Wiki leaks insists they provide an inovative and secure way for anonymous sources to spread information to their writers to be published to the world. WikiLeaks priority is to spread information they think the world should know about; to publish the original source of material and news stories to the families and friends of the person to blame for doing something they view as wrong. They want the world to see evidence of the truth."Could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act." - Time Magazine
Wiki Leaks, to me, is showing too much yet just enough. The information is valid and should, in some cases, be known about in the commen world... not just the army or person involved. In this case, seeing a video about how the people who are supposed to be HELPING out country, make a game out of a shooting is heart renching. I think however, we as americans should know how our country is being defended. It is one thing to think that someone you're looking at could be carrying a gun to harm someone and or himself, but it's another story if you shoot them and bash them for what you thought they are. I wonder if the information we are seeing shows the government that they should probably change the way things are being taken care of? In this situation, I believe, we could have swarmed the area and taken the men down in a different way. We could have searched them for weapons or bombs before shooting them ourselves. They also took it to another level by shooting a civilians just trying to her. Could this situation harm our "friendship" with outher countries if they got a hold of the video? Or would they support our attacks on innocent people?
To me, WikiLeaks is a good source for information if they show information that is nessasary to show. Regardless of being hurtful for some people it is showing them the truth behind our actions. I don't think they should show personal individual information about each and every soul, but I think it is good to see what out government is doing and how they handle business if we American's "keep our cool" when we find out. I believe this site is one of the only ones showing what really is going on. I believe if this site continued on, our country would better it's self in some ways.
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