[Skybird]

The leaking is a two-sided sword. On some issues, it can help to enforce greater honesty and congruence between claims made, and action. On other issues it can cause embarassment over all to human flaws and minor issues, complicating international intercommunication nfor reasons not justifyng them.

However, former competently done investigative journalism did thinks like these leakings as well, think of Watergate and the consequences. The difference now is that the quantity is massively beyond the level known from revealing journalism of thnat era. But investigative, solid journalism is in decline. The press as an independant monitor and guardian of democratic poltical proceedings, is in decline. Inmternet services seem to have boosted options on information, and the variety of these. But if you look carefully, you see that quality of internet news is mostly very, very bad, fact checking is being replaced by chain-copying of claims, and the number of indepednantly compared and verified sources has not grown by has been redcued in numbers. Internet information in many fields has become bigger in numbers, and poorer in quality, more shallow, and serving manipulative interests whose validity of claims is not beeing checked.

Something like wikileaks seems to serve in the function of a radical counter-reaction to this decline of solid information culture of now dying journalism quality standards.

That the victim of the latest coup, the US, once again cries heaven is falling liek the last time, is the to be expected reaction, and like the last two times for the most is just a propaganda claim using an overdose of pathetic rethoric in order to raise support for it'S condemnation of the "coup".

More important is if these latest lessons, like the Stuxnet attack on the centrifuges in Iran, will teach America something on its principal vulnerability in the computer-, IT- and cyberfield. And that means: will it teach European nations something as well - or not. Higher complexity almost always goes hand in hand with greater fragility and lower robustness. Something that high tech nations seem to constantly ignore, or underestimate. And no, more censorship and dictatorship is not the answer.