My current Wikileaks Top 10 list
Ten shocking, never-before-imagined revelations I’ve learned so far from Wikileaks:
10. Arab leaders don’t trust Iran (and vice-versa).
9. Israeli leaders don’t trust the Arabs (and vice-versa).
8. The North Korean situation is complicated.
7. Yemen likes foreign aid, and sometimes lies.
6. The British royal family aren’t the smartest folks on the planet.
5. Robert Mugabe wants to hold on to power in Zimbabwe.
4. Brazil is an emerging, robust, ambitious democracy
3. Diplomats sometimes *gasp* collect information on other governments.
2. US officials are sometimes clever, sometimes less so, and generally appear to be much like officials everywhere else.
...and, the number one Wikileaks revelation:
1. Just because it’s classified doesn’t mean it's true.
Here's why MI6 hates WikiLeaks
The UK Daily Mail is hardly an anti-establishment newspaper and it takes something for one of their columnists to write such a column:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...#ixzz16u3aXapl
Such choice sentences as:
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Too secret to be discussed: that’s the root problem of ‘intelligence’. It’s too easy for them to conceal their failings.
This is why WikiLeaks is useful. There’s a conspiracy of silence over what’s going on in Afghanistan, except when our military chiefs want to leak details of successful SAS attacks on the Taliban.
Ending with:
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Meanwhile, MI6 wheels a Pakistani conman posing as a Taliban commander into President Karzai’s office for peace talks. We’re being lied to. Count on it. Bring it on, WikiLeaks!