WIKILEAKS = TREASON

Alan Caruba sent me a link to his worthy blog Warning Signs:


Sean, you will want to read this post. Alan C.

PS. If you want to share it, be my guest.


Pfc Bradley Manning, A Warning Writ Large

Openly gay, despite the then-existing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that allowed him to remain in the Army, Manning had experienced rejection by a homosexual lover, declaring on his Facebook page that he was “livid” after being “lectured by ex-boyfriend.” . . .

. . . This is why the Armed Forces resisted Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell when it was first foisted on them. From long experience, both military and civilian intelligence personnel knew and understood that homosexuals were particularly vulnerable to blackmail and, even as attitudes changed toward the gay and lesbian population, their emotional stability remained open to question . . .

. . . It is why today’s frontline Marines in combat do not want to rely on homosexuals in their units, but the military has become so politically correct over the years that even an unstable Muslim Army major was allowed to serve until he killed thirteen servicemen and women at Fort Hood . . .



An intriguing comparison, when one considers that the only crime worse than murder is treason.

Read the whole thing HERE


- SEAN LINNANE SENDS



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News Story of the Year - WikiLeaks

Read Nick Gillespie's essay, "The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide." The key point is that unlike the umpteen other purported "game-changing" news stories, WikiLeaks is genuinely new. And Gillespie argues the frequently heard point that WikiLeaks' impact goes far beyond one individual, such as Julian Assange. Beside that though is to what effect? What's the utility beyond the crazed anarchist's dream of sowing mayhem and destroying state operations, if not the state. We get that discussion at this Reason video, which features Eli Lake, Aaron David Miller, Steven Aftergood, and Heather Hurlburt (in that initial order).



It's a thoughtful clip, although there's a bit of romanticism at parts. I like Lake's comments on the immediate impact of simply generating greater knowledge of international actor behavior and interests. Miller's comments are both lyrical and penetrating. He suggests that the effects could be like footsteps on the beach, possibly washed away by the next big wave. Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, is matter-of-fact and to the point (and agreeable if not that animated), and, sorry, but I'm not learning much from Hurlburt.

What's just barely touched is the effect of WikiLeaks on the continued rise of anti-Americanism in the world. Eli Lake mentions this at the start of the clip, but the point gets lost at the remainder of the discussion. WikiLeaks has tightened the tacit alliance between the anarcho-libertarians and the neo-communist progressives. Nick Gillespie is a respectable guy, but the problem with libertarianism is that its adherents give cover for some of the most vile revolutionary doctrines now gaining increased respectability. See "WikiLeaks: The Revolutionary as Entrepreneur." More on that later. Meanwhile see my previous entries, "How Communists Exploit WikiLeaks," and "Exposing the WikiLeaks/Communist/Media Alliance."

Cross-posted from American Power


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LATEST ON THE JULIAN ASSANGE RAPE ALLEGATIONS

From Donald Douglas' most excellent blog American Power - a classic case study of Liberal hypocrisy in action:

Progressives and the Julian Assange Rape Allegations

This whole Julian Assange Wikileaks rape thingie is to rape what the Tea Party is to racism - nothing more than Liberals crying Wolf all over again. - S.L.


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BIG AUSSIE FREEZE

Apparently the Great Big Global Warmening Thingie is going hogwild in my Antipodean Ancestral Homeland:


BITTER SUMMER FREEZE BITES EASTERN STATES AS SUMMER GIVES WAY TO SNOW AND COLD

To put this thing into perspective for my North American brethren: 13° Celsius is a brisk 55° Fahrenheit. This is unheard of at the height of a Sydney summer, where temperatures average around 80°F (26.66°C) and can get as high as 93°F (33.89°C).


While we're on the subject of Frozen Aussie - I've been trying to figure a way to segue that OTHER infamous Australian International - we're talking about this Julian Assange character . . . the waif-like girlie-man behind the Wikileaks thingie . . .

WikiLeaker Julian Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian at his latest staged propaganda event I mean press conference in Norfolk, England.


WikiLeaker Julian Assange today launched a wide ranging series of attacks on both his enemies and allies as he defended his public and private conduct.

In his first UK newspaper interview since releasing hundreds of secret diplomatic cables last month, Mr Assange told The Times he predicts the US will face reprisals if it attempts to extradite him on conspiracy charges.

He accused his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him to make the embarrassing leaks public, of unfairly tarnishing him by revealing damaging details of the sex assault allegations he faces in Sweden.


