Gang of leakers going for broke:
WikiLeaks, frustrated at the lack of splash of recent leaks on its whistle-blowing website, has rolled the dice to try to raise its profile by teaming up with news organizations in its latest dump of classified documents.
And they know the expose of Chinese torture of Tibetans, N. Korean, Russian stuff, etc. will never have the legs of an expose of the U.S. Or of madrassas indoctrinating kids, Islamists plotting terror (another man’s name for freedom-fighting), flabby willingness of Western sell-outs to paper over and mollify-by-any-means Islamists in their midst. (Chi Trib still respectfully quotes CAIR — in this case, TribCo-owned Sentinel — stuck in fear of Islamaphobia.)
Some places they can’t get into (they depend on U.S. intelligence for that), others they can but aren’t interested. Atrocities by Americans! There we go. (Or by Israelis, pretty much the same thing.)
In releasing a “War Diary” of 76,000 secret U.S. military reports from the war in Afghanistan , the web site was unapologetic about its agenda. “We hope its release will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the war in Afghanistan and provide the raw ingredients necessary to change its course,” the authors said.
That’s in Chi Trib about WikiLeaks, where a fellow with an intriguing organization predicts more of the same:
That [extreme difficulty in finding leakers] means that more partnerships between WikiLeaks and the mainstream media could be on the horizon, said Tom Rosenstiel, founder and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Intriguing, and very wise. Who can object to excellence? Realizing that, I am on the verge of announcing my new organization, Project for Excellence in Everything (PEE), which is bound to take off. Motto? “Everyone PEEs.”
Blithe Spirit 