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That's the knee-jerk reaction of someone who finds the latest Wikileaks shenanigan politically inconvenient.
Except that my complaint isn't really about the politicians. I don't expect much of them. That's why we're supposed to have the whole
fourth estate thing going on. But the fourth estate is in a sorry state these days. And it's depressing, to say the least.
The irony is that half of the documents aren't even marked as classified, let alone secret. None of them are top secret documents.
I could have sworn the news article I read mentioned that at least some of the articles were Top Secret.
These days I wouldn't really trust any news agency to actually do enough real research to determine whether something was Top Secret or not. They might just be using that term because that's what the important documents are stamped with in spy movies. Or maybe some governmental spokesperson said they were Top Secret, so that's what was reported, without even bothering to check to see if they actually were.
But... I wouldn't really be surprised if some of the documents were, in fact, Top Secret. The US Government classifies things very aggressively these days. All sorts of things are stamped with Top Secret that don't really make a whole lot of sense. There are things we're currently calling "state secrets" that have been public knowledge for decades.
And that doesn't even touch on the discussion of whether any of it
should actually be secret at all...
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