“It’s amazing how Assange has overplayed his hand,” a Defense Department official marveled. “Now, he’s alienating the sort of people who you’d normally think would be his biggest supporters.”
You know, you could replace Assange's name in this quote with Obama's and it would read equally true. Trying to drag us Europeans in as allies to support what looks like a war on exposed government cover-ups will not do wonders for how the US government is perceived over here.
Exactly. This is a knee-jerk reaction as a result of the publicity following the leaks, rather than of the leaks themselves. The simple fact that these documents seem to provide uncoded intel, suggests a leak from within the intelligence community. Why? For various reasons. Already in the 1960s the so-called Underground Press was used deliberately by the intelligence community to set the score straight with the powers-that-be in Washington. They are always on the lookout for a new vehicle for (dis)information, and they have found one today in a Johnny Do Good on a moral crusade.
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You know, you could replace Assange's name in this quote with Obama's and it would read equally true. Trying to drag us Europeans in as allies to support what looks like a war on exposed government cover-ups will not do wonders for how the US government is perceived over here.
Exactly. This is a knee-jerk reaction as a result of the publicity following the leaks, rather than of the leaks themselves. The simple fact that these documents seem to provide uncoded intel, suggests a leak from within the intelligence community. Why? For various reasons. Already in the 1960s the so-called Underground Press was used deliberately by the intelligence community to set the score straight with the powers-that-be in Washington. They are always on the lookout for a new vehicle for (dis)information, and they have found one today in a Johnny Do Good on a moral crusade.