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Your post misses a key point: "WikiLeaks published a lengthy statement on its website Thursday morning, accusing the Guardian of "negligently [disclosing] top
by alwaysinshade 13y ago
Your post misses a key point:
"WikiLeaks published a lengthy statement on its website Thursday morning, accusing the Guardian of "negligently [disclosing] top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables." According to WikiLeaks, the disclosure of the password began months ago when Rusbridger's brother-in-law David Leigh, also the Guardian's investigations editor, learned the password and subsequently published the passwords in his book about WikiLeaks."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/wikileaks-unredacted-cable-release-is-guardians-fault/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/wikileaks-unredac...
http://www.wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html http://www.wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.htm...
- res0nat0r 13y agoThe Guardian wouldn't have had any documents to bungle the release of if Manning hadn't released them in the first place.
- alwaysinshade 13y agoNot untrue, but analogous to saying someone wouldn't have died from a gunshot if the ammunition hadn't been sold. It misses the bit where someone pulled the trigger.
- knz42 13y agoStrawman argument. By the same argument "Manning would not hav had anything to release if the DOD had implemented compartimentalization of access to state documents." (which most modern armies were already doing before, and which the DOD now has)
- res0nat0r 13y agoUnderstandable, but the parent is trying to shift the blame of anyone dying to The Guardian and I would argue that blame lies on Manning by releasing hundreds of thousands of documents wholesale vs. a whistleblower like Ellsberg in where he only published data directly related to a specific crime.