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Revealing war crimes easily qualified for declassification of government documents. It’s a straightforward of course the end justified the means situation

• Aloisius 2y ago
  And the other 99.999% of documents that didn't allege any war crimes? I'm glad the darker side of the US operations came to light, but it would have been better if the leaks went straight to an actual news organization that had enough ethical standards to ensure names of informants and activists at risk were properly redacted. Snowden's leaks were far better handled.
  • hartator 2y ago
    > Snowden's leaks were far better handled. And didn't lead to any change.
    • Aloisius 2y ago
      Em. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_effect https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/appeals-court-strikes-down-nsa-phone-spying-program-aclu-lawsuit https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/appeals-court-strikes-do...
    • ben_w 2y ago
      Even ignoring all the public changes to the tech industry, wouldn't we need another whistleblower to even be able to tell that there hadn't been any internal change to what they considered acceptable behaviour?
  • alexashka 2y ago
    Right, news organizations are all about ethics unlike Julian Assange. They don't even have advertisers.