Wikileaks has blood on their hands? Funny coming from a country that is simultaneously waging wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan... did I miss something?
Anyways, there is a reason why Wikileaks hasn't released all their thousands of documents at once. News organizations given access to the documents and WikiLeaks took the greatest care to date to ensure no one would be put in danger. In statements accompanying stories about the documents, several newspapers said they voluntarily withheld information and that they cooperated with the State Department and the Obama administration to ensure nothing released could endanger lives or national security. The newspapers "established lists in common of people to protect, notably in countries ruled by dictators, controlled by criminals or at war," according to an account by Le Monde, a French newspaper that was among the five news organizations that were given access to the documents. "All the identities of people the journalists believed would be threatened were redacted," the newspaper said in what would be an unprecedented act of self censorship by journalists toward government documents.
The newspapers also communicated U.S. government concerns to WikiLeaks to ensure sensitive data didn't appear on the organization's website.
Unlike the release earlier last year of intelligence documents about the war in Afghanistan, when WikiLeaks posted on its website unredacted documents that included the names of Afghan informants, WikiLeaks agreed this time not to release more than 250,000 documents because they hadn't been vetted by the U.S. government.
The newspapers said WikiLeaks had agreed to release only the documents used in preparation for articles that appeared in the five publications, which in addition to Le Monde and The New York Times included Great Britain's Guardian, Germany's Der Spiegel and Spain's El Pais.
Most importantly, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell has said previously that there was no evidence that anyone had been killed because of the leaks. Another Pentagon official told McClatchy that the military still has no evidence that the leaks have led to any deaths. The official didn't want to be named because of the issue's sensitivity. So please, don't blame Wikileaks on presumptions. And none of you are possibly better than Pentagon on their damage assessment.
And what kind of information have been released? The fact that US gunmen shot down Reuter's agents while laughing about it? That the US installed an Iraqi security force that held its prisoners without charges and abused them through beatings, burnings, electrocutions and rape? Against which Bradley Manning spoke out, for which he is currently being held without charges in solitary confinement 23 hours a day? The fact that 15,000 Iraqi civilian deaths were being withheld? That the American diplomats were under orders to spy on UN officials? That the US maneuvered to stop High Court cases, with the American embassy issuing threats over the cases of Guantanamo, Couso and CIA flights? That the US pressured Germany not to prosecute CIA officers for the torture and rendition of an innocent civilian? That the US was shipping arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Northern Yemen even as it denied any role in conflict? That the UK agreed to shield American interests in Iraq probe? That Obama and GOPers worked together to kill Bush torture probe? Anonymous gets so much heat for taking down sites for a couple of hours as a form of protest, and the US government gets nothing? I guess because the people being killed are not white or something?
And hating 4chan for CP? How about this - DynCorp is a US corporation contracted by the US government to train the Afghan Police force. Reportedly 95% of its $2 billion annual revenue comes from taxpayers. Well, some of that money was flowing into a child prostitution ring. On April 11 DynCorp apparently threw a party at the Kunduz Regional Training Center where prepubescent boys were dressed in women's clothing and made to dance seductively as they were sold as sex slaves to the highest bidder.
Of course these are damning! They'll destroy your carefully constructed view of global politics based on 'Call of Duty'.
If Hunter S Thompson was alive today, he'd fork your eyes out - eyes that you've decided to put out of use.