THREE More Smears Against WikiLeaks Fall (Pattern Emerging)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/25/wikileaks-hackers-and-conspiracy-theories/

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 / 25 comments
WikiLeaks, hackers and conspiracy
theories
by Bernard Keane

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But while there’s more than a touch of the conspiracy theorist about these claims, it’s hard to avoid seeing a pattern in a number of recent events around WikiLeaks and its supporters.

First there was the claim, advanced with virtually no evidence, that WikiLeaks might have obtained information by hacking, rather than receiving material from whistleblowers. Last week, Bloomberg ran a piece on claims made by the Pennsylvania company Tiversa that “it discovered that computers in Sweden were trolling through hard drives accessed from popular peer-to-peer networks such as LimeWire and Kazaa. The same information obtained in those searches later appeared on WikiLeaks.”

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Within hours the claims — such as they were — were undermined. A blogger for business publication Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg, investigated the claims and the company behind them. In an interview with Greenberg, a Tiversa executive backpedalled from the claims in the Bloomberg piece and admitted there was no evidence relating to WikiLeaks. Tiversa has extensive links to the US government and has undertaken spying and surveillance work for the US Government agencies. Indeed, the Bloomberg article unwittingly raised the question of exactly what Tiversa was doing, and who it was doing it for, when it undertook the surveillance of Swedish servers it says served up evidence of “trolling.”

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Then came claims from a conservative Iceland newspaper that WikiLeaks might have installed a PC in the Icelandic Parliament near the office of prominent WikiLeaks supporter Birgitta Jonsdottir — despite there being no evidence Wikileaks had anything to do with it. Icelandic WikiLeaks supporters immediately noted the link with US efforts to link WikiLeaks to hacking emerging in the media.

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[Mojeoux]

1. Whistle Blowers are heroes. "Un-reccers" are......... not.

I pray for Bradly Manning.

[Hissyspit]

2. kicking because it will be lost in the mix nt

[WillyT]

3. Big K & R !!!

:kick:

:hi:

[nashville_brook]

4. k and r

[girl gone mad]

5. k & r

and hello Triversa :hi:

[Mnemosyne]

6. needs a

:kick:

[Hissyspit]

7. Thank you.

Immediate intuitive response to negative news of WikiLeaks should be healthy skepticism.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Very welcome! And I agree. n/t

[EFerrari]

8. Kick

[Karenina]

9. . .

[Bragi]

11. K&R

[gratuitous]

12. Golly! A string of coincidental occurrences

But a casual observer might conclude that there's almost a pattern, or even an orchestrated campaign, to discredit Wikileaks. But here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, pioneers of the First Amendment, the freest and most open society ever, none of these shenanigans can possibly attach to the U.S. and A.

[Jakes Progress]

13. When you have something to hide,

nothing will stand in your way to keep it hidden - lies, distortion, even murder are all used.

[siligut]

14. Trying to discredit them only proves that what they are doing is effective

Standard MO for those who have something to hide.

[glinda]

15. K & R n/t

[gateley]

16. K&R nt!

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[Catherina]

18. Rec'd. n/t

[Ghost in the Machine]

19. Recommended

and kicked back to the front page... nothing to see here, folks, keep moving along...

[blackspade]

20. Wikileaks needs to keep doing just what it is doing

Shining a light on government bullshit worldwide.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. They'll keep trying until they find the blue dress

and the MSM corporate puppets will ignore them so as not to give them any credit or importance UNTIL somehow, some way, a stain will be found or manufactured and then you'll hear shouts from the rooftops of the networks about the evil of Wikileaks.

[xchrom]

22. recommend

[Kurovski]

23. Kick. (nt)

[katty]

24. pattern is evident