Comment Re:Doing what is right... (Score 1) 955
Just because people keep repeating it doesnt make it any less bunk.
The only real 'dump' from WIkileaks was in a case where it was the banality of the majority of the information that was really the story. Hundreds of thousands of documents that had no possible national security sensitivity that had been simply classifed by reflex. You could (and IIRC they actually did) go through and pull out a handful of documents that were evidence of other, specifically illegal, behaviour, and that's one story. But the larger story here that also needed to be told was how the government is reflexively classifying *everything* without any regards to whether there is any legitimate reason to do so or not. That's fundamentally contradictory to the basic assumptions of the classification system, and it indicates an absolute breakdown of government function here.
And you just cant make that case without being able to pull out the whole 'dump' and go through it document by document.
At first they only allowed selected people from major newspapers to go through them, iirc, and only later after they had been analyzed and the contents was known, one of the newspapers, not wikileaks, dumped the whole stack.
The whole meme of 'wikileaks just dumped everything irresponsibly' is what us old-timers used to call disinformation. They probably have another word for it today.