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marmar

(77,089 posts) Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:47 PM Feb 2013

Dan Rather Supports WikiLeaks

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/dan_rather_supports_wikileaks_20130223/

Dan Rather Supports WikiLeaks
Posted on Feb 23, 2013

Veteran news anchorman Dan Rather gave a tentative endorsement to WikiLeaks on HuffPost Live on Friday, saying the “controversial” data-dumping group provides the country with “a public service.”

“Overall in the main, I think the WikiLinks (sic) helped with something good because it deals with transparency,” Rather told host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. “As long as governments—and they will forevermore—try to keep their secrets, that are not national security secrets, then we should be pressing to find out more and not less.”

He also agreed that hackers could play a valuable role in investigative journalism by revealing government secrets that do not need to be hidden.

In another part of the conversation, Rather remarked that President Obama “did promise more transparency,” but “has delivered less transparency on everything from whistle-blower laws, which are very valuable to the public and journalists in helping the public. Far less transparency. He hasn’t met his promises about that, no question about it.”

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Dan Rather Supports WikiLeaks (Original Post) marmar Feb 2013 OP

I support anything dedicated to embarrassing self important bureaucrats Warpy Feb 2013 #1

I think most of the world supports Wikileaks, they are after all, a multiple award- sabrina 1 Feb 2013 #2

I have a DURec for Dan Rather. bvar22 Feb 2013 #3

So true. Thank you, Mr. Rather. tblue Feb 2013 #4

Warpy

(111,332 posts)

1. I support anything dedicated to embarrassing self important bureaucrats

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:52 PM

Feb 2013

and Wikileaks has done a fine job of it. It's a lot harder to hide mistakes and outright wrongdoing because of them.

I join Rather, for what it's worth. <plink, plink>

sabrina 1

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2. I think most of the world supports Wikileaks, they are after all, a multiple award-

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:56 PM

Feb 2013

winning news media, which were first to produce this kind of transparency in response, originally, among other things, to China's oppression and censorship of news and after Tiananmen Square, the crackdown on dissent. Many of the original volunteers were from China.

And no one knows better than Dan Rather what the government can do to stop a journalist from publishing the truth about a leader whose created image was in danger of being exposed as a lie.

Good for him. He was always a good journalist which is why both Bush Sr and Bush Jr/Cheney, Rove et al, went to such lengths to try to discredit him.

Bush WAS AWOL no matter how they tried to cover it up and Rather was right to try to inform the American people of that fact.