The Wikileaks documents were redacted before they were released. Everyone needs to wrap their little brain around that factoid.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/28/104404/officials-may-be-overstating-the.html
Wikileaks bugs me, but something just occurred to me:
1. Wikileaks, as a de facto anarchist group, reveals material it isn’t supposed to have because it’s (albeit misguided) owner feels that this information should be in the public domain. Basically he, like me, believes that Governments are corrupt.
but then we have:
2. Every major national newspaper (NY Times, for instance) colluding with Wikileaks to make sure that they are ahead of the release while getting the data so that they can also publish it to make money and sell advertising and maybe win an award or something.
Personally, I don’t see any difference between the criminality of #1 or #2 - but somehow #2 pisses me off more than #1.