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A counter-productive WikiLeak | Analysis & Opinion |

http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2010/12/03/a-counter-productive-wikileak/ Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. WASHINGTON — Now that WikiLeaks has begun releasing a quarter of a million classified U.S.
Iceland-based Wikileaks is in the middle of “ the largest intelligence leak in history .” Part of the problem with this is that, in its wholesale disclosure of a massive volume of Defense and State Department documents, the organization has apparently abandoned its less-recognizable but more-important role as a clearinghouse for those who want to blow the whistle on corruption and abuse but cannot find a venue willing to take responsibility for bringing crucial information into the public spotlight.

Cult of transparency

http://liberalironist.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/wikileaks-the-cult-of-transparency-and-the-dictatorship-of-the-foreign-hacker/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/wikileaks-just-made-the-world-more-repressive/article1316142/

WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive

I am an aid worker, the kind who rants about transparency, open governments and reforming the United Nations. But, I used to be a diplomat and I used to write secret cables, like the ones being released by WikiLeaks. And I said some very frank and nasty things in those cables. Why?