U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks

I'm missing something. Apparently the plan was to prosecute people for posting classified documents to Wikileaks. Diabolical stuff indeed.

A few years ago someone realized that every New Yorker Magazine caption contest cartoon can be effectively captioned with 'Christ, what an asshole!'.

I'm starting to think this also works as a comment on any piece of Wikileaks-related news, regardless of one's political views or feelings about any of the players involved.

OK, that's enough. I think this Wikileaks stuff has officially become conventional news i.e., not HN material. Maybe I'm wrong and someone will explain it to me.

Looks like Mr. Assange needs to do some updating here: "As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective."

That's an awfully tough sell. In the first place, according to the entry, one of Wikileaks' leakers has indeed been exposed -- one Specialist Bradley Manning. And Mr. Manning is now being prosecuted by the Army for, well, leaking to Wikileaks. Which Wikileaks claimed was legal. Too bad they aren't the arbiters of what's leagal and what isn't. And too badk for young Specialist Manning that he trusted Mr. Assange.

Regarding the recent allegations of rape against Mr. Assange, I have difficulty believing that the CIA, the NSA, or President Obama are behind them. The claims were made by two separate women. If Wikileaks has any proof that these women are working for his enemies, it ought to leak it. Until then, I'll just continue calling Julian Assange a collateral rapist. There's more support for that than for much of his claims against US and coalition servicemen.