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‘Countless’ Lives Endangered: U.S. Begs WikiLeaks to Halt Document Release

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has told whistleblower WikiLeaks that its expected imminent release of classified State Department cables will put “countless” lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies.

In a highly unusual step reflecting the administration’s grave concerns about the ramifications of the move, the State Department late Saturday released a letter from its top lawyer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney telling them that publication of the documents would be illegal and demanding that they stop it.

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It also said the U.S. government would not cooperate with WikiLeaks in trying to scrub the cables of information that might put sources and methods of intelligence gathering and diplomatic reporting at risk.

The letter from State Department legal adviser Harold Koh was released as U.S. diplomats around the world are scrambling to warn foreign governments about what might be in the secret documents that are believed to contain highly sensitive assessments about world leaders, their policies and America’s attempts to lobby them.

In the letter, Koh said the publication of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, which is expected on Sunday, will “place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals,” ”place at risk on-going military operations,“ and ”place at risk on-going cooperation between countries.”

“They were provided in violation of U.S. law and without regard for the grave consequences of this action,” he said. Koh said WikiLeaks should not publish the documents, return them to the U.S. government and destroy any copies it may have in its possession or in computer databases.

The State Department said Koh’s message was a response to a letter received on Friday by the U.S. ambassador to Britain, Louis Susman, from Assange and his lawyer, Jennifer Robinson. The department said that letter asked for information “regarding individuals who may be ‘at significant risk of harm’ because of” the release of the documents.

“Despite your stated desire to protect those lives, you have done the opposite and endangered the lives of countless individuals,” Koh wrote in reply. “You have undermined your stated objective by disseminating this material widely, without redaction, and without regard to the security and sanctity of the lives your actions endanger.”

He said the U.S government would not deal with WikiLeaks at all in determining what may or may not released.

“We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained U.S. government classified materials,” wrote Koh, who is considered to be one of the world’s top experts in international law and was reportedly considered for a seat on the Supreme Court.

WikiLeaks is expected to post the documents online on Sunday and Koh said the U.S. government had been told that The New York Times, the British newspaper the Guardian and the German news magazine Der Spiegel had prior access to them.

The release of Koh’s letter comes as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other top U.S. officials are reaching out to numerous countries about the expected WikiLeaks release.

Clinton spoke to leaders in China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, France and Afghanistan on Friday, according to State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. Canada, Denmark, Norway and Poland have also been warned.

The cables are thought to include candid assessments of foreign leaders and governments and could erode trust in the U.S. as a diplomatic partner.

Crowley said the release will place “lives and interests at risk. We are all bracing for what may be coming and condemn WikiLeaks for the release of classified material. It will place lives and interests at risk. It is irresponsible.”

Diplomatic cables are internal documents that would include a range of secret communications between U.S. diplomatic outposts and State Department headquarters in Washington.

WikiLeaks has said the release will be seven times the size of its October leak of 400,000 Iraq war documents, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history.

The U.S. says it has known for some time that WikiLeaks held the diplomatic cables. No one has been charged with passing them to the website, but suspicion focuses on U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak.

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  • dirtypolitics
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:42am

    This person is endangering our national security and the lives of countless people and this is our only response? Something fishy here.

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    • Matthew
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:09am

      It is obviously embarrassment not lives that is at risk.

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    • blanco
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:23am

      There’s ALWAYS something fishy behind EVERYTHING in this administration!

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    • dcwu
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:12pm

      It’s the Government.

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  • Deutscher
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:41am

    The sheer glee of some posters to have information releases that could harm our troops ( and my brothers) , just for the chance to maybe score some points against Obama is selfish at best.

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  • Matthew
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:40am

    As the release of documents is already underway it seems pointless to not engage Wikileaks to apply some filter to the docs. They have already been shared with several news organizations who may or may not filter them even while I suspect the government is trying to get them to use some discretion. It seems the same is appropriate for Wikileaks. Otherwise, maybe the dire emergency over the release is more about embarrassment than for the risk to lives of people. I suspect embarrassment is the motive.

    Vilifying Wikileaks doesn’t address the treason that occured in releasing these documents in the first place. Nearly 500K already (?) and supposedly 2.1M with this coming release and hints of more to follow. Who released these and why?

