Reason: Our Leaky World

REASON.COM, 12/15/2010 by Jesse Walker - "We've read so much in the last few weeks about Julian Assange, it's easy to forget the WikiLeaks story isn't ultimately about Julian Assange. It isn't even really about WikiLeaks, any more than Watergate was a story about a hotel. This is a story about a new era—one where, in the words of the security specialist Bruce Schneier, "the government is learning what the music and movie industries were forced to learn years ago: it's easy to copy and distribute digital files." If WikiLeaks shut its doors tomorrow, disgruntled soldiers or secretaries or bankers or bureaucrats or cops or managers or their nosy spouses could still send secret documents to... Go to Reason.com to read more. Read More......

White House Leaks

During George W. Bush's presidency, any leak from the White House immediately made it to the front page of the New York Times in an effort to damage the president... even when the leak compromised national security or endangered our soldiers. Though the MSM has issued some criticism of President Obama, apparently some leaks just aren't worthy of passing on...

OPINION MAKER, 11/6/2010 by Wayne Madsen of WMR (Wayne Madsen Report) - White House: Obama Conducting Reign of Terror

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'Obama's Wars': The gang that couldn't shoot straight -- or shut up

WASHINGTON POST, 9/30/2010 by Eliot A. Cohen (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - Senior Washington officials, in this administration or its predecessors, talk to Bob Woodward for all kinds of reasons -- to fluff up their vanity, to avenge slights, to neutralize rivals, to gratify egos or, most laughably, to shape the historical record. Their bosses may even instruct them to blab. But the leakers do not control their audiences, and the following fictional interior monologues, as plausible as any recorded by the author of "Obama's Wars," suggest some of the unintended consequences that may result. Read more at Washington Post...

Eliot A. Cohen is a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of "Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime." Read More......