Wikileaks Releases Video Depicting US Military Killing Dozen Iraqis Including Two Reuters Employees

[archibaldcrane]

I liked that Assange stood up and said 'I did that' when Colbert asked 'who put the "collateral murder" title on the video'.

[archibaldcrane]

I liked that Assange stood up and said 'I did that' when Colbert asked 'who put the "collateral murder" title on the video'.

I also liked that he stated clearly 'there was no firefight with US troops, only a report of small arms fire.'

[Beckwin]

I bet Americans would be pretty damn angry if a gunship shot the fuck out of tea party protests where there are a few guys with assault rifles.

[Pirian]

I would actually let that one slide

[Mizango]

I would actually let that one slide

Yep.

[Elvis]

I bet Americans would be pretty damn angry if a gunship shot the fuck out of tea party protests where there are a few guys with assault rifles.

Absolutely not. No matter what our elected leaders have done, said, etc. - we'd welcome w/ open arms the invading army. We'd welcome the occupation. We'd love the fact that this invading army is just here for our liberation and nothing else.

[Kuya]

It seems the Pentagon is searching for the founder of the website that released this video, Wikileaks, in a bid to silence it:

American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of confidential and potentially hugely embarrassing diplomatic cables that offer unfiltered assessments of Middle East governments and leaders.

The Daily Beast, a US news reporting and opinion website, reported that Pentagon investigators are trying to track down Julian Assange – an Australian citizen who moves frequently between countries – after the arrest of a US soldier last week who is alleged to have given the whistleblower website a classified video of American troops killing civilians in Baghdad.

The soldier, Bradley Manning, also claimed to have given WikiLeaks 260,000 pages of confidential diplomatic cables and intelligence assessments.

The US authorities fear their release could "do serious damage to national security", said the Daily Beast, which is published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and New Yorker magazines.

WikiLeaks' response to the news that the Americans are trying to track down Assange came on Twitter. "Any signs of unacceptable behaviour by the Pentagon or its agents towards this press will be viewed dimly," it said.

After Manning was arrested, WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message that allegations "we have been sent 260,000 classified US embassy cables are, as far as we can tell, incorrect".

Before his arrest, Manning told Lamo he was in part motivated to leak the video and documents by being ordered to look the other way in the face of injustice.

Messages from Manning, obtained by Wired, say he found that 15 Iraqis arrested by Iraqi police for printing "anti-Iraq" literature had merely put together an assessment of government corruption.

"I immediately took that information and ran to the [US army] officer to explain what was going on. He didn't want to hear any of it. He told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the [Iraqi police] in finding MORE detainees," Manning wrote.

"Everything started slipping after that. I saw things differently. I had always questioned the [way] things worked, and investigated to find the truth.

"But that was a point where I was … actively involved in something I was completely against."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...ntagon-manning


It seems the US government is increasing its campaign on fighting those who are forcing it to be more transparent. The Pentagon doesn't want anymore information such as this helicopter attack, its soldiers killing afghan civilians than hiding it, etc, to be made public. Does anyone here believe that's the only thing the Pentagon wants to hide? Information that might put the US in danger? Nobody thinks they're also going to hide information that merely embarasses them or shows that they covered up massacres or murders because it might look bad?

[Dainslaif]

It seems the US government is increasing its campaign on fighting those who are forcing it to be more transparent. The Pentagon doesn't want anymore information such as this helicopter attack, its soldiers killing afghan civilians than hiding it, etc, to be made public. Does anyone here believe that's the only thing the Pentagon wants to hide? Information that might put the US in danger? Nobody thinks they're also going to hide information that merely embarasses them or shows that they covered up massacres or murders because it might look bad?

In a word... Duh?

I'm still surprised that since it was put online, I only saw the video through some other forum posts and then never heard about it through the news feeds I skim. (though maybe I just missed it)

[Stumblingdrunk]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...nning-charges/

A U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking videos and documents to Wikileaks was charged Monday with eight violations of federal criminal law, including unauthorized computer access, and transmitting classified information to an unauthorized third party.

[Kuya]

It's a good thing that people who break laws are punished. A good thing indeed.

[Stumblingdrunk]

Yes Kuya, that is what America was founded on.

[Kiro]

Truth and Justice!

Spoiler: show

unless you are employed by the government. then you just gotta keep yourself from getting caught.

[Kuya]

Love and Peace!

[Stumblingdrunk]

not truth and justice so much as punishment and vengeance. close enough though

[Stumblingdrunk]

Americans will never recognize the difference anyway

[AidenCarby]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...nning-charges/

That guy's fucked.

Am I wrong for not really blaming our military on -what- they did but rather on -how- they approached it? They seemed as if they were proud of themselves, and just itched to shoot some more.. ugh :/

[Elvis]

Manning also said he leaked a separate video to Wikileaks showing the notorious May 2009 air strike near Garani village in Afghanistan that the local government says killed nearly 100 civilians, most of them children. The Pentagon released a report about the incident last year, but backed down from a plan to show video of the attack to reporters.

Has this been released yet?

[BerenTebogo]

American justice at its finest.

We're number one!

[Alleya]

Yes Kuya, that is what America was founded on.

Wrong. America was founded on the bible and the bible says in Ephesians 24:15: "And Lo, spake THE LORD, thou shalt know, for I am THE LORD, that all ye who art snitches, thou shalt get stitches."

Amen

[AidenCarby]

Needs more Isladar speaking from book of Moblins.