Pentagon Tells WikiLeaks: "Do Right Thing"

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Pentagon tells WikiLeaks: "Do right thing"
Thu Aug 5, 2010 2:17pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that whistle-blower web site WikiLeaks immediately hand over about 15,000 secret documents it had not yet released over the war in Afghanistan and erase material it had already put online.

"We are asking them to do the right thing," said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell in asking WikiLeaks to hand over the documents and delete material already on the Internet.

"We hope they will honor our demands," he told reporters, adding that the only rightful owner of the classified material was the U.S. government and the material had been stolen.

He urged the whistle-blower site, which caused an uproar when it published more than 70,000 documents last month about the war, to expunge those from the Internet.

Read more: http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE6744AO20100805?ca=rdt

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Would be amusing, if not such a weighty matter.

[derby378]

1. As long as we're talking about The Right Thing...

...let's discuss the "rightness" of George W. Bush forcing America into a phony war with Iraq and dropping the ball on the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

[joeybee12]

5. Yeah...apparently the irony is lost on the pentagon...n/t

[pezDispenser]

8. man you beat me to it.

[superconnected]

2. Wikileaks should answer back: "No you do the right thing, quit lying and trying to

hide your crimes".

[EFerrari]

3. Geof Morrell, torture denier, wouldn't know the right thing if it fell on him. n/t

[JVS]

11. I've seen some statements from institutions and individuals lacking moral authority in my time...

but this really takes the cake.

[Demeter]

4. Wikileaks IS "Doing the right thing."

And I hope they keep doing it.

[dipsydoodle]

17. ditto

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[gratuitous]

6. The right thing?

Tell me, Mr. Morrell: Is waterboarding someone the right thing? How about dropping bombs on a wedding celebration? Blasting civilians to Kingdom Come because they had the misfortune to get into the crosshairs? You and your bloodthirsty ilk wouldn't know the right thing to do any more than you'd know how to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Yes. They ought to hand it over........................

one page at a time via internet.

[8 track mind]

10. LOL!!! yeah, via pirates bay!!!!! ;) n/t

[boppers]

38. It's seeded. Oh boy, is it seeded.

The released portion is "undeleteable" at this point. Too many copies.

[Soylent Brice]

32. FUCK yeah. n/t

[Pavulon]

33. Yeah, lets draw attention to a service that saves

me money by not having to pay tons of money to cable companies.

The NSA and or CIA already have the data. You really think they cant walk right into anything that has a cpu of any type?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. Again with the omnipotence.

:eyes:

[boppers]

39. The NSA and CIA really can't "walk right into anything that has a cpu".

That's why we spend so much on ways getting around things they can't do.

Humans, as it turns out, are much easier to hack than computers.

[JVS]

9. LOL

I always look to the Pentagon for moral guidance.

[rbixby]

12. I don't see the purpose in asking them to take it down

Its gone and out there, you can't close pandora's box.

[mbperrin]

14. The internet tubes have always been difficult for the government

to understand. They shoot a wedding party with a missile, all are dead. Simple.

Put something on the internet, a jillion people download and copy it, can never be killed.

Way too advanced thinking for the torture masters....

[Pavulon]

31. They are sitting on a system invented by DARPA, controlled by the US

and depending on the value of what they have could be endangering the lives of their family and co conspirators. The internet is their back yard.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

36. Dude, I prefer to think of naked women for MY lurid pleasures.

But hey, to each his own.

[boppers]

40. The Internet left US control a while ago.

It was designed to be resilient to attacks both foreign *and* domestic.

[Booster]

13. And the Pentagon should do the right thing and hand over all of

it's financial records for ALL of us to take a look at. The Pentagon is the worst of them all.

[Downwinder]

15. I'm confused. Is it: asked, demanded, urged or begged?

[Metta]

16. Telling the truth - wrong. Killing, raping, torturing, looting, wantonly destroying - not so much.

Happy karma.

[EFerrari]

21. And Morrell has been out front, as the mouthpiece spinning it all.

"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told the Post in an e-mail that the agency's reviews of the interrogation of Qahtani, the alleged 20th hijacker, concluded the interrogation methods at Guantanamo, including the special techniques used on Qahtani in 2002, were lawful at the time."

