Måned: desember 2010

FYI: US Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks

http://wikileaks.org/#us-intel-wikileaks

This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S.

counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility

that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S.

government are providing sensitive or classified information to

Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out”. It concocts a plan to fatally

marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses “trust as a

center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the

insiders, leakers or whisteblowers”, the report recommends “The

identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal

prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders,

leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this

center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from

using the Wikileaks.org Web site”. [As two years have passed since

the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks’ source exposed, it appears

that this plan was ineffective]. As an odd justificaton for the

plan, the report claims that “Several foreign countries including

China, Israel, North Kora, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have

denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website”. The

report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing

stories broken by WikiLeaks—U.S. equipment expenditure in Iraq,

probable U.S. violations of the Cemical Warfare Convention Treaty

in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights

violations at Guantanmo Bay…