Let me see if I have this right? This scrawny super-computer geek figures out a way to hack into everything secret . . . then he comes to the brilliant conclusion that it's in the world's best interest to blow our secrets out to all our enemies, foreign and domestic - no matter the damage to national security, no matter how many innocent lives may be lost in the process . . . then when HE's got a secret he'd like to keep in the closet, he cries like a frikkin' baby . . .

Sounds like a classic case of "WHAT's GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER!!!" if you ask me . . .


Ha, ha - he's freezing his ass off in Norfolk, looks like he could use a steak - and he's looking some serious DOWN TIME right in the eye - Ha, ha, Julian - SUCKS TO BE YOU, BOY.


On a more serious note . . . today's Tuesday and so we have a Tuesday Tart to share with you . . .


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GOOD GRIEF WHAT NEXT ? ? ?

PALESTINIAN JIHAD GAZA CAMERA-FITTED SUICIDE VESTS

Source: DEBKAfile



DEBKAfile's military and counter-terror sources confirm the WikiLeaks revelation that Iran developed camera-equipped suicide vests for al Qaeda attacks on US troops under the instruction of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Center in Tehran. Our sources have discovered that the Islamic Jihad's "Jerusalem Brigades" in the Gaza Strip have been equipped with those same SVIED (Suicide Vest Improvised Explosive Devices) and have transferred some to al Qaeda cells at large in the territory.

This sophisticated suicide vest is fitted with miniature cameras which enable the bomber to monitor and relay images of an attack before he reaches his target, our military sources report. The bomber can thus stay in close touch with, and receive instructions, from his handlers every step of the way and also obtain images of the environment he is entering and the obstacles ahead.

An Israeli officer told DEBKAfile that these mini-cameras "make it almost impossible for a suicide bomber to miss his aim. It makes him a human guided missile."

Read the rest of it HERE


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STAN THE MAN SPEAKS

General McChrystal Breaks His Silence

Speaking publicly for the first time since being relieved of command in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal opened up at the Innovators Summit in New Orleans about WikiLeaks ("it's sad"), Afghan President Hamid Karzai ("a great partner"), and the "great danger" of the instant news cycle.

McChrystal talked about his move to alter counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, changing the use of air power and connecting with civilians at the local level. He made it a point, he said, to apologize personally to Karzai when an incident involving civilian casualties would occur. "Then, as events would occur that would test that trust, we had a reservoir to fall back on," he said.

At the summit, McChrystal denounced WikiLeaks release of 400,000 classified documents on Iraq, saying "individuals are making judgments about threats and information they are not qualified to make."

Read the rest of it HERE.




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WIKILEAKS TRAITOR UPDATE

"SUICIDE WATCH" has been ordered on PFC Manning - and gay activist - who is accused of leaking thousands of sensitive military documents to a left-wing web site, has been held in solitary confinement at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia since arriving in the U.S. from Kuwait late last month. Meanwhile investigators probe damage done in Wikileaks case - Michigan Congressman wants G.I. to face Death Penalty - "Try him for treason" says Mike Rogers - Feds hunt for pint-sized private's civilian co-conspirators - info leak called worst since the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) told a local radio station in his home state that "people will likely be killed" because of the information Manning allegedly leaked. "That's pretty serious. If they (the Army) don't charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder." The congressman based his statement on his belief that the 22 year-old private "put soldiers at risk who are fighting for our country."

Read more HERE


But WAIT there's MORE:





PFC Bradley Manning - the pint-sized traitor - is also a gay activist and supports "progressive" causes - it's all on Bradley's FACEBOOK page, that is, if it's still available online to see.

22 year-old "Lindsey Graham look-alike" posted pictures of himself protesting at a gay rights rally. A member of Virginia Young Democrats, the Oklahoma native lists "The Rachel Maddow Show" as his favorite television program, and under the category of OTHER on his page, supports "Repeal the Ban - End "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," QueerToday.com, gay marriage, and "Boystown."

Manning was said to be upset after break-up with "boy friend" - choice quotes: "Take me for what I am or face the consequences," "I'm not a piece of equipment, -


. . . uh, you are NOW Sock-Puppet Boy . . .


Treasonous soldier calls "Military Intelligence: An oxymoron."


Like . . . WOW . . . you're an original thinker, too . . . the first time I heard that one I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur . . .


I've got only one thing to say to all you people out there calling for this young man to fry in the electric chair:

The Army doesn't execute people in the electric chair.

They use the hangman's rope.

