{"id":299360,"date":"2017-03-16T22:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leaks-can-be-for-good-or-evil\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T22:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:24:06","slug":"leaks-can-be-for-good-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leaks-can-be-for-good-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaks Can be for Good or Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hacking and \u201cleaking\u201d have become major news items. Are the leaks good or bad?\u00a0 The answer depends on the nature of the leak. Are the leaks exposing crimes or covering them up? Are they for or against the public good?<\/p>\n<p>Following are some famous leaks or disclosures that have done good.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1969, Daniel Ellsberg started xeroxing the Vietnam war analysis known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/pentagon-papers\">Pentagon Papers<\/a>. Two years later the secret documents were finally ready and published for the first time. This disclosure of classified information allowed the public to learn about the reality of what was going on in Vietnam in contrast to the rosy government and military assessments. It was revealed that four U.S. administrations starting with Truman had misled the public and lied about their real intentions and military actions from undermining the 1954 Geneva settlement to secretly bombing Cambodia. The Pentagon Papers led many more Americans to oppose the war and hastened its end.<\/p>\n<p>In 1975 former CIA agent Philip Agee published his book <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdworldtraveler.com\/CIA\/CIA_Diary_Agee.html\"><em>Inside the Company: CIA Diary<\/em><\/a>. Patrick Breslin of the <em>Washington Post<\/em> described the book this way: \u201cIn this book Agee has provided the most complete description yet of what the CIA does abroad. In entry after numbing entry, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America is pictured as a web of deceit, hypocrisy and corruption.\u201d Agee identified corrupt politicians plus American and foreign CIA operatives throughout Latin America. His expose greatly reduced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/03\/leaks-can-be-for-good-or-evil\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking and \u201cleaking\u201d have become major news items. Are the leaks good or bad?\u00a0 The answer depends on the nature of the leak. Are the leaks exposing crimes or covering them up? Are they for or against the public good? Following are some famous leaks or disclosures that have done good. Beginning in 1969, Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}