Please Be Afraid Of WIkileaks

The United States government today continued its campaign of fear resulting from Wikileaks release of 2,700 diplomatic cables in an article published in today’s New York Times. According to U.S. government officials everyone from Mickey Mouse to Bugs Bunny is under threat because some caustic cables about Vladimir “I want to be Dictator” Putin were published which could lead to forced photo shoot with the man being shirtless. Oh the horror! They keep insisting that people have been harmed yet they can show no evidence of that having happened or that they haven’t properly redacted even though that isn’t the case they have worked with the various media outlets to insure those names are removed. In fact they even offered to work with both the Departments of Defense and State to do just that.

The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and has moved a handful of them to safer locations, administration officials said Thursday.
The operation, which involves a team of 30 in Washington and embassies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, reflects the administration’s fear that the disclosure of cables obtained by the organization WikiLeaks has damaged American interests by exposing foreigners who supply valuable information to the United States.
Administration officials said they were not aware of anyone who has been attacked or imprisoned as a direct result of information in the 2,700 cables that have been made public to date by WikiLeaks, The New York Times and several other publications, many with some names removed. But they caution that many dissidents are under constant harassment from their governments, so it is difficult to be certain of the cause of actions against them.