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Ash_F

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5. What the leaks did was give credit to the investigative reporters

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 04:06 PM

Feb 2013

Proving they were right by providing the info straight from public official's criminal mouths. Thereby taking away from those individuals the tool of plausible deniability.

That's a big difference and you should not minimize what Bradley Manning has done.

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Bradley Manning supporters stage UK events [View all] dipsydoodle Feb 2013 OP

If they learned anything substantial from Manning's releases, it's a good bet they weren't paying struggle4progress Feb 2013 #1

UK newspaper would publish leaked UK government documents dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #2

the D-Notice Committee, it has been in existence for nearly a century. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #3

Journalistic sources and the law: blowing the whistle on truth-tellers struggle4progress Feb 2013 #4

What the leaks did was give credit to the investigative reporters Ash_F Feb 2013 #5