Why Are These Men Still Living?
Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources
"The ongoing conflict between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his former German spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg has led to the accidental release of confidential data that was in WikiLeaks' possession. Since the beginning of the year, an encrypted file has been circulating on the Internet containing the collection of around 251,000 US State Department documents that WikiLeaks obtained in spring 2010 and made public in November 2010.
The release of the file could potentially endanger the informants mentioned in the documents, many of whom live in countries whose governments are hostile to the US. The confidential diplomatic cables were redacted before publication to protect sources, but the file on the Internet contains the original, unedited documents.
In the summer of 2010, Assange stored the password-protected file containing the cables in a concealed location on a WikiLeaks server. He gave the password to an external contact to allow him access to the material contained in the file.
When Domscheit-Berg left the organization in September 2010 together with a German programmer, the two men took the contents of the server with them, including the encrypted file containing the documents. As a result, Assange no longer had access to the file."
Labels: assholes, espionage, Julian Assange, Wikileaks
posted by Louise at 9:37 pm
4 Comments:
"Why are these men still living?" In different times, say up to the mid-60s, they wouldn't be. Fast-forward to today, just look at the massive global-level BS about water-boarding a few captured terrorist leaders (which inarguably produced some vitally important intel). Imagine the uproar over a few targeted eliminations.
Personally, I think sending Assange & a few of his co-conspirators to "sleep with the fishes" would be morally justified. I don't see any moral difference between killing Al Qaeda or Taliban leaders via Hellfire missile from a drone than killing effectively defacto US/Nato/Western enemies via Intel agencies or Sp. Forces hit teams. (The Israeli MOSSAD seems to be *the* experts in that.)
I would have thought the mid-80s, after Communism fell. After that all this cloak and dagger stuff was deemed old fashioned, or perhaps, unnecessary. Briefly.
I still think they might get him (Assange), but who is "they". I can think of dozens of countries that would like to see him done in. And if not that, I'd like to see the Aussies get him for treason.
"Britain will consider severing its intelligence-sharing agreement with Israel if Mossad agents are proved to have stolen the identities of British passport holders, The Daily Telegraph has learnt."
Don't ya love they way they couch their language. "Okay. I considered it. Next?"
That's the Brit govt doing domestic damage-control/face-saving with the public, or with the anti-Israel components of the Brit establishment. Which includes the Beeb, Al Guardian, other MSM entities and figures, a faction of the Church of England, factions of all the major parties. Then, as you noted, the govt can wait for the gerbil-like MSM and public attention span go on to something else, then back to business as usual.
Sometimes (even with my English and Scottish ancestry) it's hard to think these people are the descendents of people who built the greatest empire in human history, civilized a large portion of the world, giving the world it's civilizing Anglophone Judeo-Christian Enlightenment-based civilization.
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