[LINK] The man who kicked the hornet's nest

[Rick Welykochy]

Gentle Linkers,

The editor of The Guardian [UK] has written an insightful
analysis of the WikiLeaks info war.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/08/editorial-wikileaks-julian-assange>
or
<http://tinyurl.com/2dyvb4d>

   "10 days into the disclosures, a number of questions about the way
    the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed. The first
    concerns diplomacy itself. Should diplomats be able to speak
    confidentially with their governments and sources?

    ...

    The general principle of confidential information comes into
    conflict with freedom of expression issues the moment such
    material is leaked. That is not to argue that it is right to
    "dump" all the American cables for the whole world to read.
    It is plainly not.

    ...

    Some stories [sic] broke new ground – the CIA instructions to
    spy on the UN being one example. China's willingness to see the
    Korean peninsula reunited under a government in Seoul changed
    the way we saw an old conflict; and the revelation that a
    senior Chinese official had co-ordinated the assault on Google
    took that story into new territory. Yemen's private willingness
    to admit that US bombs were their bombs, and the extent to which
    the US had lost control of policy in Pakistan, also opened eyes."


A watershed moment.
My [sic] above concerns "Some Stories" which would accurately be
described as "Some Cables". These are not stories.

cheers
rickw

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