Dec 06 2010

Ann Wright: WikiLeaks and Accountability

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Mary Ann Wright is a former United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. (wikipedia)

“We were told as diplomats, ‘Don’t ever put anything in a cable you wouldn’t want on the front page of a newspaper.’ It shows that they’re a lot of arrogant people, that the system itself wasn’t checking itself,” says Wright of the latest documents released from WikiLeaks.  Meanwhile, several of the diplomatic cables released depict possibly illegal actions by the U.S. government, and Wright notes that the chances of anyone being held accountable are slim.

Ann Wright joined Laura Flanders of GritTV to discuss the latest releases from WikiLeaks, what they tell us about the U.S. Government and Defense and State departments, and what should happen, but probably won’t, to the people implicated therein.


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Although WikiLeaks has had problems since the latest release with hacking, denial of service attacks, web hosts closing their sites down, and domain name registrars pulling their domain name, you can always get to their site by navigating to any of the WikiLeaks mirror sites listed at wikileaks.info:  

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3 comments

  2. in the MSM about Assange and calls for his arrest and prosecution, some of it is really over the top. My question is why aren’t these people calling for the arrests of admitted war criminals Bush and Cheney?

  3. This could get very interesting.

    Julian Assange Vows “Poison Pill” Release Of Damaging Secrets If Arrested Or Killed

    A report out of the U.K. this morning alleges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has created a “poison pill” document drop-filled with “damaging secrets” to be released in the event he’s arrested or killed.

    Reports from London suggest an arrest by Scotland Yard could come as early as Tuesday, if Assange is-as has been rumored-hiding out in Britain.

    According to the Daily Mail, Assange has distributed his doomsday document drop to a network of hackers, with instructions on its release:

    Julian Assange has distributed to fellow hackers an encrypted ‘poison pill’ of damaging secrets, thought to include details on BP and Guantanamo Bay.

       He believes the file is his ‘insurance’ in case he is killed, arrested or the whistleblowing website is removed permanently from the internet.

       Mr Assange – understood to be lying low in Britain – could be arrested by Scotland Yard officers as early as tomorrow.

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