What would be most important for Wikileaks to release?

[yurbud]

Assuming they had access to everything, what would be most vital to the public interest and cutting through the lies and crap from DC?

My top three:

1. every shred of paper from the Cheney Energy Task Force in early 2000. One of the few documents that was released in response to a FOIA request was http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/04/iraq-may-have-twice-as-much-oil-and-war.html">a map of Iraq's oil fields divided up and a list of foreign suitors for those fields. What role did this play not only in our Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but seeking bases and political machinations in Central Asia, where we are trying to wrestle the Caspian pipeline business away from Russia. Did they do this solely for the benefit of oil and energy companies, or out of a misguided sense of seeking energy security? Were there dissenting voices in the military and foreign policy establishment that said this would make a LESS secure world since Russia and China might not like us having that degree of hegemony?
   
   
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20030811230409/http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030729_2136.html|The Saudi pages Bush classified in a panic in the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 Report>. It is already a matter of public record that http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/03/foia-doc-shows-911commission-lied-about.html">we were attacked by terrorists given logistical help by an agent of our ally Saudi Arabia, who also funneled money to the terrorist and was in constant phone contact with their embassy and consulate before the attack. The piece that is missing is why they would do that and why the Bush administration didn't even skip a heartbeat before defending and embracing them.
   
   
3. Likewise, why did our government initially ignore http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/01/28/020128fa_FACT">the documented financial help and direction Pakistan gave to al Qaeda and the Taliban, including evacuating key leaders from Tora Bora? In the last couple of years, they seem to be noticing, though the most damning evidence was available immediately after 9/11. What was the reason for the selective outrage? or more importantly, why the long delay before the outrage? What other http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/08/war-on-terror-shift-to-pakistan-over.html">issues did we have with Pakistan then and now that would explain it?
   
   OK, I lied. A fourth I'd like to see:
   
   
4. Has the Pentagon done an assessment of the security threat Wall Street's shorting of other countries economies and/or how the gutting of our industrial base have created? Are they monitoring the threat and have they prepared contingency plans to neutralize it?

There's probably a whole lot that could be asked on the domestic front as well, but I'm curious to hear what other's want leaked.

[MineralMan]

1. I'm thinking that the Sarah Palin sex tapes would be good.

You know they exist. Releasing those would have a salutory effect on 2012 politics, I think.

[JuniperLea]

2. Good call!

She's so full of herself you KNOW they exist!

:D

[MineralMan]

4. And there's Todd, too. You know he set up the old VHS

camcorder a few times. Yessir. Double-wide amateur follies...

[JuniperLea]

6. I often wondered what he had on her...

With her ever-swelling ego and all that popularity and all those ardent admirers, I bet she's had... ahem... offers.

Now I'm thinking of that horrible interview she did with the bearskin rug and the giant taxidermy Alaskan crab... ew... damn my glorious imagination!


:rofl:

[mike_c]

5. "Oh! You're such a MOOSE! Don't..." BAM!

"Dammit, I hate it when they roll over onto the guns! Levi! Levi! Grandmother needs you!"

:rofl:

[yurbud]

10. only if it was someone other than Todd and either way, I would refudiate any opportunity

to watch them.

[SmileyRose]

33. Damn

1st one out of the gate too.

Congrats! No way anyone can top that.

:loveya:

[JuniperLea]

3. Valerie Elise Plame Wilson

I'd like to hear the rest of this story...

[yurbud]

11. like the people who were killed because of her outing. You would think some people in the CIA

would be dropping some choice mcnuggets of documents on Wikileaks to make up for that like video of Jeff Gannon with his White House client.

[JuniperLea]

15. You'd think, huh?

I expected it... really wanting to see it. I'm tired of seeing that case swept under a carpet.

[Ignis]

26. +1, great addition to the list.

[polly7]

7. I always wondered about this ..

'Immediately prior to the US invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein delivered a WMD declarations report to the United Nations in an attempt to avert a U.S. invasion. Do you recall that U.S. officials intercepted the report and removed special sections of it, based on claims of "national security"? Well, it turned out that the removed sections involved the delivery of those WMDs by the United States and other Western countries to Saddam Hussein, information that obviously caused U.S. officials a bit of discomfort on the eve of their invasion.

In a February 3, 2003, Sunday Morning Herald article entitled, "Reaping the Grim Harvest We Have Sown," writer Anne Summers wrote,
" What is known is that the 10 non-permanent members had to be content with an edited, scaled-down version. According to the German news agency DPA, instead of the 12,000 pages, these nations - including Germany, which this month became president of the Security Council - were given only 3,000 pages."

