<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">This absolutely made my day, i e the Wikileaks leaks, not the WH response (which, as various news outlets noted, did not include a denial of the accuracy of the leaks).<div> --Jenifer <div><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 7/26/10, Morton K. Brussel <i><brussel@illinois.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel@illinois.edu><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Wikileaks and our wars…<br>To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss@anti-war.net><br>Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 11:58 AM<br><br><div id="yiv109330056"><p>…The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40204.html">initial response</a> from the White House was extremely unimpressive:</p>
<ul><li>This leak will harm national security. (As if those words still
had some kind of magical power, after all the abuse they have been party
to.)</li>
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<ul><li>There’s nothing new here. (Then how could the release harm national security?)</li>
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<ul><li>Wikileaks is irresponsible; they didn’t even try to contact us! (Hold on: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-10/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hunted-by-pentagon-over-massive-leak/">you’re hunting the guy down</a> and you’re outraged that he didn’t contact you?)</li>
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<ul><li>Wikileaks is against the war in Afghanistan; they’re not an
objective news source. (So does that mean the documents they published
are fake?)</li>
</ul>
<ul><li>“The period of time covered in these documents… is before the
President announced his new strategy. Some of the disconcerting things
reported are exactly why the President ordered a three month policy
review and a change in strategy.” (Okay, so now we too know the basis
for the President’s decision: and that’s a bad thing?)…</li>
</ul><div>This is from an astute article by Jay Rosen, at </div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html">http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--mkb</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></td></tr></table><br>