It remains to be seen whether the WikiLeaks war logs will bring about meaningful policy change in Washington. On Twitter, however, the import of the documents is already being felt. Behold, #WookieeLeaks
The American Prospect's Adam Serwer goes for the easy name-swap...
John Yoo
approved Darth Vader's use of interrogation robots in a secret memo.
#Wookieeleaks
AdamSerwer
AdamSerwer
...while David Corn and Nick Baumann prove Mother Jones does, in fact, have a sense of humor about large-scale government cover-ups:
R2D2 accepts
money from Princess Leia to build orphanage. But really uses funds to
buy arms for Imperial Stormtroopers. #wookieleaks
David
Corn
DavidCornDC
Imperial Star
Destroyers vulnerable to attack from planetary ion cannons http://mojo.ly/cpRNLo #wookieleaks
#hugenerd
NickBaumann
NickBaumann
CQ downplays concerns that spelling questions would hurt the meme at the polls.
And #wookieleaks. Fun
no matter how many eeeeee's you type.
CQ
Politics
cqpolitics
Matt Yglesias doesn't see how we can stand down if the Wookiees won't stand up...
Leia Organa is a
member of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor #wookieleaks
mattyglesias
mattyglesias
...while Dan Foster of the National Review Online finally acknowledges a sobering reality.
Disturbing new
intelligence indicates that Han may have shot first. #Wookieeleaks
Daniel
Foster
DanFosterNRO
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