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The Pentagon is actively seeking to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. WikiLeaks published a classified video of a US Apache helicopter attack on a mostly unarmed group of Iraqis including two journalists. The DoD believes WikiLeaks is about to publish much more.

Portrait, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 11/22/09. (photo: flickr.com/Esthr)

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+19 # Guest 2010-06-12 19:24

These days, there is little likelihood that the ungodly goes unreported and rightly so. If rule-makers would simply learn to follow their own rules, then there would not be so many fizzled and sullied public images. Those who break their own laws while feigning superiority should definitely have their noses rubbed in it.

+11 # Guest 2010-06-12 20:21

Information, and truth, wants to be free.

+12 # Guest 2010-06-13 02:44

At last! Julian Assange is a genuine hero! I admire him tremendously. He has personal courage, integrity, a moral sense of what is right, he is against the powerful and protects the weak. What's not to like? Why isn't he the President of the USA?

+9 # Guest 2010-06-13 05:39

These days government whistleblowers are like trees falling in the forest as the fawning corporate media has either been too afraid or corrupted to report their disclosures of fraud, waste, abuse, illegality and/or serious risks to public safety. Assange's WikiLeaks now comes along to become the only secure and effective way of disseminated these type of disclosures. No wonder the Pentagon is now treating him as "America's Most Dangerous Man" as they treated Daniel Ellsberg and the NY Times back during Vietnam. The Pentagon will try, in my estimation to end the embarrassing disclosures by trying to shut down Assange as the "whistleblower's hero". He is exactly like "60 Minutes' former producer Lowell Bergmann to tobacco "Insider" Jeffrey Wigand if you've seen the movie "The Insider".

+12 # Guest 2010-06-13 04:08

finally a weapon that neutralizes mass disinformation. thank you wikileaks ;o)

+11 # Guest 2010-06-13 05:07

Mr. Assange is a hero.

Mr. Manning is a hero.

The Pentagon is ... well, the Pentagon.

Jyll is right; if the "rule-makers" would simply follow their own rules (the rules ordinary folks can be imprisoned for not following) there would be no risk of scandal and embarassment.

Imagine if some whistleblower heros at BP or the federal agencies that were being tasked with supervisiong the oil industry had leaked some embarassing information. Perhaps a few officials or self-important corporate hacks would have been left red-faced but our beautiful Gulf Coast would not be destroyed.

Information needs to be free and I like the idea that the Pentagon and State Department and other power brokers in government and private industry have to live looking over their shoulder in fear of what they are doing finding its way into the press.

For people to be free information must be free.

-6 # Guest 2010-06-13 06:06

to trust either the media or the military is being 'simple.' The fact that some reporters got burned by misadventure bothers me not at all. The important hidden things about our governments doin's remain a mystery. These events are just like the two headed bigfoot shot on the whitehouse lawn...reorted by one of the tabloids.

+14 # Guest 2010-06-13 06:21

WikiLeaks is doing what our media has neglected for many decades now: informing the public of the truth. Which makes WikiLeak's founder Julian Assange a true hero.

Let's cut the crap with all the self-glorification and propaganda. Our democracy sucks, as do our justice system, our educational system and the armed forces that fought its last justified war in 1945 (which, strangely enough, is the last war they won).

+6 # Guest 2010-06-13 07:46

The troops involved seemed to be relieved that this came out.
Visit Veterans For Peace. Listen to their "Winter Story"
Also other Veterans group sites to visit are IAVA.org, IVAW.org, VFP.org, VoteVets.org, & also see Brave New Films:
Rethink Afghanistan.
At the very least we should listen to those who have been there!

+6 # Guest 2010-06-13 07:51

Our men & women who serve in our military should not be used for corporate profits!

+7 # Guest 2010-06-13 08:00

Has anyone heard of the Supreme Court's recent decision regarding "Miranda Rights"?
It's ANOTHER BLOW against our rights!

Is there any way to IMPEACH members of the Supreme Court for TREASON?

Even though I've said this same thing when they LEGALIZED BRIBERY, I'm worried about our REAL free speech as people.

