[Peace-discuss] Wikileaks and our wars…

[Jenifer Cartwright]

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). --Jenifer 

--- On Mon, 7/26/10, Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Wikileaks and our wars…
To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 11:58 AM

…The initial response from the White House was extremely unimpressive:

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.)


There’s nothing new here. (Then how could the release harm national security?)


Wikileaks is irresponsible; they didn’t even try to contact us! (Hold on: you’re hunting the guy down and you’re outraged that he didn’t contact you?)


Wikileaks is against the war in Afghanistan; they’re not an 
objective news source. (So does that mean the documents they published 
are fake?)


“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?)…
This is from an astute article by Jay Rosen, at 
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html
--mkb


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