The leak of some 91,000 classified US records by a website called WikiLeaks on the Afghanistan war, one of the largest unauthorized disclosures in military history, reveals that the US pays Pakistan $1 Billion a year, for what I don’t know, while the very same government’s spy agency meets directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders.

The US government and Pakistani officials called the leak potentially harmful and yet irrelevant.  How can it be both?

National security adviser Gen. Jim Jones said the release “put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk.”

Is this an oxymoron when we pour $1 Billion into the coffers of the Pakistan government so they can function as a counterspy for the Taliban?

And, in this clear disclosure of facts that are not being refuted, who is putting the lives of our soldiers at risk?  Looks to me like the US Government.

Yes, this disclosure cane from a website and the Internet a place that is often questioned for its credibility, yet the mainstream media ran with the story as though it was a runaway train.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there’s “no reason” to doubt the reliability of 91,000 pages of leaked US documents relating to the war in Afghanistan.

According to the New York Times it was only this month that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in one of the frequent visits by American officials to Islamabad, announced $500 million in assistance and called the United States and Pakistan “partners joined in common cause.”

The New York Times reported today, “The reports suggest, however, that the Pakistani military has acted as both ally and enemy, as its spy agency runs what American officials have long suspected is a double game – appeasing certain American demands for cooperation while angling to exert influence in Afghanistan through many of the same insurgent networks that the Americans are fighting to eliminate.”

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, said, “The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not reflect the current on-ground realities.”

And, Gen. Jones said in a statement that the documents described a period from January 2004  to December 2009 , mostly during the administration of President George W. Bush.  And Jones added, before President Obama announced a new strategy.

There you go again – blame it on Bush.

However, it is clear that today websites are doing the job mainstream media isn’t.