It's interesting to observe the difference in response to this weeks release of Iraq war logs by Wikileaks and the response to the Afgan logs. It may be my very limited perspective, but to me it seems there is a lot less news and a lot more speculation. Especially about Julian Assange, poor guy... I don't think I can say I have perfected the art of psychoanalysis, but my impressions of him were not negative, he lead an effort that setup a website that allows within international legal frameworks to maintain secret information and facilitates the release of that information. That's it, right? It seems to me that if anyone deserves prosecution it's 'scum bags' that steal this secret information from the government and other organisations? He can be viewed as an accomplice I guess, but not the initiator.
This recent article in the Economist is appalling, I cannot believe such a generally respected news source is capable of such tabloid crap, and lack of analytic skill: http://www.economist.com/node/17361416?story_id=17361416&fsrc=rss
This guy I think gets it right: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/oct/29/wikileaks-julian-assange
Anyway, this is rushed and not exactly gleaming with intelligence, but the desire to expose my 5c to the web is overwhelming :D
... and now back to work!
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