Wednesday, December 1, 2010
IR Blogpost 3b: WikiLeaks Causing Problems-msnbc
The website WikiLeaks has recently released thousands of US documents that were not meant to be seen by the public. These documents have proven to be very harmful to international diplomacy and some of the things in those documents are not even true, which is making things very difficult for the government to sort out. The developer of the website has a warrant for his arrest, but his exact whereabouts are unknown. The current suspect of the leak is an army private who simply used a blank CD that said Lady Gaga written on it and downloaded all the classified documents. But what motivated him to do that? And how is the government going to contain this spill? From what I read, I don't think too much damage has been done only because these seem to be mostly classified and not top secret. http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2010-12-01-editorial01_ST2_N.htm
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I did a very similar article and i was wondering what your opinion on the validity of using the word 'secret' or 'classified' to describe some of the more obscure or downright silly information found in the leak.
ReplyDeleteI think the things that turned out to be untrue were the result of people getting false intelligence. It's embarrassing, but generally, anything the government doesn't want the public to know directly, will be classified, even it turns out to be false.
ReplyDeleteAs tense as it is, there are ominous implications for this latest scandal. The verdict on WikiLeaks could decide the fate of net neutrality and freedom of speech on the internet. In my most extreme scenario, it may even cause a restructuring of the first amendment.
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