USA Goal: "Wikileaks Must Be Destroyed" + Army's 32-Page Secret Plan To Destroy WikiLeaks

[kpete]

And finally, about destroying WikiLeaks:

But the major target surely is WikiLeaks itself, and on this score the goal of the national-security state is unambiguous. WikiLeaks must be destroyed. Indeed, as I noted in March, long before these leaks, the Army Counterintelligence Center had prepared a 32-page secret plan to destroy WikiLeaks. http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf The memo notes that the American intelligence community has valuable allies in the struggle against WikiLeaks—China, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. It recommended emulating the tactics used by these tyrannical states.
<http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf>

Emulating the Chinese, Russians and North Koreans; ah, the ties that bind. There's a Huffington Post report that WikiLeaks volunteers are already being targeted for "special attention" when they travel.

And what about Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder? Well, if this were a novel, he's a stain on the pavement by page 204. Horton again:

Julian Assange may himself be a even more serious target. How might the United States deal with Assange? Marc Thiessen, a Republican publicist and torture apologist with close ties to former CIA Director Hayden, argues that Assange is a non-American who lives outside the country and therefore apparently has no legal rights. He advocates kidnapping and hints at still more violent conduct.

I don’t think the Obama Administration will use a drone to murder Assange, but some in the intelligence community will be arguing for use of some of the “black arts” that were a staple of covert operations in the Bush era. . . . fforts to kidnap him are almost certainly being spun at this very moment.

Yikes. Julian, don't eat the sushi; it's that new polonium fish!

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/08/hbc-90007466
http://www.americablog.com/2010/08/wikileaks-national-security-state.html

[derby378]

1. That first link appears to be busted

Sounds really intriguing, though.

[kpete]

2. it comes and goes for me

i am going to copy the whole thing if i can, kpete (its pdf)
http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf

[pleah]

3. We need more leakers! n/t