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2009-01/15/content_7398608.htm

[Autumn Colors]

18. They've ALREADY DONE the "right thing". (nt)

[rocktivity]

19. "We hope they will HONOR our demands?"

You honor REQUESTS, Mr. Morrell--You OBEY demands!

:rofl:
rocktivity

[EFerrari]

20. We should start a petition that only says, we support Wikileaks.

And let it grow until they get the message.

[daleo]

22. Do the right thing

Invade innocent countries willy-nilly after lying about your reasons.
Blow up weddings parties and other innocent civilians.
Waterboard people and set dogs on them.

Do the right thing.

[Hissyspit]

23. Wikileaks: Hundreds of Hidden Protest Fatalities Revealed in Afghan War Diary

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8883332&mesg_id=8883332

[Enrique]

24. new moral guideline: WWDODD

what would Dept. of Defense do.

[tavalon]

25. I listened to this on the internet

and a number of things occurred to me. One, how did they find someone who could do a condescending Agent Smith impression on such short notice. Second, is the Pentagon really so stupid as to believe that these can even be deleted at this point and if not, why are they acting like it? And lastly, why now? They've known about this for some time now and the panties are just now getting in a wad? Oh, and did I mention that Geoff Morrell is a supercilious twit?

[Nihil]

26. Do the Right Thing

Tell the Pentagon to go piss up a rope.

(PS: Agent Mike? Same applies to you too pal! :hi: )

[unhappycamper]

27. Pentagon threatens to 'compel' WikiLeaks to hand over Afghan war data

Source: CSM

Pentagon threatens to 'compel' WikiLeaks to hand over Afghan war data
By Taylor Barnes, Correspondent / August 6, 2010

With WikiLeaks now threatening to publish thousands more classified documents on the US war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is demanding that the whistleblower website erase its extensive classified records and hand over all documents in its possession.

"The only acceptable course is for WikiLeaks to take steps to immediately return all versions of all of those documents to the US government and permanently delete them from its website, computers, and records," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Thursday, according to the Guardian.

He added: "If doing the right thing is not good enough for them, then we will figure out what alternatives we have to compel them to do the right thing."

The White House had condemned the leak immediately after it appeared July 25, with National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones issuing a statement at the time that it "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security."

Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0806/Pentagon-threatens-to-compel-WikiLeaks-to-hand-over-Afghan-war-data

[Soylent Brice]

28. or what, predator drone strikes? assassination squads?

really, i'm curious as to what they have in mind for "compelling"...

[hobbit709]

29. Good question.

[boppers]

41. They could murder Assange and nuke every data center hosting the data...

...and it would still pop up elsewhere.

There's *no* way to compel this, short of eliminating most of the Internet.

[Pavulon]

30. Its a military controlled event. Since he fled jurisdiction

he has no protection under the constitution and none under geneva. Gerald Bull comes to mind.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. You REALLY REALLY want an assassination, don't you?

Are you still disappointed that your heroes never killed Chavez like you wanted?

[boppers]

42. You know about the encrypted insurance file, right?

Killing him could make the situation *worse*. Gerald Bull wasn't as paranoid, to his detriment.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

43. The Righteous Soldiers of ChristAmerica will blast it with Decryption Rays from their eyes. -nt

[Zhade]

34. He already is. He's a hero.

NT!

[Vidar]

44. Yeah, & the US government is property of its citizens. Let's foreclose on the Pentagon!

[Bragi]

45. Bad focus groups lead to this?

I think they missed the point: what people said was that they would like the Pentagon to actually do the right thing, not issue a marketing update using "do the right thing" as a slogan.

[november3rd]

46. So, We're Going To Get To Read The Footnote

The 70,000 pages were "old news" everyone said. Who cares? Oh yeah, and don't forget they're going to put "American lives" "at risk!"

Give me a break. It looks like the 10,000 extra pages WL held onto for confirmation before releasing are the real story. That's what the Pentagon is afraid of them releasing.

[Taverner]

47. For me, "Do the right thing" means tell the truth

Which is exactly what they have been doing.