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  • koyettsu
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:40am

    Oh now the Govt. is concerned about the leaks, where the hell were they about 4 releases ago? I saw no investigation, I saw no attempt to silence the rapists website, I saw nothing.

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    • crossdraw
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 4:23pm

      Probably getting a little too close to pelosi/reid un-American activities. They don’t give one damn for my brothers and sisters in harms way. Why isn’t this called TREASON and a post and bullet for the solution?

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:38am

    I’m all for whistleblowing when needed ie: fraud, illegal, etc. However there is & should be information kept secret for our own safety & the safety of our troops and operatives. That information is labeled “Classified – Eyes Only – OpSec” for a reason. Anyone revealing such should be tried as a Traitor to the USA & taken out of action.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:02pm

      yes like the Federal reserve business and sec trading records for enron
      Obamas Birth certificate, anything Congress does.
      Let’s classify everything top secret and shut down the internet.
      That’s what they want you to do.

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  • drawls
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:34am

    Wiki is not a news agency! Many people are being killed because of these leaks. This is nothing but a terrorist group, trying to bring down america. Everyone envolved with wiki has to be immediately and permanantly stopped. By the time 2012 comes for us to vote in a new president, thousands of lives or more will be lost. We need to put pressure on the admin. we have now to stop this. We have thousands of illegals coming across our borders and the admin is doing nothing about that, and lives are being lost there. I never thought I would live long enough to see all this happen to america.The left has torn us apart.

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  • Scottmcm
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:34am

    Why don’t we just shut down the Wikileaks website???

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  • iwalkalone
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:31am

    This is terrorism, treat them like terrorists.
    I actually am beginning to believe we are seeing the obamboozle administration setting us up for WW3. Look at N Korea/China lining up against us. China threatening seizure and control of stratregic materials, US/Europe financial crisis threatens Chinas slave holdings, Russia and China cozying up against dollar, Afghanistan being Obamunized for our humiliation, and of course, Iran probably has the bomb leading to massive Saudi arms purchase. Who will be the lucky one to fire the opening salvo?? Israel, North Korea, China ,, inquiring minds want to know.

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    • boomboom
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:39am

      AgreeAgree
      Don’t believe this “begging” BS and people in danger of being killed BS.
      In danger of US finding out how O’Dumpster really operates.

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  • KEA
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:30am

    I suspect these leaks are a well planned event by Soros and his cronies. Way to much stuff getting out that can in fact collapse all relations and that is their goal!

    Take out Soros and most of the problems would be solved!

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    • dmforman
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:17am

      This was my first thought as well. Soros is behind this in some way.

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  • MellonCrib
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:29am

    File sharing networks are being shut down and domains are being seized with impunity by the U.S. but they can’t do anything about Wikileaks or the idiot at the head of it? Seems to me they really don’t care. What are the odds that Wikileaks is being used with the blessings of some in this administration to do harm to the U.S.?

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    • drawls
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:36am

      I didn’t think of that, but you are probably right.

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  • SnapTie
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:28am

    Hillary and Obama only need to do one thing to keep their base fired up. BLAME BUSH. If that doesn’t work keep repeating BUSH,BUSH.

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  • troyvar
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:25am

    So far I haven’t seen any “State Secrets”. I’ve seen things that would embarrass the State Department, methods of operation, and stuff that could lead back to individuals. Sounds like the State Department is getting caught with her pant-suit down.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:25am

    yes a bullet or maybe a Large oven ??? I like the way you think Shane

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  • grayjohn
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:24am

    The U.S. begs some brit tosser? BEGS!!? One shot one kill and be done with it. America doesn’t beg. Until Mr. Historic took over that is. SEAL team, In and out in 30 min. Silence the puke forever.

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  • Boojer56
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:24am

    There was a time when people leaked classified information were hunted down and spent the rest of their life in a cold dark cell or they just disappeared. That was before we became a country of sissified whiners.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:45am

      That was before liberals took over so much of government with their dislike for their own country and no problem with doing whatever they could to embarrass it and bring it down.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:57am

      That was before we got all these cry babies – constantly whining about everything while the entire world laughs at us.

