WikiLeaks

[mijopo]

Well, hell, if nobody's going to open up the floor to discuss WikiLeaks, lots of links let's start here, let me get the ball rolling with a few questions:
a) what's the most surprising/troubling revelation so far?
b) what's the most damaging to US interests?
c) Is Assange a modern day hero or vile supporter of terrorism?
d) Was the NYT right to publish

Comments

[brockulfsen]

I've been wondering when The Citizens gave the US (or Australia for that matter) a Right to Government Secrecy.

[a_new_machine]

According to SCOTUS, when they separated off the executive power.

[mrsilence]

Assange isn't a U.S. citizen. He owes the U.S. no allegiance.

[a_new_machine]

The question to which I was replying was about the US specifically.

[htpcl]

There's much to be said, but I'll say just this for now. I love the way everyone from gov't officials to opposition politicians to those media who didn't have the privilege to publish the leaks, gets so worked up about the act of revealing the information, rather than what the essence of the information itself is about. Nice distraction, that.

[underlankers]

A) That the United States prefers to hide its bad deeds instead of simply biting the bullet and hoping it will all go away. It gives the things a power beyond what they already have. It's also bad policy on the part of the Administration that does this

[underlankers]

I might also note that if the United States apparatus is that easy to hack that a low-level operative could do this, what's to say that others might not have already done this as well? Would there be a possibility then that at least some of what Assange has mentioned might actually be the result of another guy like his source who decided to troll everyone?

Or alternately for a really twisty-minded possibility, perhaps some latter-day J. Edgar Hoover has pushed this whole thing to mastermind some kind of stronger security measures for the intelligence community. It's a near picture-perfect Xanatos Gambit, get people appalled at what actually exists but use this as an example for the future to impose draconian restrictions on Intelligence and possibly the Freedom of Information Act.

On the other hand this may be crediting the government with a lot more intelligence and imagination than it's ever displayed in the real world.....

[yes_justice]

+1000.

[tridus]

Who said hacking was involved? This is the only known suspect, and as an intelligence analyst he would have had access to at least some of the files anyway.

The weakest link in any security is always the people involved.

[johnny9fingers]

Hahahaha!

[a_new_machine]

4chan loves Wikileaks.

[kinvore]

wikileaks can't triforce

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