re: #392 ozbloke

Thank you Reine for your detailed response, its appreciated.

1. Somehow I think we seem to have shifted this question now, however, if he was ‘contacted’and he hasn’t been contacted by people in other countries, I don’t see how we can get pissed of at him for not ‘exposing’ other countries.

2. If we are not aware of any direct deaths, then we have no families to tell.

3. I’m not suspicious, just old, I’ll go with history, countries are not always honest with their people, particularly in times of war. Currently, the US is at war with two countries.

I think it’s clear, from wikileaks’s history, that they desire and are actively looking for information. It doesn’t matter who contacted who, IMO. Assange has made his market known; people will provide.

And Assange doesn’t seem to have made a market known for the secret documents of other countries. I don’t believe other countries have better more loyal employees than the US. I think Assange isn’t interested in what they have to offer or isn’t AS interested as what they have to offer.

We don’t know if any deaths have occurred. I believe the potential is there, and that there are real people whose lives are in danger from Assange’s release of this information. I don’t believe the gov’t would lie to the US public about that, it just wouldn’t make any sense.

Yes, the US is at war with two countries, with help from some allies, n’est-ce pas? And in cases like the Abu Ghraib horror, one or two folks knew and tried to keep it quiet, and it eventually came out, as these things do. As I said earlier though, for the big-ticket items, the general security of our armed forces and those who our armed forces must deal with - these things are dealt with not by one person, or two, or three, but by roomsful of people, reviewing, discussing, making decisions, ultimately making recommendations to the President - who is the elected Commander in Chief of this country. Not Julian Assange.