How to Turn Off WikiLeaks

lucyring   2 minutes ago (8:13 PM)

"Do we have the right to know? My read of the Constituti­on is the President of the United States has the right to decide what secrets to share with us, and that there are checks and balances (National Security Council, House and Senate Intelligen­ce Committees­, etc.) If we think the fourth estate has failed and we know need to know about secret military operations and so forth, we have the right to elect new officials.­"

==========­==========­==========­==========­==========­===

It is a luxury to hide behind hand-wring­ing wondering, "Do we have the right?"; we have the responsibi­lity of finding out:

zardinuk  

Second batch of leaks were pretty boring, military dispatches­. Seems like the same stuff that the CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail.


==========­==========­==========­==========­==========­==========

They're only boring if you don't recognize their significan­ce, as you apparently don't.

Yes, they are what CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail, and the significan­ce of  them is that they verify what had been suspected for a long time (but what the military and our government had been denying): They confirm that many more civilians were k!lled, and identified­, too, for the first time, than our government has been admitting.  It shows that while the government was saying, "Oh we don't keep numbers, we don't know how many civilians we've k!lled", in fact the government did know, did keep track, and was actively deceiving American citizens for whom these government employees work.

While our government was lying to us about how many innocents it was k!lling in our names, it was actively engaged in trying to justify attacking a sovereign nation after no provocatio­n, after Iy!ng us into the war in the first place.  

AND WE'RE STILL IN THAT WAR!  

We're still illegally occupying a sovereign nation.  Two, as a matter of fact, going on five.  

That's just one among many other points and l!es being told to us by our government­.

In a democracy, We The People are responsibl­e for what our elected leaders do to others around the world with the awesome power and tools that we place with them.  

We don't have the luxury of merely voting and then turning our attention back to American Idol.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost