On 01/12/2010, at 3:51 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
There seems to be overwhelming sentiment against Wikileaks' release of
confidential documents and I was wondering how people here (some of
whom may have read Brin's Transparent Society) felt about it.
Judging by how they do it - letting the
Doug Pensinger wrote:
I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that
is beyond mildly embarrassing to the U. S. government. I do think
where the safety of our troops is concerned confidentially is
important, but that government secrets should have a relatively short
What if this happened
70 years ago and Manhattan Project was leaked to the nazis
(or even the soviets)?
It was leaked to the Soviets. While Joe McCarthy was able to find 100%
of the communist activists working for the Soviet Union in the United States
(names kept in his locked briefcase),
It is interesting to hear that there is overwhelming sentiment against
Wikileaks in the US.
From the comments I have read on newspaper articles about Wikileaks here in
Australia, I would think a majority of people here (maybe about 75%) are
supportive.
Personally, I think there is good and bad
I don't know; I think it still remains to be seen if the good outweighs the
bad. While so far the damage to the US appears to be fairly light, I have to
wonder about the damage done to US allies and other countries across the
globe. I'm sure the Yemeni president (who has been allegedly lying to
I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that
is beyond mildly embarrassing to the U. S. government. I do think
where the safety of our troops is concerned confidentially is
important, but that government secrets should have a relatively short
shelf life in all cases.
Those are just the loudest voices at the moment. I'm wondering, where are the
juicy bits that would justify someone to turn whistleblower? Where are the
docs
to prove that Soylent Green is really people? It would be a shame to waste
such
an opportunity on something merely embarrassing.
Doug Pensinger wrote:
I'm generally for transparency and
haven't heard of anything yet that
is beyond mildly embarrassing to the
U.S. government. I do think where
the safety of our troops is concerned
confidentially is important, but that
government secrets should have a
Jon wrote:
Anyone with clearance to that level is
personally responsible and signed an oath.
23-year-old, Bradley Manning, a US army
intelligence analyst, e-mailed former hacker,
Adrian Lamo, bragging that he leaked the
diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, along with a
highly classified video
On 02/12/2010, at 3:23 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Jon wrote:
Anyone with clearance to that level is
personally responsible and signed an oath.
23-year-old, Bradley Manning, a US army
intelligence analyst, e-mailed former hacker,
Adrian Lamo, bragging that he leaked the
diplomatic cables
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