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« 2001, L’Odysée de l’espace » de Stanley Kubrick, 1968. « Le piratage, c’est du vol. » « S’opposer à la raison d’Etat, c’est encourager le terrorisme international. » Ces arguments, contre WikiLeaks , sont connus. Depuis ce dimanche, et les dernières fuites -les « megaleaks » - du site de Julian Assange , sont apparues les attaques suivantes, extrêmes voire absurdes :
WikiLeaks : corriger les bugs pour ne pas débrancher la machine à scoops
FRINFORMSUM: wikileaks
I can only imagine fellow document hounds are following the wikileaks phenomenon as close as we are. Here are some our favorite stories about the saga. First, Salon has a few questions for wikileaks, for the US government, for the journalists who received the leaked documents, and even some for Sarah Palin. Steve Aftergood at Secrecy News –as always– provides an even-keeled estimation of the cables leak. Julian Assange’s 8-page interview with Forbes in which he hints a “ big US bank ” will be the next to get the wiki treatment.
WikiLeaks Reminder: Department of Defense personnel should not access the WikiLeaks website to view or download publicized classified information nor should they download it from anywhere, regardless of the source. Doing so will introduce potentially classified information on unclassified networks. Executive Order 13526 states "Classified Information shall not be declassified automatically as a result of any unauthorized disclosure of identical or similar information".
WikiLeaks, Round Three (Updated 29, 30 Nov.) (SWJ Blog)
The massive disclosure of a quarter million diplomatic records by Wikileaks this weekend underscores the precarious state of the U.S. national security classification system. The Wikileaks project seems to be, more than anything else, an assault on secrecy. If Wikileaks were most concerned about whistleblowing, it would focus on revealing corruption. If it were concerned with historical truth, it would emphasize the discovery of verifiably true facts. If it were anti-war, it would safeguard, not disrupt, the conduct of diplomatic communications.
The Race to Fix the Classification System
December 1st, 2010 by Steven Aftergood As confidential U.S. diplomatic documents continue to enter the public domain, it is worth remembering that not everything that is written down in a government document, even (or especially) in a classified document, is necessarily true. “Truth telling” involves a bit more than trafficking in official records. Any historian or archival researcher knows that. So did the Soviet agent Kim Philby, who addressed the issue in his 1968 book “My Silent War” (p. 255): “It is difficult, though by no means impossible, for a journalist to obtain access to original documents.
Kim Philby on Truth in Diplomatic Cables
"As confidential U.S. diplomatic documents continue to enter the public domain, it is worth remembering that not everything that is written down in a government document, even (or especially) in a classified document, is necessarily true. " by Dec 1
The lure of classified information
Just because information is classified, does not mean it is valuable. Politicians are often seduced by the aura of clandestine information-gathering, and this might be one reason DFAT funding has suffered in the last decade at the expense of the intelligence community — the diplomats have not been able to convince their political masters that information gathered openly through diplomatic exchanges can be just as important as that which is gathered covertly. The same principle holds good for the latest Wikileaks revelations."Just because information is classified, does not mean it is valuable." by Dec 1
Wikileaks and “CableGate”
I know a lot of you with .gov and .mil addresses have been warned to stay far, far away from the Wikileaks material. I am going to spend a lot of time over the next few weeks going through the cables carefully, pulling out the things that I think are most interesting. So, even if you can’t wade through all the nitty gritty stuff yourself, I will do my best to pick out the nuggets of gold. My overall reaction is that the cables are quite exculpatory. Although Wikileaks claims the cache of purloined cables “reveals the contradictions between the US’s public persona and what it says behind closed doors,” I am not so sure.
Has WikiLeaks finally gone too far?
UPDATE: The Times' and the Guardian's coverage of the cables is up. Roy Greenslade, a journalism professor and commentator for the Guardian , castigates British editors for their critical coverage of WikiLeaks, the self-proclaimed whistleblower site that is about to release some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables into the wild: Aren't we in the job of ferreting out secrets so that our readers - the voters - can know what their elected governments are doing in their name? Isn't it therefore better that we can, at last, get at them? It's a fair question.
"I cannot tell you what the judge will do." The threat echoes similar warnings made after the release in July of 92,000 intelligence reports and field assessments on the Afghan war. Those documents named informants who had revealed the names, locations and details of Taliban commanders and their operations. Hamid Karzai at the time condemned the disclosure of informers' details as "extremely irresponsible and shocking".
Taliban prepare to punish WikiLeaks Afghan informers
If all names have been edited, it is unlikely that the Talibans or AQ manage to punish those who helped the coalition by Dec 3
The Obama administration on Saturday warned WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange that the expected release of approximately 250,000 secret State Department documents would have "grave consequences" and place at risk the lives of journalists, human rights activists and soldiers. The State Department 's letter to Assange, released late Saturday night, comes as U.S. officials have in recent days warned foreign governments that the documents could expose sensitive information and harm relations with the United States. The documents are expected to be released this weekend. The letter was apparently written in response to a request by Assange for information on any individuals who may be "at significant risk of harm" by the disclosure of the documents.
WikiLeaks gets warning from State Department: Documents' release would have 'grave consequences'
WikiLeaks: We are currently under a m
Some guys/states may not want them to release these State Department leaks by Nov 28
WikiLeaks prend de la hauteur sur les combats. Après avoir publié des documents relatifs aux guerres en Afghanistan et en Irak, l'organisation a commencé à mettre en ligne plus de 250.000 mémos diplomatiques. Leur plus gros coup? Lors de la publication des Warlogs irakiens, WikiLeaks nous avait directement contacté pour fournir l’application qui permettait de naviguer à travers les rapports de situation écrits par l’armée américaine. Cette fois-ci, à quelques heures d’une fuite de mémos diplomatiques qui pourrait être la plus importante de l’organisation, nous sommes dans une situation qui ne nous rend pas dépendants d’une clause de confidentialité. Les mains libres, nous sommes accompagnés par Slate.fr et Lesoir.be , partenaires de l’application que nous avons développée, et qui sera en ligne dès dimanche.
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Le Libé des philosophes d'aujourd'hui est plutôt une meilleure surprise que les autres années (même si je suis trop biaisé et partial, je préfère mon article sur le jeune Rawls théologien de l'an dernier, avec l'ajout d'Elias dans le commentaire, à l'article de Ruwen Ogien aujourd'hui). D'habitude , lorsque l'actualité pose un problème factuel sur la politique internationale (par exemple les élections ivoiriennes aujourd'hui), les philosophes n'ont rien à apporter et se contentent donc d'endosser une position de journaliste avec de légères différences de vocabulaire ou de références (alors que certains Libé des historiens étaient parfois vraiment pertinents dans les cas où une "expertise" d'un spécialiste de sujets peu connus pouvait un peu rompre avec nos opinions déjà préconçues). Ah, si, la page météo est étonnante (et même la page Problèmes d'échecs a droit à un traitement par Marc de Launay).