I actually called them "DOMESTIC TERRORISTS" & said they WERE GUILTY OF TREASON.

+5 # Guest 2010-06-13 08:08

Thank God for WikiLeaks!! I remember seeing that footage and how important it was to see something that the Pentagon naturally would not want revealed. We the People of this nation have a right to know the truth of what our military does. This was truly a disgraceful act. Enough said.

+4 # Guest 2010-06-13 08:19

GO JULIAN!!

Stuff it up their nose!

Your Grandma's behind you pushin'!!

: ) Auntie Em

+6 # evalderrama 2010-06-13 08:33

We call WWII our last "justified" war out of habit. Even though I was in it I suspect it too was a set up. Didn't Ford sort of finance Hitler, etc. etc? Hang all the dirty laundry out for everybody to see!

+5 # Guest 2010-06-13 08:36

Imagine what would happen if the general(ly sleeping) public found out just how sinister and atrocious it's military and leaders really are. Of course they don't want those images released. The one we did see was horrible enough.

+2 # Guest 2010-06-13 09:50

The only real conflict equalizer in this modern age of war is the total dissemination of information thru the internet. Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet!

This guy Julian is a modern day Daniel Ellsberg and we know who that war ended.

-2 # Guest 2010-06-13 12:39

There's always more going on than meets the eye. This alone is good reason to discard the teevee and the sunday papers. Whom to believe becomes a matter for INTERNAL introspection rather than external sources. This too is part of the de-construction of society that places Souls in their right orders.

+2 # Guest 2010-06-13 19:08

You are right that so much of our news media is totally corrupted but we have to get our news somewhere. "teevee" media has sold its soul and we know they are completely unreliable but that is where the majority get their info, and that is a problem. Fortunately for some of us we seek some alternatives. My local Sunday paper, that used to be venerated and moderate, has gone, mostly, Neocon but people here don't seem to see the difference, it is just too much work for them to analyze, and they shouldn't have to work that hard, but at the same time the newspaper is still one of our best sources and the printed media is in trouble. I'm trying to buy at least the Sunday paper to support them so that they don't vanish completely. In peace.

0 # Guest 2010-06-14 03:41

Quoting

There's always more going on than meets the eye. This alone is good reason to discard the teevee and the sunday papers. Whom to believe becomes a matter for INTERNAL introspection rather than external sources. This too is part of the de-construction of society that places Souls in their right orders.

Oh, my goodness, so we are better advised to hide from all truths? How can one determine, from a hiding place, which souls are in appropriate order?
Failure to even peek would be far too passive for the ordinary person, I suspect.

0 # Guest 2010-06-14 08:16

In other words, Emily, you are suggesting to keep the public uninformed and downright stupid. Much like the neo-cons, fascists, or those bible belt southern Christians would want to?

For your information, Emily, half of Americans are on record as the most uninformed, brainwashed, disinformed or downright stupid individuals in the eyes of the world. That is the main contribution the GOP, Republicans, Neocons, TEA partiers and their partners, the KKK, Nazis, racists and the fundamental dogma have offered for this nation.

Just watch the TEA Party and see how the nation has been disgraced in the eyes of the world. The only friends you have are paid ones like Israel, a couple of fascists countries in Latin America and some fundamental dogma fools in the Mideast!

So let's not wish for any more foolishness, shall we? The nation has suffered and is suffering enough with ignorance and arrogance going on now.

+1 # Guest 2010-06-13 15:39

Quoting

There's always more going on than meets the eye. This alone is good reason to discard the teevee and the sunday papers. Whom to believe becomes a matter for INTERNAL introspection rather than external sources. This too is part of the de-construction of society that places Souls in their right orders.

well I wouldn't rely on internal introspection either. that leads to paranoia .. facts help.

as for Wikileaks ? hurray !!

0 # Guest 2010-06-18 15:05

Sad when the last great Americans are Australians. Bradley Manning should get the Medal of Freedom not some Bush licking clown. It is time we rise up and put these crooks in prison starting with Bush.

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