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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting timing for this leak.

It'll certainly be used in the same way the State Dept leaks were used to launch the "Arab Spring" color revolution(s).

One interesting thing to consider: Why don't we ever see any ground shaking Wikileaks-esque material coming from Israel....

Does anyone believe the US State dept doesn't have a sensitive relationship with Israel? They are curiously absent.

[–]MarquisBoniface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One interesting thing to consider: Why don't we ever see any ground shaking Wikileaks-esque material coming from Israel....

Does anyone believe the US State dept doesn't have a sensitive relationship with Israel? They are curiously absent.

Because Israeli intel is extremely compartmentalized (with a very small number of inside sources to leak) and is able to effectively quell almost all of it's whistleblowers and leakers, and the determined leakers will usually find their own channels to go forward any way

That said, most of the information pertaining to Israel can be obtained by proxies or NGO's leaking anyway

Back to the former, take a look at the guy who wrote "by way of deception" Viktor Ostrovsky