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DISTURBED Frontman On WikiLeaks: 'The U.S. Government Has Been Caught With Their Pants Down'

December 13, 2010

Hamacher.de.com conducted an interview with DISTURBED frontman David Draiman when the band played Düsseldorf, Germany on December 1, 2010 as part of the "Taste Of Chaos" tour with PAPA ROACH, BUCKCHERRY and HALESTORM. You can now watch the chat below.

When asked for his opinion of WikiLeaks' recent release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables, Draiman — who has been supportive of Barack Obama since he began running for President — said, "I think that the United States government has been caught with their pants down, and it's an uncomfortable situation. Certain things are not meant for people to know. That's why it's politics; that's why there's secrets. Is anything that is discussed politically behind closed doors automatically supposed to be for public ears? I don't believe it is; that's part of politics. These people lie for a living. And if you actually started to find out all of the lies that are being told, you wouldn't wanna vote for anybody. It put a lot of people in a lot of uncomfortable situations that they probably deserved to be in. Does that make the action justified? It's still intellectual piracy of a type. And so I still think that, while there is freedom of the press and while there is also freedom of speech, there's certain lines that shouldn't be crossed. It kind of reveals intentions that many of us already knew about and already suspected — for instance, China's true position on North Korea; our real opinion of Iraq. I mean, none of these things are complete mysteries to anyone, but it definitely made things much more blatant, and the wording is certainly far more embarrassing."

DISTURBED hails from Chicago, which is where Obama worked as a state senator and U.S. senator before heading to the White House.

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