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Pentagon Spokesman Sarcastically Thanks WikiLeaks For Ruining His Easter Weekend

by Jon Bershad | 1:39 pm, April 25th, 2011

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Geoff Morrell is really not happy with WikiLeaks. The organization released over 700 classified documents pertaining to Guantanamo Bay which included disturbing information about America holding prisoners for years without charges, extreme interrogation techniques, and the concern that the prisoners have a higher probability of turning to terrorism after being kept there. The worst thing though is that this release totally screwed up Morrell’s Easter weekend! God, what jerks!

Morrell, the Department of Defense’s Press Secretary, sent out this tweet this morning:

I suppose there’s two ways of looking at this. On one side, as unique as Morrell’s position is, he’s still just a guy doing a job. So why shouldn’t his tweets sound just like anyone else’s? On the other hand, the guy’s the Press Secretary for the Pentagon! His public communications shouldn’t sound like a pissy office drone who has to work late!

Basically, look at it this way: the cubicle jockey missing drinks with the boys? He’s allowed to sarcastically tweet about time sheets and annoying managers. The guy who is the public face for the United States armed forces? He should probably just bitch to his friends in private.

Geoff Morrell, twitter, Wikileaks

More Liberty5

Yawn. I have no problem with WikiLeaks. The less secrets a big bloated government has the more liberty the individuals have.
cjd ohio 1

man, give the guy a break
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cjd ohio 1 said:
man, give the guy a break

Oh, how dare we ruin the mass-murderer’s easter sunday.
cjd ohio 1

Snowspot said:
Oh, how dare we ruin the mass-murderer’s easter sunday.

mass-murder………………right
MrTPar_taY

Just another obama asshat!
WCinWI

You would think that with such a media savvy election operation that Obama would entrust people that knew how to act professional on Twitter. I’m not sure why even such a tweet was issued to begin with.

There are far too many celebs and political officials that do not need to be on Twitter. Thus my desire to not be on Twitter, unless a future job entails me to be. :)
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cjd ohio 1 said:
mass-murder………………right

Check the wikileaks… not only do we murder but we torture too.. and instead of confronting that harsh truth, we cover it up, because when the government is doing wrong, truth is the enemy.
ModerateMan

Is there any appointee in this administration that is competent? This is beyond embarrassing.
cjd ohio 1

Snowspot said:
Check the wikileaks… not only do we murder but we torture too.. and instead of confronting that harsh truth, we cover it up, because when the government is doing wrong, truth is the enemy.

and the government now is different , happened in WWII, korea, vietnam, dont act so shocked
Thelonious Funk

Geoff Morrell is a Bush era appointee. That being said, I’m still pretty sure he a Reptilian Humanoid.
cjd ohio 1

Snowspot said:
Check the wikileaks… not only do we murder but we torture too.. and instead of confronting that harsh truth, we cover it up, because when the government is doing wrong, truth is the enemy.

cjd ohio 1 said:
and the government now is different , happened in WWII, korea, vietnam, dont act so shocked

and what US president killed more civilians, and inprisoned more people?
im_lovin_it

Ugh…..and I’d like to sarcastically thank your bosses for wiping their collective asses with the values this country was built on.

I love how this story, about our government making a mockery of our supposedly cherished civil liberties, has 12 posts including mine. It should just be deleted so we can have room for more Sarah Palin or arguments amongst a bunch of middle class, white, online trolls about what’s racist.
LarryB

Let’s face it, if Bush were still running the show, the Democrats would be outraged at Morrell. The way he has blatantly lied (thank goodness YouTube allows us to easily hold public servants accountable for their statements and too bad more people aren’t interested) regarding the unacceptable treatment of an American whistle-blowing member of the military would make you think the Democrats would be calling for his job. But, just as they have showed no spine in protesting Obama’s war in Libya, they are spineless when it comes to Morrell. Maybe it isn’t spinelessness, maybe they are just clueless, thinking they shouldn’t bash an Obama staff member when they likely don’t realize he was actually handed his job by Bush. Morrell is just another member of our government who would just as soon shut down the press and have Big Brother do our thinking for us.
“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Tweet that, Morrell.