Friday, October 22, 2010

Wikileaks

I tried to get to the site to see some of what all the hub-bub is about... but the servers are so choked with hits that it won't load.

I'm far more upset that Obama and the Dream Team are doing nothing about this than I am that the leak happened in the first place. Leaks happen, and while it is tragic that the lives of innocents and allies might be placed in danger... that danger always exists in wartime. Allowing the information OUT in the first place is the crime, and this particular breech of security happened on Obama's watch. This dead-beat hack trying to make a name for himself at the expense of those supporting the US military and their families will fry in his own personal hell... of that I am convinced... but where is the investigation and "fix" for how and where the information got OUT of the Pentagon and into his hands in the first place?

70,000 documents on the Afghanistan War, with little to no insight into how or where the leak happened and what is being done to stop it... and now an additional 400,000 documents on the Iraq War. Our President and his Cabinet have some serious problems that need addressing... and complaining that this Aussie hack is to blame isn't going to stop the next batch of several hundred thousand important and "secret" documents from hitting the internet.

Can anyone tell me that the fall-out from this sort of disaster happening on the Bush/Rummy watch wouldn't have been 100x the depth compared to what Obama is feeling now? I'm no fan of Bush/Rummy and their handling of the Wars... but let's be realistic...okay?

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