On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Doug writes:
>
>> They trade in their alleged access to insider info. I don't think
>> they know much more than an assiduous newspaper reader does.
>
> I bet they know a lot more than what gets printed in newspapers.
I bet they don't actually. I was really underwhelmed by the revelations in the initial batch of Wikileaks too.
Wasn't there a classic experiment back during WW2 that found that careful newspaper readers knew about 90% as much as the OSS did?
Doug