Clearly deliberate.

So they have a lot of "secrets" that are more secret than interesting. And Assange is hunting high and low to make the most of it. And gov.us makes a good show of rising to the bait. And of course the raised, then dropped, then raised again charges of sexual assault in Sweden. And, as noted, there is better information to be had for less drama, elsewhere.

I'm hard pressed to think it's still about the secrets at all. Why is gov.us so easily rising to the bait? And why is Assange baiting them, really? I have no answers, but I do find the question intriguing.

godspeed to wikileaks

I agree with everything wikileaks is doing.

Yeah you can attack the guy behind it all, he looks weak and doesn't want to reveal much about his private life.

However the leaders in our military (the armchair generals) are also very weak and we know nothing about their private lives other than once they leave their posts they end up working for or advising government contractors for whom they directed contracts to while in command.

An honest 'democracy' would have nothing to hide.

Thing is we don't have an honest democracy and it's time the people see that the entire world is ran by people out of 'eam America World Police

God bless wikileaks.

Twisted

that's the American view for you. Perhaps the US ought to stick to things they can handle internally properly first, like taxation, homelessness, immigration, prison overpopulation, drugs, guns and gun ranges (that don't allow the voluntary murder of 8 year olds, theres not many, and I know that's just a pipe dream), spam, cyber crime, and a justice system that doesn't depend on the size of your bank account (we call that corruption, in most democratic societies), the list could go on forever.

Perhaps Wikileaks is just the easy target and takes Americans away from the real world problems that exist, eg America.

One problem

With the current rate of wikileaks posting about 60 cables per day, it will take them just under 12 years to release all 251,287 documents.

If you have nothing to hide...

I seem to remember a phrase that is often repeated: "If you have nothing to hide, you don't have anything to worry about." Well, these leaks should do one thing for us, and that is to suppress the many insane claims of conspiracies while revealing whatever conspiracies and incompetences that really exist. Perhaps with all this Daylight shining into the boxes of secret documents, we can break down the wall of secrecy that stands between the People and the government that is supposed to serve the People. Then when the government says that it needs the People to do something, the People will respond with full faith and trust in that decision to commit resources and lives to a cause that may be half a world away.

Re-taunts?

"the whistle-blowing website is mirroring the diplomatic cables on (...) France-based servers operated by French ISP Octopuce".

So it's really the French who taunt them one more time. Serves them right, sons of a silly person.

Yawn

All this folk hero has done so far is "expose" the fact that governments complain about each other behind the scenes. Big deal, as if no-one knew that already.

Colour me unimpressed.

I don't know what the fuss is about

I realize the US is embarrassed that classified information has come out, but their over-the-top public anger doesn't gel with the disclosures which read more like a diplomatic version of Heat magazine. It's mostly idle gossip, hearsay, rumours and while it may be interesting reading it's hardly resulted in any earthshattering revelations yet. The US is drawing more attention to the importance of disclosures than they probably deserve. They should let it go and conduct whatever internal reviews are necessary to detect / catch leaks before they happen in future.

In the rough you find gems....

Courtesy of Mr Fisk, one of the few reasons left to read the Indy :

"There's a wonderful moment in the cables when the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, explains to a US congressional delegation on 28 April last year that "a Palestinian state must be demilitarised, without control of its airspace and electro-magnetic field [sic], and without the power to enter into treaties or control its border". Well goodbye, then, to the "viable" (ergo Lord Blair of Isfahan) Palestinian state we all supposedly want. And the US Congress lads and ladies appear to have said nothing. "

So there we are, we now KNOW that Israel isn't interested in "peace" with any sort of Palestinian state. Won't stop the MSM (hello Daily Telegraph!) spinning/saturating the press with the complete opposite though.

Some of you can mock the releases as "gossip" but candid opinions from elected and appointed politicians is gold. Pure gold, because its the only way you're ever going to know what they really think.

Assange may be a bit of an oddball but who amongst us can say they wouldn't be paranoiac and a bit twitchy if we were in his position.

Its always good to see the total contempt "the great and the good" have for the average citizen exposed in all its glory. Won't make any odds though, the plebs will read what they're given.....

hmm

the only real issue is the use of a US based registrar, if your hosting is taken out you switch to other hosts, if your DNS provider is taken out you switch to another DNS provider, if your registrar takes your domain away... oh, damn

sure they have other domains, but seriously... it's like they are inviting the US government to take the domain away so they can have something else to moan about, they're certainly not doing due diligence to prevent it (i know using a foreign registrar doesn't prevent them going direct to verisign, btw afaik all domain shutdowns so far have been by going to US based registrars and getting them to do it)

wikileaks isn't about exposing corruption and such although sometimes that's an unintended side-effect, it's about creating as much drama as possible for that attention whore bloke that nobody really gives a stuff about who loves having his name plastered all over the place

DDOS attacks

In light of wikileaks having been hit a few times by ddos attacks they are I believe also releasing via the piratebay

So all in other than a few ddos attacks they sit on their hands rather than being seen to fail miserably at taking wikileaks down

The Community appears to be dealing with WikiLeaks

in fact, there are a bunch of self-appointed tin-star sheriffs with a PC and a modem doing what governments cannot... DDOSing the 'Leaks and taking them, and their hosts, down.

can i be honest

You have got to be prepared to expect that some people are going to say things you dont like. If you really believe in "freedom of speach" then you need to accept this. Mind you america does a good job of undermining the freedoms for which it was first established, i'm still surprised that americans can own firearms.