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:30am

      You’re thinking of Russia.

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  • cotuit
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:23am

    I served during the Reagan years. I miss those days.

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  • Geoffrey
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:23am

    Something does not add up here. How in the world would a lowly Pfc have access to so many classified documents?

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  • mtnclimberjim
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:22am

    Or maybe this will show these other countries how they have been played by this con job barry. Maybe this will get us out of the UN. Anything that will embarrass and expose barry and his minions I’m all for it. Go figure that our country has conned and lied so much that we have put our diplomats lives at risk. Maybe it’s time to come clean. Then shoot the traitor that leaked this stuff.

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  • rja444
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:21am

    If this moron does not comply arrest him for Treason or being a terrorist and hold him indefinately. This is not about free information this is about seriously hurting the US. How does he come by his information. apparently there is a leak inside the government. Time to seriously clean house.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:44am

      Right on! This man needs to be in jail for the rest of the life. He could also be tried for conspiracy to commit murder since lives will be lost as a result of the leaks.

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:31am

      Hello you sick twisted freaks…

      Julian Assange is Australian, not American thus he cannot be arrested for treason.

      I suppose the next logical step here at The Blaze would be to nuke Australia.

      13thGenerationAmerican  
    • ArmedAndNotDangerous
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:45pm

      Are the reports lies or the truth?

      If the truth hurts, so be it.

      Why should a man be arrested or killed for telling truth?

      If Assange is telling lies then rebut the lies with proof otherwise. Locate and prosecute him if this is the case.

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    • Sledgehammer
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:42pm

      Hate to say it, but the newcomer is correct, but he can be classified as an enemy of the state, but the real sollution, is to deal with the leak itself. The young soldier who is responsible for this, should face a court martial, if found guilty, then, put to death!

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:48pm

      no 13… just put a bullet through his f-in’ skull…

      — Tally Ho … Have A Wonderful Day !!!

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    • Highland
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 3:03pm

      Obama will sic Aunt Esther on him, that‘s what he’ll do. Take that, you nasty l’il rapist, Assange.

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    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on November 30, 2010 at 9:35am

      13th Degenerate, maybe assange is australian, but the people that leaked the info aren’t…like your PFC buddy, and most likely a host of other progressive lunatics (not unlike yourself). I can’t wait to hear your BS after you run ot of Cheetoes down there in your basement and you have to pay $12.00 a bag for them.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:21am

    I have a Wiki leak for ya , it’s called Depleted Uranium !
    caution these pics are Graphic !
    http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/depleted_uranium_iraq_afghanistan_balkans.html

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:31am

      war is hell, gotta keep it that way

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:38am

      Did Jesus tell you to say that ?

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    • H2OBoardem
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:47am

      Sorry FEMA, but Fallujah isn’t the first or only place to have had DU ammunition used. Where are similar effects in other places? There aen’t. Therefore – wrong culprit. Try the imfamous missing WMDs (Chemical Weapons) conspiracy theorists claim that Saddam supposedly didn’t have.

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    • peezee
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:22am

      I see no real proof in your little half-assed website. So if the US is so evil, how come you and that little wiki leak bastard are still alive?

      Think about it you think our military gets off on maiming children why wouldn’t they grease you for “exposing” them?

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:35am

      A dozen dead kids in a war-torn hellhole where we control 99% of the flow of information is a little different from assassinating a popular person like Assange who’s been in the spotlight for months. Besides, don’t you think someone else would take the reins if he died, giving his cause even more momentum?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:02am

      I knew I would take a lot of heat about this, but i lost a family member
      to cancer because of agent orange use in Vietnam and now we say Depleted uranium is
      safe.
      http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0812-06.htm
      I am also opposed to the 2 nukes dropped on Japan.

      As the 33rd President, this 33rd degree Mason initiated the Nuclear Age, the crowning success of alchemy, when the first A-bomb exploded at the 33rd Parallel Trinity Test Site, (Almagordo) White Sands, New Mexico. He was responsible for killing of thousands of Japanese (the Yellow Peril) at two cities close to the 33rd Parallel, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

      These things are not from God.
      and one day I may be hauled off and executed as some say.
      but I will not turn away from the truth.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:04am

      one of the many links confirming Truman was a Mason of the highest level
      http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/united_states_presidents_and_the illuminati2.htm

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:40pm

      What kind of suit did George Bush where when he flew the jets into the Buildings?

