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Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/19/wikileaks/index.html, posted 2011 by peter in opinion politics propaganda usa war
And this, of course, has been the point all along:
the WikiLeaks disclosures *are* significant precisely because they expose government deceit, wrongdoing and brutality, but the damage to innocent people has been deliberately and wildly exaggerated -- fabricated -- by the very people whose misconduct has been revealed.
There *is* harm from the WikiLeaks documents, but it's to wrongdoers in power, which is why they are so desperate to malign and then destroy the group.