the depths of cynicism
Excellent piece in Truthdig today, by a journalist I love to read, Robert Scheer:
From Jefferson to Assange
When I first heard of the Wikileak diplomatic cable spray on the internet, I was delighted - ha! corrupt American politicians, here's your long-deserved comeuppance! - but also worried, cautious - who will this put in harm's way abroad? What intelligence officers are going to be immediately, mortally effected by this? What type of intelligence will we now never have, intelligence that could save lives, with the future of anonymity now virtually obliterated?
But the problem is that awful truths eventually get out somehow, someway, and if it wasn't Assange, it would have been someone else. Karma's a bitch, as they say, and politicians like Feinstein, a California Democrat for heaven's sake, could use this kind of forced transparency more often.
From Jefferson to Assange
When I first heard of the Wikileak diplomatic cable spray on the internet, I was delighted - ha! corrupt American politicians, here's your long-deserved comeuppance! - but also worried, cautious - who will this put in harm's way abroad? What intelligence officers are going to be immediately, mortally effected by this? What type of intelligence will we now never have, intelligence that could save lives, with the future of anonymity now virtually obliterated?
But the problem is that awful truths eventually get out somehow, someway, and if it wasn't Assange, it would have been someone else. Karma's a bitch, as they say, and politicians like Feinstein, a California Democrat for heaven's sake, could use this kind of forced transparency more often.
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