Moreover, NSAN has stated in a recent email that "[a]t the time of these deaths, [USA] military officials claimed that the bodies [in Afghanistan] showed signs of puncture and slashing wounds from a knife, and appeared to have died several hours before the raid. Yet The London Times is now reporting that Afghan investigators have determined that American forces "dug bullets out of their victims bodies" after the killing, tampering with the evidence of the crime. American military officials deny the claim. US and NATO officials have now admitted that Special Forces were responsible for the killing of these innocent women, and that previous denials of any involvement were false. Yet they now expect the public to accept their claim that there's "no evidence to support tampering". Having already misled the public, military officials now claim to be "further investigating' the incident. This is not good enough. At issue is not just a horrific killing but its cover-up and the willingness of military officials to mislead and distort the facts."
Julian Assange, editor and investigator for WikiLeaks on Democracy Now yesterday stated, "[A] few weeks ago, we released a 2008 counterintelligence report from the United States Army, thirty-two pages, that assessed quite a few articles that I had written and some of the other material we had released--so that includes the main manuals for Guantà ¡namo Bay, which revealed falsification of records there and deliberate hiding of people from the Red Cross, a breach of the Geneva Conventions, and psychological torture, many other things, and a report we released on the battle of Fallujah, once again a classified US military report into what happened there--and clearly concerned that we were causing embarrassment to the US military by exposing human rights abuses and some concern--doesn't seem to be legitimate, but some concerns that the fine details of some material that we were releasing could, in theory, when combined with other detail, pose a threat to soldiers if insurgents got hold of that information. So that report sort of looks at different ways to destroy WikiLeaks.org or fatally marginalize it."
NEEDED NOW MORE LIGHT ON THE PENTAGON--Whistleblowers!
Instead of stopping subterfuges, the USA military has simply used spin and cover-up, i.e. failing to make important documents and videos available under the freedom of information laws.
Assange continued, "And because our [Wikileaks'] primary asset is the trust, that sources have enough--we have a reputation for having never had a source publicly exposed, and as far as I know, that reputation is true--it looks to see whether they can publicly expose some of our sources, prosecute US military whistleblowers--and, in fact, it uses the phrase "whistleblowers,' not people who are leaking indiscriminately--but prosecute US military whistleblowers in order to destabilize us and destroy what it calls our "center of gravity,' the trust that the public and sources have in us."
Dear President Obama, the time has never been riper for a real democratic light in America, e.g. like a light from the best of Athens--not a military Spartan America.
[Come on Whistleblowers, in the Executive Branch! Help America to get out of the Afghanistan and Iraq quagmires than the powers-run-amok want it to happened.]
Basically, the American military and its intelligence community have dominated and misled Americans to the grotesque distortion of the American image and reality world-wide since the 1950s. Glen Greenwald, summarized the main issues for We (real) Americans. Concerning the cover-up on the murder of the Reuter's reporters (and more than a dozen others) and other stories only released by the grace of concerned whistleblowers, Greenwald has also stated. "[Y]ou see that this is standard operating procedure [under the American DOD]. The military was not at all concerned about what took place. They didn't even think there were remedial steps needed to prevent a future reoccurrence. They concluded definitively that the members of the military involved did exactly the right thing."
For all misguided American Spartans, Greenwald add this note, "This is what war is. This is what the United States does in these countries. And that, I think, is the crucial point to note, along with the fact that the military fought tooth and nail to prevent this video from surfacing, precisely because they knew that it would shed light on what their actual behavior is during war, and instead of the propaganda to which we're typically subjected."
Nabil Noor, the brother of the killed Reuter's reporter in Iraq, asked an appropriate question of all Americans after seeing a Wikileak report and video this week:
"Is this the democracy and freedom that they claim have brought to Iraq? What Namir was doing was a patriotic work. He was trying to cover the violations of the Americans against the Iraqi people. He was only twenty-one years old. Other innocent colleagues and other innocent people, who were just standing out of curiosity when they see a journalist in a scene, and they were all killed. This is another crime that should be added to the record of American crimes in Iraq and the world. Is the pilot that stupid, he cannot distinguish between an RPG and a camera? They claim he was carrying an RPG. When was the RPG this small, small as a camera? He was carrying a small camera. An RPG is more than one meter long. Yes, it was an RPG because it shows the acts against Iraq and its people that still suffer from their crimes. We demand the international organizations to help us sue those people responsible for the killings of our sons and our people."
Investigations and tribunals of justice are needed to clear out the Spartan-type military personnel out of power as soon as possible.
THE ATHENS MODEL
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