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

[Gar Lipow]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Michael Perelman
<michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
> The panicky response to the leaks was also useful.  The material had
> nothing new, but it posed great dangers.  Why worry if nothing was new?
> Was it that the authorities are concerned about making everything about the
> rest of the world available to them, while maintaining a cloak of secrecy
> about virtually everything they do.
>
> I would like to see us progress to the point where Wikileaks would be
> unncessary.
>  --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929

Also I would say that things like Wikileaks are important in the sense
of making "open secrets" not secret. There is a sense in which that
even something you can prove by putting together disparate facts from
mainstream sources will not be believed by people who will believe
something once it is on the front page of the NY Times.