(9AM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)
(Cross-posted the The Free Speech Zone)
Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information — data that can help paint a picture of the foundation upon which US foreign policy is built. Never before has the trust America’s partners have in the country been as badly shaken. Now, their own personal views and policy recommendations have been made public — as have America’s true views of them.
Color coded map of dispatches that reference each country:
http://www.spiegel.de/flash/fl…
So far the juciest find, in my opinion, is this:
The operation targeted at the UN appears to have involved all of Washington’s main intelligence agencies. The CIA’s clandestine service, the US Secret Service and the FBI were included in the “reporting and collection needs” cable alongside the state department under the heading “collection requirements and tasking”.
The leak of the directive is likely to spark questions about the legality of the operation and about whether state department diplomats are expected to spy. The level of technical and personal detail demanded about the UN top team’s communication systems could be seen as laying the groundwork for surveillance or hacking operations. It requested “current technical specifications, physical layout and planned upgrades to telecommunications infrastructure and information systems, networks and technologies used by top officials and their support staff”, as well as details on private networks used for official communication, “to include upgrades, security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys and virtual private network versions used”.
The UN has previously asserted that bugging the secretary general is illegal, citing the 1946 UN convention on privileges and immunities which states: “The premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable. The property and assets of the United Nations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action”.
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caught by the cyber-police!
thing in the NY Times. What a surprise.
BBC News this afternoon…
Go Julian!
Ah, yeah, Hi Comcast, the internet is down. Actually I might call Comcast Xfinity but I can’t look up the number online cause online don’t work. Cable works as does the IP address phone which is strange because upon playing with the phone I can suddenly hear my grandson in the upstairs apartment. OK, so let me try a hardline connection direct to the router. Nope, that’s down too. Reboot,power off,both wireless router and cable internet. Nope. Hey, don’t you guys know it’s like Black Sunday or some other corporate fucking shit. Crap, I don’t hear any black helicopters, lemmie go outside for a second. OK, no big deal, suburbia does still exist. So the phone works, sort of, the cable TV works but not the internet. Should my technologically challenged ass try to order up a movie to the cellphone I don’t own or should I just defeat the microwave door interlock, stick my head inside and hit Frappee.
Hey, I’m in suburbia, there are five other networks I can see with my wireless lan connect thingy. OK, so I don’t have the Homeboy Security password for that one, or this one or even the other really weak new one down the street so I can’t get to somebody who might have Verizon, that other ISP in a relatively lame attempt to determine if it’s a government plot to like end the world or something. Forgot the most important thing to check my son’s Mission Control Pentium 47 machine running Winblows 87 to see if that machine is opening the space time continuum and allowing the evil aliens’ access to the Stargate of Aden. No, the frigging thing is actually off for once. Jesus H. Christ, Sunday night at 10:15 with no internet AND no beer? Nothing but lamestream TV and no beer?
Benjamin Netanyahu is a liar. Muammar Gaddafi is a wierdo. Robert Mugabe is an old coot. Hamid Karzai is a paranoid thief. Silvio Berlusconi just likes to party. Nicholas Sarkozy is a control freak. Vladimir Putin is an evil genius. The Saudis don’t like the Iranians. Al Queda is really based in Qatar. Leaks from the the state department of Duh! No Shit (DS-DNS).
I don’t think much will come out of these revelations. The U.S. regime is already an illegal regime if you belive in the Constitution. Law-breaking is systemic and won’t change.
These series of revelations has a dark side. It will increase the reliance on private firms who have been increasingly carrying out intelligence and covert operations for some time. These private entities staffed b former senior members of the intel and military communities will, in my view, be doing most of the heavy lifting from now on since they don’t have to leave a paper-trail–well, they’re supposed to but they don’t get penalized if they don’t.
I think we will see, in the future, most special operations capability in civilian hands. The government’s chief responsibility will be to train these individuals and then hand them over to the corporate establishment. Yet another nail in the coffin of the former USA.
fraction of the viral madness that has taken over our governing institutions and turned them into exclusive laboratories for cultural manipulation and experimentation with the amorphous goal of moulding and directing the future of global civilization. The majority of directives and communications are very likely verbal. AND NOW THEY WILL BE EVEN MORE SO! Makes Dr. Strangelove look like Romper Room. Watch out for the belching, spasmotic, unpredictable, subconscious acts of the paranoid fire dragons holed up in the caverns of their own minds. What would we have done without our great pathfinders with such impeccable credentials as J.Edgar Hoover, Oliver North, Dick Cheney and our own beloved Community Organizer?
why is docudharma closing down? I checked the mission statement etc. No info. Please inform us internet homeless who don’t get to go online often
$ or time or both. my understanding is that one of the founders of this site had health issues, but I am not an insider and may have misinterpreted
Who funds wikileaks? Any good data?
Sweden turned him down for citizenship.
He’s Aussie by birth.
and a hero to the world
Where would you go to create another wikileaks?
Yeah, I say it’s controlled dis-info. You mean to tell me TPTB could not historize Julian as they have done to so, so many other people in the past.