A probable indicator of hysteria over what Wikileaks wreaks is the fact that Wikilikeaks.org's site appears to be down again, even though it had been transferred to Amazon's server in an attempt to prevent denial of service attacks.
At any rate I couldn't get through this morning. But I strongly suspect that the reason isn't deliberate denial of service but worldwide worries over reports that Wikileaks would soon expose documents from a big U.S. bank that would prove highly embarrassing, even devastating. Bank of America issued a denial of sorts that means little but appears intended to halt the slide in its share price.
Considering the case of acute indigestion being suffered by the European Union and International Monetary Fund credit sectors, it is little wonder that interest in Wikileaks has gone througth the roof. Especially when it is apparent that the "system" can't even protect diplomatic and so-called national security secrets.
And the howls by the penny dreadful press, the campaign to have Julian Assange arrested for "espionage," and the Swedish prosecutor's drive to get Assange on very dubious sex charges go to show that "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
'I think that the docs probably mainly reflect that US diplomats believe in the crap that comes out Washington," writes a friend in response to a recent post.
"Given that Der Spiegel and the New York Times are involved I imagine they did the screening to make sure of no embarrassment to Israel. Rusbridger at the Guardian is a closet neocon IMO too.
"It's no surprise that there is nothing on 9/11 - that is because 9/11 was a much tighter ultra top secret operation, not the sort of thing that gets discussed on diplomatic wires.
"The worry is that someone who does get a real leak goes to wikileaks with it and gets betrayed.
"For me the big surprise is that the Saudi king was indeed advocating an attack on Iran (if that is true). The only genuine motive I can see for that is the effect it would have on the oil price which would make him one of the all time top scumbags. Let's hope his people think that too.
"Lets hope people will find the time to go through the originals for themselves, there will certainly be a lot more than the MSM gatekeepers are telling us about."
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