'So what was missing?'

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Reagan_WMD_Saddam.html

If this site isn't allowed, could someone please let me know?

[yurbud]

12. which asshole we took down wasn't our ally at one time?

[Warpy]

8. Those are all great, but what I'd love to see exposed

is the full extent of Sun Myung Moon's empire and its incursion into our religious and political institutions.

I can't wait to see the war over the spoils when the old bugger finally pegs out.

[yurbud]

9. I wonder if he isn't the tail of some CIA dog, maybe a foreign contractor

who did very successful MKULTRA work.

[JuniperLea]

16. That would be great...

but I think it would shine a light on the manipulation via religion... "they" obviously still need that.

[yurbud]

22. That would work with some American evangelicals too. I thought Ralph Reed was a pastor

who drifted into politics, but during the Abramoff business, they had some of his backstory and it was the opposite: he was a Young Republican who took on the task of corralling evangelicals and the demeanor of a serene pastor.

[JuniperLea]

25. I know a couple of life long Republicans who just happened to be...

Atheists, and they jumped ship as soon as "The Moral Majority" and all the religoids started showing up. The evangelicals are, from my perspective, evil! EVIL! I'm a recovering Fundy... I went to church with my aunt after Bush pulled his "Shock and Awe" dog and pony show... and it was all I could do to remain in my seat. The preacher extolled the virtues of W, told the congregation to pray for him and keep him safe from all the "radical liberals" who were fighting against this "nobel" war... I really, really wanted to leave... I stayed out of respect, and fear for my aunt. She's had an earful from me ever since... I was raised in the same church as her daughters, my cousins, one of whom is a Christian Missionary in Israel (I kid you not). We learned from the same Bible... seems I'm the one who remembered. These beasts are false prophets... now I'm not saying I believe what's in the Bible, but I do believe that as human beings we sometimes self-fulfill prophecy.

Religion is a very, very powerful tool. The image of burning in hell for eternity is a hard one to shake. The dogma that bastardizes most religions is alive and well in Christianity... oh GAWD... you got me started!

:rofl:

[yurbud]

28. Send her this link to make her head explode: Hitler's Christians photos

http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm

[JuniperLea]

29. BWAAAHAHAHAHA!

Excellent!

Thanks!

:toast:

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Lobbying records

[OnyxCollie]

14. I'd start with the National Energy Policy Development Group records, too.

Then move on to the Abramoff/Tigua indian investigation that McGramps covered up.

On edit: All the photos, videotapes, etc. of the torture at Abu Ghraib, too.

[Warren Stupidity]

17. 1.

[pipi_k]

18. The Bush Beans "secret recipe"

'cause Duke isn't telling...

[KeepItReal]

19. Where the pallet-loads of $100 bills ended up in Iraq

An armed guard poses beside pallets of $100 bills in Baghdad. Almost $12bn in cash was spent by the US-led authority


The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

[Bluebear]

20. Everything would go unprosecuted. Obama says he have to "move forward".

[Canuckistanian]

21. Dick Cheney's Energy Policy meeting agenda

Complete with a guest list and a full transcript.

[WinkyDink]

23. I like the way you think. Add: "NORAD Orders, 9/11/01."

[Ignis]

27. +1, and you're brave for touching that live wire.

:patriot:

[yurbud]

30. every story they put out about NORAD's response was stupider than the last

but most people don't know anything about how that stuff works (even though it's pretty simple), so they got away with indefensible lies.

[greyl]

31. "Wikileaks founder is "annoyed" by 9/11 conspiracy theories"

"His obsession with secrecy, both in others and maintaining his own, lends him the air of a conspiracy theorist. Is he one? "I believe in facts about conspiracies," he says, choosing his words slowly. "Any time people with power plan in secret, they are conducting a conspiracy. So there are conspiracies everywhere. There are also crazed conspiracy theories. It's important not to confuse these two. Generally, when there's enough facts about a conspiracy we simply call this news." What about 9/11? "I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.""
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/features/wanted-by-the-cia-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-14880073.html">More

[yurbud]

32. when you look at the proven conspiracies, the ones that aren't publicly acknowledged yet

don't look so far-fetched.

[Soylent Brice]

24. 5. all of the above plus a thousand others i could think of.

starting with the "destroyed" CIA torture tapes.