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By: Mountainjew

Mountainjew — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:24:58 +0000

This article misses the main point of this incident: ANYONE can become a wikileaker. All one needs is access to information and at that point, it is potentially available to everyone.

This is not an unknown issue. It was quite clear back in the 80s that this was the trajectory of information in the networked world. Democratic institutions need to anticipate and preempt this trend by releasing all non-actionable classified data to the public, carefully redacted, to remove the impulse to release raw unredacted data. Clearly the US intelligence agencies have the manpower to do so (based on the recent Washington Post series on the current intelligence estabilshment). Transparency as a rule will trump transparency in part.

Wikileaks is simply bringing the issue to the forefront. What I find most ironic is that The Guardian uses data that (topographic and digital elevation models) derived from classified sources to illustrate the location of leaked data stolen from classified sources — and everyone goes ballistic that data that came from classified sources is available to anyone.

This is the future folks. I had hoped that his administration with all of it’s IT and cyber gurus would have forseen and dealt with the issue before it became a problem, but clearly this was a naive wish.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:47:39 +0000

I think Mr. Liebovitz misses the point. Mr. Assange’s lack of journalistic responsibility pales in comparison to his lack of concern for the Afghanis who are assisting the US war effort and whose lives are now in even more danger because their names have been revealed in this mountain of sitreps that Mr. Assange likely did not go through to redact.

By: Chris Kern

Chris Kern — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:44:59 +0000

Liel
In Isaiah 56:11, it states, “They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, each seeks his own gain.”

If Israel had listened a little bit harder to God, I am sure that the last thousand years would look a lot different. That is the difference between self-gain and wisdom.

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
- Proverbs 4:6-9

Best Regards, 45Th President of the United States
Chris

By: Marc Grossberg

Marc Grossberg — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:12:06 +0000

My concern with the leak was that, as I understand, it did not redact names, which puts people’s lives at risk. If Mr. Liebowitz is linking his opinions to the current haftorah portion and reporting responsibilities, unless I missed something, he didn’t opine on the irresponsibility of naming names and whether Assange should be held to account for what might happen to the persons identified. I would think that there are ample opportunities in Isaiah 49:14 – 51:3 to consider that transgression. “I will make your oppressors eath their own flesh” or “You were sold because of your own sins.” No more of a stretch than the ones made by Mr. Liebowitz.

By: Will Edwards

Will Edwards — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:15:16 +0000

Was it Will Rogers who said “a man who gets in a fight 5000 miles from home had to be looking for trouble”?

By: Will Edwards

Will Edwards — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:41:58 +0000

I think the author was trying to convey the reality this “leak” actually pertains to. The information is unfiltered and uncatagorized. The person doing the leaking appears more interested in his own importance then in the importance of the information being presented. It may prove important evidence if the United States Congress ever decided to hold people like Dick Cheney or GW Bush responsible for their actions, but other then that we all know the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are conflicts of convenience rather then any ideological stand. Please people… the Jewish education ethic is the best in the world. Are it’s students not?

By: Celticpole

Celticpole — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:52:01 +0000

I don’t want to be told how to think. I’m disgusted with the nuances, the adjectives, the adverbs, and everything else that goes with one person trying to manipulate another’s opinions or beliefs. I’m fed up with disinformation and strange euphemisms for dead humans and the interesting way that they got to be that way. I am frakking sick of good wars, bad wars, and white sugar colored with molasses passed off as brown. We are only as sick as our secrets, and going by that, probably ALL of the “leadership” of the human race is diseased. Assanges’ message is simple: LIE and somebody, somewhere WILL whistleblow. The worrisome part of that for those who love to play in the dark is that if you anger enough of the “plebes” they will rise up and eat everything indiscriminately. Watch the US this November and in 2 years when Sarah Palin does, in fact, run for President.

By: David

David — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:13:14 +0000

Another Tablet hack job. “Sulfurous whiff?” Leibovitz has to torture his own already sloppy writing in order to bring Isaiah back into his narrative — supposedly about responsibility. What Assange released were not the Pentagon Papers. Assange is not a Daniel Ellsberg. Who’s arguing this — except Leibovitz as a straw man?

But to dismiss the 90,000 documents released on the war in Afghanistan as simple “self congratulation” admired only by “fawning” sycophants is simply a load of crap.

The importance of the documents must be judged in conjunction with whatever else we have learned — say, from Stanley McCrystal or the past decade of news articles by “embedded” reporters presenting only a biased view of the war (which I didn’t hear Leibovitz whining about).

And then, on top of all this is the inescapable fact that we simply can’t believe what generals, presidents, and advisors tell us about wars. Never have. Even going back to the times of the prophets (Leibovitz should like this!) we find that David sent one of his generals to be killed at the front for a little booty. David lied. Colin Powell lied. LBJ lied.

Talk about responsibility!

Assange doesn’t claim he is offering the truth. All he’s doing is to make it possible to get a more informed view of the war. Something that 263 spy agencies, collusion by the MSM, and a culture of lying about wars and their costs habitually conceals.

To open the shutters just a bit more to admit more fresh air and light is, in fact, quite a responsible thing to do.

Isaiah would approve.