Okay I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand I'm all for open government....on the other releasing upwards of 250,000 documents whose contents can hardly come as a surprise to anyone seems......reckless, distracting and sucks up a whole lot of media/political time when important things are actually happening today, right now. Honestly how startling is it to hear the US Secretary of State wanted detailed profiles on all diplomatic representatives around the world? Seriously? And that people are nervous about North Korea (duh).....and that everyone is watching everyone. Not to mention that information like this may have some very real consequences on individual and collective safety for a whole lot of folk. It's craziness. I am also much more interested in how these folk got this stuff.....now that's a matter of national security, for everyone - that's something people could focus on, IF they can't keep this stuff secret why should I trust that a scan of my tush taken by TSA at the airport is even vaguely secure? 250,000 pages is so much more manageable when I personalize it......
Update: took my own advice (suddenly got paranoid I'd just sent you all off to watch/read bad porn) and hit next blog and got "Addicted to Pavement: Searching for Marathon Redemption". Dude runs like a mad thing.....I am redeemed (at least in my mind!).
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