U.S. says did not pressure companies on WikiLeaks

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that the U.S. government had not pressured companies to stop working with the WikiLeaks website, which has released sensitive U.S. diplomatic and military documents.

"We have not pressured anybody to do anything," Holder said at a news conference in San Francisco when asked if the government had tried to influence companies, including Amazon.com (AMZN.O), which quit hosting the WikiLeaks site.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN108249720101210

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Why do they even bother saying stuff like this. Everybody knows it's a LIE! Paypal already admitted they got a letter from State.

[Kali]

1. what do you mean? I never said that! You never heard me say that!

:eyes:

[mike_c]

2. the U.S. government has already been exposed as lying reflexively...

...whenever they have an interest in concealing the truth. Holder should just STFU. If his mouth is moving.... You know the rest.

[yourout]

3. Yah right..........just like "I did not have Sex with that girl"

[spin]

4. In a future WikiLeaks release will be info that proves Holder lied. (n/t)

[Frisbee]

5. Maybe Wikileaks will pubish their letter to Paypal!

:rofl:

[emilyg]

6. I don't believe him.

[Raschel]

7. "We never pressured nobody to do nuttin' see...."

[rocktivity]

8. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" award

PayPal may have gotten the letter from the STATE department, but doesn't Holder head the JUSTICE department? Fair and Balanced!

:eyes:
rocktivity

[frylock]

16. right?!

that was the first thing that i thought of as well. hillary too scared to get up on the teevee and lie on her own behalf?

[captain jack]

9. "U.S. says..." and that's when I stop reading. nt

[jwirr]

10. I do not believe him and these statements do not create confidence

in this administration.

[bongbong]

11. My reply to Holder

"You lie."

[davidthegnome]

12. Wow

Will this actually convince, uhm, anyone at all?

[marasinghe]

13. "Why do they even bother saying stuff like this" ....

From another post by sabra --
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4653198

the relevant phrases -

quote:

.... Newly released records reveal details on how U.S. intelligence officials used and protected some Nazi Gestapo agents after World War II, tracked Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann .... according to a report to Congress obtained by The Associated Press ....

.... The report, titled "Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War," was authored by historians hired by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. It was sent to Congress late Thursday ....

.... CIA spokesman George Little said Friday: "The CIA at no time had a policy or a program to protect Nazi war criminals, or to help them escape justice for their actions during the war. The agency has cooperated for decades with the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations." ....

:unquote

there you have it: because lying is an instinctual response to all stimuli, for these sociopaths.

[frylock]

14. shouldn't holder be doing his job of protecting us against file-sharing terrorists..

and medical marijuana jihadists rather than wasting time covering the state depts ass with his bullshit lies?

[caseymoz]

15. Holder can only speak about the Justice Department

PalPal says the State Department pressured them. He also would have no idea what our intelligence services, ie. the shadow government, did.

[EFerrari]

19. That isn't what he said, though. He says point blank the US government. n/t

[caseymoz]

22. My point exactly.

Holder is bullshitting. But he's not effectively covering up the smell, for the reasons I've give.

[femrap]

17. What an insult to

the citizens' intelligence. This administration reminds me of some other one....gee, which one could that be?

[katty]

18. right, sure...HS made a friendly 'request' call...

[glinda]

20. If they keep saying so they expect us to believe it. I am so done with this Country's lying.

[ProudDad]

21. U.S. "says"

prelude to a whopper!

From the serial killers and pathological liars for the Empire...