WikiLeaks Documents Cenk Hosts MSNBC (Sam Seder Matt Lewis Debate)

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 04:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ikWS7mv3xU   Posted on YouTube: November 30, 2010 By YouTube Member: WarAgainstAllWars Views on YouTube: 22   Posted on DU: November 30, 2010 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 526

 
This video clip is part of the first day of news coverage following the release of cablegate by Wikileaks, Der Spegigel, Guardian, New York Times and many other news organizations.
A few hours before the initial release Wikileaks sent out this message via Twitter:
El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down
Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.
The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.
The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.
The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them.
This document release reveals the contradictions between the US's public persona and what it says behind closed doors -- and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what's going on behind the scenes.
Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington -- the country's first President -- could not tell a lie. If the administrations of his successors lived up to the same principle, today's document flood would be a mere embarrassment. Instead, the US Government has been warning governments -- even the most corrupt -- around the world about the coming leaks and is bracing itself for the exposures.
The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words (seven times the size of "The Iraq War Logs", the world's previously largest classified information release).
The cables cover from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010 and originate from 274 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions.


Australia is going to do a full investigation into Julian Assange and Wikileaks:
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/www...
Links to news stories covering this release:
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/static...
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/W...
http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/?...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11...
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTR...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/official-wik...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-200...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/20...
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpun...

[Charleston Chew]

1. hell yeah!

Majority Report gave me a shout out!

[axollot]

2. I love my other country but at times they are too much in the USA's lap. n't

[midnight]

3. Noam Chomsky who worked with Ellsburg to release the Pentagon papers

In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret internal U.S. account of the Vietnam War. Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, "latest polls show] Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that’s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent," Chomsky says. "This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it’s certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership."http://www.alternet.org/rights/149032/noam_chomsky%3A_wikileaks_cables_reveal_%22profound_hatred_for_democracy_on_the_part_of_our_political_leadership%22