There is a lot of furor over the latest release of stolen classified documents by Wikileaks and their subsequent publication by many media outlets including the New York Times. No surprise that the NYT would publish classified documents that embarrass the United States as they have done in the past. The surprise is perhaps that the documents diminish their lord and president, Barack Hussein Obama.
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Brief 1: I have been somewhat angry at the folks who run the WikiLeaks website as they have repeatedly released classified military documents of the United States. I am all for daylight, but it seems that these folks care very little for the troops that may be affected (and by affected I mean killed) because of the information contained in the data dumps. A recent story suggests that the WikiLeaks people are contemplating a similar dump of documents from the Russian government. The Time Magazine writer coyly suggests that the “Russian reaction will not be as reserved as America’s.” Duh! It will be interesting to see if the WikiLeakers have the stones to take on Russia. They might just end up on the wrong end of a ricin-tipped umbrella.
There has been a lot of discussion about what went wrong when an islamist terrorist was allowed on a plane flying into Detroit wearing a pantie bomb and was on a terrorist watch list and was given a visa by the State Department and bought his one-way ticket with cash, and was able to get his desired seat to maximize impact.
Some have suggested that the fact that the pantie bomber failed is a testament to the ineptitude of the terrorists. I believe that the pantie bomber was inept, but the network that got him to almost succeed seems pretty effective.
