AMMAN — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Sunday the imminent release of classified US documents by the whistle-blower website will cover "every major issue" in the world today.
"The material that we are about to release covers essentially every major issue in every country in the world," he told reporters in Jordan by video link when asked if the new leaks again focused on US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange told the conference of investigative journalists that he was speaking to them by video link because "Jordan’s not the best place to be with the CIA on your tail." It was unclear from where he was speaking.
WikiLeaks was reportedly hours away on Sunday from releasing hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, with several governments fearing damaging revelations.
Assange put the number of documents to be released at more than a quarter of a million.
"Over this last month much of my energy and activities have been spent preparing for the upcoming release of a diplomatic history of the United States," he said.
"Over 250,000 classified cables from US embassies all around the world, and we can see already in the past week or so that the United States has made movements to try to disarm the effect that this could have," Assange said.
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"The material that we are about to release covers essentially every major issue in every country in the world," he told reporters in Jordan by video link when asked if the new leaks again focused on US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange told the conference of investigative journalists that he was speaking to them by video link because "Jordan’s not the best place to be with the CIA on your tail." It was unclear from where he was speaking.
WikiLeaks was reportedly hours away on Sunday from releasing hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, with several governments fearing damaging revelations.
Assange put the number of documents to be released at more than a quarter of a million.
"Over this last month much of my energy and activities have been spent preparing for the upcoming release of a diplomatic history of the United States," he said.
"Over 250,000 classified cables from US embassies all around the world, and we can see already in the past week or so that the United States has made movements to try to disarm the effect that this could have," Assange said.
Read more: Here..
U.S. Asks WikiLeaks not to Release Documents, Warns of Threats to Lives
El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down
Does anyone know what the bombshell is?
ReplyDeleteAccording to a German Newspaper: World History To Be Rewritten After Release Today. I will keep this blog posted
ReplyDelete9:43 YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE. FIND OTHER NEWS, NOT THE ALPHABET VARIETY, ie CNN,FOX,ABC,AND CBS. NOTE "THE VICTORS WRITE THE HISTORY" YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah and you're still being lied to. That guy is a true idiot. He released information about the Afghanastan war that people already knew about pretending it was top secret. If anyone looked it over, they'd notice all it was was a list of casualties. Okay, people die in war.
ReplyDeleteSo Julian, do you like exorciating the military of a country that gives you the freedom to do it all the while spread nonsense about how much danger you are in? The CIA would have taken you out if you really were a threat, or maybe the CIA isn't so evil?
People are so gullible. The Guadian and NYT are doing articles about similar stuff that he is supposedly releasing? I'll be sure to not to read about it. No wonder the New York Times are losing ratings.
the biggest threat to getting the truth out, is lazyness, selfishness, apathy.
ReplyDeleteHow many of you are actually going to read 300k documents, throw a hissy fit so annoying the local news and police arrest you for disturbing the peace..
I hate to say this as it is so sad, but so true....
Not enough people care about the truth, and being good humane non corrupt ppl.
At last.. in one big undeniable dump -- America is exposed. Yet once again. Our government has been trying to hide and suppress its dirty shit for decades (See Michael Parenti's: "Against Empire") And trust me -- what you see in the Wikileaks documents in this roll is, still, merely the TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
ReplyDeleteAmerica: land of the dirty dealing. America: land of corruption and greed and utter arrogance. I am ashamed of my country. America is going down. And you know what? RIGHTLY SO. Let come what may -- I am so GLAD this shitty little country of mine is having its hand forced. This country took a wrong turn many years ago from our government's murder of JFK / RFK / MLK -- to the 911 false flag, the economic hit men we STILL employ, to the wholesale senseless slaughter or our nation's poorest children. Sending THEM to war, because the Bankers, Wall St. and CEO rich (et al) have stolen our assets, kept us in bondage so our children, desperate for a way out, willing to risk their lives, choose a path of certain perils: mind scrambling, limb removing defeats and death.
We if are going to ever survive into mid century the flush NEEDS to happen now. TRUTH and ONLY TRUTH is how we can survive. If we can heal as a nation it must come with FIRST: OWNING our crap, so that we can recover from it. Continued lies deceit and denial will never get us there, and only more of the same in return. Sadly I sincerely doubt that'll ever happen. So let come what may. I'd frankly be just as happy to see it all come crashing down than to live, as the country we are -- with the festering pus and and distrust of EVERY fucking citizen, both in this country and beyond -- muddled as we are in the slime of deceit and lies.
