the other mike
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What? Are you serious? When this happened, it was published ALL OVER THE PLACE. Many staffers at Wikileaks quit in protest over this event. It was the whole reason they quit!
And this widely publicized event, you are ignorant about? It required no more than 5 seconds of my time, to locate DOZENS of articles about wikileaks releasing the names of people in Iraq, whose lives were put in danger!
Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt
There's one. You can find dozens of others. You are telling me that you are discussing this topic, without knowing the primary event that made Assange a cuss word around the world? I'm not wasting my time with punks who think they know something they obviously don't. Moving on.
Chelsea Manning's leaks did not damage US national security, says government report
But, that does not mean that the Wikileaks action caused "no harm" at all as many news outlets have been reporting. In fact, the report stated that the leak could have done some "serious damage" to people who were non-US soldiers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon
The US counter-intelligence official who led the Pentagon's review into the fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures of state secrets told the Bradley Manning sentencing hearing on Wednesday that no instances were ever found of any individual killed by enemy forces as a result of having been named in the releases.
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