Posted on 11/29/2010 6:05:17 PM PST by Neoavatara
There are now thousands upon thousands of pages open to the public eye, showing the intricacies of America's foreign relations with virtually every major world power. The details are engrossing, down to what people had for dinner to major initiatives.
There are numerous sources to obtain the essential material leaked, primarily from the New York Times and the Guardian. And I will leave the particulars to them, the experts.
But the repercussions of these leaks are widespread, and may not end for months, if not years. And mostly, it damages the security of not just the United States, but world peace in many regions around the world.
Just a few examples:
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It basically kills the effective use of diplomacy in the future. Nobody will want to trust us again with their secrets.
He ain't got a friend in the world, now.
Secrecy can be effectively accomplished in two ways:
1. Hide everything.
2. Expose everything.
At least we now know who is interested in what, and their where.
Suckers.
WikiLeaks is just providing the transparency candidate Obama promised.
All part of the plan.
All part of the plan.
We need to know how corrupt and evil our “leaders” are.
“Diplomacy can not occur without secret negotiations. The needs and wants of countries, aired in the open, can only lead to disaster.”
I’m skeptical. It seems that all the secret double-dealing isn’t doing anyone any good.
It’s not secret double-dealing. It’s the plain reality that diplomatic communications need to be candid and blunt from time to time. Those communications must be understood to be confidential. Now that we cannot guarantee confidentiality anymore... we now cannot have truly candid and honest communications with either allies or adversaries.
Our best hope now is that somebody takes out Mr. wikileaks before he starts a war.
“It’s not secret double-dealing.”
ROFL
So you think that there should be no secrets... ever?
Total transparency? Tell me you’re not that naive.
So we should just publish everything about how we build nuclear weapons? Would Mr. Wikileaks publish that? Sure he would. Would that be a good thing too?
It’s a little odd that you ignored the whole rest of my post...
“So you think that there should be no secrets... ever?
“Total transparency? Tell me you’re not that naive.”
Of course not. Troop movements, agents names and weapons info are top secret. Obama telling the Saudi King he fears Israel more then Iran is embarrassing but not secret.
This Wikileaker should probably be killed for getting our Taliban agents killed. But then those names should never have been in a low-security “secret” document. All this stuff was apparently leaked by a Private in the Army, who obviously should never have had the ability to see it, if it was really “secret”.
Our buffoonish government doesn’t even have the common sense to simply deny everything. We elected a clown as President, and now we have a circus.
Sorry.... but you’re wrong. There’s lots of things at the “Secret” level that can get people killed. Plenty of sources and methods. Most of the stuff that’s classified (on purely volume of stuff) is at that level. “Top Secret” is first and foremost for crypto. And... some other stuff.
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