They haven't done it since about 1961, though, and it's unlikely as hell that Obama-Lama-Ding-Dong would sign off on the execution order as Commander-in-Cheif . . . still it's nice to imagine this 90-pound weakling with a sandbag tied around his ankles to get enough inertia going to snap his scrawny neck . . . .

Just wanted to put that out there . . .

- SEAN LINNANE SENDS


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TO BETRAY, YOU MUST FIRST BELONG . . .

U.S.: EVIDENCE TIES LEAKS TO SOLDIER

Investigators found concrete evidence on computers used by PFC Bradley Manning that link him with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a U.S. defense official said, The Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Defense officials said the FBI was investigating whether civilians aided Manning in providing the information to WikiLeaks.

Defense officials said Manning used his "Top Secret/SCI" clearance to
tap into documents around the world. A search of the computers yielded evidence he had downloaded the Afghanistan war logs, the defense official said.

Copyright 2010 STRATFOR




"To betray, you must first belong," is a US Army Counter-Intelligence (CI) Truism.

In this case, knucklehead here recruited himself, and he betrayed for no measureable purpose. That is, Brad Manning did not betray his country for money, nor did he betray for an ideology or cause.

He did it because he was a fame whore; he sought attention for himself.

Manning passed the video to Wikileaks in February. After April 5 when the video was released and made headlines Manning contacted 20-year-old Tyler Watkins - a close friend in Boston - from Iraq asking him about the reaction in the United States.

“He would message me, Are people talking about it? Are the media saying anything?”

This is a sign of where the popular culture is headed via all those stupid social networking sites and reality-based TV shows; a symptom of what I describe as the "Fifteen Minutes of Fame" Syndrome, after the term coined by Andy Warhol, back in the early 60s.

Bradley Manning will have a lot of time to contemplate what he did and why; now, and for the rest of his life - in between episodes where his fellow inmates pass him around and use him as their communal sock puppet, that is.

- Sean Linnane

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TALIBAN RESPOND TO SECRET WIKILEAKS FILES

By Mushtaq Yusufzai


A high-ranking Taliban commander reacts to the release of classified
military documents, and denies any links with Pakistan's spy network.
Mushtaq Yusufzai reports.


Responding to WikiLeaks' release of tens of thousands of pages of
classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, a
high-ranking Taliban commander rejected reports that the Taliban had any links
with Pakistan's spy agency.


"Look, we're at war and would like to get aid from anyone to fight
against the U.S. and its allies who invaded our homeland," Sirajuddin
Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani network, told The Daily Beast on
Monday . . .


Read more HERE


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AMERICA HAS ALWAYS HAD TRAITORS . . .

. . . in every war we've been in . . . THIS young punk is our Latest & Greatest . . .


BRADLEY MANNING - Self-Recruited American Traitor, and Douchebag.


SO I WENT TO WIKILEAKS . . . checked out the laundry list of sh*t waiting for me to open it:

The data is provided in HTML (web), CSV (comma-separated values) and SQL (database) formats, and was rendered into KML (Keyhole Markup Language) mapping data that can be used with Google Earth. Please note that the checksums will change.

* Complete dump of the website, HTML format 75 MB
o (SHA1: 80adb634a0d218bd0f9a0f22734e3d2e7e67acfc)
o This is a complete dump of the website at http://wardiary.wikileaks.org. Extract this to your local hard disk and open it with your web browser. Please check the project website http://wardiary.wikileaks.org for the most recent version.
* All entries, CSV format 15 MB
o (SHA1: d6b82f955a7beb9589f92e9487c74669d1912a34)
o Raw data in comma-separated value format for further processing.
* All entries, SQL format 16M MB
o (SHA1: 9463f73ebbcd3f95899a138d6ba9817e1b6b800d)
o Raw data in SQL format for further processing.
* All entries, KML format 16 MB
o (SHA1: 34562c0c7722522161e40330d80ac9082014845f)
o This archive contains all events in one KML file. This file needs much memory if opened with Google Earth.
* All NATO entries, KML format 209 kB
o (SHA1: 088ff8999a316f30e5e398021375fa3b4fc6349e)
o Contains the events that were tagged with NATO.
* Entries by month, KML format 16 MB
o (SHA1: 01a5c0639e1e1e844b10e962a44849b2a521d092)
o This archive provides the entries split by month. This makes it easier to browse the data in Google Earth on low power machines.
* Entries with scale filter, KML format 981 kB
o (SHA1: 4669c721b87775a44472f6688e768305c686beff)
o File that will show a scale corresponding to the number of incidents in Google Earth. Each incident begins with a 0.5 base score, and 0.1 has been added for each incident involving humans. This set of data provides only events that have a scaling of 1.5.


