WikiLeaks - Official Thread

**Diff-chan** · 03 Dec 2010, 08:50 AM

I just think it's funny that the real shitstorm started only after Wikileaks threatened to publish stuff on Bank of America.

BTW, Joe Lieberman is very busy shutting down political content on the internet. He would find many kindred souls in the Communist Party of China. Thanks Connecticut.

**Razor Ramon** · 03 Dec 2010, 08:54 AM

I read that Joe Lieberman shit this morning. What a twat.

**Razor Ramon** · 03 Dec 2010, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Razor Ramon

Where do any of you find the names released that were in the leaked wires? I haven't read a website that has published them.

**Diff-chan** · 03 Dec 2010, 09:12 AM

Names in the cables are not an issue. Like I said, this stuff isn't dangerous, just embarrassing. Today we learn more about how the government leaned on Spain to ignore American torture. That's not dangerous. Nobody is going to get killed. It just makes the US look like a lawless rogue state.

Here's something - Pravda is criticizing the US regarding suppression. When Pravda is justifiably able to get on a high horse, you lose.

**Cheebs** · 03 Dec 2010, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by Thief Silver

Also that's retarded, there is a difference in someone reporting a story and someone publishing stolen information.

Right. Legit reporters never need anonymous sources because none of the information they report on is ever guarded. Either that or you're high.

**Cheebs** · 03 Dec 2010, 10:44 AM

And I still want somebody to tell me how you could prosecute Wikileaks without also prosecuting every news company in the country who also reported on the leaks after Wikileaks had already done it.

**dave is ok** · 03 Dec 2010, 11:04 AM

I like Assange more and more. He's doing a Q and A with the Guardian right now and he totally owned this diplomat trying to grandstand

JAnthony
Julian.
I am a former British diplomat. In the course of my former duties I helped to coordinate multilateral action against a brutal regime in the Balkans, impose sanctions on a renegade state threatening ethnic cleansing, and negotiate a debt relief programme for an impoverished nation. None of this would have been possible without the security and secrecy of diplomatic correspondence, and the protection of that correspondence from publication under the laws of the UK and many other liberal and democratic states. An embassy which cannot securely offer advice or pass messages back to London is an embassy which cannot operate. Diplomacy cannot operate without discretion and the
protection of sources. This applies to the UK and the UN as much as the US.
In publishing this massive volume of correspondence, Wikileaks is not highlighting specific cases of wrongdoing but undermining the entire process of diplomacy. If you can publish US cables then you can publish UK telegrams and UN emails.
My question to you is: why should we not hold you personally responsible when next an international crisis goes unresolved because diplomats cannot function.
Julian Assange small

Julian Assange:
If you trim the vast editorial letter to the singular question actually asked, I would be happy to give it my attention.