From Paul at Celestial Junk:
CBC Treason
My son just pointed out to me that he can now read the content of the confidential reports he was privy too in KAF … online.
Earlier, our “National Newspaper” in, er, action:
WikiLeaks derangement syndrome
Update: More from Paul, who has a good, living reason to take this all very personally:
Canada’s Cowardly Prime Minister
There is naturally another view, from the Canadian Journalism Foundation:
Documents in the raw undermine propaganda
While the leaking of Afghan war documents has been criticized in some Canadian columns, on the pages of J-Source WikiLeaks is described as citizen journalism we need and a new form of asymmetrical journalism. Founder Julian Assange, a self-described ‘person of interest’ to U.S. authorities, explains his decision to provide advance viewings to select outlets. The mainstream media partnerships weren’t completely comfortable: Assange later criticized the New York Times for its handling of the data, including checking with the White House before publishing and not providing a direct link to the documents. An alternative strategy could have been dribbles instead of dumps. Here are links to compare the special reportage sites: New York Times, Der Spiegel, the Guardian.
To Afghanistan observers, the documents undermined government propaganda, which – we learn from the docs – includes paying for positive stories. Unlike the NYT, J-Source has no problem providing a direct link to the WikiLeaks war documents site, as well as to data-dumping links and instructions for CAR journos. (And we didn’t check with Ottawa first.)
(Photo: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, by Martina Harris/Julian Assange.)
Sexy beast, eh? Now if only that blessed Foundation in this blessedly free (pretty) country could get its knickers knotted over some other propaganda, all too effective within Afstan:
MILNEWS.ca Blog
TALIBAN PROPAGANDA WATCH
Mark
Ottawa
Um. You don’t need the CBC to read them, they are here too http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010
Publicly available, around the world. You know, the Internet?
The last I heard CBC’s mandate didn’t include aiding a traitorous pig and the Taliban.
The point is Catelli, the CBC refused to run the cartoons that caused riots in Europe but are running Military leaks that have yet to be confirmed and putting our soldiers at risk, that in a nutshell is the CBC.
Catelli, the point isn’t that it is available through the CBC, we all know that it originated over the net and is still there. The point is that the CBC took the time to make it searchable, thus aiding anyone looking for data. A better story, from an us vs them point of view is to not even talk about leaking possibly sensitive documents that could aid an enemy.
Think of it this way, during WWII if the German navy could have had access to the Royal Navy and RCN after action reports on U-Boat hunting, with discussions on tactics that worked and tactics that failed could they exploit the information. You know the answer to that… so, if the info is out there, and you are trumpeting that info over and over, copying it and even taking the time to clean it up and make it even easier to access, well, that to me is treason of the highest order.
Then again, I guess some people probably thought that our war against Germany, Italy and Japan was illegal too, so something like this would have been ok to them, right?
It is just too bad the CBC could not have spent the same energy on the Climategate leak as they have on this leak. Funny, I don’t see any stories about how this data could be corrupt, forged, illegal, etc… all a matter of their perspective I guess… hypocrites.
So the CBC saved the enemy 10 minutes of opening a CSV file and doing a manual search. Criminal! Oh what would they do without this handy website!
That the CBC reports this trash and takes the time to set up a handy search function… yup, I can see how my tax dollars should support that.
No rebuttal on the Climategate comment? The CBC ignored the climate emails for weeks, and then they reported they were stolen, they were leaked illegally, they could be forgeries, etc. Why not the same consideration given to the Wikileak docs?
Nope, they jump on it assuming it is all true, no real confirmation, and then they take the time to make it even easier to locate the juicy bits (if there are any), and to top it off they encourage the public to stir around in it and send anything interesting to them, as they can’t be bothered to save that “10 min” you talk about, themselves.
You would think if this saved them 10 min. they would have all the stories by now, but they see potential in all that data…
Understand now?
Climategate is irrelevant to the Taliban. They no more give a rats ass about that then they do about this handy CBC search feature. They’re not using that anymore then they are drawing hockey sticks in the sand.
Understand now?
Are you thick or just willfully ignorant?
Climategate reporting vice Wikileak reporting.
CBC reaction to, and reporting of, Wikileak… and the apparent recruitment of willfully ignorant idiots to do searches for them.
I know you don’t understand, but I am hoping a fellow traveler can input a nice 1 syllable explanation for you.
Your comment makes no sense whatsoever. But I will explain myself because I like talking to brick walls. To a point. Then I get bored.
Climategate is irrelevant to the topic at hand. The topic is CBC’s purported treason by enabling the Taliban to search the Wikileaks documents. My point is simple, the Taliban have already downloaded the documents as they are publicly available from the Wikileaks website. CBC is not enabling them in any way as they can conduct their own searches without relying on western media resources.
I’m a little surprised that more attention isn’t being paid to the fact that Wikileaks published the names of Afghans working with NATO forces. And the Taliban openly says that they want to murder anyone working with NATO.
Do those people really not care that they just actively helped the Taliban murder people?
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