How is this happening?

What the hell is the anti-American Obama administration doing to prosecute this act of high treason and spying? This is not WikiLeaks nor Julian Assange's responsibility; it's the Obama Administration's. 

Is the enemy is the White House enjoying this?

WikiLeaks defy US demands on leaked files Gulf News

WikiLeaks releases confidential US diplomatic cables, with several governments fearing damaging revelations

Washington: US State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

The documents show Saudi donors remain chief financiers of militant groups like Al Qaida and that Chinese government operatives have waged a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage targeting the United States and its allies, according to a review of the WikiLeaks documents published in the Times.

The collection "provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats," the paper reported.
 
The WikiLeaks documents also show US Defence Secretary Robert Gates believes any military strike on Iran would only delay its pursuit of a nuclear weapon by one to three years, the Times reported on its website on Sunday.

The cables also showed that Iran has obtained sophisticated missiles from North Korea capable of hitting western Europe and the United States was concerned that Iran was using those rockets as "building blocks" to build longer-range missiles, the Times said.

The advanced missiles are much more powerful than anything US officials have publicly acknowledged that Iran has in its arsenal, the newspaper said.

The Pentagon immediately condemned WikiLeaks' "reckless" dump of classified State Department documents and said it was taking steps to bolster security of US military networks.

The White House said the leak of the diplomatic cables could compromise private discussions with foreign governments and opposition leaders and may put at risk the lives of named individuals living "under oppressive regimes."

[...]
The group's founder, Julian Assange, also tells the US ambassador to Britain that WikiLeaks won't bow to Washington's demands.
The Obama administration has been bracing for the release for the past week. Top officials have notified allies that the contents of the diplomatic cables could prove embarrassing because they contain candid assessments of foreign leaders.

Wikileaks and the journalistic elite CiF Watch

Wikileaks US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis Resist Net

More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies

• Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies
• Hillary Clinton leads frantic 'damage limitation'

The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.

At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.

These include a shift in relations between China and North Korea, high level concerns over Pakistan's growing instability and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen.

Among scores of disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail:

• Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, with officials warning that as the country faces economic collapse, government employees could smuggle out enough nuclear material for terrorists to build a bomb.

• Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government, with one cable alleging that vice president Zia Massoud was carrying $52m in cash when he was stopped during a visit to the United Arab Emirates. Massoud denies taking money out of Afghanistan.

• How the hacker attacks which forced Google to quit China in January were orchestrated by a senior member of the Politburo who typed his own name into the global version of the search engine and found articles criticising him personally.

• The extraordinarily close relationship between Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, which is causing intense US suspicion. Cables detail allegations of "lavish gifts", lucrative energy contracts and the use by Berlusconi of a "shadowy" Russian-speaking Italian go-between.

• Allegations that Russia and its intelligence agencies are using mafia bosses to carry out criminal operations, with one cable reporting that the relationship is so close that the country has become a "virtual mafia state".

•  Devastating criticism of the UK's military operations in Afghanistan by US commanders, the Afghan president and local officials in Helmand. The dispatches reveal particular contempt for the failure to impose security around Sangin – the town which has claimed more British lives than any other in the country.

• Inappropriate remarks by a member of the British royal family about a UK law enforcement agency and a foreign country.

The US has particularly intimate dealings with Britain, and some of the dispatches from the London embassy in Grosvenor Square will make uncomfortable reading in Whitehall and Westminster. They range from political criticisms of David Cameron to requests for specific intelligence about individual MPs.

The cables contain specific allegations of corruption, as well as harsh criticism by US embassy staff of their host governments, from Caribbean islands to China and Russia. The material includes a reference to Putin as an "alpha-dog", Hamid Karzai as being "driven by paranoia" while Angela Merkel allegedly "avoids risk and is rarely creative". There is also a comparison between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Adolf Hitler.

The cables names Saudi donors as the biggest financiers of terror groups, and provide an extraordinarily detailed account of an agreement between Washington and Yemen to cover up the use of US planes to bomb al-Qaida targets. One cable records that during a meeting in January with General David Petraeus, then US commander in the Middle East, Yemeni president Abdullah Saleh said: "We'll continue saying they are our bombs, not yours."

Other revelations include a description of a near "environmental disaster" last year over a rogue shipment of enriched uranium, technical details of secret US-Russian nuclear missile negotiations in Geneva, and a profile of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who they say is accompanied everywhere by a "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse.

A worldwide diplomatic crisis for the US is in prospect following the leaking of hundreds of thousands of secret cables sent from its embassies.

The dispatches, to which the Guardian has obtained unprecedented access, reveal startling information about the behaviour of the world's major superpower.

