'd have to pay for it.
You don't see Amnesty International leak civilian names while exposing tyranny and human rights violations around the globe.
Stop this shit.
Only flat-out fucking retards will believe you. Wikileaks has said again and again that they filter everything through a "no-harm" policy by removing any identifying features prior to release. They explicitly do everything they can to prevent harm.
Loads of people bring up the claim that they name names with regards to informants or undercover folks, but I've yet to see legitimate shit on the Wikileaks site that is exactly like that.
Disinformation aside, if there are any such examples of an informant being outed in such a manner (and subsequently receiving threats), I'd like to see them. I don't mind being proven wrong (in fact, it's rather refreshing - that's how we meatbags learn), but every time Wikileaks come up on Slashdot or anywhere else we have half-assed attempts to discredit them without putting out any actual evidence from reputable sources.
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