Julian Assange: Hero or Villain?
- Thread starter Rearden Metal
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I'm not sure why you would think that ANY other country isn't also doing it already - just not leaked yet in the same way.
Also, for all you that think this guy is some sort of hero and are American citizens, I don't think you're thinking clearly.
If you started a successful company and somebody came in
and stole all your trade secrets and corporate communications and
decided to give it away to all your competitors would they be a hero?
If you started a successful company and somebody came in
and stole all your trade secrets and corporate communications and
decided to give it away to all your competitors would they be a hero?
sgt. bradley manning who stole at least some of the cables for Wikileaks says the security was totally lacking. i presume he did not get paid for the info. he probably did it because of his beliefs.
i bet there are hundreds of people with the same level of access to this type of info who would be tempted to steal it for a small compensation in cash. i bet 10x or 100x secret info has been bought by the Russians and the Chinese in just the last few years.
What the public sees on Wikileaks is just the tip of the iceberg of the secrets that must have been compromised.
i bet there are hundreds of people with the same level of access to this type of info who would be tempted to steal it for a small compensation in cash. i bet 10x or 100x secret info has been bought by the Russians and the Chinese in just the last few years.
What the public sees on Wikileaks is just the tip of the iceberg of the secrets that must have been compromised.
do you think its useful for the american people to know that while they are spending 3 billion a week fighting in afgan supporting a corrupt administration things like this are going?
"The leaked State Department documents reveal that in addition to the unflattering assessments of President Hamid Karzai and his cabinet, Afghanistan's Vice President Ahmad Zia Massoud was once caught traveling through Dubai with $52 million in cash. Massoud "was ultimately allowed to keep without revealing the money's origin or destination."
Gimme a break with that line of shit. The reason why this Assange even remotely had a platform to disseminate the volumes of damaging data is because of the lack of transparency with which this government has operated for decades.
The idea that there is some type of "process" whereby the bought and bribed representatives will suddenly have a moment of enlightenment is ridiculously naive.
On the other hand, I'm still not convinced that the leaking of these documents wasn't a backdoor means of drawing support against actions towards Iran. A clever sort of means of showing purportedly classified communications between a whole host of nations denouncing the actions of a "rogue" nation.
