I keep hearing that Wikileaks has 'blood on their hands'. So let me get this straight.
Dick Cheney outs one of our CIA agents, essentially passing a death sentence on any of the contacts she had been working with. Bush and company lie us into a war that costs Irag the lives of about a hundred thousand civilians, as well as costing the US the lives of a couple thousand soldiers, strengthens our biggest rival in the region (Iran), drives thousands of Muslims into the hands of the jihadist radicals, oh and bankrupts our country in the process, and it is Wikileaks that has blood on it's hands?
Access to information is what allows us to to see past the propaganda. That is the job of news organizations around the world. If a news organization is not pissing off governments and politicians, then it has become a just another propaganda machine itself.
Wikileaks is a news organization. They did what they are supposed to do, which is publish the truth. And the only people that are bothered by the truth being published, are those who count on lies to convince people to follow them.
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