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Yep, McCarthy was never able to get all the communist spy's out of the State department.
An Army intel analyst charged with leaking classified materials also downloaded sensitive diplomatic cables. Are America’s foreign policy secrets about to go online? Philip Shenon reports.
The State Department and American embassies around the world are bracing for what officials fear could be the massive, unauthorized release of secret diplomatic cables in which U.S. diplomats harshly evaluate foreign leaders and reveal the inner-workings of American foreign policy.
Diplomatic and law-enforcement officials tell The Daily Beast their alarm stems from the arrest of a 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst based in Iraq who has reportedly admitted that he downloaded 260,000 diplomatic cables from government computer networks and was prepared to make them public.
Specialist Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, who is now under arrest in Kuwait, is also accused of having leaked—to Wikileaks, a secretive Internet site based in Sweden—an explosive video of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the news agency Reuters. The website released the video in April.
“If he really had access to these cables, we've got a terrible situation on our hands," said an American diplomat. "We're still trying to figure out what he had access to. A lot of my colleagues overseas are sweating this out, given what those cables may contain.”
He said Manning apparently had special access to cables prepared by diplomats and State Department officials throughout the Middle East regarding the workings of Arab governments and their leaders.
The cables, which date back over several years, went out over interagency computer networks available to the Army and contained information related to American diplomatic and intelligence efforts in the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, the diplomat said.-dailybeast
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Yep, McCarthy was never able to get all the communist spy's out of the State department.
Kid was stationed in Iraq. Another former hacker outed him.
Here's the story
I know, I heard the story earlier today already. I was just making a bad joke using McCarthy's past.
McCarthyism is alive and well and as ugly as ever. Even "Christians" are doing it.
In the sense that people use an improper label to push an agenda, I agree.
McCarthy was portrayed wrong in his time by the media, but he had nothing to do with any harm done to the population by the HUAC. He was in the senate. Not the house. He only targeted State Department employees, and I believe history proved him 100% correct at the end.
Please, McCarthy started a witchunt that almost catapulted an otherwise run-of-the-mill politician to the White House.
He used his witchhunt as a vehicle for professional advancement.
Then it blew up in his stupid face.
I know that's how it appears. The taught history is incorrect. He had honest concerns about the communist infiltration of the State Department. That was all he ever focused on. It was Murrow who used this era and situation to rise his position. He continually misrepresented the truth, and was believed. History, however, shows Murrow to be the liar he was and vindicated McCarthy.
Ever look deep into Project Venona?
P.S.
Murrow went on his rampage after a communist friend of his committed suicide, after being singled out by the HUAC.
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 06-09-2010 at 12:54 PM.
impeach him!
Yes, let's impeach him.
Funny thing is, Clooney did too good a job with "Good Night, Good Luck." Anyone who knows enough of the history sees the Murrow railroaded McCarthy with obvious errors, portrayed as fact. Journalism as a political tool of destruction was far more effective on television.
Yes, the Army-McCarthy hearings dealt only with the State Department.
History misnamed them.
That was a witch-hunt against McCarthy because he also investigated some Army component.
Your right, he didn't target only the state department. The important point is that he only targeted those working in the government. Priomarily those in the State department.
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