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Mo Shaik: Manipulative Information Peddler

News24 just dropped a bombshell ; a cable released by Wikileaks reveals conversations between Rieaz "Mo" Shaik and a US diplomat known only as "PolOff". Mo is the brother of convicted criminal Schabir Shaik and is currently the head of the South African Secret Service . The conversations describe how Mo attempts to control and utilise sensitive information to the advantage of Jacob Zuma and allies.

Freedom of Information at Risk

WikiLeaks is undeniably a great asset to the freedom of information movement . Geoff Morrell, pentagon spokesperson urges WikiLeaks to "do the right thing" and remove all copies of classified US military data on the invasion of Afghanistan  from their websites so that enemies of the US are prevented from using the data to gain an advantage. This is blatant disrespect for the audience since any enemy of the US would have acquired the data long before it made it into the limelight. So either the US government is trying to make an example of WikiLeaks to prevent leaks in future or they want to prevent the information from permeating further into the public domain due to embarrassing or possibly incriminating information . If the former was their intention then they would have been far more stern than to just release a removal request through the media. With little effort i came across the Collateral Murder videos on ...