1. Was it right or wrong?
2. Have you looked at Wikileaks?
3. If not, why? (fear of government, no curiosity, best left unseen, etc)
4. If you managed to get a look at WikiLeaks, what impressed/distressed you most?
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I did not get a look at it. Didn't care to. There is a fine line between freedom of speech and knowing when to keep your mouth shut and stay out of it.
If the leaks were simply just embarrassing, then, in my opinion, shame on the person for originally saying or writing it, and they deserve to be called out. If the leaks were something that put our country or troops in danger, then it is a crime to release it.
We do need whistle blowers who take a stand. Look at our former Mayor's demise. If no one took a chance to come forward, his behavior would have continued.
Let it all come out in the wash. The media whores want to jump on the bandwagon and always make more of something than it is... simply for ratings and profit. "Is the head dead yet?"
Never looked at it, never cared to. I have heard a little but probably not as much as you get over there. Don't really understand the situation.
1. I don't know if it is or not yet. It depends. I've seen that the government has lied to the people in the past. I've seen profiteering by those in power in the past. I've seen Nixon fall. I've seen Kennedy fall. I wonder how Vietnam would have gone if we had know the realm picture. It boils down to if a smoking gun is found. They almost pulled off Watergate except for one turncoat, and one courageous reporter. I don't see it as a Right to know, or a automatic Right for secrecy by the government. It's a very gray area, bur fore me, it is not black and white
2 & 4. I managed to get in one time. There were some embarrassing things there, but mostly embarrassing to wrong doers that took advantage of others, like the Enron fiasco. Mostly it was data overload. There is a lot of reading for the interested.
3. I had some trepidations, the government does monitor things after all.
1) I don't know if it was right or wrong. I remember the Pentagon Papers.
2) I just tried to visit WikiLeaks now, but haven't in the past. It wouldn't load. (Perhaps their servers are overloaded.)
3) I haven't in the past because I'm not that interested. I have visited more 'subversive' sites that WikiLeaks, so the government thing doesn't matter.
4) Not applicable.
For the most part, everyone in the diplomatic world probably had a pretty good idea this type of thing goes on...they all engage in it and are good a feigning outrage in public when something surfaces. In the end, its harder to have too much transparency and easy to have too much secrecy.
I haven't looked at the recent dumps. The site has been around for awhile and I have looked at it in the past when it was mostly corporate stuff being posted that no one cared about. Just seems boring to read through all those documents trying to find the juicy bits.
Everyone is spying on everyone. Note the cameras around Racine. The government should know that nothing goes unnoticed and the newspapers will print it. This is what people call freedom of the press. If it's something we want or should know then it's ok but if it's dangerous knowledge then "someone" has to think twice. It's so disappointing all the crap that the government does. Whether this was a good thing or not...it sure does not go well with our image in other countries.
Never heard of it......
never had any interest, feels way too tabloid-ish, but that's just me and my overall sense, right or wrong, don't plan on checking it out
I don't have any huge secrets, but it's nobody's business if I did have anything juicy to show, so if I wouldn't want anybody snooping on me, I don't have the draw to do it to anyone else, unless it's something earth shattering and a detriment to life as we know it
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