Wikileaks Distraction
December 3rd, 2010
It is interesting to see how much of the Wikileaks news coverage focuses on the website that published the information. It doesn’t seem like much of a story that a news organization that specializes in leaking information posted something on the web that they were given. That is expected. However, it is a very big deal that someone who had access to classified information gave it to Wikileaks in the first place. That is actually a news story and something worth reporting on.
Of course, the problem is that the more locked down everything is, the less information sharing takes place between different parts of the government. It seems to me that the danger of not sharing info like what happened around 9/11 may be greater than the damage caused by information like this getting published on the internet every few years.