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    • Spiny Norman
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:17pm

      I am also opposed to the 2 nukes dropped on Japan.

      Really? At least 250,000 Americans survived the war because of those, and that figure doesn’t even consider the tens of thousands of Allied POWs who would have been executed the moment the Marines landed on Japanese beaches. For that matter, survivors of the Okinawa battle have never quite forgiven Truman for not using them sooner.

      Twoofers are always good for laughs, but seriously, seek help before your delusions get the better of you.

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    • kiowa58
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:34pm

      There is no such thing as a DU bomb as your site claims. DU is used by armor units to defeat reactive armor from other tanks. The first Gulf War had extensive armor battles around Basra. There was no major armor battles in Gulf II. That is is sorriest excuse for propaganda I have seen. If you are going to stand by it you need to seriously educate yourself and not be fooled by something so baseless. And it was discovered that the people of Basra went out to the battlefield to loot and salvage anything they could. Thus a high exposure rate to DU and many other carcinogens found in tanks and all of the chemicals that they need to operate.

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:38pm

      TOWER7,
      Seems to me that your drippy little heart ought to go cry a river over to mexico. You Jack Wagon, thinking we can kill with kindness. Sorry you lost last election (not) Get out of your cat lovin mama’s basement, quit using your belly button as a window to the world. Dill Weed. I’m a name caller hu?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 4:18pm

      @NEOFAN do you mean WTC tower 7 ?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 4:31pm

      @Spiny Norman 250,000 Americans ? how on earth could we know that ?we lost
      416,800 troops during the whole war.
      Why didn’t we drop the bombs on military targets or Tokyo harbor ?
      And why for God’s sake drop 2 of them ? I think I know why and it wasn’t to
      win a war that was already over.
      http://www.bariumblues.com/jpl.htm
      Why was the bomb sight near the 33rd parallel ?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 4:37pm

      as far as war being hell, just how many Iraqis were on those planes ?
      the weapons of mass destruction story was a Lie from the beginning
      what about Pakistan,Israel, and North Korea ? they do have NUKES
      and we know without a doubt.

      Ron Paul 2012 if we still have a country by then.

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on November 29, 2010 at 1:18am

      The website is a hit-piece about the war from extremists with an agenda. They will say anything. There is nothing resembling objective fact in the whole article.

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  • bree
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:19am

    Get rid of this crybaby government,they are making The USA the joke of the world.
    Calling Jack Bauer…

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  • Gabby in Florida
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:18am

    There is something and someone behind this whole suspicious leaking story. Very strange. This man runs around threatening and threatening has already released documents in the past and the administration wags its finger no you can’t do that its not legal you bad boy. And then the documents get released. How did this guy get them in the first place. Is this maybe why the Homeland Security started scrubbing websites in the name of copyright infringement violations? Very strange man with a very strange mission and a very strange excuse for doing this? To controlled and to calculated in timing JMHO.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:26am

      Bingo, you are not asleep.

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    • Tyr
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:24am

      Back in the late 90′s, Glenn Beck used to ridicule the “White Separatists” (as the Media and the FBI liked to call them). They saw this coming way back in the 70′s. They proclaimed “we have an out of control government, run by a more powerful Shadow Government.” All they wanted to do is get off the grid, live around people they could relate to and be left alone by the government and their freedom stealing bureaucratic laws. Hmmmm, seems they were correct.

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    • GlennaBeck
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:56pm

      My thoughts also… wonder if there’s any connection between Julian and George Soros??

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    • dcwu
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:03pm

      Somebody in the State Department maybe?

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 3:35pm

      bullet through the skull trick would have worked nicely…good luck witht this admimistraation

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:14am

    These people are really sick, and I mean really, really sick. Should be hung.

     
    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:59am

      Agreed, charge the whole bunch with treason and strech a couple of necks that would put an end to this B.S….let them beg a while

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:41am

      Why do you ponder the size of their genitals?

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    • teahugger
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:07am

      @nvrforget: that’s funny! but calling people out because of grammatical errors or spelling is beneath you.

