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Assange unveils latest WikiLeaks release: Project K

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On Monday, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange released a series of 1.7 million files showcasing the communications of the US Department of State between 1973 and 1976. According to Assange, the documents will give journalists insight into the US' political goal at that time and highlights Henry Kissinger's communications with foreign governments. So what does this new leak mean and why are they so important? WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson explains why they went public on WikiLeaks.


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A great release of cables for history, for the press, and freedom of information! This is why we need wikileaks and a open government. They are declassified however you need experts to help you find them Wikileaks made them easier to find and released them to the general public.
 
Some real deep insights in there

Cable #23103
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Rush: I think I'm going to get a sandwich.
Kissinger: Get me some peanuts while you are at it.
Rush: Kiss......my-ass. Haa. Get it?
Kissinger: ......
 
A great release of cables for history, for the press, and freedom of information! This is why we need wikileaks and a open government. They are declassified however you need experts to help you find them Wikileaks made them easier to find and released them to the general public.
This is a travesty. Assange has no business doing any such thing.
 
wikileaks are a bunch of thieves. they belong in jail!
 
I'm confused, these are declassified documents but you are claiming a victory for open information?
 
I'm confused, these are declassified documents but you are claiming a victory for open information?

Yes, they are declassified documents, but Wikileaks has arranged them all very nicely so that anybody can read them. A modern version of Cliff Notes, if you remember them, designed to show how petty and manipulative, and how criminal at times, the federal government is.

This is real journalism at work, like it or not, and real journalism is a very rare thing is one habitually reads or watches the mainstream media.
 
Yes, they are declassified documents, but Wikileaks has arranged them all very nicely so that anybody can read them. A modern version of Cliff Notes, if you remember them, designed to show how petty and manipulative, and how criminal at times, the federal government is.

This is real journalism at work, like it or not, and real journalism is a very rare thing is one habitually reads or watches the mainstream media.

Sounds like a marketing problem. If the information isn't leaked, then it doesn't seem to be Wikileaks m.o.

Seems like an executive summary following by links to supporting relevant documents would be of greater help. I remember "Cliff Notes[sic]" well enough to remember that they were called Cliffs Notes.
 
Man, I thought this was gonna be about MIB. :(

I am disappoint.
 
Sounds like a marketing problem. If the information isn't leaked, then it doesn't seem to be Wikileaks m.o.

Seems like an executive summary following by links to supporting relevant documents would be of greater help. I remember "Cliff Notes[sic]" well enough to remember that they were called Cliffs Notes.

Cliffs Notes, thanks.

Not quite WikiLeaks m.o.?

You can buy a fish sandwich at Burger King. ;)
 
He has no business organizing already declassified documents?
1.) According to what you quoted.
So what does this new leak mean ...

A leak would indicate it was not legal.
On that premiss, what I said was correct.


2.) Assange says in the video this includes the previous leaked cables from "cablegate".
On that premiss, what I said was correct.
 
1.) According to what you quoted.

A leak would indicate it was not legal.
On that premiss, what I said was correct.


2.) Assange says in the video this includes the previous leaked cables from "cablegate".
On that premiss, what I said was correct.

There is so much information out there that it is near impossible to go through it all. It's nice to have one site to go to for the information I would like to read about.

Also because there is so much information things that should be relevent can still be "hidden" even when declassified. After all, is there a government website that specifically mentions and shows everything that gets declassified...even if they just limit it to "with in the past month"? None that I know of. And the way the Freedom of Information act is worded in order to get any information out the government from it you have to ask for specific things.

What wikileaks has done here is consolidate much of it and make it to where people can actually easily sift through things that they may want to try and find.

Legally. What's wrong with that?
 
It's nice to have one site to go to for the information I would like to read about.
Whether you would like to read about it or not, is not the issue.
It is whether what he has made available was leaked information or not.
The information that was officially released is fine. The information that was not released, is not fine.
 
Whether you would like to read about it or not, is not the issue.
It is whether what he has made available was leaked information or not.
The information that was officially released is fine. The information that was not released, is not fine.

Well, the information provided by wikileaks was posted by them in an orderly one stop shop place before anyone else so I guess technically they did "leak the story" first. ;)
 
I hear rumor that next week Wikileaks plans to release the complete synopsis of the final Harry Potter book!
 
Well, the information provided by wikileaks was posted by them in an orderly one stop shop place before anyone else so I guess technically they did "leak the story" first. ;)
And they could have, and should have, left out any information that was not officially released.
 
If people are that interested, watch C-Span and learn stuff about today.
 
Whether you would like to read about it or not, is not the issue.
It is whether what he has made available was leaked information or not.
The information that was officially released is fine. The information that was not released, is not fine.

This rather reminds me of the USSC case U.S. v Reynolds 345US1 from March of 1953. That was the first time the federal government invoked "National Security" in a court proceeding. It was a civil suit brought by the surviving family members of civilian engineers killed in the 1948 crash of a USAF B-29. The suit was brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

The court ruled in favor of the government's claim about National Security, and the widows were not allowed to sue.

The Washington Post issue of June 22, 2003 covers the story, entitled "An Injustice Wrapped in a Pretense."

The case was classified, but in a funny turn of events, when those old court documents were converted to digital format, by error all the details ended up going public, on the internet. By accident some relatives of the surviving widows discovered it, and the cat was out of the proverbial bag.

Bottom line, the "classified" documents were no more a threat to the National Security of the US than the man in the moon. It turns out the government lied to the court from the very first argument in the case.

Moral of the story: classification is frequently, perhaps always, used to deceive the public, keep them in the dark, and protect the guilty parties.
 
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