This is an historic day. 'Where were you when the State Department corruption was exposed?'

[seafan]

Suddenly, the US Government is up in arms about the safety of U. S. personnel, with the exposure of state department cables by WikiLeaks, the vast majority from the George W. Bush era.

I'd also like to know where these people were when Valerie Plame was deliberately and cruelly exposed as a clandestine agent, whose work centered around keeping us safe from nuclear threats. Who exposed her? Robert Novak. Scooter Libby. Dick Cheney. Karl Rove. ETC. Novak has now departed this life. The others still walk free.


Could it be that they are now worried only about their own a$$e$, and the growing international rebuke of their war mongering, shadow government and clandestine agitation all over the globe, once these cables are massively released?


Here are a few individuals whose communications to, from and within the State Department might prove quite illuminating, if they are contained in these cables:




Announcement of John R. Bolton as the US Ambassador to the UN, in a recess appointment, August 1, 2005.
His term of service was August 1, 2005 – December 9, 2006.


Bolton was forced out of the post December 9, 2006, due to the refusal of the Senate to confirm him.





We will never forget.

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But in recent days those who speak for the Pentagon - markedly former Deputy Secretary of Defence, Richard Perle, now a powerful influence from outside the administration - have insisted that the inspectorate process with which they have been so impatient need not prevent the US from going to war, whatever it produces. Pentagon officials echo what is said to be Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's view that there is no stopping the US pursuing its interests, however it sees fit.

The number three at the State Department, John Bolton, even said: 'There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States.'

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Guardian UK, Sunday 12 January 2003

"If (the UN Secretariat building) lost 10 stories,” Bolton once quipped, “it wouldn't make a bit of difference." LINK

Also Marc Grossman, in George W. Bush's State Department.

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Phillip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, said: “It’s pretty clear Plame was targeting the Turks. If indeed that (State Department) official was working with the Turks to violate US law on nuclear exports, it would have been in his interest to alert them to the fact that this woman’s company was affiliated to the CIA. I don’t know if that’s treason legally but many people would consider it to be.”

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LINK

And a couple of other names:


Dennis Hastert, former US Congressman.

Larry Franklin over in the Pentagon, passing classified secrets to unauthorized individuals.


And Douglas Feith, also over at the Pentagon until 2005.

He announced his resignation one week after Seymour Hersh wrote The Coming Wars in the New Yorker on January 24, 2005.


Juan Cole noted at the time:

January 28, 2005

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Feith is clearly resigning ahead of the possible breaking of major scandals concerning his tenure at the Department of Defense, which is among the more disgraceful cases of the misleading of the American people in American history.

These are some of the people who are the real risk to our national security.





In an interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, August 15, 2005:

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CD (Christopher Deliso): I know you can't name names, but are there any government agencies in particular that you can single out as being more corrupt or more involved with the substance of your allegations?

SE: The Department of State.

CD: What, the most corrupt?

SE: The Department of State is easily the most corrupted of the major government agencies.

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SE: That's the beauty of it. You can start from the AIPAC angle. You can start from the Plame case. You can start from my case. They all end up going to the same place, and they revolve around the same nucleus of people. There may be a lot of them, but it is one group. And they are very dangerous for all of us.

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The truth shall set us free.



US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomacy crisis


Guardian UK
David Leigh

Sunday 28 November 2010 18.13 GMT

The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.

At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables - many of which are designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN's leadership.

These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistlebowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.

These include a major shift in relations between China and North Korea, Pakistan's growing instability and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen.

Among scores of other disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail:

• Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme. • Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime.

• Devastating criticism of the UK's military operations in Afghanistan.

• Claims of inappropriate behaviour by a member of the British royal family.

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The cache of cables contains specific allegations of corruption and against foreign leaders, as well as harsh criticism by US embassy staff of their host governments, from tiny islands in the Caribbean to China and Russia.

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The cables name countries involved in financing terror groups, and describe a near "environmental disaster" last year over a rogue shipment of enriched uranium. They disclose technical details of secret US-Russian nuclear missile negotiations in Geneva ....

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The cables published today reveal how the US uses its embassies as part of a global espionage network, with diplomats tasked to obtain not just information from the people they meet, but personal details, such as frequent flyer numbers, credit card details and even DNA material.

Classified "human intelligence directives" issued in the name of Hillary Clinton or her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice, instruct officials to gather information on military installations, weapons markings, vehicle details of political leaders as well as iris scans, fingerprints and DNA.

The most controversial target was the leadership of the United Nations. That directive requested the specification of telecoms and IT systems used by top UN officials and their staff and details of "private VIP networks used for official communication, to include upgrades, security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys".

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John Bolton used NSA intercepts to spy on Colin Powell at State Department, from DU, 2006

NSA Turned Over Names of Americans Wiretapped to Ex-State Dept. Official John Bolton, from 2006


Alleged NSA memo details U.S. eavesdropping at U.N.

Scott Shane and Ariel Sabar, Baltimore Sun

March 4, 2003

In a rare leak that could prove embarrassing to the U.S. government, a British newspaper has printed a seemingly authentic National Security Agency memo ordering stepped-up eavesdropping against countries on the U.N. Security Council whose votes are crucial in the U.S. effort to build support for war against Iraq.

Intelligence experts say the memo, dated Jan. 31, marked "Top Secret" and printed Sunday in The Observer, appears genuine. While no surprise to those familiar with the global eavesdropping the NSA conducts from Fort Meade, the memo may complicate U.S. diplomacy by underscoring that the intelligence agency routinely monitors phone calls, faxes and e-mail not only of hostile countries but of allies and neutral nations.

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And the U. S. has the nerve to point out corruption of others around the world...



After much anguish and suffering by those of us who have fought and screamed and demonstrated, yet seemingly felt powerless as the corruption has unfolded in our own government, and especially since 2001, the release of the 250,000+ State Department cables by WikiLeaks will finally give the people a position of strength to clean out this nest of criminals, thieves and warmongers, wherever in the world they are hiding.


It is the only true path to a better world for us all.