Julian Assange is a HERO. GET THAT NSA? CIA? FBI? DHS? -- A TRUE HERO. And YOU are the protectors of LIES and DECEIT.
even though it's not new news released notice how gov uses the-indangering lives-when speaking against these leaks, using this hype of danger for internet controls excuse..worked wonders with WMD's hype why not repeat..wash rinse repeat
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling to understand the poor security in allowing this material to be exposed, in the first place.
ReplyDeleteWe're broken enough to let it happen.
And we're broken enough to do very little to stop it, or to prevent future leaks.
Perhaps they want it released.
Ya' know, if the world would just watch some Hannah Minx and learn Japanese words, it would be a much better place:
ReplyDeleteJapanese for Exercise
Japanese for Bunny
How secret is secret?
ReplyDeleteIs already openly known gossip and American paranoia opinion /disinformation comment really
The real “top secrets” of the elites?
The UK Guardian one of the authorized publishers of the wicki leaks material asks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/28/wikileaks-open-secrets-us-embassy-cables
“How secret is "secret?" That is the first question posed by the publication today of material derived from the leak of a quarter of a million US state department cables in the Guardian and a number of other newspapers. Much of the material is certainly very private. When people around the world tell sensitive things to American diplomats they do so in the expectation that there is a high degree of implicit confidentiality about the conversations. But "private" is not the same as "secret". It now transpires that these confidences were posted on a US government intranet, SIPDIS, for a very wide distribution among diplomatic, government and military circles. They may have been marked "secret" but all secrets are relative: there are around 3 million Americans cleared to read material thus classified.’…..
…. “Before US government officials point accusing fingers at others, they might first have the humility to reflect on their own role in scattering "secrets" around a global intranet.”
This material released by wikileaks is about as “top” secret as that the Communist Party of China distributes to millions of its middle level party members and security cleared patriotic leaders and military officers in its daily background “ For Reference” world news paper.
I agree in principle with the Saudi king puppet of the US .
ReplyDeleteThe head of a dangerous snake should be cut off.
There was a story recently that Saudi airspace was open in a partnership with Israel to attack and bomb Iran a fellow Muslim country .
The wikileaks release shows that was likely a true story .
It seems that oil money is thicker than blood or the Saudi kings professed or claimed "Moslem
religion".
What a Wahabi snake.
I hope the Saudi people notice this snake at their governments head!
2:28 and 5:39 Y'ALL ARE MISSING THE BOAT. MR. JULIAN IS REPORTING THE WRONG DOING THAT THIS COUNTRY IS COMMITING. THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES TO THE TOP! IF YOU CHECK YOUR HISTORY FROM THE CIVIL,WWI,WWII,KOREA,VIETNAM AND ALL THE GULF WARS....WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO! I LOVE MY COUNTRY, I AM A VETERAN. I BELIEVE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR PATRIOTISM. ITS A PUSH TO NWO, AND IT IS BEING DEARLY PAID FOR BY THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES!
ReplyDeleteWikileaks should be applauded for telling us the truth. All governments lie to their citizens and only true patriots risk their lives to tell us what's really happening. If you think this guy is a traitor, I bet your only source of news is Fox.
ReplyDelete8:12 U R RIGHT ON!!!
ReplyDelete2:28am says.
ReplyDelete"I will be one of them all for wiping the ugly fucker off the face of the planet. I think he should be waterboarded..first then a slow painful death would be great."
Dear 2.28
The New AmeriKa of Bush ,Obama and robert and bill Gates is proud of you .
You clearly are a succsessful product of the system ,truly educated by the MSM.
And not a relic of the weak effete liberal past of old constitutional america.
You appear to be fully qualified as a good little NWO totalitarian Fascist ready to sort out this backward free speech idea.
Please take a printout of your full post above to any government security service, CIA homeland security or military recruitment office ,as evidence that you are fully brainwashed .
They are sure to give you walk up start job in the war "against" terror.
If you show a complete lack of ability in developing waterboarding skills in actual on the job practice ,such as by waterboarding your suspect mother 187 times to get her to admit to being a terrorist ,I am sure Chertoff and TSA Co will find you an easy job as a ball tickler or to manage a simple x ray machine to damage the gonads of travelers.
This cerified "green" anti terrorist programme will no doubt help in controling the future population of america.
The TSA is of course an equal oportunity federal employer and will pay at least the Federal minimum wage to someone of your great intelectual capacity.
So, you will no longer have to subsist on foods stamps in the great tradition of freedom of enterprise of the American system .
Have they got an Abu Graib type, real fun job, for someone like you!
A good little totalitarian NWO freedom loving New Amerikan.
Come on, lets cut the crap! Find Assange, grab him, give him a trial and life in prison. If he resists arrest bring him back in a body bag. Go after anyone else involved in this terrorist attack on the U.S.
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