Mondoweiss follows up my investigations on the Israel-connection in the Wikileaks dump (and curiously, searching for “Israeli” brings some different results to “Israel“): I’m poking around the Afghan war diaries from Wikileaks (inspired by Antony Loewenstein) and it looks like one element of our nationbuilding effort in Afghanistan is working: the people there have demonstrated…
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Israel emerges in the Wikleaks documents
I’ve been wondering if Israel appears at all in the recent Wikileaks information dump. A new search tool provides the answer; only briefly though protests did occur in Afghanistan against Israel’s onslaught in Gaza in January 2009.
Who says Wikileaks put lives at risk?
Interesting: The Web site Wikileaks has been drawing criticism for publishing 90,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, some of which reveal the names of Afghan citizens who have provided information to the U.S. The Obama Administration has said this could endanger the lives of those informants. But it turns out that prior to…
Let the post Wikileaks leaking begin
This piece didn’t get the attention it deserves. Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg (a clear inspiration to Wikileaks and Julian Assange) told the Washington Post last weekend what documents or information should be leaked and freely available. A truly free society would depend on it: 1. The official U.S. “order of battle” estimates of the…
Of course Wikileaks is important (says cluey editor)
It takes the Guardian’s investigation’s head, David Leigh, to unpack the significance of the Wikileaks revelations and explain why the story matters. The job of good journalism is to expose flawed wars, not to protect the figures backing an immoral and illegal occupation: The Afghan war logs story has proved to be a global journalistic…
Australia kindly provides weapons to Taliban
Helping the “enemy”, one fruitless war at a time: Australian weapons and equipment have repeatedly been discovered among Taliban stockpiles, raising fears that Afghan troops trained by Diggers have been pilfering military supplies. Documents released by the WikiLeaks website show that in the past six years International Security Assistance Force troops have uncovered Australian mortar…
Killing Julian Assange is a legitimate response to his leaks?
The level of depravity surrounding the Wikileaks saga continues, causing arguably sane people to call for extreme, if not criminal, action: Did my [Washington Post] colleague, Marc Thiessen, just call for a drone strike in Iceland? Thiessen is obviously incensed by WikiLeaks‘s dissemination of tens of thousands of pages of government documents relating to the…
New York Times wanted to be scooped on Wikileaks data
Last night’s SBS Dateline featured a fascinating piece about the background to the recent Wikileaks release. Check out the whole thing but this bit interested me particularly: As the new material starts to circulate between the three publications the full scope of the data becomes clearer, and one of the partners seems to be getting…
Today’s Pentagon Papers may have similar effect
Frank Rich in the New York Times inserts some sense into the Wikileaks debate and argues that the significance lies in confirming people’s views on a failed war (just like Vietnam). Last week the left and right reached a rare consensus. The war logs are no Pentagon Papers. They are historic documents describing events largely…
Necessary protection for Wikileaks
Now we learn that a MIT student is being questioned about possible involvement in the Wikileaks saga – there’s something almost comical about watching this, as if a host of other leakers within the establishment won’t follow in their footsteps, such is the dismay with US foreign policy – this piece of information is curious:…