The Race to Fix the Classification System | Secrecy News
The massive disclosure of a quarter million diplomatic records by
Wikileaks this weekend underscores the precarious state of the U.S.
national security classification system.

The Wikileaks project seems to be, more than anything else, an assault
on secrecy.  If Wikileaks were most concerned about whistleblowing, it
would focus on revealing corruption.  If it were concerned with
historical truth, it would emphasize the discovery of verifiably true
facts.  If it were anti-war, it would safeguard, not disrupt, the
conduct of diplomatic communications.  But instead, what Wikileaks has
done is to publish a vast potpourri of records — dazzling, revelatory,
true, questionable, embarrassing, or routine — whose only common
feature is that they are classified or otherwise restricted.


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Source: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/11/race_to_fix.html

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