Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
prod a war with China
Doubting that while the red peril holds the purse strings
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
He can't be held to task for the words of others
To be fair, Assange has to be assumed to have some connection with the utterances of his lawyers, as others pointed out on one or other of these infernal threads. Now, about those cables..
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
there's been a lot of playing the man not the ball
Yep. Another thread screwed. You'd think it was impossible to avoid or something.
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Hard News: Spinning and soldiering, in reply to James George,
5 to 2
that your ear is too close to the wrong end of the horse
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Easy A includes twat as a joke which works
How do they pronounce it?
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to BenWilson,
It was basically public knowledge at this point that the Bush team had deliberately lied their way into Iraq, but still he rode high in the polls.
The polls showed that most US citizens believed the lies, actually. Many of them they still think Saddam bombed them - when they aren't distracted by their economy collapsing around them, that is.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to BenWilson,
when it's done for cynical political purposes
Not just that, but contravening all the governance safeguards - the process was corrupted.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to Keir Leslie,
The Plame smear couldn't have happened without all the other internal safeguards being dismantled and the US people and media meeking rolling over. Information security or disclosure is never going to deal with that dimension.
But it's reasonable that some stuff will remain secret - and there is no evidence so far that material is being released via WikiLeaks which would have harmful impacts on operatives and networks like the Plame travesty did.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to BenWilson,
Leaking Plame's identity was an example of what happens when a ruling group with bad intent are the only ones with access to the information. Some like that should never be released.
There are meant to be layers of checks and balances, but one of the reasons for the US being a prime target now is the way the evil cabal in charge under Cheney/Bush systematically gutted their nation's constitutional and operational provisions, including deciding that the Geneva convention doesn't apply to them. Waving flowers and chanting kumbaya at dangerous psychopaths like that is sure not going to work. Let's see if WikiLeaks does.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Neil Morrison,
I was under the impression that Wikileaks had some sort of threshold but if they don’t then it is completely random
Neither. From earlier conversations here, it seems WikiLeaks outsources the initial decision about what to release to their chosen local media partners. And in our case the SST brought in Hager to do their analysis because of his relevant background knowledge.
Neil, have you been following the discussion about WikiLeaks' strategy on Keith's thread?