[privacy] Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks_busts_Gitmo_propaganda_team

WASHINGTON--The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been
caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet. The
attacks, exposed this week in a report by the government transparency
group Wikileaks, include deleting detainee ID numbers from Wikipedia
last month, the systematic posting of unattributed "self praise"
comments on news organization web sites in response to negative press,
boosting pro-Guantanamo stories on the internet news site Digg and
even modifying Fidel Castro's encyclopedia article to describe the
Cuban president as "an admitted transexual" [sic].

Wikileaks asked noted computer security expert Bruce Schneier to
independently review the evidence:

    "Based on the evidence, it is obvious that these changes came from
people stationed at Guantanomo Bay. The only other possibility is that
someone hacked into the Guantanomo Bay computers in an effort to frame
the U.S. government; certainly possible but much less likely."

Shayana Kadidal, Managing Attorney of the Center for Constitutional
Rights Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, said in response to the
report:

    "The military's efforts to alter the record by vandalizing
Wikipedia are of a piece with the amateurism of their other public
relations efforts: [such as] their ridiculous claims that released
detainees who criticize the United States in the media have 'returned
to the battlefield'."

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Love this "just doing my job sir" quote:

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He also blasted [Wikileaks] for identifying one sailor in his office
by name, who has since received death threats for simply doing his job
- posting positive comments on the Internet about Gitmo.


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Just doing my job indeed..

-JP
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