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Re: Wikileaks Julian Assange: Hero or Anti-War Nut? |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 27 09:28:59 2010, in response to Wikileaks Julian Assange: Hero or Anti-War Nut?, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 27 02:12:43 2010. The source went through their own harm-minimization process and instructed us to conduct our usual review to make sure there was not a significant chance of innocents being negatively affected... We identified cases where there may be a reasonable chance of harm occurring to the innocent.Non sequitur after non sequitur. Harm minimization process? Significant chance? Reasonable chance? Apparently, this guy can and will rationalize away anything and everything. I understand the need to reveal corruption and incompetence but at what cost? Why can something called WikiLeaks make a unilateral decision to release classified documents. Aside from legality issues, what formal training do these people have to make any determination whatsoever that these documents need not be classified, that they will not compromise sources nor endanger personnel? If some 39 year old computer hacker like Assange can make the decision to release classified documents what is to prevent anyone at anytime for any reason from doing likewise? I truly understand the need for rigorous oversight and real accountability and transparency within the military, something that is lackin and needs to be addressed, but I also understand the reality that safely and successfully accomplishing the mission requires safeguards put in place for just that purpose, one of which is maintaining security in the prosecution of war. Stop playing G-d. |
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