Feds arrest analyst who allegedly exposed US Army killing of civilians

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0607/feds-arrest-analyst-allegedly-exposed-army-killing-civilians/">Feds arrest analyst who allegedly exposed US Army killing of civilians
By Raw Story monday, June 7th, 2010

Website that exposed video says Washington Post withheld video of attack for over a year and didn't release to public

Federal officials have arrested a 22-year-old intelligence analyst whom they accuse of leaking classified materials to the web site Wikileaks.org, which released video showing the US military killing innocent civilians in Iraq.

In the wake of the arrest, Wikileaks issued a statement alleging that the Washington Post had a copy of the video showing the attack but didn't release it for over a year. A statement on the group's Twitter feed said, "Statement: Washington Post had Collateral murder video for over a year but DID NOT RELEASE IT it to the public."

"Collateral murder" is the title the group gave to a video they released at the National Press Club in April, which shows a US military missile strike on a van in Baghdad that killed a Reuters photographer and his driver, as well as several unarmed civilians.

The Post described the video as "long sought" when it was released earlier this year. But one of its reporters wrote a book that documented the attack, and acknowledged at the time that he had seen a copy of the secret video, and offered a frame-by-frame account.

Wikileaks' assertion would seek to place the Post in the company of prominent media organizations like The New York Times, which held off publishing a story about the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program for a year at the behest of the Bush Administration.

But their claim presupposes the fact that the Post actually had a copy of the video, rather than simply a reporter who reviewed it. Wikileaks has offered no additional details. It also seems to discount the fact that the Post offered a frame-by-frame account of the attack both in their newspaper and in a book by one of their staff members.

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1. K&R

[Captain Hilts]

2. It's not up to individual troops to decide what information should be public. nt

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3. The Pentagon excels at one thing. CYA. K&R

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4. Kick

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5. Covering up murder is what the Pentagon does best.

You know, the whole 'there will be an investigation into the alleged violation' and then it gets swept under the rug with all the other murders. Sick, sad, pathetic and wrong.

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11. Killing is what they do best.

Covering up (and shilling for, minimizing the importance of) the premeditated murders of the terror state is what the Washington Post and New York Times do best. It's a division of labor along utopian lines: from each according to his ability, and so forth.

So long as people don't notice the connections and collusion between these supposedly separate institutions, they may believe they are free, and that they live in a functioning republic.

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6. Kick

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7. Kick and rec for courageous whistleblowers. nt

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8. .

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9. knr

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10. That's your "free press" in the first decades of the new millennium: McPravda

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12. +1