Update: Pentagon demands WikiLeaks returns documents.
Return? Screw that, it’s a waste of time. Damage is done – even if they are “unpublished” they are out there and they will turn up. NYT has them, remember? The only thing NYT doesn’t publish is what makes their causes look bad. Any claim they have ever made about loyalty, patriotism, and “doing the right thing” is suspect.
No, what you do is target the heads of WikiLeaks and NYT as if they were terrorists and stalk them using Predator drones. Or if you want to be boring, snatch/grab/extradite/try/hang them.
Make no bones – WikiLeaks and by association also the co-conspirators at NYT are terrorists – they actively conspire to aid and abet terrorists – you need no clearer definition than that to identify those who are clearly anti-US and clear threats.
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NY Daily:
Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama’s inaugural address to the nation, and he’s referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.
But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns – or forgoing them altogether – the Obamas don’t seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her “closest friends.” According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times. – Andrea Tantaros
Thank you, Ms. Tantaros.
I am so ****ing glad we’re all in this together, Mr. President.
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And now Obama is mulling over a mortgage-relief plan?
Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth. An estimated 15 million U.S. mortgages – one in five – are underwater with negative equity of some $800 billion. Recall that on Christmas Eve 2009, the Treasury Department waived a $400 billion limit on financial assistance to Fannie and Freddie, pledging unlimited help. The actual vehicle for the bailout could be the Bush-era Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP, a sister program to Obama’s loan modification effort. HARP was just extended through June 30, 2011.
The move, if it happens, would be a stunning political and economic bombshell less than 100 days before a midterm election in which Democrats are currently expected to suffer massive, if not historic losses. The key date to watch is August 17 when the Treasury Department holds a much-hyped meeting on the future of Fannie and Freddie.
I’m now officially boiling-over pissed-off MAD.
Because of life-circumstances we aren’t doing so well on cash flow ourselves – yet we pay our bills to the best of our ability – and our mortgage – and I’m not asking for any damn relief from the gov’t. Yes, times are hard but I’m tired of my present-and-future taxes bailing everyone else out when I could use that money rather sorely, too.
No one performed heroics when I nearly lost everything after being out of work for 8 months. Nor should they have.
If Obama were to really push this, it would be the political equivalent of pissing in a breaker-box. Have at – give it a try – see how many people who pay the bills will take kindly to this kind of move.
I’m weary of the death by a thousand paper-cuts.
Lemur King's Folly 
I want to know exactly what she is paying out of pocket, and also, the list of the so-called “friends” she took with her, just to compare to the list of their donors.
Gah, this is beyond appalling.
It’s appalling and bad enough that so many average Americans were duped into voting for the Boy Blunder.
I am proud of my country and will stand up and defend America to the best of my ability.
There are times though when my pride is sorely tested.
So, if you mess up and buy a home you can’t afford, you get a pass, but if you scrape and hold three jobs to pay for your mortgage you get to give your money to the deadbeats??
WTF???
You have to wonder what it will take to reach the tipping point.
It seems as if each day some new, more incredibly galling… no, that’s not a good enough word… some different bag of monkey shi* is foisted upon us that WE get to pay for… and with the expectation that we should be grateful that our betters have somehow come up with the idea.
November can’t come soon enough.
Agree. Wholeheartedly.
It’s like the kid (obama) who steals daddy’s credit card (the one that is SUPPOSED to be frozen in a block of ice in the freezer) while the parents are out of town, grabs his fake id, and runs down to the bar – expecting that by buying round after round everyone will love him.
Sure, some love him until the ride ends. The bartender (congress) – they know the score but it is income and he’s tipping well. The other patrons (us) know the kid for a punk-ass little shi*head, know damn well where that credit card came from, and if the kid doesn’t stop it REAL SOON, we’re gonna make some phone calls.
When the police (the November election) get there, some growin’-up is gonna happen real fast.
Oh, and one more thing: the Wikeleaks traitor should be executed.
Tomorrow.
I have taken the WikiLeaks shitstorm a bit differently than most people. Yes, I was beyond angry when it happened. I do think Julian Efftard deserves to be drawn and quartered and have his entrails set on fire. Notice how he could care less about the Afghani informants he left out to dry.
No…all that aside, what I find simply fascinating is how the NYT, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel, leaked certain docs, but left the majority sit idle in their harddrives. The NYT is the type to publish anything that will aid the enemy. They won’t leak a bit at a time like Breitbart. They don’t have the patience or the intelligence. So why sit on this?
Because they see that by publishing it there is ample evidence that WE are the good guys. Can’t have that.
There are also thousands and thousands of documents.
If I understand it right, part of the reason for getting together (Wiki-NYT) was because NYT had the resources to help vet the material. WikiLeaks has been more in the mode of trying to make sure they aren’t publishing totally bogus materials and there’s no way they could verify even a fraction of the documents.
I look at it as a case where they haven’t released it yet because they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I don’t doubt that some docs won’t be released for the very reason you cite – what’s the gov’t going to do, say “Hey, we do some good things! Why didn’t you release our top-secret troop movements document that shows us deploying our special forces to the north of town at 10pm (blah blah blah)?”
Oh, I know there are 1,000s of documents. But NYT has been vetting them daily, constantly, pouring eyes over them in the hopes of finding something that would make Bush the perpetrator of vile crimes against hoomanity. They let the docs with the Afghan informants names be published, and after the fallout of that fiasco, they have been more careful. But not much has been brought forth as yet.
Normally I would agree that anyone would take their time to go through everything, but NYT isn’t like that. They do tend to rush to judgment. If WikiLeaks wanted everything out, why just give it to three leftist newspapers? Why not include the Telegraph, and Daily Mirror, even Pravda?
WikiLeaks established itself with that leaked video of the US shooting “unarmed” Iraqis and two reporters from Reuters. So far they refuse to release the complete video, so I have my doubts as to the veracity of the organization. Going to their front page, I see nothing there that would help our intelligence gathering, but I do see plenty that would help others harm us.
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply you were defending them. Just ranting and bitching about how irresponsible the colostomy bag Julian Efftard is.
No apology required at all!
NYT will publish anything but when you’re making BIG and high profile accusations you tend to want to vet it well.
Remember Dan Rather? Talk about a hit below the waterline because he was too anxious to shoot Bush in the ass.
Oh yeah…. “What’s the frequency, Kenneth??”
I remember driving with my sister in NC, back in 2006. She was taking me to a friend’s. Anyway, Dan was on blathering on HNet on the radio, and his sign-off was “I’m Dan Rather…..Courage”. I turned to my sister and said “I’m (Aggie)….lightbulb”. She nearly ran off the road, she was laughing so hard 😀
*I* nearly ran off the road, and I’m sitting in my office.
“Lightbulb”… GOOD one.