7 Government Secret Documents
The largest source of funding for organizations the United States has labeled “terrorist” is Saudi Arabia, a country in the Middle East. (However, U.S. government officials don’t usually say anything bad about Saudi Arabia because it is an oil-rich friend of the U.S. government.)
U.S. Secretary of States Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. government spying on foreign diplomats including on the United Nations Secretary General.
The U.S. military bombed and killed dozens of innocent people in Yemen, and then got the government of Yemen to say that it was responsible for the killings, not the U.S. military.
The world’s largest pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, tried to dig up evidence of corruption in the Nigerian government to cover up a controversial drug trial in the country. Pfizer had given a new medicine to children with meningitis in Nigeria that in some cases made them sicker. Pfizer did not have permission from all the parents of the children in the trial.
At the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the United States and China, the world’s two largest polluters, worked together to prevent European nations from reaching an agreement on what to do to save the planet in the face of climate change and global warming.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against WikiLeaks and said there is a criminal investigation of the leak of secret documents. “I condemn the action that WikiLeaks has taken. It puts at risk our national security, but in a more concrete way, it puts at risk individuals who are serving this country in a variety of capacities,” he said in a press conference, as reported by UPI.
The U.S. government and big U.S. corporations are trying to prevent people from being able to see the WikiLeaks website by trying to shut the website down and warning government employees not to read the documents. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said of these efforts to take action against WikiLeaks: “Taken as a whole, they could be interpreted as an attempt to censor the publication of information.” Many people say this is a violation of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that protects the freedom of speech. Congressman Ron Paul, from Texas, spoke in support of WiKiLeaks in a Fox Business interview: “In a free society we’re supposed to know the truth,” he said.