John Pilger: ‘Silencing WikiLeaks is the aim, smear the method’

This is a secret document. It is dated September 29, 2009. It was leaked by the Ministry of Defence in London to WikiLeaks. It identifies what it calls the greatest threats to the national security of the West.

At the top of the list, a terrorist and Russian spies. Yes, Russian spies.

But by far the biggest threat is said to come from one group: journalists. Investigative journalists! How gratifying that is.

In other words, journalists who do their job, who tell you, the public, how and why politicians lie to you and start wars in your name and threaten our security must somehow be stopped. Coerced, even smeared — via redwolf.newsvine.com