Wikileaks is again being discussed on 911blogger, and user camusrebel is a lone voice of caution about them. I will add my voice to camusrebel's, and invite discussion on this topic. Basically I see it this way--if wikileaks didn't exist, and I were a sekrit government operative of some stripe or another, I would definitely create it. I would slip it a few useless but apparently sensational bits like maybe a video of troops killing people (I am shocked--SHOCKED! that troops in a war zone are shooting at people indiscriminately!) and having established a solid reputation as an organization that clearly had the public interest in mind, would start using it to spread--wait for it--DISINFORMATION! This disinformation could be aimed at activists, or at gullible agents of other intel agencies.

Now let's suppose that I didn't want to go through the trouble of creating my own wiki for leaks. Suppose an enterprising, honest frenchman did it instead. What might I do then? Well, I would certainly "leak" a whole bunch of stuff to them. And most of that stuff might be... wait for it! DISINFORMATION!

What I would want to be sure of, either way, is that my trusty and reliable friends among the controlled left, places like Alternet, Democracy Now, and AntiWar.com all touted my wikileaking op as a great service to humanity that people like me--I mean super sekrit government agents--were VERY unhappy with, to the point of making it seem like the person in charge was afraid to travel for fear of being disappeared by the powers that be.

Finally, if people started suspecting my leaking op might be an op, I would see to it that my Megaphone friends filled the echo chamber with complaints about paranoid people who think EVERYTHING is fake.

I might do a bunch of other things along the same lines, but those are just a few off the top of my head.