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In reply to the discussion: Julian Assange: WikiLeaks is preparing to publish one million new secret government documents [View all]snot
(10,475 posts)56. Thank you again. Let me add,
Hedges and Greenwald are both prize-winning journalists.
Hedges has won the Pullitzer and was squeezed out from his job at The New York Times for expression opposition to the US invasion of Iraq.
Greenwald is a Constitutional and Civil Rights lawyer who's been on the right side of all my issues.
If these guys are "dubious," all I can say is, we need lots more dubious journalism.
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Judi Lynn
Dec 2012
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Even the NYT and Reuters cite Wikileaks docs as sources these days. So, this has served a useful
leveymg
Dec 2012
#2
So what. We are supposed to have a free press, except that the government hides information
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#35
No, no, he promised to bring the world to its knees with his super-secret code files.
randome
Dec 2012
#7
On balance, I would counter, Wikileaks has done far more good than harm. It shouldn't be about
leveymg
Dec 2012
#9
Agreed, leveymg. It is a shame that people have to violate the law just to get the truth out there.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#39
He also gravely hurt the institution of diplomacy globally by willy-nilly dumping diplomatic
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#87
And I marvel at the DUers who have fallen for the Right Wings propaganda machine
LiberalLovinLug
Dec 2012
#75
Right, because the only reason someone could dislike someone is based on right wing info.
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#86
As I said, the potential for misuse of Wikileaks for selective leaks and disinfo is plain to anyone
leveymg
Dec 2012
#27
Yes. Again, I agree with you. But we still get some useful information. We have to be discerning
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#40
For starters, Wikileaks chronicles criminality on the part of Bush and Cheney...
Octafish
Dec 2012
#18
"The Obama administration worked with Republicans to protect Bush administration"
allrevvedup
Dec 2012
#20
Not my idea. That's what Obama's guy recommended. You may've heard of him: Cass Sunstein
Octafish
Dec 2012
#42
So why isn't Assange releasing millions of docs on Bush's "egregious crimes"?
allrevvedup
Dec 2012
#44
Obama did not end the war in Iraq. He withdrew many troops by the date previously agreed to by Bush.
merrily
Dec 2012
#38
Thanks. Most of us don't know about high finance and the games played in their court.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#76
Wikileaks partnered with news media around the word because sorting through the volume of
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#66
Assange was far from safe in an embassy when Assange first published the material Manning allegedly
merrily
Dec 2012
#30
They can't possibly have reviewed 1 million documents. So this translates to...
randome
Dec 2012
#65