I got a better feel, today, for the content of some of the Wikileaks documents. Reuters has a nice review:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AT1I720101130
Despite the sometimes childish nature of the contents, in general, they appear to have what would be considered to be normal internal information (with a few exceptions).
It is interesting, though, that there are numerous examples of unethical behavior, at least according to the yearly ethics training that my employer provides.
We offered money and meetings with the president in exchange for taking prisoners out of Gitmo. This would be an offense that would land you in jail if you did something similar in exchange for business.
There were numerous examples of authors inserting personal opinion in the technical analysis that often bordered on slander. My company has explicit training on what to lay down in print and always says to ask yourself the question: "How would that look and how would I feel if this memo ever got into the media?"
This speaks very poorly of our diplomatic corps, not to leave out our ineptitude to safeguard State Department communications.
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I find it frightening that members of congress and even the media are calling for a hit on Assange or even execution for the Army guy in custody. Look's like we're holding ourselves to KGB standards these days...
Interesting analogy. Seems like we should be going after, in the courts, the folks who leaked the documents out instead of pestering some guy that publishes them. I remember a time when the Washington Post published numerous "leaked" documents and they were considered by the public to be doing a service to the country.
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