Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Wikileaks on Melonhead

When I read stuff like this it makes me wonder if these leaks are really leaks.
The ambassador wrote that Cuban spies were so close to President Chavez that they provided him with intelligence unvetted by Venezuelan officers.

"Cuban agents train Venezuelans on both Cuba and Venezuela, providing both political indoctrination and operational instruction".
I can see quite a few P.O.'ed Venezuelan intelligence officers furious at having their home turf taken over by foreigners.

I believe that our national bureaucracy is generally incompetent, but it's unbelievable to me that some punk kid was able to acquire all of this data without being caught. I am beginning to think that these "leaks" contain just enough truths for Assange to believe that all of the data is legit, with a lot of stuff thrown in to cause quiet internal damage to our enemies. I think a lot of people are drawing the same conclusion.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Also figure that DoD/CIA/NSA felt that the Obama administration did nothing to defend them in the prior document dumps...so perhaps this leaker was found part way though his dumping and then it was part NSA/CIA/DoD payback, part misinformation and misdirection. But they who know ain't talking.

Bill in NC said...

I think Eric Holder's just mad that he can't send Daniel Ellsberg to Gitmo...

Lou Minatti said...

Another thing that strikes me is that so far the US is looking better and better with each data dump. There have been no "Eureka!" moments, just a lot of confirmation that our enemies really suck ass.

I look forward to the BofA leaks, and I hope that Assange gets them out before Putin's agents slip him some arsenic.

Anonymous said...

All diplomatic messages to and from Washingon are coded. Wikileaks must possess Americas top secret codebooks in order to publish these state department and DOD messages.

We won WW2 because we had the German and Japanewse code books. Now US codebooks are in the hands of our enemies and worse