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Daley: WikiLeaks is delinquent and anti-democratic

We are entering an unprecedented age of free speech, right? For the first time in human history, the state will no longer have control over information, right? Democracy is about to come to its full fruition, with the triumph of … Continue reading

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Jonas: Cyber-patriots and Internet-anarchists

A cyber-activist correspondent accuses me of sour grapes. He says the reservations I voiced earlier this week about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are hypocritical. He points out that Assange didn’t hack or burgle his way into any archive … Continue reading

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Jonas: There is no 'right to know' (2)

At lunch, a friend asks: "Where did this guy Assange come form?" He means WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently held without bail in Britain on some sex-related charges issued in Sweden. Since my friend knows Assange hails from Australia, presumably … Continue reading

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Martin: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Worst Fears of Climate Skeptics

Just a year ago, the Climategate files — a collection of emails, data, and computer source code — were somehow purloined from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit and made public. Pajamas Media was one of the first … Continue reading

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Lieberman: NYT may have committed crime by printing WikiLeaks docs (3)

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said The New York Times may have committed a crime by publishing classified documents provided by WikiLeaks, and called for the Justice Department to investigate. "To me, New York Times has committed … Continue reading

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested (4)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's extradition unit today. The 39-year-old Australian was held when he attended a central London police station by appointment at 9.30am. He will appear before a district judge at City … Continue reading

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Goodspeed Analysis: Afghanistan — NATO’s partner in war, mistrust (4)

Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie’s leaked diplomatic cable highlights the extremely fragile relationship that exists between the government of Afghanistan and the NATO alliance. It is now obvious from Mr. Crosbie’s cable and the U.S. documents in the WikiLeaks trove that … Continue reading

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Moran: The Internet Age Jumps the Shark

It’s another “What is this world coming to?” moment — something we should be getting used to with Barack Obama and the Democrats in charge of the government. Alas, the human imagination has its limits and contemplating the possibility that … Continue reading

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Hanson: The Age of Adolescence

Never-never land One of the great themes of the 1960s was to “do your own thing.” But usually “liberation” distilled down to creating your own rules and norms to justify allowing the appetites and passions to run free, while offering … Continue reading

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Varadarajan: The Fallout from WikiLeaks' Latest Exposure (3)

Julian Assange may not have endangered lives directly by leaking thousands of pages of purloined diplomatic correspondence, but he's certainly made conducting American diplomacy more difficult. Tunku Varadarajan on the consequences. Another WikiLeaks whirlwind has hit us. The trick, truly, … Continue reading

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Simon: Sleazy WikiLeaks Meets the Digital Ninnies of the State Department

The criminality of self-righteous WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange aside, the State Department or other government nincompoops who authored the leaked documents and emails calling Sarkozy a “naked emperor,” etc., deserve to be terminated for extreme doofuss-ness. These days, a school … Continue reading

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