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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
Protecting what a government might consider classified or private info is not the press' job. If any of this was THAT critical or damning, it either shouldn't have happened period or shouldn't have got into the press' hands.
It's worrying to see some people wanting to label wikileaks as terrorists. I hate to do the Orwellian version of a Godwin but... "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
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Except this wasn't or isn't a case where the government is deciding what to release its a disgruntled soldier who broke his service oath and his security clearance. One it was uploaded the Government lost the ability to content filter or decide.
So yes absolutely the U.S. government is at fault for lax security and poor data security, and whoever supervised the leaker is in huge trouble as well.
I don't label or think of Wikileaks as terrorists. I do think its a guy with a bone to grind who is not doing it for any other reason then to improve his self image, and in his words take a shot at the U.S. government.
While I do agree that governments tend to over classify some things, in this case these were confidential conversations that are part of a diplomats job that need to be classified.
What this excercise didn't achieve was any type of future openness by the U.S. government, if anything information is going to be even harder to come by, and we're probably going to see an even frostier relationship between Government and the Media.