Ever wonder why WikiLeaks has been the beneficiary of high-profile document dumps? Perhaps its leaker feared that the mainstream media would have left them to die on the vine.
To the Bush administration, torture was only a concern if perpetrated by an unfriendly government.
What good was deposing Saddam Hussein if his tyrannical ways were left intact?
If the WikiLeaks documents are any indication, U.S. soldiers suffer the additional burden of a rewritten moral code that demeans the values they thought they were protecting.
The same helicopter unit that killed two Reuters employees and was outed by WikiLeaks has been implicated in another such crime.
According to the New York Times, Julian Assange is a bully and he’s picking on the United States.
The WikiLeaks documents seem to confirm our worst fears about Iran’s involvement with the Iraqi insurgency.
Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump at that site. “Mr. Assange,” Mullen commented, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.”
Hawks are not above calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be apprehended on the territory of close U.S. allies, even without their consent.
Even though we’re flooded with new information about Afghanistan — leaks, Rolling Stone features, et al — without the military draft, we have no hard incentive to enhance our knowledge.