Leaky Vessels: Wikileaks "Revelations" Will Comfort Warmongers, Confirm Conventional Wisdom
Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: War | Tags: afghanistan, iran, iraq, israel, secrets, War, WikiLeaks | No Comments »“I am shocked — shocked! — to find gambling is going on in here” – Captain Renault at the gaming tables in Casablanca.
The much ballyhooed dump of intelligence and diplomatic files concerning the Afghan War has been trumpeted as some kind of shocking expose, "painting a different picture" than the official version of events — revelations that are sure to rock the Anglo-American political establishments to their foundations.
The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel were given 92,000 reports by Wikileaks, including thousands of pages of raw “human intelligence” (i.e., uncorroborated claims and gossip from interested parties and anonymous sources pushing a multitude of agendas), and diplomatic notes passed between the promulgators of the occupation in Washington and their factotums “in country” — reports which you might imagine also purvey a multitude of agendas … not least the supreme agenda of all officials involved in a dubious enterprise: ass-covering.