Wikileaks - good for America?

[Hoosier]

They could have cut the leak off back when they knew the PFC first leaked it.

As someone who's familiar with the internet, I'm surprised you have this opinion. How, exactly, could they stop the leak? Whoever sent it via anonymous sources to Wikileaks did it without knowledge or consent of the government, obviously. Once the data is released onto the internet, to a competent robust network like Wikileaks designed to handle and distribute data, there's no putting the genie back into the bottle.

The only headline would have been "tragedy strikes paper!" subtext "editor commits suicide, survivors at a loss for words".

I sincerely hope at no point in our future or our past would we resort to extra judicial killing to handle a newspaper editor. That's the kind of shit Russia does. That's not the America I want to live in. Nor is it exactly constitutional. WTF man?

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