Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? 667
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks announced on Mar 21 (via its twitter account) its intentions 'to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am.' It appears that during the last 24 hours someone from the State Department/CIA decided to visit them, by 'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours. Apparently, the offending leak is a video footage of a US airstrike."
Re:Don't do that (Score:3, Funny)
'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours
Following someone for 22 hours and detaining someone for 22 hours are so incredibly different they should not be lumped together like that. It's the difference between a creepy stalker and an oppression of basic freedoms.
Don't leave it up to my imagination how long each of those 4 actions took place. Because I'm imagining the "detaining" being about 15 seconds as they accidentally walked into each other, and then they both stepped to the side, oops still in the way, stepped to the side again, oops, and did this about 5 times.
I'm sure this ambiguity was completely accidental. Surely the Wikileaks folks would ever sensationalize anything, or present it out of context.
Re:i like todays twitter. (Score:1, Funny)
Yea, but they do get distracted pretty easily by porn site passwords and pedo-pix, so not the most reliable army I suppose.
Re:Really? (Score:4, Funny)
A Twitter page is now the source /. is running with?
I suppose when you put "it appears" and "apparently" you can just pass anything off as "news".
Would you trust a source more if it was on the radio?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds [wikipedia.org]
Maybe you'ld just like it if I got off your lawn.
Re:Impotent Slashdotters - all talk (Score:2, Funny)
But but but I just got on the Starcraft 2 beta! And there's all this anime I need to watch! Anime!!! Don't you see? That's WAY more important, and I'm sure someone else will do it.
Re:Doesn't matter what country you are in... (Score:0, Funny)
Wow, 5 for 5. I'm playing Republican Talking Point Bingo right now and you just won me $250!
Thank you CrimsonAvenger!
Re:[citation needed] (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doesn't matter what country you are in... (Score:5, Funny)
Thankfully, health care is one of four things that Canadians love so much that they're willing to stand up and fight for it (the other three things being: beer, hockey, and that god awful Tim Horton's coffee).
You need the health care and coffee to counteract the hockey and beer.