Wikileaks has been baiting all of its Twitter followers since yesterday promising a new leak. It seems it is stepping up its battle against the CIA as the document has finally leaked. It's an embarrassing secret internal report from the CIA demonstrating that the United States is very self aware about being perceived as an "exporter of terrorism".
In the report it suggests that attacks on American soil have given the CIA and the US some level of trust. However from the report it reads throughout that the US is deeply concerned that foreign nations may perceive it to be an "exporter of terrorism," that is to say homegrown civilians leaving the country to join extremist causes abroad.
It's quick to point out that terrorism exports are no new thing from the US. Heck, just look at where IRA funding came from, it confirms in not so many words.
Interestingly it's not fussed about the export of dangerous terrorists primarily because they are terrorists.
Instead it worries that if it starts having to shop US citizens the world over its reputation will be marked and third party countries may be less likely to allow it to operate on their territory - including "interrogation".
Make of it all what you will. The full, uncensored report is available on Wikileaks to download by PDF or Torrent here.
or is it another WMD thing, where we all pretend it's reality until documents prove otherwise a few years down the road?
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I think it's interesting as part of the CIA/Wikileaks saga - it is essentially a middle finger after what Wikileaks believes to be a smear.
Even if it is not the biggest scoop, it could be seen that Wikileaks is baiting the CIA, taunting it even.
Whether that is a responsible action to take for a hugely important network and organisation is another question entirely. Two cents!
However if you read the report, I find it interesting that it remarks on the PR impact of the US being attacked on its own turf...
Julian? whodat? body? what body? can't have a murder without a body. Maybe he moved to North Korea?
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