WikiLeaks revelations will 'expose corruption between allies' U.S. warns Britain

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-Britain.html

U.S. warns Britain over new WikiLeaks revelations that will 'expose corruption between allies'

• 3 million documents set to go online
• Bombshell leak thought to include U.S. assessments of Gordon Brown
• Secret talks on return of Lockerbie bomber to Libya may also be leaked
  
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• U.S. diplomats face being kicked out of countries in backlash
• Corrupt politicians expected to be named and shamed

David Cameron was warned last night by America that damaging secrets of the ‘special relationship’ are about to be laid bare. The U.S. ambassador to London made an unprecedented personal visit to Downing Street to warn that whistleblower website WikiLeaks is about to publish secret assessments of what Washington really thinks of Britain. The website is on the verge of revealing almost 3million documents, including thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables sent to Washington from the American embassy in London. The bombshell leak is thought to include U.S. assessments of Gordon Brown’s personality and his prospects of winning the General Election, and secret discussions on the return of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya. Assessments of David Cameron’s election chances and his private assurances to U.S. officials may also be included, Government sources believe.

They fear they will emerge on Sunday in co-ordinated releases in newspapers in Britain, Germany and America. The British government is so worried that last night it issued a D-Notice, warning that publishing the secrets could compromise national security. The website has previously released secret details of allied military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Revelations of American brutality in Iraq and Afghanistan created shockwaves, made WikiLeaks notorious and led to its founder Julian Assange - an Australian-born computer hacker - being vilified by governments around the world. He is now wanted for alleged rape in Sweden. In total, around 2.7million confidential messages between the U.S. government and its embassies around the world are to be released.

The U.S. State Department warned that the leaks would damage relationships around the world. Spokesman P J Crowley said: ‘These revelations are harmful to the U.S. and our interests. They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world.’ The U.S. ambassador to Britain, Louis Susman, was seen going into Downing Street and the Foreign Office yesterday to brief officials for what was described as ‘contingency planning’. ‘He came in to explain what they thought we could expect,’ said one Whitehall source. Defence sources said British national security could be ‘put at risk’ by the release, as they are expected to contain details of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and pull-outs and revelations about secret service practices and intelligence sources.

A lot of respect for this guy, expose the liars and corruption at the top and keep it up. The internet is really hurting the elite (Democrats, Republicans, Lib/Lab/Con, CIA, UN, EU etc) and they'll try (but I doubt they can) to regulate the internet the best they can in the name of our 'security'. The old news channels and even the papers are becoming irrelevant and 'raw news' I guess you could call it is gaining ground (Infowars, Youtube, RussiaToday, WikiLeaks).

Good on him.

Thoughts?

[GommeInc]

I like how the US are doing what all lovers do and that is warn their partners that their dirty past is about to be leaked, without realising that in doing so is a form of confession

It's their fault if they're being proven to be deceitful, two faced cowards, so if revelations do appear then it's entirely their fault.

[Jordy]

Look forward to seeing it come out tbh, I've no issue with things being leaked providing it doesn't put things like the armed forces at risk.

Shoddy reporting from the Daily Mail as ever though, the Swedish dropped the rape claim of Julian Assange almost immediately.

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Well they certainly got Brown spot on, along with Mandela who they have apparently slurred and rightly so - Saint Mandela is not all he seems, a man who peddles race for his own agenda and a man who engaged in terrorism and killed innocent civillians in the campaign of terror by the 'peace loving' ANC. Although that said; I would agree with Mandela with his point on Blair being the U.S. Foreign Minister.

[HotelUser]

American politics are frequently skewed with dirty behaviour. I'm curious about two things. Obviously England already knows a chunk about what's being disclosed so I'd like to know what's actually news to them. Secondly, I wonder if this website will be subject to censorship from the United States government, due to recent policy changes.

[Niall!]

American politics are frequently skewed with dirty behaviour. I'm curious about two things. Obviously England already knows a chunk about what's being disclosed so I'd like to know what's actually news to them. Secondly, I wonder if this website will be subject to censorship from the United States government, due to recent policy changes.

Policy changes only include websites hosting copyrighted music and films.

Wikileaks do none of this. Still, I'm sure they'll find some way.

[Conservative,]

I don't know what to think. I mean it's good he's exposing the corruption & liars of politics but if it's threatening national security then it's like why?

But as long as it doesn't threaten national security then good for them.

[Niall!]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11858637

HMM I WONDER WHO'S BEHIND THIS

[-:Undertaker:-]

I don't know what to think. I mean it's good he's exposing the corruption & liars of politics but if it's threatening national security then it's like why?

But as long as it doesn't threaten national security then good for them.

Thats a vague term designed to make the truth look bad, ironically its the political elite who are the ones behind the Iraq war, Afghanistan war and so forth who are the real danger to us all - both in lives lost due to lies, and the erosion of the wests' civil liberties which are taken away from us under the pretext of 'security'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11858637

HMM I WONDER WHO'S BEHIND THIS

On Sky News it says the Guardian is planning to release the documents regardless of whether Wikileaks is up or not, good.

[Eoin247]

I can see a good and bad side to this. In the end the US will get it's just desserts.