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CIA WikiLeaks Task Force: WTF??

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
December 22, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 14:02
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Really, no one needs to add anything to the title to make it funnier but the fact that the CIA, with its vast store of intellectual talent, didn't figure its WikiLeaks Task Force and acronym WTF would get chuckles in the Internet age makes it that much more humorous.

The WikiLeaks Task Force is no laughing matter, of course - it was created to ferret out the source of 250,000 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables and determine their impact, and it was also partly created because WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is an annoying prat.

Why hasn't the CIA shown up in more WikiLeaks releases?   Unlike the modern U.S. 'sharing between agencies' concept, which opens up secret data to a lot more people, including those who will send it to annoying prats like Julian Assange, the CIA is having none of it and plays things pretty close to the vest.

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