The nature of the Wik­ileaks minidra­ma is pre­sent­ed to us in stark reac­tionary, bina­ry terms:

Either Wikileaks/Assange is “good guy” or “bad guy” and all facets of the ongo­ing saga are tak­en at face val­ue.

Pub­lic dis­course of even the most basic ques­tions of how Wik­ileaks could be com­pro­mised by inten­tion­al­ly decep­tive infor­ma­tion is off-lim­its. Such is the hubris of Amer­i­can Excep­tion­al­ism which posits that decep­tion, espi­onage & con­spir­a­cy is com­mon only to “dirty” & “unciv­i­lized” nations, like Rus­sia.

Thus far, most Wik­ileaks cables (which large­ly are sourced from the State Depart­ment, a dubi­ous source if ever there was one, for its Bush Admin­is­tra­tion appointees if not its infa­mous CIA asso­ci­a­tions) have been excep­tion­al­ly Bush-friend­ly & Under­ground Reich-friend­ly. Any assort­ed seem­ing­ly anti-Bush, anti-Under­ground Reich cables (such as this one) exist “between the tent­poles” and do not con­sti­tute sig­nif­i­cant threats to the greater pur­pos­es of Wik­ileaks.

In addi­tion, this cable may rep­re­sent a Mod­i­fied Lim­it­ed Hang­out, with key infor­ma­tion sig­nif­i­cant­ly edit­ed out or mis­di­rect­ed from what seems to be (in this cable) a snap­shot of an insid­i­ous ger­mi­nat­ing inter­na­tion­al pathol­o­gy.

Over­all, this cable may be the excep­tion that proves the rule of the type of pro-Neo­con-nar­ra­tive “leaks” that Wik­ileaks has dealt in (with plen­ty of embarass­ment for the likes of Hillary Clin­ton but none for Rums­feld or Cheney or Bush or Bolton or Wol­fowitz or Zoel­lick the IMF or the World Bank).

Mean­while, Wik­ileaks is serv­ing mul­ti­ple pur­pos­es, as one would expect of a well-planned coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence oper­a­tion:

Wik­ileaks itself serves as a sting oper­a­tion to attract & neu­tral­ize any authen­tic, dan­ger­ous leak­ers & leaks.

Wik­ileaks sets the stage for a vis­i­ble “calami­ty” which can be blamed on one of the leaks which will neces­si­tate (“Shock Doctrine”-style) some type of future Inter­net-con­trol leg­is­la­tion or fur­ther weak­en­ing of Inter­net pri­va­cy safe­guards.

Assange serves as a foil for issues of free speech vs. “nation­al secu­ri­ty” in a staged minidra­ma for a pre­de­ter­mined out­come in which Assange is posi­tioned both to pro­vide illus­tra­tion of the “dan­gers” of “loose can­non” trans­paren­cy AND ulti­mate­ly to divide the loy­al­ties of his own cult-of-per­son­al­i­ty fans should he begin to devel­op some obvi­ous issues of slip­ping ethics, snow­balling celebri­ty or nar­cis­sist hypocrisy.

And each of the indi­vid­ual leaks pro­vides oppor­tu­ni­ty for indi­vid­ual intel­li­gence oper­a­tions in them­selves. From bol­ster­ing Neo­con claims to divid­ing allies, from cre­at­ing new fault lines to dam­ag­ing diplo­mat­ic process­es them­selves in selec­tive venues, Wik­ileaks is only becom­ing more unas­sail­able, if to ques­tion the verac­i­ty of the cables is to align ones­self with those who seem to naked­ly use rape charges to make a polit­i­cal mar­tyr of Assange, whose pol­i­tics in inter­views ranges from vague and reac­tionary to Ron Paul-style Ayn Ran­dism.

And the Fran­cis Park­er Yock­ey-style Third Posi­tion Cheney Sleep­er Cell of Barack Oba­ma seems only too will­ing to play his role, in tan­dem with the oper­a­tion that put Assange into place, in build­ing Assange’s sta­tus as polit­i­cal free-speech mar­tyr and cre­at­ing a new class of “ter­ror­ist” that could nev­er have been suc­cess­ful­ly cement­ed by the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion alone.

An update has been post­ed. Update: Ger­many abrupt­ly denies involve­ment with project, offer­ing no fur­ther details. Link @ http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/03/aftenposten-germany-plan-secret-spy-project/