So one of the good things about google news is that its very random and pulls news article from all the major sources so you get an unbiased selection of articles. It also grabs sites that aren't US based, so I end up on Reuters and the London Telegraph etc etc etc. I was browsing around the telegraph and came upon this slide of US and South Korea military exercises. The navy should have taken notes from BP on this one and doctored up this photo. As someone that works in similar work spaces I just shook me head and sighed deeply.
It just looks like some cool multi-screen action of tactical 21 century crap splattered over the wall. Upon further investigation we see a COMPOSE SECRET desktop and a very readable GCCS(I think) screen. Awesome. Thanks goes out to the mulitple layers of failure involving the watchstanders and watch supervisors for letting them take this picture in the first place, the Public Affairs Team who apparently has no qualms with releasing clearly labeled classified items to the public, and the chain of command on the ship for letting all this come together in one glorious are-you-fucking-kindding-me scenario.
Let's leave wikileaks alone and start with looking at some in house issues. Actually, now that I think about it most of the material that wikileaks let out was likely sourced from military personnel. I for one am a fan of releasing damnable evidence like the gun-cam of those trigger happy Apache pilots cutting down those journalists and blowing up a van full of children. Good job chopper-jockeys. I'm glad all you need is a college degree and 20/20 vision to get handed 100 ton flying killing machine and free reign to shoot anyone you fucking feel like. So I hope wikileaks keeps doing what it does as long it's whistle blowing stuff and not outing CIA agents and active operations.
But even if they get shut down we'll still have to deal with some JO pushing out pics of classified work spaces to Reuters.
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