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It may be sensitive, but have you ever tried to put in an FOI request for anything. The entire process is marred by bureaucracy. Wikileaks would have a role to
by derrida 14y ago
It may be sensitive, but have you ever tried to put in an FOI request for anything. The entire process is marred by bureaucracy. Wikileaks would have a role to play even if there were no classification system. Don't underestimate how hard it is to get a good historical record :-)
- rdl 14y agoI actually supported Wikileaks (and thank god didn't donate!) back when they were publicizing public-but-not-popular information, like about corporate malfeasance, public government documents, etc. Which is partially why I'm so pissed at Julian Assange for hijacking it into a largely anti-US agenda. ("Collateral Murder" had a really obvious spin when released, which was intentional; if they'd just dropped the video without commentary it would have been much more defensible.) Obviously I'm also against the illegal disclosure of any sensitive or classified government data; the correct recourse for someone like PFC Manning is to bring issues up through the chain of command, and if that fails, to the IG, and failing that, to Congress or the judicial system.
- derrida 14y ago"if they'd just dropped the video without commentary it would have been much more defensible." Have you seen the video? It has no commentary. It has subtitles. It has title screens. No commentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 And how does that video have an anti-US agenda? It's recorded by US soldiers, it's illuminating a particular act on a particular day. I think the public has a right to know, history has a right to know what goes on in Iraq.