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Old 07-26-10, 11:05 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
As somebody above put it: if this makes the governments more afraid of the people, then it is a good thing.
What if it identifies people who have been working for us to the Taliban and they are killed and/or tortured as a result? Would it still be a good thing then?

There are good reasons for assigning security classifications to information and i'm betting that somewhere in those 97 thousand documents there will be some information that will put some good people at risk. I don't trust the media one bit to choose what is safe to disseminate and what isn't.
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