They include high-level allegations of corruption against foreign leaders, harsh criticisms and frank insights into the world of normally- secret diplomacy.

Among literallyscores of revelations which may cause uproar, some will be particularly dismaying in Britain. They include:

• Highly critical private remarks about David Cameron and George Osborne's "lack of depth", made by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, to the US ambassador.

• A scornful analysis of UK "paranoia" over the US-UK so-called special relationship. It is suggested that "keeping HMGthe British government "off-balance" about itthe relationship might be a good idea.

• US shock at the rude behaviour of Prince Andrew when abroad.

• Secret US military missions flown from a UK base, which Britain alleged could involve torture.

• A plan to deceive the British parliament over the use of banned US weapons.

The Guardian will be publishing extracts in the coming days from a selection of the most significant of more than 250,000 of these diplomatic cables, which were radioed back to Washington via satellite links from US embassies all over the world.

Among many allegations of corruption, the dispatches name a prominent western leader said to be in receipt of Russian bribes, a senior Afghan politician stopped at an airport with more than $50m in suitcases and a British businessman at the centre of a corruption scandal in Kazakhstan.

They name the "single most hated person" in a country the US relies on to help prosecute its war in Afghanistan; and they reveal deep fears about the safety of one state's nuclear weapons.

They also reveal why an alleged major Serbian war criminal has never been caught; why North Korea is soon likely to collapse and how an "environmental disaster" was only narrowly averted last year over secret shipments of highly enriched uranium.

Topics covered range from the technical detail of secret US-Russian nuclear missile negotiations in Geneva, to an intimate personality profile of Colonel Gaddaffi, the eccentric Libyan dictator, who they say is nowadays accompanied everywhere by a "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse.

The cables cover secretary of state Hillary Clinton's work under the Obama administration, as well as thousands of files from the Bush presidency.Clinton led a frantic damage limitation exercise this weekend as Washington prepared foreign governments for the revelations, contacting leaders in Germany, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, France and Afghanistan.

US ambassadors in other capitals were instructed to brief their hosts in advance of the release of unflattering pen-portraits or nakedly frank accounts of transactions with the US which they had thought would be kept quiet. Washington now faces a difficult task in convincing contacts around the world that any future conversations will remain confidential.

As the cables were published the White House released a statement condemning their release. "Such disclosures put at risk our diplomats, intelligence professionals, and people around the world who come to the US for assistance in promoting democracy and open government. By releasing stolen and classified documents, WikiLeaks has put at risk not only the cause of human rights but also the lives and work of these individuals."

In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said: "We condemn any unauthorised release of this classified information, just as we condemn leaks of classified material in the UK. They can damage national security, are not in the national interest and, as the US have said, may put lives at risk. We have a very strong relationship with the US Government. That will continue".

The state department's legal adviser has written to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his London lawyer, warning that the cables were obtained illegally and that publication would place at risk "the lives of countless innocent individuals … ongoing military operations … and cooperation between countries".

Comments

[Bill in Chicago]

The Saudis aren't just writing the checks. They've consistently been the ones pulling the trigger, as well:

http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com

[armaros]

This is the progressive State Dept. If they actually see this, imagine what is out there.
I feel re assured that at least most of the time, professionals are superior to our politicians.

The revelations on China, Russia, Iran etc....are vindicating the most hawkish defense advocates. Others justify suspicions many had.

Check out this passage from an assessment on Iranians during the revolution.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/28/world/20101128-cables-viewer.html#report/cables-79TEHRAN8980

3. PERHAPS THE SINGLE DOMINANT ASPECT OF THE PERSIAN
PSYCHE IS AN OVERRIDING EGOISM. ITS ANTECEDENTS LIE
IN THE LONG IRANIAN HISTORY OF INSTABILITY AND INSECURITY
WHICH PUT A PREMIUM ON SELF-PRESERVATION. THE PRACTICAL
EFFECT OF IT IS AN ALMOST TOTAL PERSIAN PREOCCUPATION
WITH SELF AND LEAVES LITTLE ROOM FOR UNDERSTANDING POINTS
OF VIEW OTHER THAN ONE'S OWN. THUS, FOR EXAMPLE, IT
IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO AN IRANIAN THAT U.S. IMMIGRATION
LAW MAY PROHIBIT ISSUING HIM A TOURIST VISA WHEN HE HAS
DETERMINED THAT HE WANTS TO LIVE IN CALIFORNIA.
SIMILARLY, THE IRANIAN CENTRAL BANK SEES NO INCONSISTENCY
IN CLAIMING FORCE MAJEURE TO AVOID PENALTIES FOR LATE
PAYMENT OF INTEREST DUE ON OUTSTANDING LOANS WHILE THE
GOVERNMENT OF WHICH IT IS A PART IS DENYING THE VAILIDITY
OF THE VERY GROUNDS UPON WHICH THE CLAIM IS MADE WHEN
CONFRONTED BY SIMILAR CLAIMS FROM FOREIGN FIRMS FORCED
TO CEASE OPERATIONS DURING THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION.

