WikiLeaks strikes at DoD on Twitter ('incompetent authority')(updated to incl New Docs)

[kpete]

Source: The Hill

UPDATE - NEW DOCS

Loveparade 2010 Duisburg planning documents, 2007-2010
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Loveparade_2010_Duisburg_planning_documents,_2007-2010

WikiLeaks strikes at DoD on Twitter
By Elise Viebeck - 08/20/10 12:29 PM ET

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WikiLeaks, which maintains an aggressive Twitter presence, has used its feed consistently since late July to publicize its conflict with the Defense Department.

The Pentagon, meanwhile, had not weighed in on its feed since Aug. 2.

"We are not interested in negotiating," it said Thursday morning, directing the message to the group with the hashtag #WikiLeaks.

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WikiLeaks tweeted back less than an hour later.



"DoD's General Counsel is apparently an 'incompetent authority,'" it said, linking to the text of a letter sent from lead Pentagon attorney Jeh Charles Johnson to WikiLeaks on Aug. 16. The letter implies that the parties had been in previous contact.

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It also said, re-linking to the Aug. 16 letter from DoD lead counsel to WikiLeaks, that the Pentagon "wants 'total censorship,'" and that it "doesn't give a damn about Afghans."





Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/115175-provoked-wikileaks-strikes-at-dod-on-twitter

[Joanne98]

1. LOL. I love wikileaks!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. And the mouth-foaming by the armchair Rambos is a beauty to behold. -nt

[T Wolf]

3. The people of WikiLeaks had better be careful. I am afraid that if they push too hard, the

military would have no qualms about taking them out - and I do not mean out of business but out of existence.

Does anyone think there would be much outcry if Assange and others were Wellstoned?

I just hope they have set up a contingency that would blast-distribute everything they have in the event of their murder.

[Pavulon]

4. That assumes they have something of value.

they could have a tape of rape and murder and it would go away in a 7 day news cycle. Barring that they could dump another list of people for the taliban to kill or maybe operational stuff which we will just change.

You are looking for the name Gerald Bull, wellstone is a myth, Bull really got buried for fucking with things and people he should not have.

[karynnj]

5. you need to think about what you wrote - I doubt that you really thing this is a good thing to do

"Barring that they could dump another list of people for the taliban to kill or maybe operational stuff which we will just change."

Is this what you really recommend? From some comments, Wikileaks in some later releases redacted many Afghan names to prevent just this.

[superconnected]

6. Yes there would be much outcry. Wikileaks are regarded as world hero's by many.

Including me.

[Jester Messiah]

8. Hence that big encrypted file marked "insurance"

I suspect that in the event that something untoward happens to the wikileaks folks, some other anonymous parties will release the key that decrypts that file. That file, lest we forget, has been mirrored all over the world. It's classic spook insurance, and devastatingly effective (unless your "insurance" is of less value than you think.)

[pscot]

7. Just a couple of years ago

the phrase

maintains an aggressive Twitter presence

could not have been written.