WikiLeaks Assage - Leaked

Perhaps not the most clever title but, leaked documents on Assange, who owns Wikileaks, concerning the sexual assault cases leaked on the internet. It's a case of poetic justice, a true, "how-does-it-feel-a__h*le?" moment.

Leaked Documents

Well, pretty much every story I am finding today in the news revolves around the leaked documents from WikiLeaks. I'm not sure what to think about this. While I would like to know what the government is doing, I also want certain types of information out of the hands of some people.

We elect people to decide what information it is we need to know. We can't just have panic over every little thing. We also cannot drown ourselves in these details without ample context of the circumstance regarding the documentation.

In this case, I'm not sure there is much of a shock here. Apparently, it's confirmed that Iran is a stick in everyone's spine, even those in the Middle East.

But the seismic document spill by WikiLeaks showed one area of profound agreement -- that Iran is viewed in the Middle East as the region's No. 1 troublemaker.

Gulf nation leaders were known to dislike the Iranian regime and its nuclear program but rarely made those sentiments known publicly. The leaked cables and communications, though, show those officials talking about Iran with a degree of disdain and worry more commonly found among the Israelis.

According to the documents, Saudi King Abdullah frequently urged the United States to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, to "cut off the head of the snake." According to the Guardian, he warned that Iran's program could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region.

King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain and Jordanian lawmaker Zeid Rifai separately expressed similar concerns. Rifai told a U.S. official to "bomb Iran, or live with an Iranian bomb," warning that sanctions would not matter, according to the Guardian. Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed fretted that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "is going to take us to war."

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Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, called the leak a "colossal failure" with respect to the intelligence community.

"This database should never have been created. Hundreds of thousands of people should not have been provided access to it. This is a colossal failure by our intel community, by our Department of Defense to keep classified information secret," he said on ABC.

Thoughts? The young man that has been said to leak these documents...hero or criminal? What should happen to him?

Secret Documents Reveal More Iraqi Deaths

Fox News- WikiLeaks to Release Documents 

 

WikiLeaks will not release the origin of where these recent "secret" Iraq war documents came from but, in them include information about 15,000 more deaths of Iraqi's than originally accounted for.

In 2006 and 2007, the Bush administration and military commanders often played down the extent of civilian carnage from revenge killings, blood feuds and mob-style violence in Iraq, much of which had no direct effect on U.S. forces.

Well, we're at war. Of course Bush and others would play this down. They had to with all the criticism they were receiving. It's their job to protect our troops. This is war.

At a news conference in London on Saturday, WikiLeaks said it would soon publish 15,000 additional secret Afghan war documents. The group has published some 77,000 U.S. intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan in addition to the almost 400,000 alleged secret U.S. documents about the Iraq war.

Allegations of torture and brutality by Shiite-dominated security forces — mostly against Sunni prisoners — were widely reported during the most violent years of the war, when the rival Islamic sects turned on one another in Baghdad and other cities. The leaked documents provide a ground's-eye view of abuses as reported by U.S. military personnel to their superiors and appear to corroborate much of the past reporting on such incidents.

I'm not sure what the consequences will be by releasing these documents. The enemy may use them as propaganda. The media will just continue to do the same thing they've been doing, using this to slam Bush, I'm sure.

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WikiLeaks Documents Evidence of War Crimes

WikiLeaks has posted 91,000 pages of military records. The documents were leaked and, apparently show evidence of war crimes.

The White House, Britain and Pakistan have all condemned the documents' release.

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