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fatbuckel

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Mon Nov-29-10 03:49 PM
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4. The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment

"The state department knew of the leak several months ago and had ample time to alert staff in sensitive locations. Its pre-emptive scaremongering over the weekend stupidly contrived to hint at material not in fact being published. Nor is the material classified top secret, being at a level that more than 3 million US government employees are cleared to see, and available on the defense department's internal Siprnet."

Simon Jenkins
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 November 2010 18.30 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-wikileaks

Criminal investigation?

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