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[ NNSquad ] Foreign Policy: "How WikiLeaks Blew It"
Foreign Policy: "How WikiLeaks Blew It"
http://j.mp/QcvkTF (Foreign Policy)
"One mistake WikiLeaks has made is that, over time, it has allowed
itself to be associated with a particular political agenda -- notably
Assange's. Obviously, leaks including the "Collateral Murder" video,
the Afghanistan war logs, and, of course, the tens of thousands of
secret U.S. State Department cables were going to provoke the ire of
the U.S. government no matter what the site did. Assange has claimed
that he doesn't see the site as anti-American, but, rather, as
universally anti-secrecy, and to be fair, it hasn't targeted the
United States exclusively; his first leak that brought major
international attention was a report exposing government corruption in
Kenya. And it has deviated at times from left-wing politics, notably
in publishing the "Climategate" emails from researchers at Britain's
University of East Anglia. Since 2010, however, it has been pretty
hard to make the case that WikiLeaks is a neutral transmission system."
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--Lauren--
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