THE DARK SIDE OF WIKILEAKS?
by Bill Weinberg, World War 3 Illustrated
The case of Bradley Manning is a morally stark one. Even the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has censured the United States for its harsh measures against the young man who blew the cover on US atrocities in Iraq through WikiLeaks.
But the voluminous trove of classified diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks goes far beyond the “Collateral Murder” incident in Iraq. The release of most of this information can be justified in the name of the public’s right to know.
However, rights advocates have raised fears that some of the revelations may have placed pro-democracy dissidents at risk in authoritarian regimes. Worse, a WikiLeaks “accredited journalist” is accused of actively collaborating with a dictator. WikiLeaks has failed to meaningfully respond to charges of complicity with grave human rights abuses in Belarus, the country dubbed “Europe’s last dictatorship.”