If there is any information in those 92,000 pages of documents that pertains to blatant Western disregard for human life, I might have something to spit about. Without that, this latest leak amounts to horse crap on powdered toast.
The information I read about last night isn't all that special, really. It's not exactly news that the Paki's have been harboring and aiding the Taliban. It doesn't strike me as odd that they may have attacked our forces, either. When it comes to the drone failures, again, nothing new. We should have seen it coming. Those are flashy new technologies that had not been fielded in combat prior to Iraq/Afghanistan. There will be failures. $5-7 million bucks a pop? Somebody already made a point here regarding that, and he is spot-on correct.
Are we, the public, fit to be fair judges of what is considered an acceptable combat loss, or even how the war should be fought? Why then would the information be leaked? Whose agenda do we serve?
Yes, the military conceals information from the public. They do it to deny the enemy an accurate assessment of their own success/failure. The public is on a need-to-know basis. The government decides IF, then when and how the information will be distributed to the public. At least, that's how it was played prior to today's journalism.
One last thing: the frontline club is not staffed by journalists and whistleblowers. It's staffed by Moms and Dads and brothers and sisters in uniform, and some of them won't be coming back home to their families. Wikileaks, Bite My Ass.
