Impact of Manning leaks
2017-09-14 17:30:39.021724+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Brigadier general Robert Carr, a senior counter-intelligence officer who headed the Information Review Task Force that investigated the impact of WikiLeaks disclosures on behalf of the Defense Department, told a court at Fort Meade, Maryland, that they had uncovered no specific examples of anyone who had lost his or her life in reprisals that followed the publication of the disclosures on the internet. "I don't have a specific example," he said.
I don't know how much lasting good the leak has done, but I think it's easy to argue that without the leak we wouldn't have seen the Arab Spring uprisings, or US drawdowns in Iraq, both of which seem like good things.