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However, Wikileaks were not the first to expose waterboarding by the US - knowledge of it has been in the public arena for quite some time.
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Wikileaks were the first organisation to post the documents internal manual for the running of Guantanamo.
I'm not exactly sure who exposed waterboarding but it wouldn't surprise me if it was Wikileaks. Have you actually researched on who exposed waterboarding the first time or are you just making an ignorant guess that it wasn't Wikileaks?
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However, Wikileaks were not the first to expose waterboarding by the US - knowledge of it has been in the public arena for quite some time. And, yes, the public should speak up and take a stand.
Amnesty International have been reporting on torture used by governments for a long time now. A lot of us are already aware and doing something about it.
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Amnesty International gave Julian Assange in 2009 it's New Media award for doing such a good job at exposing wrongdoing.
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That is not the case. Wikileaks is not indiscriminately publishing the cables. They have… something like +12000 cables, and so far, they have only released 1100 or so.
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Cable Viewer you can see the number.
At the moment it's 1295 released out of a total of 251,287. On the website you can even take a look at the documents yourself to form your own informed opinion about the cables.
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If you don't trust your elected representatives, don't elect them in the first place.
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Democracy is not about electing all powerful kings. Is it is about electing representatives and then being able to inform yourself about their wrongdoings to reelect those that did a good job and replace those who didn't.
The founding fathers of the US purposefully didn't advocate complete trust in the elected officials but an independent citizenry with can use the first amendment.
Another new revelation from cablegate:
Cables say drug giant hired investigators to find evidence of corruption on Nigerian attorney general to persuade him to drop legal action