Transparency: How Far?I challenge you today.During the next 48 hours, say whatever comes into your head, no lie, no white gloves, nothing.But the truth.Tell your girlfriend she has grown, your boyfriend that you hate his mother, your children they can not draw, your best friend than the gift he gave you your birthday is zero and you've exchanged.You see, very quickly, your life will become a hell.Betis KIDLying is essential to life. It is the lubricant that facilitates human relationships.Ditto for the country. The Heads of State can not say out loud what they think about their neighbors or their vis-à-vis, because we continually pass from one crisis to another.It's called diplomacy.With thousands of publicly revealing confidential diplomatic telegram (telegram which claimed among others that Sarkozy is "authoritarian," Hugo Chavez is "crazy" and that Russia is "a mafia state"), the site manager has Wikileaks behaved like a kid who, for mangling his family, steals her sister's diary and reads excerpts aloud at dinner Sunday.It may be funny, it excites perhaps Internet users worldwide, but it's not smart for two pennies.It's downright stupid.FLIGHT OF THE PRODUCTSBut where the director of Wikileaks is irresponsible when it begins to reveal state secrets that could jeopardize the safety of his country.That sounds good transparency, but there is a limit that can not be crossed.After all, the world is not a scout jamboree, but a poker tournament and a poker tournament, you do not reveal your hand to your opponents.That is why we are still waiting thirty years to make some public records. For not shooting ourselves in the foot.As a reader wrote in the French daily Telegram:"Without the slightest regard for the need to protect legitimate secrets States, leaders of Wikileaks indiscriminately throw the fly hundreds of thousands of electronic documents. What is their purpose? Do they remember that these texts are the products of flights? "THE SECRETWhat's next?Activists Wikileaks will reveal the identity of secret agents on the pretext that they do not agree with the positions of the U.S. government?They will make public the secret negotiations, revealing the weaknesses of the armed forces participating in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan?Update collusion and corruption is one thing. Reveal state secrets is another.The struggle for transparency is legitimate. After all, citizens are entitled to know if their government lies to them or not, or if their leader has declared war on the basis of false allegations, for example.But beyond a certain point, transparency becomes a kind of totalitarianism.A NECESSARY EVIL?It's flat to say, it's not very politically correct, but sometimes, to make omelettes, you have indeed breaking eggs.Away from the microphones and cameras ...
Legally, I don't know the particulars. But, if the person releasing that type of sensitive information violated standards set by his country, he should be prosecuted under those laws.
They seem to be after him for sexual assault now, which some are claiming is just a set-up to catch/defame him.
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