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Originally Posted by August
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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Letting the military choose means none of it ever will. Sometimes, the security provision does serve a useful purpose (with almost 92000 documents to choose from statistically some may well have critical information), but governments have developed too many bad habits in using it to deny information, thus shafting it of its original purpose.