List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked

Re:List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked by sliverstorm on Monday December 06, 2010 @04:49AM (#1974668)

It's like once people pick their teams, they can't reconsider.

You just hit the nail on the head. This shouldn't surprise you. In wars of opinion, most people pick a side, and stick with it until the bitter end. Heck, there've even been front-page articles on HN about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_polarization

You are one of the rare people if you regularly allow yourself to switch.

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Re:List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked by eneveu on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:21PM (#1981260)

Weirdly enough, reading this almost makes me regret donating to WikiLeaks yesterday. It's not a total switch, but it's more and more a grey area for me. Maybe it should have been all along.

I wonder what would have happened, had the US accepted to review the cables before the leak, as offered by WikiLeaks.

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Re:List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked by etherael on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:04AM (#1982338)

As a post hoc, don't feel too bad about it, it looks like this was not taken as a serious responsibility by state department staff, for example they list an antivenom manufacturer in Australia amongst the CI/KR list, yet this manufacturer has not made that antivenom in over ten years.

Also, on the whole;

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977293

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