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but I'm more curious if the reaction by the US government and other officials to the leaks would have been the same if those papers had published the material,
by OGinparadise 14y ago
but I'm more curious if the reaction by the US government and other officials to the leaks would have been the same if those papers had published the material, instead of Wikileaks?
Manning would have still been fried, but then NYT would not have released all of them wholesale. Some things just need to be kept secret but Wikileaks released them (lack of manpower was one issue)
- jellicle 14y agoSigh. Actually, everything released in the first large dump of Manning's stuff was vetted by.... wait for it... the New York Times. Which newspaper, along with the Guardian and Der Spiegel, broke the story on July 25, 2010. How quickly we forget. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak
- mpyne 14y agoDoesn't your Wiki link specifically mention that the media organizations did not release them wholesale? "The Times has taken care not to publish information that would harm national security interests." Seems pretty straightforward. "Vetted by" just means that the NYT had access to it beforehand, but they didn't publish it all, WikiLeaks did.