Did the GOP have foreknowledge of the leaks?

[CJCRANE]

I just find it strange that the RNC and other RWers floated anti-war trial balloons in the last couple of weeks.

Whenever the MSM covers a big event it's usually a RW stunt so of course I'm suspicious this time, especially as during the Bush era they generally avoided anything anti-war.

[Crabby Appleton]

1. Information about the leaked documents

has been in the news for weeks, since the beginning of June.

from a June 6th article:

"and a previously unreported breach consisting of 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables that Manning described as exposing “almost criminal political back dealings.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/#ixzz0up3tsBFm

[mike_c]

2. yep, and Assange says there's more to come...

...and that WikiLeaks is "backlogged" trying to deal with the volume of leaks it has to sort through.

[CJCRANE]

3. Fair enough.

Maybe they were opportunists in this case rather instigators but I don't put anything past them.

It's just amazing to see the Repubs change from branding anti-war activists as "unpatriotic traitors" to suddenly Michael Steele (briefly) and other RWers endorsing the same viewpoint.

I suppose it's a lesson to the Dems to do the right thing and not be frightened of the Repubs' rhetoric because they can and will turn on a dime (and become the very thing they castigated).

[TomCADem]

4. Except That Most Documents Date Back From The Bush Era

The documents shed more light on how Bush Co ignored the AfPak war.