Wikileaks realeases Clinton War Files

So Assange chose today to release some of the Clinton files. You can read them all here.

Some excerpts for those who don't have all day and nothing better to do:

From Joe Wilson after his first visit back to Baghdad in 20 years:

Dear Madame Secretary,

My trip to Baghdad (September 6-11) has left me slack jawed. I have struggled to find the correct historical analogy to describe a vibrant, historically important Middle Eastern city being slowly bled to death. Berlin and Dresden in World War 11 were devastated but they and their populations were not subjected to seven years of occupation that included ethnic cleansing, segregation of people by religious identity, and untold violence perpetrated upon them by both military and private security services. I have not been to Gaza but suspect that the dehumanizing effects are somewhat similar. I can attest as one who lived in Baghdad during the run up to the first Gulf War is that the sight is extraordinarily saddening. Two weeks before the launching of Desert Storm, I could still walk the streets and markets freely without fear of attack and could speak with shopkeepers whom I had come to know over two and a half years. Now, the life expectancy of an expatriate without armed security in Baghdad can be measured in hours. Streets that used to be filled with boisterous Iraqis, riverbanks that used to welcome laughing Iraqi families on evening strolls are now sparsely populated with sullen and angry young males. The occupation and especially the walling off of neighborhoods have destroyed the very fabric of the urban society.

I suggest you read Joe's email in it's entirety.

I found this insight into the mindset of Hillary Clinton to be interesting: she is quoting something someone told her about doing her job as SOS -

the ultimate judgment will be on whether iran, nk get the bomb, progress in Mideast, success in Afghanistan, Iraq. Obama's pause on Afghanistan goes well with elite media and left that is against all wars, but not with swing male voters who are defecting.

That's not the first time anti-left sentiment or disdain has crept into her emails.

But honestly, other than that, there really isn't much being released by Wikileaks. This is as disappointing as I expected it to be. It's full of links and quotes of newspaper articles that could easily just be searched for on the internet. People send her links to every antiwar article or article critical of the handling of the war that comes out. It obviously is an "us vs them" attitude they've engendered.
Total warhawk mentality.

But absolutely nothing that's going to actually bring down Hillary Clinton.

Today's Wikileaks release was a non event.

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WindDancer13's picture

he claims to have. Hopefully, this release is just a lead up to the hacked ones he allegedly has. I don't believe he has anything to tell you the truth. Though, I would love to be proven wrong.

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I don't think they are a new release at all. The same ID numbers are found by searching the old database and no announcement by Assange. The question is, who wants us to believe these are a new release and why.

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From the Light House.

The news release I found this on claimed it was released today July 4th. Tim Devaney of The Hill released it.

WikiLeaks on Monday published more than 1,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's private server during her time as secretary of State about the Iraq War.

Should have read the fine print, where it says that these were previously released by the state department in Feb. and that Wikileaks sifted through them to release these.

It's kinda misleading when everyone is expecting them to release stuff of relevance to Hillary's criminal activity. Had I realized that, I wouldn't have bothered with this essay at all. As I said, it is pretty much a non event.

I don't expect anything important to come out of their promised release either, however. I'm betting they're holding off the release to have the least impact on the convention in Philly as possible. It's all show, all part of the theater that the CIA and NSA have going on. Basically, trying to win back street cred for Wikileaks now that it's been exposed as the sting operation that allowed Obama to bust more whistleblowers than any president in history.

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as well.

An argument could be made that if they wait to release the truly damning stuff until just prior to the convention that gives less time for Clinton and the DNC to Whitewash it or downplay the contents and for her to "work" the SD's.

I just don't see Assange going out of his way to help the Clinton's considering how hard they have worked to throw him into a cage.

Regardless, I am not worried about a Clinton Presidency anymore as she has already clearly illustrated that she cannot possibly compete against the likes of Trump in the General.

I just hope the SD's are not all living in the bubble too and can see this as well. (Provided that winning is more important to them than retaining control and power in the party, which I don't believe to be the case.)

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I wondered the same thing about the same time you did. I didn't see The Hill article though, just something on twitter. I only scanned the first couple pages... who knows maybe there is some detail floating around we missed.

LOL, then there was the thing about Guccifer disappearing from jail. By a CT peddler even Rense laughs at... But wasted fifteen of my minutes checking it out.... Pretty low news day...

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From the Light House.

frequency with which her staff emailed HRC.

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I went through the first 7 or 8 pages kind of... all the emails were on the February database, they have just been sorted to Iraq... why? Its like some wierd puzzle or game and I don't get it.

Later as I pour my coffee:

This morning it looks more interesting, but am not yet sure why. I am skipping over anything that doesn't have a news agency in the title...

classified in 2016. CHECK. , sensitive but not classified. CHECK. and "This e-mail is unclassified based on the definitions outlined in E.O. 13526 *** Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld ***" CHECK...

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From the Light House.

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REUTERS: EXCLUSIVE: SECRET U.S., TALIBAN TALKS REACH TURNING POINT Hillary Clinton Jake Sullivan

23775 2011-10-14 09:13 NO DECISION YET ON FUTURE TROOP PRESENCE IN IRAQ-US (REUTERS)

Its interesting to sort through on subject matter... even with the "Reuters" or "AP" in the header. Then for each email look at the PDF. This shows the redactions. In the above two cases names have been redacted. Why were these names redacted?? The obvious presumption is that they are agents whose life may have been put in danger.

Ok! It also shows little things like "Did you just call me" and who is calling who about the subjects. Also there seems to be responses missing... a promise to email an attachment of an embassy staff analysis "in a minute" and then no document to show this was ever done. Poof, the thread goes dead. Does that mean something deleted as "yoga and grandkids" OR something that was deleted because od some more nefarious reason?

the database searched terms changed this morning, added baghdad|basra|mosoul as search terms, ...I do wish I could sort this to date.

What strikes me is that if a foreign hacker has access to this stream, I know pretty much everything the state department is using in the decision making process even before the decisions are being made. I know everyone in the decision making process, including secret agents. I know when to listen into important unsecured blackberry phone calls. I even know, in some cases, what the decisions are.

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From the Light House.

Obama's pause on Afghanistan goes well with elite media and left that is against all wars, but not with swing male voters who are defecting.

Clinton election. The only focus for decades. HER POLITICAL VIABILITY. Sickening. Manipulative is such an understatement.

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