Right To Privacy critical...

...but it seems only when it is your privacy. Would more not be accomplished if Wikileaks had taken the time to sort through the documents and presented verification? Outlets like Wikileaks do provide an outlet for those who want to expose "wrong doing" but won't do it if they put themselves in "jeopardy" so it would seem that the onus to verify the facts rests with Wikileaks.

Mosharraf Zaidi: Pakistan presents a villain-of-convenience for America’s war

National Post  July 27, 2010 – 1:06 pm

 

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An Afghan detainee sits at the entrance of a bunker while under guard by US Marine.

Let’s establish the facts about the WikiLeaks expose of 75,000 U.S. military documents detailing Obama’s war in Afghanistan.
First, the total number of documents released is 75,000. Another roughly 15,000 have been held back by the WikiLeaks people “as part of a harm minimisation process demanded” by the sources that provided these files in the first place. This means that there may be really damaging and shocking stories embedded in the remaining documents, because thus far, the documents contain nothing more than what we already know. Read More »

Christie Blatchford

Canadian media at fault for rush to believe friendly-fire report

 Margaret Wente

When nothing is secret any more

In the old days, it wasn’t easy to be a whistle-blower. Now anyone can transmit confidential documents electronically and WikiLeaks will publish them on the Internet Jul 27, 2010

We needed WikiLeaks Globe: The leak of tens of thousands of Afghanistan war-related documents tells us more than the sum total of many official communiqués about the war. On balance, more disclosure is a good thing, but the leaking of raw military..
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