According to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, "Army intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been imprisoned since May when he was arrested on charges of leaking the classified material. In her first public comments since the cables' publication, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, denounced WikiLeaks, calling the latest release an attack on the international community."
(With any-common-sense understanding of what-kind-of-shake-up is needed in Washington in 2010-2012,) Americans like me are upset by the violent government backlash towards whistle blowing led by people, such as our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who stated this very week, "The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. This disclosure is not just an attack on America's foreign policy interest s. It is an attack on the international community. The alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity. I am confident that the partnerships that the Obama Administration has worked so hard to build, will withstand this challenge. The president and I have made these partnerships a priority and we are proud of the progress that they have helped achieve and they will remain at the center of our efforts. There is nothing laudable about endangering innocent people. And there is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends. There have been examples in history in which official conduct has been made public in the name of exposing wrongdoings or misdeeds. This is not one of those cases."
Now, "Attorney General Eric Holder has revealed the U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, which this week began publishing moer than 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables."
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