{"id":6459,"date":"2010-07-27T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2011-01-19T16:39:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:39:47","slug":"wikileaks-and-classified-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/27\/wikileaks-and-classified-information\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks and classified information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6460\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/WikiLeaks-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WikiLeaks logo\" width=\"69\" height=\"69\" \/>The massive unauthorized <a title=\"leak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/26\/AR2010072605657.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a> by WikiLeaks to three newspapers, including <em>The New York Times<\/em>, of 91,000 classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan may cause a reassessment of the war effort by the Obama administration.\u00a0 It already has shown how times have changed\u00a0in the Internet age\u00a0since the leak of the Pentagon Papers by government\u00a0insider Daniel Ellsberg in the &#8217;70s.\u00a0 College of Communication Dean <a title=\"Tom Fiedler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tom_fiedler.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Fiedler<\/a>, a former executive editor of the <em>Miami Herald<\/em>, says in a <a title=\"BU Today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/11314\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BU Today<\/em> <\/a>interview that\u00a0the source of such a leak is less important than the vigilance of the newspaper publishing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When a mainstream news organization gets information, the organization doesn\u2019t say, &#8216;Are you a good person?&#8217; The organization says, &#8216;Is that information verifiable?&#8217; It doesn\u2019t matter who WikiLeaks is.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tom Fiedler, 617-353-3488, <a href=\"mailto:tfiedler@bu.edu\">tfiedler@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The massive unauthorized leak by WikiLeaks to three newspapers, including The New York Times, of 91,000 classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan may cause a reassessment of the war effort by the Obama administration.\u00a0 It already has shown how times have changed\u00a0in the Internet age\u00a0since the leak of the Pentagon Papers by government\u00a0insider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3159,3407,678,3408,3406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}