Julian Assange and Wikileaks were right to now publish all the U.S. cables it had obtained.
Recently, because of quite outrageous misbehavior by the former Wikileaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg and the Guardian’s David Leigh, all cables, unredacted, became available via Cryptome and other unofficial sources. To prevent possible cable forgeries coming into circulation Assange then decided to publish the whole official bunch he had obtained at the Wikileaks’ website. There was no longer a need to redact those as the unredacted version was unfortunately already in circulation.
The model Julian first tried to work with, giving the cables to media outlets and have them publish on them, did not work. Those outlets published some cables but they held back on many others while at the same time bashing away at Wikileaks and Julian.
As an example see cable 06GENEVA763:
I have received various reports indicating that at least 10 persons, namely Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha (aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.
Even after many month not one of the official Wikileaks partner media outlets had published this cable about a massacre U.S. troops committed in Iraq. They suppressed it. Only now, after it became public knowledge, do they start to report on it. Why do they only now deem it as newsworthy when it was availble to them for many month? This in itself is a huge media scandal.
For a look at the whole Wikileaks drama “from the tin-hat angle” I’ll hand over to Jeremiah in a comment here:
David Leigh/Guardian is working in the interest of CIA/MI6 and looking not to collaborate with WikiLeaks, but to ensnare him for prosecution.
Clue: DL Insisting on seeing the actual files
Clue: DL Pressing for the GPG passphrase
Clue: DL Publishing the ENTIRE proceeding and passphrase in a book
Dumbshit-Borg is either a long-time mole or was “turned”
Clue: D-B had full access to all unredacted material
Clue: D-B acrimoniously split with Assange/WikiLeaks over ego-boundary shit and speculative “risk” issues
Clue: D-B in his schism is part of the probable exposure of these cables – portrayed as an “accident”, while he was unilaterally and admittedly sabotaging WikiLeaks
Clue: D-B can now say “I told you so” over this exposure of sources – pointing to this as evidence, rather than a situation he perpetrated
The US Army Counterintelligence Agency said in 2008 that WikiLeaks was”a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC, and INFOSEC threat to the US Army” and PLANNED OPERATIONS to neutralise/discredit WikiLeaks:
“The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public.” source (scribd.com)
Question: Do you think that the Agency makes these declarations in vain, for their entertainment value?
Question: Do you think they are alone, and that there are not equivalent planned and current operations by the CIA, etc.?
Question: Are the combined actions of DL and D-B implausible as the intended outcome of a counter-WikiLeaks strategy, set in motion by one or more intelligence agencies, including US Army Counterintelligence?
Think about it. Once they set this down IN PRINT, internally, and don’t have a “positive” outcome? Somebody goes through the ringer.
This is likely all a setup. One with a scenario that is similar to the one indicated here, if not completely identical. It is one where where David Leigh and Dumbshit-Borg are either pathetic and self-serving dupes, or sickening quislings.
Either way, this is a noose fabricated of intentional actions with plausible deniability. Identify WikiLeaks with Assange’s personality, and attack the personality. Attack the credibility of WikiLeaks methodology while distracting from their effectiveness and success in exposing filth, corruption and illegal government action.
I know the will get Assange one way or another. They just created the circumstance to have him charged in Australia – their one sure bet. But watch out, DL and D-B.
When your mysterious, untimely deaths occur, I will look at it as confirmation of these speculations.
And proudly burnish my tin-hat…