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Matt Collins
03-08-2011, 04:23 PM
The former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has credited WikiLeaks and other secret-spilling sites with sparking the revolutions sweeping the Middle East.

At what was supposed to be an off-the-record appearance last month at the Cambridge Union Society, Former MI6 Chief Richard Dearlove said that the technology WikiLeaks harnesses is fundamentally strengthening the hand of the individual as he goes up against powerful organizations.

“I would definitely draw parallels at the moment between the wave of political unrest which is sweeping through the Middle East in a very exciting and rather extraordinary fashion and also the WikiLeaks phenomenon,” Dearlove said. “Really, what ties these two events together, and of course a number of other events, is the diffusion of power, away from the states and the empowerment of individuals, and small groups of individuals, by technology.”



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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/mi6_dearlove_wikileaks/

Indy Vidual
03-08-2011, 04:27 PM
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service wants us to believe that WikiLeaks sparked the Egyptian revolution.

They have access to critical information...
Should we believe them this time?

Aratus
03-09-2011, 10:02 AM
they are blaming this on poor young pvt. manning insted of
events going from bad to worse has things being in turmoil?