Wikileaks is a name that you will be hearing plenty of times through the mainstream media.Because they just released 400,000 military documents that detail from “ground level” the Afghan and Iraqi war, and even accuses the U.S. Of commiting war crimes.
Wikileaks is according to their website: “A developing, uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.” Julian Assange is the man behind Wikileaks, an australian journalist, hacker and internet activist that has been traveling around the world after the creation of the website.
He has been part of mysterious complots such as two women claimed that Assange had raped them while he was visiting Stockholm, but the accusation was found as baseless. We aim for maximum political impact. The prosecutor of the case, Eva Finne said: "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape", so the curious thing is why was the target of two false accusations of rape? There are all kinds of theories but nothing has been proven yet.
Just today, October 22 2010, Wikileaks uploaded the rest of the military documents that it had in their possession. The website had already posted many documents that led to a great controversy among Washington highest political circles; how damaging could that information really be? Some military advisors said that Wikileaks was putting in risk the lives of multiple Afghan civilians that were part of intelligence field operations, that arguments sounds more of a cheap excuse rather than a valid objection but still Wikileaks took extra time and care to review all of the 400,000 documents so details like those would not be overlooked.
The U.S Department of Defense just published a press release in which blames Wikileaks on risking the soldiers lives: "The documents just published, do expose secret information that could make our troops even more vulnerable to attack in the future." You can find the documents in here http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ , there is a current cooperative effort in the Web to rate and classify the just released documents.
It will be very interesting to see how the PR department of the Pentagon plays its hand because this issue can really blow up in Obama’s face and that is definitely the last thing he needs facing the upcoming elections in which the democrats are being seen as the underdogs so imagine what could this mean to their already decreasing popularity.
What do you think about Wikileaks? Do you think it’s responsible to put the documents coming from whistleblowers? IMO I think it’s a great way to have some sort of “checks and balances”, so people can really notice what is truly happening and not just believe blindly the story that is actually being reported.
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