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    • Nvrforget
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:42am

      Actually, it’d be unfair to call someone out about such a common mistake :) I was just making a joke.

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  • chaifa
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:05am

    who exactly in the U.S. is begging? and why would we beg? and really, why are the U.S. officials putting up with ‘extortion’…screw them…let them publish it!!! i see this as the Administration’s way of distracting us (we the people) from another one of their underhanded ploys! hmmmm…could the demoncrap congress be up to something here…could obozo be ready to sign ‘an executive order’ of some sort, while congress is on xmas break?…could the xmas tree bomber be set free? or perhaps escape?…could norkor’s and this admin be up to something?…geeeeeeez…so many choices….

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    • boomboom
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:36am

      PleasePlease watch Judge Napolitano’s interview with Julian Assange.
      It’ll give you a whole new outlook on this.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:54am

      old barry boy has reduced this country to begging category!!

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:46pm

      What id do with a pest buzzing around my face is swat and crush it.

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  • temple62
    Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:01am

    Nuke em!

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    • H2OBoardem
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:03am

      Why don’t we just whack this guy or snatch him up and toss him in Gitmo?

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:21am

      Once again Mr Obama sends his furious letter of notice – begging the other information not be let out of the bag.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:23am

      WE did !
      http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/depleted_uranium_iraq_afghanistan_balkans.html
      do you fell better now ? Praise Jesus and the Neocons

      tower7femacamp  
    • boomboom
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:28am

      You REALLY NEED to see Judge Napolitano’s interview of Assange.
      He DID NOT come across as some sort of fruitcake.
      Give it a look.

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    • 5
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:48am

      OBAMA, Grow a pair and get this Son of a Bitch.

      Do it for Allah or Mo Mo or what ever the Hell you believe.

      Do it in the name on Osama Obama. Just do it.

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    • dwh320
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:56am

      This makes perfect sense… first Obama goes on a world tour to apologizes for all the worlds evils and blame America for them. Now the governments next act is to “BEG” someone to not tell leak papers.

      Whatever happened to the old days when a agent would simply go out and kill those wanting to harm America. Kick butt and take names has changed under the PC Progressive Obama to kiss butt and take blame.

      dwh320  
    • Citizen
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:56am

      the largest leak in usa history right after the already largest leak, and obama and crew are doing nothing to stop the traitors who are giving out this information.

      the person or persons giving this info out is guilty of treason – pure and simple, couldnt be more clear.
      yet obamas crew has no interest in it. they would rather beg than enforce law that has a good reason to be there.

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    • rappini
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:11am

      To those who say we should whack this guy check Jimmy Carter made sure the CIA would never do that again buy hiring nothing but goodie two shoes, I guess he didn’t like it when we capped Diem in Viet Nam.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:24am

      Remember, it is still the goal of the Marxists in the Obama Administration (to include Obama himself) to destroy the American economy.

      DO NOT ASK THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR ANYTHING. “Top down, bottom up”, Van Jones said, remember?

      Don’t lose focus. Press the Tea-Party-elected representatives to crush the Progressive agenda – it is entirely possible.

      “Hand to hand fighting” Obama said of his plan for dealing with the Right-led Congress (most are Republican, but their party name is actually a bad thing for what we need the Right to do, since there are Progressives in the Republican party (RINOs).

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:24am

      I’ll be this guy is really scared. What’s next, another personal letter from Hillary, Obama? This such a joke and embarrassment for this incompetent administration. Obama you are so over your head in all aspects of governing.

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    • Tyr
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:08am

      Terrorism takes many forms! I say snatch him up. If the Government won’t do it, some citizen should! I’m sure there are a few of us on this site that would be glad to try if someone wants to bankroll it!

      Tyr  
    • Kimberli
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:13am

      obama the beggar~

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:19am

      and what is the other hand doing ??

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:21am

      Is obama getting scarier by the day..or is it just me…

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:40am

      another plane/car crash about to happen??

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    • GEW
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:01pm

      @Rappini- Wasn’t it Kennedy that order the assassination of Diem?

