Monday – November 29, 2010
Secrets, secrets and more secrets, what happened on this date in 1775?
The inside secrets are out. Wikileaks released national security secrets on their website that are now causing a global diplomatic crisis. Julian Asange, the man behind Wikileaks, is a threat and is jeopardizing America’s National Security. Every American citizen should be calling for the President to sign an executive order to disable his website.
The leaks give a profile of State Department activities and secret correspondence by our State Department, and military officials to other officials in other countries around the world.
For example: a sampling of the 251,000 documents that have been released have Saudi Arabian officials calling for the U.S. to “cut the head of the snake off”. This is in reference to Iran’s growing nuclear program that is now threatening the region.
These leaks should call for great concern, not only here, but abroad. These leaks will cause distrust at the highest levels of friendly governments. These secrets will cause governments that are paranoid to act on their paranoia.
Julian Asange says that the leaks he has released in the past have not “caused any deaths.” My fear is that these leaks will in the future cause deaths when one government acts against another, because of some misperception in diplomatic circles.
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The acts of Diplomacy and of keeping secrets, secret date back to the beginning of our country. This activity is crucial for the protection of our citizens and the free world. Oddly enough if we go back in history we will see that - on this date in 1775 - The Committee of Secret Correspondence was created by the Second Continental Congress. It reads:
Secrets, secrets and more secrets, what happened on this date in 1775?
The inside secrets are out. Wikileaks released national security secrets on their website that are now causing a global diplomatic crisis. Julian Asange, the man behind Wikileaks, is a threat and is jeopardizing America’s National Security. Every American citizen should be calling for the President to sign an executive order to disable his website.
The leaks give a profile of State Department activities and secret correspondence by our State Department, and military officials to other officials in other countries around the world.
For example: a sampling of the 251,000 documents that have been released have Saudi Arabian officials calling for the U.S. to “cut the head of the snake off”. This is in reference to Iran’s growing nuclear program that is now threatening the region.
These leaks should call for great concern, not only here, but abroad. These leaks will cause distrust at the highest levels of friendly governments. These secrets will cause governments that are paranoid to act on their paranoia.
Julian Asange says that the leaks he has released in the past have not “caused any deaths.” My fear is that these leaks will in the future cause deaths when one government acts against another, because of some misperception in diplomatic circles.
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The acts of Diplomacy and of keeping secrets, secret date back to the beginning of our country. This activity is crucial for the protection of our citizens and the free world. Oddly enough if we go back in history we will see that - on this date in 1775 - The Committee of Secret Correspondence was created by the Second Continental Congress. It reads:
RESOLVED, That a committee of five would be appointed for the sole purpose of corresponding with our friends in Great Britain, and other parts of the world, and that they lay their correspondence before Congress when directed;
RESOLVED, That this Congress will make provision to defray all such expenses as they may arise by carrying on such correspondence, and for the payment of such agents as the said Committee may send on this service.
Another law that was written is the Espionage Act it reads: The US defines espionage towards itself as "The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Black's Law Dictionary (1990) defines espionage as: "...gathering, transmitting, or losing...information related to the national defense". Espionage is a violation of United States law, 18 U.S.C. § 792–798 and Article 106 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice".[4] The United States, like most nations, conducts espionage against other nations, under the control of the National Clandestine Service. Britain's espionage activities are controlled by the Secret Intelligence Service.
I believe that the level at which these documents were released rises to espionage. Earlier this year, a private in the military, Bradley Manning, performed a data dump. In other words, he stole these sensitive documents and released them to Wikieaks. The private is in custody and is facing serious charges. This does not rectify what has happened with the release by Julian Asange. My question is where his funding is coming from and what enemies of the U.S. might be supporting him now?
As we are facing another show down in the Korean Peninsula this week, these dumps will have an impact in the trust we need to put a coalition together to help with a regime change in North Korea. This is only one example of where the activity of Julian Asange if permitted to go on, will impact the security of the world and its peace. Mr. Asange is not acting in a patriotic way. He is reckless and has no idea of the threat he poses. He is acting out of self interest and is dangerous, in my opinion.
Our transmission and collection of secrets date back to our founding. Our founding fathers and military agents dealt with those who committed espionage in the appropriate way. These matters of state were kept secret. These matters of state are best kept as matters of state. We have laws and protections. Our officials follow these laws and they hopefully protect us. Members of the government, like Private Manning, will be dealt with. I personally don’t care if the government throws away the key. However, he will get his day in court. Hopefully, he will be sentenced to hard labor!
People like Julian Asange and Private Manning might think they are contributing to better the society by bringing into focus some of the things the U.S. says and does. What they are not thinking about is that most of what we do on the world scale is dictated by what others do first. In my opinion, the U.S. is not the bad guy in the world.
The President must sign the documents that will disable the Wikileaks website. This government must also take the appropriate measures to prohibit this from happening again.
Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives
A footnote: If we look back in history, we will realize what the intent of our original laws was meant to do. If we look back, we will see that our Founding Fathers knew secrets were best kept as secrets! If we look back, we will see that men like Manning and Asange are the enemies our Founders wanted to protect us from.
Another law that was written is the Espionage Act it reads: The US defines espionage towards itself as "The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Black's Law Dictionary (1990) defines espionage as: "...gathering, transmitting, or losing...information related to the national defense". Espionage is a violation of United States law, 18 U.S.C. § 792–798 and Article 106 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice".[4] The United States, like most nations, conducts espionage against other nations, under the control of the National Clandestine Service. Britain's espionage activities are controlled by the Secret Intelligence Service.
I believe that the level at which these documents were released rises to espionage. Earlier this year, a private in the military, Bradley Manning, performed a data dump. In other words, he stole these sensitive documents and released them to Wikieaks. The private is in custody and is facing serious charges. This does not rectify what has happened with the release by Julian Asange. My question is where his funding is coming from and what enemies of the U.S. might be supporting him now?
As we are facing another show down in the Korean Peninsula this week, these dumps will have an impact in the trust we need to put a coalition together to help with a regime change in North Korea. This is only one example of where the activity of Julian Asange if permitted to go on, will impact the security of the world and its peace. Mr. Asange is not acting in a patriotic way. He is reckless and has no idea of the threat he poses. He is acting out of self interest and is dangerous, in my opinion.
Our transmission and collection of secrets date back to our founding. Our founding fathers and military agents dealt with those who committed espionage in the appropriate way. These matters of state were kept secret. These matters of state are best kept as matters of state. We have laws and protections. Our officials follow these laws and they hopefully protect us. Members of the government, like Private Manning, will be dealt with. I personally don’t care if the government throws away the key. However, he will get his day in court. Hopefully, he will be sentenced to hard labor!
People like Julian Asange and Private Manning might think they are contributing to better the society by bringing into focus some of the things the U.S. says and does. What they are not thinking about is that most of what we do on the world scale is dictated by what others do first. In my opinion, the U.S. is not the bad guy in the world.
The President must sign the documents that will disable the Wikileaks website. This government must also take the appropriate measures to prohibit this from happening again.
Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives
A footnote: If we look back in history, we will realize what the intent of our original laws was meant to do. If we look back, we will see that our Founding Fathers knew secrets were best kept as secrets! If we look back, we will see that men like Manning and Asange are the enemies our Founders wanted to protect us from.
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