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Originally Posted by August
What do you mean "higher hit rate"? The US Military is not deliberately releasing this information, the media is.
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In a society that is supposedly democratic and respectful of free speech ... etc, the default state of all information, certainly all of potential public interest is Free-flow, and the decision to
stop and
keep stopping something of potential public interest from being released is in itself a proactive decision which can be judged on its merits.
One can even go as far as to say that all Wikileaks is doing is liberating 76,000 documents (out of 92,000) to their natural state in democratic, open, free-speech loving America, a set of decisions that was overwhelmingly correct. Yes, it is possible a few informers might get revealed and popped - that's a possibility I took into account from the beginning.
After all, it is not like American PGMs have never inflicted collateral damage and casualties, but no one (at least of your political orientation) says the bombs are a mistake - it is accepted as a reasonable cost.
Now, I'm not such an idealist as to think that the parties involved in this release are entirely altruistic, but neither am I so politically indoctrinated (maybe it helps here I'm not American) as to think that the American generals and politicians are keeping data classified for purely altruistic or even operational (in the military sense) motives.