BIG Nightmare From Wikileaks: Documents Dumped

This blog article comes from a women whose’s nephew-in-law, my youngest niece’s husband is over in Afghanistan serving his country, the USA in this war and for this, I THANK Richard and ALL the men and women who are serving this country NOW and to all veterans, living and deceased.

Having said that, what took place with this news report, that there has been a major leak from a website organization called Wikileaks, which had made public a large number, thousands of documents about Pakistan’s military spy service which has been for years suspected to have been having a hidden hand or secret involvement in the war in Afghanistan.

From the NY Times website:”WikiLeaks.org, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on Sunday, says its goal in disclosing secret documents is to reveal “unethical behavior” by governments and corporations.

Since it was founded in December 2006, WikiLeaks has exposed internal memos about the dumping of toxic material off the African coast, the membership rolls of a racist British party, and the American military’s manual for operating its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“We believe that transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies,” the organization’s Web site says. “All governments can benefit from increased scrutiny by the world community, as well as their own people. We believe this scrutiny requires information.”

This is from the founder, Julian Assange of Wikileaks whom as always, defended his decision.

Also further on in the article:”In a telephone interview from London, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, said the documents would reveal broader and more pervasive levels of violence in Afghanistan than the military or the news media had previously reported. “It shows not only the severe incidents but the general squalor of war, from the death of individual children to major operations that kill hundreds,” he said.”

While Mr. Assange has a goal in mind to allow for better “scrutiny,” the price could be VERY HIGH in the terms of lost lives in the military forces over in Afghanistan and in POSSIBLE FUTURE ATTACKS on either American or even British soil. Do you want that Mr. Assange to happen to my nephew-in-law Richard or any other military persons or to have America or even your own home country get attacked again?

Critics of WikiLeaks have reasons to be critical:”WikiLeaks withheld some 15,000 documents from release until its technicians could redact names of individuals in the reports whose safety could be jeopardized.

WikiLeaks’ critics range from the military, which says it jeopardizes operations, to some open government advocates who say the organization is endangering the privacy rights of others in favor of self promotion.

Steven Aftergood, head of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, in his blog posting on June 28 accused WikiLeaks of “information vandalism” with no regard for privacy or social usefulness. “WikiLeaks must be counted among the enemies of open society because it does not respect the rule of law nor does it honor the rights of individuals,” he wrote.

The release of the data comes nearly three weeks after new charges were filed against an American soldier in Iraq who had been arrested on charges of leaking a video of a deadly American helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007 that killed 12 people, including a reporter and photographer from the news agency Reuters. He was also charged with downloading more than 150,000 highly classified diplomatic cables.

WikiLeaks made public a 38-minute video of the helicopter attack as well as a 17-minute edited version that it called “Collateral Murder.” The abridged version drew criticism for failing to make clear that the attacks happened during clashes in a Baghdad neighborhood and that one of the men fired on by the helicopter was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade.”

For what has taken place, I have an award just for you Mr. Assange, which I will also start, called the “STUCK ON STUPID” Award. It will be a video from the famous USA General, the second one who saved New Orleans, the first being Andrew Jackson, during the time of hurricane Katrina. Here is the video award. With MANY THANKS to both wjgross and YouTube. Watch Video Here:

Mr. Assange, DO NOT GET STUCK ON STUPID!

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Could This Guy Be The 21st Century Version Of Matt Drudge?