A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US

[Judi Lynn]

A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US
written by Bill Quigley

Cover-ups, Coups, and Drones – A Holiday
Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US
by Bill Quigley

Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable. The transparency, which Wikileaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand, UK and Yemen over issues of torture at Guantanamo, civilian casualties from drones, and the war in Iraq.

US Government is Two Faced over Wikileaks

The US government has twisted itself into knots over Wikileaks. It routinely disregards the privacy of citizens while at the same time trying to avoid transparency for itself.

The US claims broad authority to secretly snoop on the lives of individuals inside and outside of the US. It also works tirelessly to prevent citizens from knowing what is going on by expansively naming basic government information “state secrets.” The government says it has to have the right to keep things secret in order to prevent crime. But when it comes to revealing evidence of illegal acts by the US government it seeks the most severe sanctions against any transparency.

The most glaring example of the twisted logic is on display within the US Department of Justice. DOJ is searching for creative ways to criminally sanction Wikileaks for publishing US secrets. But the same Department of Justice solemnly decided it should not prosecute the government officials who brazenly destroyed dozens of tapes of water-boarding and torture by US officials. So, DOJ, destruction of evidence of crimes is OK and revealing the evidence of crimes is bad?

More:
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/7610-a-holiday-sampler-of-what-wikileaks-reveals-about-the-us.html

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. There once was a regime like this before...

Stalin surely is not rolling in his grave, but applauding the Obama administration regarding its position on leaks of crimes/indiscretion vs actual international war crimes; punish the leakers, protect the criminals.

[snot]

2. Wish they provided links to the cables; but it's helpful. Here's another list, w/ links:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/enwgz/what_has_wikileaks_done_after_all_it_has/c19k355