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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast
The leaker should be honored as a patriot. We need more people like him exposing this type of trickery in our government.
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Originally Posted by JollyRoger
I was originally sympathetic to these guys because we live in an over-classified society, and the initial reports didn't produce any block buster headlines. But now that it looks like these clowns printed the names of foreign informants working for us who will now in all likelyhood will be tortured to death, I think they have actually succeeded in committing a crime - accessory to murder. I hope they get what is coming to them.
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Well it looks like the “Hero” patriot/leaker says that through his organization’s intermediaries at the New York Times the White House was offered and asked for assistance in reviewing the classified “Evil Pentagon Liars” documents prior to their release, and the White House did not respond.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_0fU7SYqoI
And the “Evil Pentagon Liars" now say that the Obama White House was never directly contacted by the “Hero” organization, but the White House admits to contact with New York Times intermediaries acting on behalf of the “Hero” organization.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60254
“It’s absolutely false that WikiLeaks contacted the White House and offered to have them look through the documents,” Marine Corps Col. David Lapan said.
Assange told “ABC Lateline” in Australia last night that WikiLeaks and several media groups contacted the White House prior to releasing the documents for assistance in reviewing them to make sure innocent names were not released. White House officials declined, he said.
He added that White House officials were not given “veto” power, but were given an opportunity help WikiLeaks minimize potential danger to informants and innocent civilians named in the cables. The New York Times acted on behalf of WikiLeaks, he said.
“We never had the opportunity to look at any of the documents in advance to determine anything,” Lapan said. “The documents were brought to the attention of the White House, but no copies of documents, or opportunities to review were given.”
Oh what a crazy mixed up world we live in!
If the White House refused or failed to take the opportunity to assist and review the classified documents before their release are they also culpable and accessories to murders?