http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-07-26/wikileaks-revealing-military-secrets-internet-age
(Click the listen button in the top left.)
Blanton asserts that wikileaks “seems to be growing up a little bit” with this release because it let the “main steam media” vet the documents before it posted them, and because it withheld some documents from its dump.
Definitely worth a listen.
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10 responses to “Archive Director Tom Blanton talks about the wikileaks Afghanistan Dox Leak on the Kojo Nnamdi Show”
Has the National Security Archive ever accepted or posted leaked documents?
No. As a matter of policy we don’t.
Sometimes agencies accidentally send us documents which are still classified–and we return them (without reading them) as soon as we realize that they were not meant to be released.
How often does that happen?
Rarely…
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Does the Thomas Blanton really think that the public should really hold all the intelligence secrets that we hold or do know before hand all the secret missions that take place by the US Military. If he does, then I believe that a drug test would be in first order along with a mental evaluation.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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I certainly didn’t hear him say that “the public should really hold all the intelligence secrets” or “to know before hand all the secret missions” in the interview. In fact, I think he was arguing the opposite.
And in a democracy, even the most valiant people ultimately need to be held accountable by the public.
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