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Re: U.S. officials deny technical takedown of WikiLeaks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Dec 4 12:27:34 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <807332.56924.qm@web59605.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:27:17 -0500
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:45 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:
> Washington (CNN) -- U.S. officials at the Pentagon and State =
Department denied Friday knowing of any efforts to take down the =
WikiLeaks website or asking companies to do so.
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Yes, that is what both spokesmen literally did
"I am not aware of any conversations by the United States government" - =
said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.
"I am not aware that the Department of Defense is behind any of the =
problems that WikiLeaks is experiencing," Col. Dave Lapan, Pentagon =
spokesman.
Not the Department, not the Secretary, not the Joint Chiefs, just the =
lowly old spokesman, all by himself, who is "not aware." A weaker and =
less convincing denial can scarcely be imagined this side of the divorce =
court.=20
And the CNN headline, while technical true :
U.S. officials deny they are urging technical takedown of WikiLeaks
would be more accurate as
Minor U.S. officials deny they are personally urging technical takedown =
of WikiLeaks
which would have not nearly had the same punch.
Regards
Marshall=20
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