The majority of this stuff isn’t classified, and the overwhelming majority of what is classified, is at the lowest level of classification. As for the tiny minority that is more “highly classified”, much of it shouldn’t have been classified in the first place, because it is embarrassing, not a matter of national security.

I’m still waiting to see something that I didn’t already know, although, as I have said before, it’s nice to know that people in government have actually figured some of these things out. The public statements make the US look like “maroons” – totally divorced from reality.

I’ve seen nothing to convince me that the classification system is not being used to hide information from the American people, rather than “enemies”.

It’s quite interesting reading the various comments and the debate that this massive info dump has generated. 🙂 And I see that, as usual, a couple facts about it are being willfully ignored in the USA. One is that various news outlets around the World were given access to some of the documents wekks in advance of the disclosure, including The Guardian (UK) and NYT (via The Guardian). Wikileaks sent copies to the Obama admin & US Ambassador’s in the UK (with an offer to negotiate some limited redaction) to which the State Demanded that there would be no negotiation and all documents must be handed over, or else. Of course, it presented a perfect opportunity for feigned outrage when the leaks were finally released (feigned because they knew they were going to be released weeks in advance) and served to deflect attention to more serious concerns at home (in the USA) such as GOP blocking the extension of Unemployment benefits, and the Senate essentially holding the Government and US citizens hostage to neocon demands.

Americans have always been fascinated with superficiality and smoke-and-mirror tricks. The price the people will pay now will be huge.

ABC “The DRUM” has a couple interesting commentaries:

WikiLeaks and the ‘Handy Heel’ manoeuvre
WikiLeaks: catalyst for transparency or lockdown?

The US is still a client of the Israeli government, but actual allies? I don’t think so.

Bush Speechwriter Marc Thiessen Suggests Invading U.S.-Allied Nations To Capture WikiLeaks Founder

This is better than TDS!! (With apologies to Jon Stewart). 😆

I don’t hear the calls to jail the publisher of the New York Times, an American corporation, located on US soil, selling to US citizens.

I guess we can assume that all of this stuff is real, as the government apparently hasn’t learned to inject doubt by refusing to discuss the documents.

Jams, the Chinese value stability very highly. They really don’t like disruption, and North Korea is disruptive and not playing by the rules for client states. Everyone is leaning on China to do something, and Kim Jong-il isn’t cooperating. China is also undergoing a shift in leadership, so they are dealing with internal uncertainties right now. The Party doesn’t like “interesting times”. That said, until the new leadership is established, it will be hard to know what the policy will be.

I’m wondering how these charges will be filed, since the Hedgemony spent years limiting the powers of the US courts outside the US. If the US courts don’t have power at Guantanamo, a US military facility, how can they have power over a guy with no fixed address, operating a web site on servers dispersed around the world. Peter King was one of the people who supported the Hedgemony, so maybe he would like to explain how this is supposed to work.

WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act

Ahhh… This whole thing is the best laugh I’ve had in day’s! 😆

I knew about them whilst I was a card-carrying Amnesty International Human Rights Defender causing as much trouble to those who deserved as as could until a few years or so ago. I still do stuff for AI, but I’m out of the field stuff these days (Hey, what else could someone with my background do *legally* in ‘Civilian World’. 😉 *shrug*. Anyway, I did get a notification that WikiLeaks had won the 2009 Amnesty International human rights reporting award (New Media). They have won other awards also. 🙂

There are a couple seriously big expose’s coming, they are just warming up! Some peep’s in WDC are gonna need a few set’s of spare panties, and some a defib handy! 😈

There are questions being raised in the Irish Senate about bank regulation, and the British have discovered that auditors were told to ignore problems by the government, to avoid problems with “confidence” concerning banks.

It will be interesting to see if the media will cover the Bankster leaks.