Wikileaks - what are your views?

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What are the members views on Wikileaks?

Iranian Majalis (Parliament) speaker, Ali Larijani, believes that Wikileaks is providing misinformation in ways and therefore could be a tactic in its own right. I have actually thought of this before myself. Julian Assange is being made to appear as a controversial person himself with a somewhat shady past-- whether this is manufactured or not, one cannot truly know. These Wikileaks reports are probably not even half of the extent of the killings and torture that may have taken place. As such they could be purposely published to save face and prevent further inquiries into this war. People are now made to focus and debate the legalities and consequences of publishing such reports, rather than the actual impact this war has created. As per this, the leaks could be seen to be a diversion.

At the other end of the argument, all of the material came from a sole source (Manning). So these aren't some top secret documents that are seen only by the joint chiefs of staff or very key personal, these are instead daily reports filed of activities on the ground which means that a vast majority of the evidence is simply just going to be about mundane day-to-day activities without anything really incriminating to a great extent. Manning wouldn't have access to all data out of Iraq. So it could be argued, that it's not all that surprising that it doesn't detail what would probably be the worst crimes. Whther it points out to a controversy or not, however, is subject to one's own opinion.

What are other members takes?

 

[Pasban]

To add to the above another neutral point of view is that little could be said in favor or against either of the above mentioned positions. The reasoning is that one cannot personally dismiss that they have been leaked authentically and are against the wishes of US authorities. Moreover, the mass media is covering the leaks and the approximately 400,000 docs in a way that ignores the dominant actions of the self-appointed coalition forces and basically acquitting them of starting the mentioned bloodshed in the first place. So for those who hold this view, the focus is more on how these docs are portrayed and covered than the content of the docs themselves.

 

[Pasban]

By the way, here is an interesting video. CNN does 'qualitative reporting' on Assange and he walks out. Apparently, all she was interested in was the smear campaign against him. To talk of momentous periods in journalism...

 

[Evil Flare]

Julian Assange is a CIA guy otherwise he'll be assassinated long time ago .. he's new tool in American CIA Media Wing