Wikileak Cables Expose Washington's Close Ties To Gaddafi

US embassy cables released by Wikileaks on Wednesday and Thursday expose the close collaboration between the US government, top American politicians and Muammar Gaddafi, who Washington now insists must be hunted down and murdered. Washington and its NATO allies are now determined to smash the Libyan regime, supposedly in the interests of "liberating" the Libyan people. That Gaddafi was until the beginning of this year viewed as a strategic, if somewhat unreliable, ally, is clearly seen as an inconvenient truth: The cables have been virtually blacked out by the "corporate media", which has functioned as a as an embedded asset of NATO, and the so-called rebel forces that it directs. It is hardly coincidental that the Wikileak posting of the cables was followed the next day by a combination of a massive denial of service attack, and a US judge's use of the "Patriot Act" to issue a sweeping "production order" or subpoena against the anti secrecy organization's California-based Domain Name Server, Dynadot. The most damning of these cables memorializes an August 2009 meeting between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son and national security adviser, Muatassim, with US Republican Senators John McCain (Arizona), Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), Susan Collins (Maine), and Connecticut "independent" Joe Lieberman.