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Thu, 12/16/2010 - 12:00am
Interview with Malcolm Craddock with Veterans for Peace at the action in DC.

Big Day in DC: 

First the Veterans for Peace march. Daniel Ellsberg was arrested for the 80th time - and on his 80th Birthday!  More arrests.  Totals tomorrow.  But for now...The House Judiciary Committee is bracing its burly shoulders  for the hearing on the legal and constitutional questions raised by WikiLeaks’s  disclosure of embarrassingly jejeune State Department cables.  Human Rights First weighs in on the subject.  The group is gently prodding lawmakers to take a long hard look at whatprivate companies and government officials are up to in the screcy sector.   There are serious implications for fundamental human rights, such as freedom of speech, association, and Internet freedom more broadly.  One would like to believe that the Committee planned to at least have entertain a few second thoughts about Bradley Manning sitting in solitary at the military prison in quantico, Virginia.  Ah, but that's a world away from the front page and the DC press corp.

A Cryptome.org participant has this: following the release of a bunch of US diplomatic cables from W-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s. All of them were initially released uncensored but as you might know some of them have been removed, others have been partially redacted (a.k.a. censored) without any kind of prior notice.

The people from WL said that they will redact some of the names in order to remove personal identifiable information but in fact they have removed full paragraphs that although they could be a little bit embarrassing for US diplomacy they do not put anybody at risk.   For example:

- There were 13 cables deleted from WL cablegate site (e.g.: #09LONDON1385).

- At least 11 cables were slightly redacted (e.g.: #07PARIS322).

- 138 cables published by Lebanese Al-Akhbar paper but not yet put into WL.

- 33 cables disclosed by the British paper The Guardian but not yet in WL.

I have not seen or read any news regarding this strange change of policy in any media so this is the reason I think you might be interested to know about it and maybe publish it in your site for public scrutiny.

You can check the differences with the uncensored cables at: * http://leakager742hufco.onion (with tor as its a hidden service)

* http://www.mein-parteibuch.org.nyud.net/cablegate/

As we say int eh news room, Have Fun!

 

 

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