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The web site you link to says information about Afghanistan was leaked, and no informant names published.


Yes it does, please read / search carefully before making an assertion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_documents_leak_o...

> [...] the detailed logs had exposed the names of Afghan informants, thereby endangering their lives.


You apparently didn't read carefully yourself. The names were never published. That the logs exposed their names to Wikileaks and other reporters is known.

If many names were published, what is one name?


1500 documents were published with thousands of bits of compromising information. They sent a request the the DOD to sanitize the documents, and the DOD basically said we don't negotiate with terrorists, so we will not attempt to mitigate.

The information included FOB locations, contact reports, and secret and classified documents. releasing these documents without properly sanitizing the information put american service men in danger.

Without a doubt, leaking classified information puts thousands of lives at risk. Julian Assage is a criminal. At some point you stop being a whistle blower and you become a terrorist releasing compromising information on troop movements, informants, supply constraints, and readiness assessments. Julian Assage is a terrorist and i'm sure he won't live very long now that he is out. He's pissed off too many dangerous people.


If you make your point in a more verbose and personable way it will be more convincing.




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