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:34pm

      @H2OBoardem
      Gitmo is too good for him. What we have here is a crusader that is about to fall on his sword. I will hold the sword for maximum effect. He could care less about the lives of others that he likely will endanger. We are already feeling the effects of this in the ‘stan. Locals don’t help anymore with intel; Would you?

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:41pm

      @boomboom

      Although I have the deepest respect for the Judge, I do not care how righteous Julian is when he places our mission at risk (Read: LIVES at risk). This idiot from Wiki leaks is into his own ego and his crusade feeds that ego. Nothing will stop him short of physical isolation and restraint. The pen truly is mightier than the sword and the pen in this idiots hands is like a child with a nuke.

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:45pm

      How do you asses the response to this situation? It is clear in my mind. Many will worry about trivial issues and lose sight of the clear danger here and what must be done to take the pointy object from the running child.

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    • DagnysCousin
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:25pm

      I don’t think the BO administration has any inkling to stop the releases of US secrets and communications. They have been trying all along to humble and belittle this nation before the rest of the 2nd and 3rd world countries since they ‘won’ election. We will permanently damage relationships with our long time allies and be left emasculated by the time they are through with our country. Julian assange and bradley manning are just patsies

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    • kbloom
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:30pm

      Isn’t what Wikileaks is doing called “reckless endangerment”? The Attorney General of the state harboring Wikileaks should check this out. There may not be a federal law regarding “reckless endangerment”. If there is, Holder should do his job! I guess that’s not likely ;).

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:41pm

      @The Blazers (many topics)

      Kennedy sanctioned the assassination of Diem; Ford by executive order made the sanctioned assassination of national leaders illegal in non-war times; Carter gutted the CIA, and Regan used Casey to restore it for the most part (Suggested reading is “Casey and the CIA ”; understand that the man Casey indeed was a master of desception and spin, so take the direct statements of Casey with a dose of speculation and skepticism)

      Whoever is leaking this classified info out, like the other times, most likely is coming from very high up in the administration – and probably has the sanctioning approval of Mr Obama as well. He is going to use this as one more step to bring down our country.

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:46pm

      this proves one thing about the current CIA and FBI departments…

      … HOW COME HE IS’NT DEAD YET…. (*you ********)……

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    • KENTUCKY4BECK
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:05pm

      Wiki is not the problem… the problem is in our “Government”. Surley we can find out who is leaking this information to Wiki. Watch the other hand people, find and prosecute the leakers for “high crimes” against the Union.

      Before the trial send the person(s) to club Gitmo for “special” treatment. Folks the progressives are in charge and they are not about protecting our freedoms our the constitution!! They are about CONTROL!! I hope the new congress will investigate and squash this shidookie.

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:24pm

      Release more information -let America decide which is relevant.

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:38pm

      truth be told the cia could kill this guy whenever they want..so that begs the question of why isnt he gone why havent we stopped this when it came to our attention..this might go down as one of the biggest scandals of obamas presidency.

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:42pm

      we dont tell lawyers of a someone accused of endangering americans to plaes stop..we go get them and make them stop..how is this guy getting away with this..unf&^%ing

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 6:35pm

      So many here are calling for assassination/bombing and other violence against WikiLeaks, when it is not WikiLeaks that is the problem. Should the government have killed Woodward & Bernstein? Bombed their newspaper building?

      Most regular posters here know from my posting history that I’m no Progressive/Liberal apologist by any stretch of the imagination. However, the anger here is misplaced and many of you are un- or mis-informed regarding WikiLeaks itself and the releases of US secrets.

      Surprisingly, WL actually did a creditable job in “sanitizing” the last batch of leaks (much better than our government has done with FOIA “redactions”, for one of many examples). No informants/agents have been killed due to the previous publication, and only 3 informant’s names were released which were largely irrelevant due to previous death, or plain irrelevance due to events & people having moved on making the release of those names meaningless.

      The fault here is purely with the US government’s security incompetence and also in the poor job the US has done diplomatically to generate the situations in the first place that result in embarrassing actions and statements existing to be leaked.

      That is, unless you think that news sources in the US that publish leaked information from, for example, the TSA should be attacked and the reporters assassinated.

      Calm down and get a grip, fellow Blazers. The problem here is decades of Progressive influence on our foreign relations/diplomacy, our security/intelligence community, and America in general.

