Booman Tribune: I Can't Support the WikiLeaks Drop

[wndycty]

Emphasis mine:

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I enjoy the fly-on-the-wall aspects of the leaks, and I personally am grateful to have valuable information to help inform my worldview. But I think leaks of this type shouldn't be done in some wholesale manner. They should be aimed at educating the public about specific areas where they are being misled. This dump was not selective. It wasn't done to serve the public, although the public can benefit from some of the information. It appears to have been a clear effort to embarrass the United States and complicate our relations with allies and foes alike.

I can't characterize this as a whistleblower situation, even if there are examples in such a large sample that would merit that designation if divulged by themselves. Do we need the world to know stuff like this?
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I don't think Der Spiegel is in a position to know if that disclosure provided enough information to Iran for them to close down our "Iran observer" in Baku. And who knows whether or not our access to that source could be diminished simply because the president doesn't like to see his wife insulted in print. Less strange things happen in foreign relations all the time. If we're going to put stress on our foreign relationships and test our spies' tradecraft, we ought to have something of equal or greater value to the American public to offset that. This release wasn't discriminating in that regard, and I share the official outrage about how this was done.
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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/11/29/113510/09

[leftstreet]

1. As if US military occupations and resource plundering wasn't embarrassing enough

Yes, these leaks might make the US look bad

[xchrom]

2. The leaks simply document our governments and others

Bad behavior.

The leaks don't embarras anyone -- governments do that
On their own.

[emulatorloo]

5. And how else would we know that Silvio Berlusconi and Putin are involved in a "Bromance"?

EOM

[xchrom]

6. That's just icing on the cake! Nt

[jaxx]

3. K&R

[Catherina]

4. Rah rah the mighty empire. If we pretend hard enough, it might not go down

So let's close our eyes and pretend it's a pleasant carpet ride far above the suffering of our victims. Maybe the crash landing won't hurt so bad that way.