To decompress the files you will need . . .



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It occurred to me that if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then conversely the friend of my enemy is my enemy. This is bad, there is nothing good of this, and this will only help America's enemies . . . now is a good opportunity to remind the American public that the only crime worse than murder is . . . treason .

So Hey There Hero - I hope your fifteen minutes of fame were worth it - 'coz you know you're going to spend a LONG TIME in the Joint - and YOU KNOW they're going to pass you around like the communal hacky-sack . . .


. . . and OH YEAH I nearly forgot - the crew here at Blog STORMBRINGER wants to wish you aREAL SPECIAL Salutations ! ! !

WHISTLEBLOWER BLOWS WHISTLE ON WIKILEAKS WHISTLEBLOWER

MYSPACE FACEBOOK GENERATION TRAITOR BUSTED


“If you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?”


I dunno about you, but somehow the thought of betraying my oountry and causing potentially grave damage to National Security was never a temptation to me.


Army Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, is about to get a taste of reality.


Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks:



U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe



SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division.


Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with whom he spoke online. In the course of their chats, Manning took credit for leaking a headline-making video of a helicopter attack that Wikileaks posted online in April. The video showed a deadly 2007 U.S. helicopter air strike in Baghdad that claimed the lives of several innocent civilians:





Manning came to the attention of the FBI and Army investigators after he contacted former hacker Adrian Lamo late last month over instant messenger and e-mail.

“I wouldn’t have done this if lives weren’t in danger,” says Lamo, former hacker Adrian Lamo, who contacted the FBI of Manning's activities. “He was in a war zone and basically trying to vacuum up as much classified information as he could, and just throwing it up into the air.”


Manning's Facebook photo



Manning passed the video to Wikileaks in February, he told Lamo. After April 5 when the video was released and made headlines Manning contacted 20-year-old Tyler Watkins - a close friend in Boston - from Iraq asking him about the reaction in the United States.

“He would message me, Are people talking about it?… Are the media saying anything?”


Self-gratification mindset; My Space, Facebook; it's all about me. Well, you got your Fifteen Minutes of Fame, kiddo - you happy now?

ANALYSIS: WIKILEAKS vs THE LAW OF LANDWARFARE

There was a big tempest in a teapot that I missed last week when I was On The Road, apparently, over some gun camera footage revealed by an organization that calls itself Wikileaks.


Some angst out there over whether or not American attack helicopter crews are 'gaming' the Rules of Engagement and the Law of Land Warfare. If you ask me they're adhering to the ROE; and I'd give them a pass for firing up the guy pointing the shoulder-mounted TV camera at them - I know a guy who shot a man who was holding a video cassette box in his hand, on the grounds that it looked like an automatic pistol, and he wasn't even charged. Adrenalin does things like that to your peripheral vision.


Anyway here it is, you can look at it in it's entirety and judge for yourselves.





If you ask me this whole issue is Ultimate Armchair Quarterbacking and resides within the Dimension of Legaldom - and lawyers are the natural enemy of the warrior class. If I must offer an opinion based on the second-hand info presented here, I'd say we're talking about a war we won, against an enemy who was never held to the same rules with which we constrained ourselves.

When it comes to warfighting (or any kind of fighting) the Philosophy of Stormbringer draws upon the genius of Guderian: "Klotzen, nicht Kleckern!"

In other words proportionality works like this: they bring a knife, you bring a gun. They bring a gun, you call in Spectre AC-130 gunship. The current occupier of the Whitehouse agrees with me on this, apparently, or at least he talks a good game. Of course we all know how he talks out the side of his mouth.

In studying this material, I have no problem with the actions of the helicopter crews. Those outraged by this footage are grasping at straws if you ask me. If there is a war crime here, then I ask: is there a war crimes tribunal going on that I don't know about?

Something keeps bothering me, however; the video opens on a frame with a logo, and it says: "Wikileaks obtained and decrypted the video you are about to see."

The problem I have with this is: it is not possible to encrypt video.

Don't you remember that news story from about a month ago, where the Taliban were able to hack into the drone's signal and see the video that the drone could "see"?

This was no great technical feat - they were able to hack into it using computer interface skills, but there was no decryption required because . . . it is not possible to encrypt video.

More and more I say this is a tempest in a teacup.

Perhaps the file was zipped and bundled into secure software or something.

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