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This whole farce is a blatant and indirect DoD psyops attack on Wikileaks and Assange. So it's okay and even expected now for the US military to attack journali
by korch 16y ago
This whole farce is a blatant and indirect DoD psyops attack on Wikileaks and Assange.
So it's okay and even expected now for the US military to attack journalists and the grey-information-area of their domain? I thought only nations like "Communist" China did that. And here we all thought our civil liberties were worse off under Bush...
Remember the WL leaked secret DoD document containing the Pentagon's own plan to counter WL? Their plan was to cause a big enough PR incident to scare any future whistle-blowers into silence by creating the public perception that no matter who you are, if you leak extra-ordinary, critical national security information, then it's 100% guaranteed that you will be publically outed as a whistle-blower.
Isn't it remarkably convenient that the Pentagon's plan is exactly what is now occurring with Lamo's bizarrely out of place participation in this whole fiasco? There sure are a lot of false and scary headlines attacking the credibility of WL! I realize the other logical possibility is that the Pentagon plan to attack WL is itself a fake, and Lamo is doing all of this on purpose to stage an "attack on WL",
so that WL can turn around and say "see! the Pentagon is attacking us!" You can't get better PR than that if it really blew up.
But when your lead source is also your lead witness, you have a serious credibility issue and have to assume the entire story is fiction. We may never know the truth.
And much like when you owe Don Corleone a "favor", after you get arrested for the kinds of crimes they did, and then the Feds hook you up with a sweetheart deal with the prosecution, it's pretty obvious who is the master and who is the puppet. Also consider the history of Lamo and Poulsen, and especially go back to Poulsen's self-promoting NYTimes hit pieces on Mitnick in the 90's. Then ask "who is the most probable liar, these guys or WL?"
It's only a bonus that they can also create a media smokescreen around themselves to muddle an already subjective matter. From reading their writings and interviews over the past few years, they both come off as self-promoting fame whore types focused on selling an image of "hackers." Like drunken Hollywood starlets stumbling around a crowd of TMZ paps, their inserting of themselves into whatever issue they are "reporting" makes it impossible to take them seriously as journalists. (Only Hunter S. Thompson can be allowed to get away with that.)
I bet this makes them even more valuable as Federal snitches, since everyone will assume the reason Lamo and Poulsen even have anything to do with this incident is because they're promoting themselves. It's a fantastic cover that prevents the spot light from casting shadows off the puppet strings.