How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010

There are many people that think that wikileaks have not released any worthwhile information. I myself disagree and think they have delivered and will continue to do so. I came across this article yesterday that pointed out some of the interesting leaks of 2010. 2011 will prove more intersting yet with the coming leaks about the bank of america www.bankofamericasucks.com...
and the offshore bank accout of the rich. More diplomatic cables are still to be released and any good stratigiton saves there best to last...

WikiLeaks has brought to light a series of disturbing insinuations and startling truths in the last year, some earth-shattering, others simply confirmations of our darkest suspicions about the way the world works. Thanks to founder Julian Assange's legal situation in Sweden (and potentially the United States) as well as his media grandstanding, it is easy to forget how important and interesting some of WikiLeaks' revelations have been.

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The above sight covers some of the more intersting leaks, many of which will have political ramifictions.
Here are some of the cabels quoted from another website. why wikileaks matters....

§ The Saudis, our allies, are among the leading funders of international terrorism.

§ The scale of corruption in Afghanistan tops even the worst estimates. President Hamid Karzai regularly releases major drug dealers who have political connections. His half-brother is a major drug operator.

§ The Pentagon basically lied to the public in downplaying sectarian violence in Iraq. Our military handed over many detainees they knew would be tortured to the Iraqis. US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of torture and abuse by Iraqi police and military.

§ After the release of the Iraq logs, new tallies put the number of documented civilian casualties there at more than 100,000. The Afghanistan logs similarly showed many more civilians killed there than previously known, along with once-secret US assassination missions against insurgents.

§ The British government assured Washington that our interests would be protected in its "independent" public inquiry into the Iraq War.

§ The Pakistani government has allowed its intelligence unit to hold strategy sessions with the Taliban. Despite longstanding denials, the United States has indeed been conducting special ops inside Pakistan and taking part in joint operations with the Pakistanis.

§ The Yemenis have lied to their own people, taking credit for air attacks on militants in that country—but it was the United States that did the job. The Yemeni president gave us an "open door" to combat terrorism. Washington has secretly shipped arms to the Saudis for use in Yemen.

§ The Saudis, contrary to their public statements, want us to get even tougher vs. Iran. So do some other countries in the region—or so they say in private.

§ Our State Department asked our diplomats at the United Nations to spy on others, including the secretary general, even aiming to retrieve credit card numbers.

§ At last we got to read in full the historic 1990 memo from US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the first Gulf War.

§ The Obama administration worked with Republicans to protect Bush officials who faced a criminal investigation in Spain for alleged torture.

§ Pope Benedict XVI impeded an investigation into alleged child sex abuse within the Catholic Church in Ireland.

§ Bribery and corruption mark the Boeing versus Airbus battle for plane sales. "United States diplomats were acting like marketing agents, offering deals to heads of state and airline executives whose decisions could be influenced by price, performance and, as with all finicky customers with plenty to spend, perks," the New York Times reported early this month.

§ Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.

§ US diplomats have been searching for countries that will take Guantánamo detainees, often bargaining with them; the receiving country might get a one-on-one meeting with Obama or some other perk.

§ Among several startling revelations about control of nuclear supplies: highly enriched uranium has been waiting in Pakistan for more than three years for removal by an American team.

§ The U.S. embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops.

§ The British have trained a Bangladeshi paramilitary force that human rights organizations consider a "government death squad."

www.thenation.com...

It is unwise for whistleblowers to send wikileaks any sensitive material regarding the 911 hoax. julian is annoyed by those who don't like the official conspiracy format, and there's no telling what he does with sources who aren't in line with him..

reply to post by starless and bible black


i dont think he is anoyed it is just not his forte. He is a journalist and the 911 stuff is atm out of his remit. That is my humble opinion anyhows..

kx

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It is interesting that the talks about the pre-Iraq War cannot be disclosed at the Chilcott (sp??) inquiry due to diplomatic issues. It would be interesting if Wikileaks could somehow get the real cables about that and really show the world the truth behind that rather unfriendly war. I am sure that if those very secret cables became public domain, the person who would leak them would be in vast amounts of trouble.

Reading your list, I am still disappointed with the Earth-shaking( ) news that Wikileaks delivered so far.

I will see what they have yet to release when they release it, but I will not hold my breath waiting for something really impressive this time.

Originally posted by butcherguy
Reading your list, I am still disappointed with the Earth-shaking(

) news that Wikileaks delivered so far.

I will see what they have yet to release when they release it, but I will not hold my breath waiting for something really impressive this time.

edit on 20-1-2011 by butcherguy because: Fixed Mr. Roll-ie Eyes.

there are some major points of political interest. I never said earthshaking...you did...

kx

reply to post by purplemer
Well, here is the thing. Wikileaks themselves had been promising to release things that would "Change the World". That was way back in July of 2010.

My point is that IF they changed the world, it was a very small and insignificant change.

Maybe they set the bar too high for themselves? I don't know, but so far I have not been impressed with the releases, much ado about nothing, really. There has been in-fighting at Wikileaks, maybe someone (Julian Assange ) likes the limelight.

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These are significent changing occuring, im my eyes they have done far better than the main stream news.