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Re:Ron Paul: ‘What we need is more WikiLeaks’ by quanticle on Sunday December 05, 2010 @07:18PM (#1973244)
>... Assange deserves all the pain he's going to get for deciding to publish information that would jeopardize people's physical safety.

I used to think the same way about the Afghan War Diary publication, but I've changed my stance. I haven't heard of a single informant that was killed or even placed under Army protection due to their name being revealed on WikiLeaks. Have you? If there really were people being hunted down and killed because of WikiLeaks, you'd think the Army would publicize those case to prove its point, right?

The fact that we haven't heard any such thing from the Army or the Marine Corps suggests that the Wikileaks publication was significantly less damaging than they originally suggested.

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Re:Ron Paul: ‘What we need is more WikiLeaks’ by jpcx01 on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:54PM (#1973495)
Informants save lives. Many terrorist plots that have been stopped since 9/11 were due to some insider alerting authorities. If people think they're identity is not safe with the government, they will not come forward and we will see people die as terrorist plots succeed.
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