      WL & Assange are merely the messenger. The information was already leaked and in the hands of any foreign government that wanted it *long* before WL received it. WL just made sure that *WE* got to see it as well.

      I urge caution here as this outrage can, and probably will, be used to further government control of the internet and restrict what may be published and by whom.

      Watch the other hand, people!

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    • Major Infidel
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 6:56pm

      Watch the other hand indeed.

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    • rebel
      Posted on November 29, 2010 at 7:21am

      lol don’t nuke em, but they need to get this guy. And who are the sources giving him this info? and how is it being funded? They need to stop begging this guy, because he obvioulsy has an agenda. If they can take down torrent sites so that Movies and music can‘t be transmitted you’d think they’d have a little bit of a faster response to military data!

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:32am

      Kill him? WRONG! NO!

      Top down, bottom up, inside out. You can’t tell me (as so astutely put elsewhere in the thread) that Big Sis can shut down music servers but not stop this.

      This is orchestrated. Notice Wikipeaks had NOTHING damaging until after the Obama Road Show rolled into town, mostly troop numbers and equipment used by each unit, now all of a sudden they have top secret papers?

      Don’t call for the police state! When it comes, it will never leave.

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    • Deb C
      Posted on November 29, 2010 at 10:20am

      Is this a prelude to a media crackdown ? And, how much of this info is outdated and no longer relevant ?

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    • showmerancher
      Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:11pm

      For those who watch the news via world-wide outlets, there is very little in these documents that is new or that wasn’t/couldn’t have been easily surmised. An embarrassment? Yes. However, every country in the world has Foreign Affairs and Intelligence ministries that do and say the same things with/about other countries; the U.S. just got caught. Anyone that has followed my blog posts and commentaries for the past 7 years about many of these stories (and their relevance to other stories) already knew much of this. The leaks are merely a validation of those; big deal.

      The real National Security issue here is not so much what was released; those incidents all happened in the past. The problem is that the U.S. got caught… again, because even this isn’t a new story. What it means is that other countries will be less trusting in sharing intelligence information with us… and that makes us less safe. Sure, if Britain had intelligence about an impending attack, they would still share it. But the preponderance of intelligence is not so straight forward. It is derived from small bits of information from various places; a piece from Pakistan or Afghanistan, a piece from Yemen, a piece from Turkey, a piece from Spain, etc. After having been embarrassed, will they still trust us to safeguard their information and not embarrass them, or place them in jeopardy with other nations… again?

      How is it that our intelligence apparatus has been so denigrated in the past several years that a single person(???) could have had access to not only the Defense Department documents leaked earlier, but also documents now from the State Department, two separate entities? In “my day”, such access by one person would have been unthinkable, and virtually impossible (at least very highly improbable), unless it was at some of the highest levels of an agency. The fact that it is no longer that way is extremely disturbing.

      On top of this, with the policies implemented in the last couple of years, we’ve effectively told our CIA to do their job with both hands tied behind their backs; my gosh, they aren’t even allowed to interrogate people anymore… told them that if they have to do something illegal to get that critical piece of intelligence that will forewarn us of an attack, that we’ll prosecute them; as if it weren’t bad enough that what they do as a primary job is illegal everywhere they do it anyway. Hopefully we haven’t forced away all of the brave folks that put country before self… but after the fiasco of worse than “rookie” mistakes made in Afghanistan that led to a half dozen of our agents & contractors being killed, I do worry about who is being put in the field.

      All that aside, I guess I do need to trust the government with the security of the nation and feel safe; after all, they’re groping my junk at the airport. I guess that’s all that really counts.

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    • *************************
      Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:08am

      I distinctly remember NOT begging WikiLeaks! (Just needed to clear that up.)

      But I WOULD like it if they expose all those Progressives-communist and their traitorous plans to overthrow the United States Of America. You listenin’, Soros?

      elderly WOMAN: “I hope this apple pie will in some small way say thank you for your ingenuity and courage in defeating that horrible Mongo.”
      sheriff BART: “Thank you. Much obliged. Good night.”
      elderly WOMAN: “Of course, you’ll have the good taste not to mention that I spoke to you.”
      -Blazing Saddles

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