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A heavily redacted Department of Defense report concludes that documents leaked to WikiLeaks had no "significant strategic impact" on the war in Afghanistan and "[had] no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership in Iraq":
The publication of hundreds of thousands of secret US documents leaked by the Army soldier Chelsea Manning in 2010 had no strategic impact on the American war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a newly released Pentagon analysis concluded.
The main finding of the Department of Defense report, written a year after the breach, was that Manning's uploading of more than 700,000 secret files to the open information organization WikiLeaks had no significant strategic effect on the US war efforts.
The belated publication of the analysis gives the lie to the official line maintained over several years that the leak had caused serious harm to US national security.
[...] The conclusions are contained in the final report of the information review task force that the DoD set up in the wake of the Manning leaks to look into their impact in the hope of mitigating any damage. The report was obtained by BuzzFeed's investigative reporter Jason Leopold under freedom of information laws.
(Score: 1, Troll) by ledow on Thursday June 22 2017, @02:09PM (2 children)
"Hey, I should be allowed to smash up the town, or release parking brakes of parked convertibles at random, so long as I don't happen to cause too much damage....
Idiotic.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 22 2017, @03:06PM
I'm glad you're able to recognize your analogy for what it is.
Far too often people don't realize that their analogies fit the issues so poorly that they lack any predictive value. It's almost like they're trying to pick a fight with a man made of straw.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 22 2017, @11:58PM
That's why I do my release-of-parked-convertible-parking-brakes in San Francisco. It's hard to get them pointed down the hill, but if you can, you get maximum carnage. It's like in Super Mario Bros. When you kick the shell and your score doubles for every enemy hit until you start getting 1-ups. Or, in their case, 1-downs.