Reference: NYT on WikiLeaks + RECAP

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Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled

By BILL KELLER

The New York Times, January 26, 2011

Bill Keller is the executive editor of The New York Times. This essay is adapted from his introduction to “Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Expanded Coverage from The New York Times,” an ebook available for purchase at nytimes.com/opensecrets.

EXTRACT:  The government surely cheapens secrecy by deploying it so promiscuously. According to the Pentagon, about 500,000 people have clearance to use the database from which the secret cables were pilfered. Weighing in on the WikiLeaks controversy in The Guardian, Max Frankel remarked that secrets shared with such a legion of “cleared” officials, including low-level army clerks, “are not secret.” Governments, he wrote, “must decide that the random rubber-stamping of millions of papers and computer files each year does not a security system make.”

Phi Beta Iota: Upgraded to a Reference because this nine part overview of the entire process is elegant, informative, and provocative.  A very fine contribution of lasting value.

See Also:

WikiLeaks Mindset Growing Far & Wide

Open Source Insurgency: No More Corruption

Journal: ‘Systemic Corruption’–Daunting Challenge in Globalized Era

WikiLeaks VI: 2,000 Offshore Bank Account Names

Reference: On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy + RECAP on Secrecy as Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Journal: WikiLeaks Collaboration, WikiLeaks Attacked + CYBER RECAP

Reference: Arianna Huffington–Wikileaks About Trust in Government–Or Not

Reference: Lying is Not Patriotic–Ron Paul

Reference: Advanced Cyber-IO (First Cut)

Reference: Empire of Lies & Secrecy

Wikileaks V Rolling Update CLOSED

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