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they where provided the video under the condition that they'd try to maximize its political impact to the best of their ability

With this policy in mind, is it any wonder that Army counterintelligence once wondered: "Will the Wikileaks.org Web site be used by FISS, foreign military services, or foreign terrorist groups to spread propaganda, misinformation, or disinformation or to conduct perception or influence operations to discredit the US Army?" -- http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf




This is appalling. It sounds like Wikileaks has been "positively blackmailed"[1] into accepting the video.

"We'll give you this tasty goodie to publish on your site, but you have to use it to further our political agenda".

Sounds like they couldn't resist the temptation. This is not what we want from a whistleblower protection site.

[1] is there an official word for that?


Bribed would probably be the closest “official” word.




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