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Originally Posted by MysticCat
The downside comes if anything released places our troops (or civilians) at greater risk than they already face. Perhaps I don't always trust government or military officials to draw that line in the right place, but I probably trust some activists like Julian Assange operating on their own agenda even less.
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Right - but that's the downside more to the
leaking than to a general increase in transparency and accountability, isn't it?
It feels like changes to that end as a result of this activism would lead to a better armed forces, and less power for activists/leaks of this sort. Win/win.