WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
The video, Wikileaks says, was taken from a US Apache helicopter on July 2, 2007, in Baghdad, which shows the killing of civilians and Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying since then to get the video released without luck, but Wikileaks had it leaked to them in an encrypted format, and had it decrypted. Now it’s literally all over the Internet.
Let’s see how long it takes the national US news media to really chase this down. Or, if they do… and how long until the Wikileaks staff are targeted now?
I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that’s pretty wild. It accuses the U.S. government of deliberately trying to take down the whistle-blower site PDF two years ago.
As proof, Wikileaks has posted a 32-page classified document PDF from the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis program, dated March 2008, which details “the counterintelligence threat posed to the US Army by the Wikileaks.org Web site.” It reads:
“The possibility that a current employee or mole within DoD or elsewhere in the US government is providing sensitive information or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out. Wikileaks.org claims that the ‘leakers’ or ‘whistleblowers’ of sensitive or classified DoD documents are former US government employees.”
The document, attributed to the Army Counterintelligence Center and titled “Wikileaks.org — An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups?”, cited the leaking of classified Army materials as the chief reason Wikileaks is harmful to national security.
Basically, Wikileaks–I used to read it sometimes, but couldn’t make heads or tails of half the things I was looking at–became a massive clearinghouse of all sorts of leaked, useful information. It got a foreign bank to sue them in the United States for some nonsense of impeding trade, which was finally thrown out in court after the the bank was humiliated. If I recall right, Wikileaks just kept leaking their stuff right out during trial, so they gave up. With this, the government under Bush’s administration actually looked into ways to take them down. Well, tonight it looks like, on top of the above mentioned news, they’ve apparently really pissed off the US intel orginization this time–I’ve never seen commentary like this from them before. From their twitter:
WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation. Following/photographing/filming/detaining. about 1 hours ago
If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible. about 1 hours ago
Two under State Dep diplomatic cover followed our editor from Iceland to http://skup.no on Thursday. about 1 hours ago
One related person was detained for 22 hours. Computer’s seized.That’s http://www.skup.no 44 minutes ago
We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being discussed at the highest levels of US command. 32 minutes ago
If you know more about the operations against us, contact https://secure.wikileaks.org/ 31 minutes ago
We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike. 27 minutes ago
We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don’t think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks. 23 minutes ago
Even when the heat is on, someone leaks them CIA airline records from the investigation? Yes, someone will call bullshit, but they do I think have a reputation for being bullshit-free. Looks like the Internet has finally caught up with the Old World of governments, and the governments are pissed they can’t control the Internet. Too bad.
It looks like Wikileaks may have evidence of some sort of murder carried out by the US military or possibly the CIA (sorry for the bad translation):
On April 5 to Wikileaks at a meeting of the National Press Club in Washington a video showing an attack by the U.S. Air Force. It would involve a murder carried out by the Pentagon. The staff of the site also draw on information from CIA aircraft have as supporting evidence.
If that’s true, it implies that the airstrike–I have no idea what airstrike this is about–violated either domestic or international law and/or was an outright murder versus a legal military action. If their claims of being detained and followed overseas by United States officials and the CIA are true, then they’ve definitely got their hands on something the State Department, Pentagon or CIA don’t want out there. I wonder what?
Is this about the Kunduz airstrike in Afghanistan from September 4, 2009, when a US F-15 caused the deaths of dozens of civilians? Or is it about, as rumored online, an assassination of journalists by the military that was recorded–which Wikileaks alluded to on February 20th, 2010?
Finally cracked the encryption to US military video in which journalists, among others, are shot. Thanks to all who donated $/CPUs.
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
Didn’t Fox News say they would institute a zero tolerance policy for lying to viewers by staff in any capacity, intentional or otherwise, after lots of mainstream media finally began calling them on their games last year? Yes, they did. Their memo said:
That means we will start by going to air with only the most essential, basic, and manageable elements. To share a key quote from today’s meeting: “It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on.” We may then build up again slowly as deadlines and workloads allow so that we can be sure we can quality check everything before it makes air, and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again.