4. THE REVERSE OF THIS PARTICULAR PSYCHOLOGICAL COIN,
AND HAVING THE SAME HISTORICAL ROOTS AS PERSIAN EGOISM,
IS A PERVASIVE UNEASE ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE WORLD IN
WHICH ONE LIVES.....

5. COUPLED WITH THESE PSYCHOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS IS A
GENERAL INCOMPREHENSION OF CASUALITY. ISLAM, WITH ITS
EMPHASIS ON THE OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD, APPEARS TO ACCOUNT
AT LEAST IN MAJOR PART FOR THIS PHENOMENON. SOMEWHAT
SURPRISINGLY, EVEN THOSE IRANIANS EDUCATED IN THE
WESTERN STYLE AND PERHAPS WITH LONG EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE
IRAN ITSELF FREQUENTLY HAVE DIFFICULTY GRASPING THE
INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF EVENTS.....

6. THE PERSIAN PROCLIVITY FOR ASSUMING THAT TO SAY
SOMETHING IS TO DO IT FURTHER COMPLICATES MATTERS.
AGAIN, YAZDI CAN EXPRESS SURPRISE WHEN INFORMED THAT THE
IRREGULAR SECURITY FORCES ASSIGNED TO THE EMBASSY REMAIN
IN PLACE. "BUT THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TOLD ME THEY
WOULD GO BY MONDAY," HE SAYS. AN MFA OFFICIAL REPORTS
THAT THE SHERRY CASE IS "90 PERCENT SOLVED," BUT WHEN
A CONSULAR OFFICER INVESTIGATES HE DISCOVERS THAT NOTHING
HAS CHANGED. THERE IS NO RECOGNITION THAT INSTRUCTIONS
MUST BE FOLLOWED UP, THAT COMMITMENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED
BY ACTION AND RESULTS.

7. THERE ARE SEVERAL LESSONS FOR THOSE WHO WOULD NEGOTIATE
WITH PERSIANS IN ALL THIS:

- --FIRST, ONE SHOULD NEVER ASSUME THAT HIS SIDE OF
THE ISSUE WILL BE RECOGNIZED, LET ALONE THAT IT WILL
BE CONCEDED TO HAVE MERITS. PERSIAN PREOCCUPATION WITH
SELF PRECLUDES THIS. A NEGOTIATOR MUST FORCE RECOGNITION
OF HIS POSITION UPON HIS PERSIAN OPPOSITE NUMBER....

[tfb]

They had to make it look really bad, but really it's all stuff everyone already knew.

THIS IS A RUSE, A CYBER 911 SO OBAMA CAN CENSOR THE INTERNET FOR HIS POLICE STATE.

Look at that kid, he's a superduper Obot.

[Rodion]

Sounds like not only whistle-blowers committed a treason.

[Joel]

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[yitz]

Obama isn't doing anything, because 1) he is dumbfounded like GWB when 9/11 happened and 2) there's not much he can do the cat is out of the bag. The fact is the State Dept and CIA are too busy taking tax dollars and creating unnecessary friction in the international stage. Most of the so called leaks are just frank discussions with a time/place and person associated with the remarks instead of my sources tell me a person high up in the govt said xyz. Maybe Iran will strike S. Arabia now that it see who the real Great Satan is. It would be nice to see those 2 go at it blowing all their resources at each other instead of threatening everyone else in the world.

[Stephen Rohaty]

YES, the enemy in the White House IS enjoying this. And it is so stupid for ANYONE in this computer/cell phone age to expect ANY privacy. In time, soon, politicians will learn the futility of saying contrary words to different listeners. The truth will out. For instance, that the Saudi's gave Israel permission to fly through Saudi air space to attack Iran.

[Redneck woman]

This is craziness! This Julian should be arrested and charged with Treason! BUT alas, The last leak that was posted on wikileaks actually came from the Oval Office Computer!! I'll betcha so did this one!!!

tfb probably is very close to the truth!It sounds right! Just another reason for the idiot and thief in the WH to shut down websites....which leads me to ask...why didn't they shut wikileaks down when they knew in advance about this information coming out? Could it be they wanted this to be put out for public viewing?

