Reasons To NOT Fall For The Disinformation/Smear Campaign Against Wikileaks

[Hissyspit]

Although typically removed, I'm assuming because cryptome.org is considered a tin-hat conspiracy site, posts calling into question the state and motivations of Wikileaks based on Cryptome have made it here onto DU, given life here either out of innocent concern or intentional smear motives against Wikileaks.

There are plenty of reasons to be VERY skeptical of the defamatory arguments against Wikileaks that are making there way into the dialoque, common sense and history being simply the FIRST place to start, Adrian Lamo's questionable behavior in outing Manning the second. Here are more:

http://www.techeye.net/internet/wau-holland-foundation-sheds-light-on-wikileaks-donations

Wau Holland Foundation sheds light on Wikileaks donations

Hardware, ISP, travelling costs
13 Jul 2010 18:14 | by John W. Daly | posted in Internet

Germany's Wau Holland Foundation has told newspaper Der Freitag Wikileaks receives no money for personnel costs, only for hardware, travelling and bandwidth. Hendrik Fulda, the foundation's second chairman, says around 30.000 euros have been handed out after receiving signed receipts. According to Fulda, most of the money has been mainly used to restore Wikileaks and keep the site up and running. The website had to be taken down last year as donations did not cover costs.

The Wau Holland Foundation is located in Guxhagen, Germany and was founded by friends of German hacker legend and computing visionary Wau Holland, who started the famous Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It is recognised as a charity under German law and has to file an annual report end of each September with the federal state of Hesse.

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In the last few weeks, Wikileaks has come under fire from various sides. Wired's Threat Level blog stated the site had fallen into disrepair, some anonymous writer of emails labelling him- or herself as "an Wikileaks insider - has had emails posted on Cryptome.org.

Wired's Threat Level blog is maintained by Kevin Poulsen, who originally reported that Adrian Lamo, a self-proclaimed hacker and journalist, had turned a whistleblower and Wikileaks source in to the police. Poulsen and Lamo, who happen to be acquaintances, were blasted for their action on Wikileaks's Twitter account.

Cryptome.org founder John Young believes Wikileaks is not a group of activists, but some sort of shady spy outfit maintained by the CIA, or MI6, or phantom menaces from Mars. He has posted emails on his site from said "Wikileaks Insider" stating Wikileaks will be abandoned and that Wikileaks' speaker Julian Assange had funneled off 225,000 euro of donations and similar rants. Neither claim has proven to be true.

Anyone interested can email the Wau Holland Foundation for detailed statements regarding its government of European donations to Wikileaks, instead of following red herrings.

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[damntexdem]

1. I plan to judge Wikileaks by when and how, and how much, they publish the info.

I keep hearing they're going to do more, but haven't seen it. The helicopter footage released way back is wonderful in itself, however.