They were already called out in very public fashion once for falsifying graphics. They played it off as it if wasn’t falsified, playing semantic games. I wonder how they’ll play it off now that someone was caught on-air literally making up stuff as blatant as Rudy Giuliani trying to spin politics by saying there were no domestic terror attacks while George W. Bush was President (it’s more important to slam a black President than be truthful).
What’s the new shameless lie aimed at America? Someone inflating the amount of money that Barack Obama has spent on economic recovery by deliberately padding it with the more unpopular TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) bailout money. More here.
BOLLING: The federal government certainly likes to spend your and my taxpayer dollars. Recently — check it out — they spent $700 billion on TARP, $787 billion on stimulus. Hey, by the way, that stimulus package, those are $400,000 per job — jobs they’re creating. $180 billion is either spent or lent to AIG. Don’t forget the $115 billion — these are all B’s — billion to Fannie and Freddie. $83 billion to cars. We’re not going to see a dime of this. Don’t forget the $1 trillion on health care, cap and trade, et cetera, et cetera. And this one, this one. Can you get a close-up — take a look at this one. $60 billion as of last night going to the unions to buy health care votes.
The problem is that BUSH signed the TARP money away from us–the portion of the economic stimulus that went to parasitic corporate entities like AIG–not Obama. I’m guessing by the time the 2012 elections roll around we’ll be saying that Obama was responsible for invading Iraq and the 9/11 attacks on New York City, at this rate.
Odds that Bolling gets anything more than a some laughs with everyone over at the Fox News coffee room over this rather than disciplined, reprimanded, or terminated as the previous internal memo implied he would?
This website is one of my guilty pleasures. It’s an insanely bizarre news hybrid of weird far right, weird far left, and just… odd. I’m probably misreading it because some of it’s over the top, but it reads to me at times like the Weekly World News doing hard political news almost at times:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Quoting the Declaration of Independence? Sure, we’re off to a good start. We could be heading up the crazy train to Wasila, Alaska for a Tea Party, or we could be heading for a rousing and soul-baring discussion of what it means to be American.
The question is not if they are allowed to continue, as they have violated the Constitution for the majority of the last 100 years. There is historical validity to eliminate the government we currently have.
The question, is who will fire the first shot?
I think someone fired up the steam engine on this train. But maybe that’s nothing…
Bow down to your masters, for you are not my countrymen. Lick the hand that gives you scraps, for they are your masters and betters. Bring not your insults or provocations before me, for I will not bow to any man, for I am a Free and Sovereign Individual with no preconceived notion, that any are better than I, or my fellow man.
Wait, what? That’s not Tea Party talk. Did this train derail heading from Wasila to Zion in the fucking Matrix?
If you worship socialism so much I am sure the People’s Republic of Korea has a nice big bowl of oppression warmed up for you to gobble down.
Hey, that’s better! The guy who posted that, “av8r007″–does he write Glenn Beck’s monologues? I think this train was headed for Wasila all along. Maybe it’s right where I’m expecting things to be:
The colonists only fought back after the English marched to disarm the militias at Lexington and Concord. If blood must be shed, it should be clear that the Govt fired the 1st shot. If we start the shooting war we’ll be branded as terrorists and radicals. If the govt shoots 1st we can claim self defence.
Oh hell, apparently it is One Of Those Crazy Discussions, as now scenarios are being bandied about on how to make it look like the United States government is going to incite an armed revolution against Obama. And here I was worried for nothing. Reasonable commentary, right? Far out, Right? Get it? I kill myself.
But, before you think it’s all just “Let’s overthrow the Evil Black President’s Shadow America,” we get discussions about 9/11 Congressional reports being lies; Christian missionaries trapped in Haiti–but only the “posers, pretend Christian wannabees going on exotic vacations and calling it mission work“; and various areas to explore ATS Skunk Works, Secret Societies, New World Order, Space Exploration, Aliens and UFOs, Paranormal Studies, Cryptozoology & Mythical Beasts, and finally a section for simply the hoaxes rather than the real studies and scholarly research (like my above quoted discussion about the merits of freedom versus tyranny).
These guys aren’t just thinking that Obama is a dethawed socialist Manchurian Candidate bred in a 1941 German cloning facility outside of Dusseldorf, AKA Kenya. Hell no–this is like Fox Mulder’s personal online message board.
