[lbo-talk] WikiLeaks: What is it good for?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Aug 22 08:07:49 PDT 2010


On Aug 22, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Andy wrote:


> I'm curious what you all think of the significance of WikiLeaks.
>
> It occurred to me that the Afghanistan documents and Iraq video don't
> really reveal anything except details of what is already known in
> general. It's not as if the callous killing of innocents in Iraq is
> going to surprise anybody.

I think you're basically right. It's always nice to have a document that proves something you suspected, but almost everything we need to know is openly available.

Doug



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