Next question we must ask is why? As some good friends always tell me ..."Follow the money"!Who is actually profiting from all this information? Could it be to take all eyes off the Idiot and thief in the WH and what he's got planned for America?

Just some food for thought!

[Islam is a vast mafia criminal syndicate and death cult]

Obama is powerless to stop a traitor from giving away state secrets putting the nation and it's citizens in grave danger, but he has no trouble forcing Israel to stop building some apartments on it's land.

Over and over this scumbag does things that should get him impeached and still no one has the courage to oust this Manchurian candidate.

[P. C.]

could not have said it better...

[Joel]

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/treason-bradley-manning-and-army-pc/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/military-homosexual-scandal-tied-to-wikileaks-treason/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/conservatives-and-the-suicide-of-the-west/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/accused-army-traitor-cruised-gay-bars/
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/post-has-its-own-watergate-scandal/

[Joel]

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/communists-to-be-welcomed-at-progressive-march/
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/wikileaks-latest-revelations-do-not-shake-the-world/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-do-progressives-defend-communists-and-terrorists/
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/wikileaks%E2%80%99-spoiler-and-sponger/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/mixed-messages-from-glenn-beck/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/will-the-tea-party-tackle-the-moral-crisis/

[Mac-101]

Exactly what I'm thinkin. Settin the ground for ALL state controlled media only. New World Order here we come!

[Andy]

If Wikileaks is so good at digging up info that it shouldn't have, why doesn't it dig up all the offical papers proving that Osama, oops, I mean Obama, is a "natural born" citizen? Hmm?

[ARNOLD CARL TAPP]

WIKILEAKS AND JULIAN ASSHOLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED LONG AGO , BY BLOCKING ALL TRANSMISSIONS FROM
THEIR COMPUTER. DO NOT TRY TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE, SINCE THERE ARE MANY
EXPERTS AVAILABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE TASK. JULIAN ASSHOLE WOULD SURELY BE EASIER TO FIND THAN
"OSAMA YOU MAMA" , AND HE SHOULD RECEIVE A SURPRISE FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST SNIPERS , IN THE FORM
OF A 50 CALIBER ROUND FROM THE FAMED BARRET RIFLE.
THE PRIVATE WHO BETRAYED AMERICA BY STEALING THE SECRET INFO AND SELLING IT SHOULD BE EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON BY HANGING.
A FIRING SQUAD IS MUCH TOO HONORABLE A DEATH FOR THIS "JUDAS ".

[Paula K.]

My sentiments exactly.

['nuff already]

Yitz..you are a ditz!

"W" was NOT dumbfounded on 9/11, nor was he dumbfounded when he addressed the special joint session of congress nine days later on September 20, 2001. That speech was brilliant and will sit side by side with other great speeches such as "fourscore and seven..." and "I have a dream..." to name but two.

"W" was destined to be at the helm the day 9/11 happened...they say God works in strange ways...perhaps "chads" were part of His master plan.

Hopefully future generations will see what our current generation cannot and rightfully put GWB in the forefront of great American presidents.

[tfb]

Because Obama is behind wikileaks, like he was behind gulf oilyleaks, and leaking his foreign citizenship documents is not the kind of leak he wants.

Great observation though.

[tfb]

REMEMBER THIS IS THE DAY SCOTUS RETURNED A DECISION ON THE KERCHNER/APUZZO CASE

OBAMA IS SO CONTROLLING THIS DISTRACTION

[Richard 2]

I agree, a lot of the memo's hurt the left but Obama will simply use this as an excuse to try and take over the entire news industry.

[Richard 2]

I agree, a lot of the memo's hurt the left but Obama will simply use this as an excuse to try and take over the entire news industry.

[Richard 2]

Read the Constitution, it takes 67 votes in the Senate to remove a setting President, there is no way we can get that many votes. Since we can't get the votes it is better not to give him a cheap victory that he can use to hit us over the head with.

[Richard 2]

There is a real good possibility, Clinton bombed places everytime something that might hurt him was due to be released.

[Richard 2]

In a just world this might be possible, in the modern world it isn't, for us to kill Julian would be to prove that every lie about us was the truth. The US and Australia are looking into what laws he can be prosecuted from breaking (I am counting on Australia rather then the Obama Justice Department) and I think it is Finland that is planning on trying him for rape. The war hasn't been hot enough for us to get away with summery execution yet, as appealing as that thought might be.

[Robin Shadowes]

From what I've read on the Alex Jones websites, many over seem to think Wikileaks are just another CIA-front, just like Al-CIAda and Facebook.

[Robin Shadowes]

*over there

[Robin Shadowes]

Nope, it's Sweden who want to prosecute him for rape lol.