Wikileaks reveals identity of Afgan informants

[Andres]

Meh, I think people are bringing in all kind of irrelevant stuff into this topic, while the issue at hand is pretty simple.

a) military has a leak;
b) wikileaks guy gets information;
c) information is evidence that government(s)/NATO/whatever lied/misinformed/kept things secret;
d) information also contains names of people who will be in danger if their names are made public, publishing those names is not necessary to point out that the information is evidence of c);
e) wikileaks publishes evidence, but "forgets" to blot out names of people who will be in danger or did not read all the stuff they threw out in public themselves;

wikileaks has made a terrible mistake by publishing these names and there are no excuses for it. They could have published their evidence without bringing people in danger. Since it is crystal clear that wikileaks has no way to justify their stupidity, all kinds of irrelevant stuff is brought up.

That's the issue at hand. wikileaks screwed up and they have no excuses and nobody or nothing to hide behind.

The questions whether the war in Afhganistan is just or not, if Iraq was a mistake or not, if the Taleban are evil or not, if the US is evil or not, if anti-militarism is naive or not, if Bush looks more like Hitler than like Woody Woodpecker are attempts to divert attention away from the naked truth (oh, the irony) that wikileaks made an unforgivable mistake, are completely irrelevant and belong in seperate threads.