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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWikileaks Greatest Hits: The Venezuelan ambassador's emails
As millions of fans worldwide cheer the amazing accomplishments of Julian Assange, who recently set a world record sprinting from house arrest in London, it is worthwhile to pause briefly to remember Wikileaks selfless efforts for a better world
And so, today, we bring you yet another delightful historical vignette: the Venezuelan ambassador's emails
But first -- a bit of background!
And now -- still more background!
And heres even more background!
Which finally brings us to the decisive light that Wikileaks shed on this fascinating subject!
Some people have enjoyed the two old Borev links on this
Cash-Stuffed Suitcase Splits Venezuela and Argentina
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/americas/14argentina.html?_r=1
'Suitcase Scandal' Goes On In Argentina
http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/17/argentina-chavez-kirchner-cx_0118oxford.html
She found her 15 minutes inside a suitcase scandal
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/17/world/fg-suitcase17
Fotos de María Lujan Telpuk en Playboy La chica de la valija
http://www.blogerin.com/fotos-de-maria-lujan-telpuk-en-playboy-la-chica-de-la-valija/
Chávez and the Cash-Filled Suitcase
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1838145,00.html
Suitcase full of cash adds to Chavez corruption claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2008/sep/21/usa.venezuela
Breaking News: The WikiLeaks People Are Funny Morons
... Of course, just about everybody on the "courtesy" list is a Spanish speaker, and nobody at WikiLeaks speaks Spanish, so they ran their stupid courtesy message through an online translation service, with predictable results ...
http://www.borev.net/2008/09/breaking_news_the_wikileaks_pe.html
Great Moments in Transparency
So a reader got one of those "courtesy" letters from Wikileaks explaining that his name and personal information were about to be made public because he had gotten a group Email once from this Freddy Balzan person. Only he'd never heard of any Freddy Balzan so he wrote them back an Email saying, "WTF?" and "Don't." And then Wikileaks Director Julian Assange wrote him back an ugly note calling him, quote, "insane" ...
http://www.borev.net/2008/09/great_moments_in_transparency_1.html
LA INFORMACION SECRETA NO PUBLICADA DE WIKILEAKS
... The existence of information like this, hosted on the servers of wikileaks but not published, should lead to the question: what does wikileaks do with this information? How did wikileaks acquire this information and why does it have it, if it does not publish it online? ...
http://cmpopulares.bligoo.com.co/content/view/1145059/LA-INFORMACION-SECRETA-NO-PUBLICADA-DE-WIKILEAKS.html#.UDMiPtD--ko
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)spanone
(135,823 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)No, I am not kidding. It'd do more good than any other thing to wake up the world as to who's doing who.
treestar
(82,383 posts)And they ought to hire a Spanish speaking employee, too.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)fjcaceres
(1 post)It did not, Venezuela, Venezuela did it for him. Julian Assange is indirectly blackmailing Venezuela who is behind Ecuador's asylum grant to Assange so that way all those emails do not go on sale, but because Venezuela can't do it directly it uses and pressures the smaller Ecuador who's president Correa owes a lot of political favors to Venezuela's president Chavez
muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)I can't see that anyone has found anything of interest in them. But there's no way they can be used for 'blackmail'.
Welcome to DU.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)The general dump of so much stuff - it's not whistleblowing at all, just showing off how they managed to hack people's accounts.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)make shishkabobs using entire sacred cows on one skewer. None of this tidy little pieces of red meat for you; oh no, you run the whole animal through 2 and 3 at a time. Truly fascinating. I'm in awe, I can't help but watch.
Have you been accused of being a paid CIA disinformation operative yet?