{"id":54065,"date":"2020-07-10T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54065"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:30:58","slug":"the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-8-busting-the-myth-wikileaks-published-nothing-on-israel-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54065","title":{"rendered":"THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8\u2014Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8\u2014Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One myth about WikiLeaks<\/em> is that it favors U.S. enemies and declines to publish documents against them, while another legend is that WikiLeaks<\/em>, for obscure reasons, is soft on Israel, reports Patrick Lawrence.<\/strong>
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President Barack Obama meets with members of Congress to discuss Syria in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 3, 2013. (White House, Pete Souza)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A<\/strong>s WikiLeaks<\/em> continued its document releases, and as major news organizations continued to publish fulsome accounts and analyses of these releases, the media\u2019s stance toward Julian Assange and his organization began to turn: What had begun as collegial collaboration was transformed into criticism and denigration \u2014 this in accordance with the hardening attitudes of the U.S. and allied governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key events in this shift were WikiLeaks<\/em>\u2019 publication in October 2010 of \u201cIraq War Logs,\u201d comprised of 392,000 Army field reports, and, a month later, the phased publication of \u201cCablegate,\u201d a collection of 251,287 State Department emails. \u201cCablegate\u201d was the first major release of U.S. diplomatic traffic in WikiLeaks<\/em>\u2019 \u201cPublic Library of U.S. Diplomacy<\/a>.\u201d At writing, this continually expanding collection makes available more than 3 million documents spanning the 1966\u20132010 period.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With these publications, along with \u201cCollateral Murder\u201d<\/a> and \u201cAfghan War Diary<\/a>,\u201d released earlier in 2010, WikiLeaks<\/em> penetrated more deeply into the citadels of official secrecy than it had since its founding in 2006. This new reality stunned the Obama administration and the national-security apparatus invisibly but formidably behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official policy shifted. Washington began actively to pursue avenues through which Assange could be arrested, charged, and tried for one or another offense, however far-fetched, trivial, or unrelated to WikiLeaks<\/em>\u2019 work. It was at this time that Sweden alleged that Assange had raped two women during a visit to Stockholm for a media conference\u2014allegations based on falsified police reports and concocted evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8\u2014Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria One myth about WikiLeaks is that it favors U.S. enemies and declines to publish documents against them, while another legend is that WikiLeaks, for obscure reasons, is soft on Israel, reports Patrick Lawrence. President Barack Obama meets with members of Congress to discuss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25872,2001,880],"class_list":["post-54065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-collateral-murder","tag-julian-assange","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54066,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54065\/revisions\/54066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}