OpenLeaks: The U.S. government may have created a monster.

DATELINE ZERO - The new site is called OpenLeaks; and you can view it at www.openleaks.org. They aim to be more open than Wikileaks was, and also to be faster at moving the information along. It sounds like, to me, that they are placing the burden of responsibility on the shoulders of whomever seeks to publish information received via OpenLeaks. However, this opens up a few areas of concern — which I’ll bring up in a moment.

The new platform will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously, such as to a particular news outlet, said Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

“We’d like to work with media outlets that have an interest in informing the public,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting of top business and political leaders in the Swiss resort of Davos.

WikiLeaks has struggled to wade through the vast amounts of material it received – particularly the hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables – and been criticized for sharing the data with only a handful of media outlets around the world.

Domscheit-Berg said giving more professional journalists and analysts the opportunity to receive and sift through documents would speed up the process while making OpenLeaks less of a target, as it would not be publishing any of the material itself.

“We are not going to get under the same kind of scrutiny from governments and big corporations as WikiLeaks is currently,” he said.

Wouldn’t this process actually make OpenLeaks more of a target? Maybe not.

It’s difficult to be more demonized than Wikileaks was … and Wikileaks was careful about the information they passed along. The consequence of being careful was that it made them slow and inefficient — and they were treated like the worse criminals in the world by the U.S. Government anyway.

Remember, Wikileaks isn’t under fire for getting people killed. They didn’t blow any on-going or future missions. Assange had said in interviews that any information about ongoing U.S. missions was set aside — they went out of their way not to leak anything that would compromise active military operations. Even U.S. officials had said that Wikileaks was “embarrassing” but caused little lasting damage.

Wikileaks was targeted by the U.S. Govt for making members of the political class look bad.

While the U.S., for example, didn’t kill Saddam (rather, the Iraqi people put him on trial and them had the former dictator hanged), members of the American political class have actually called for Assange and others associated with Wikileaks to be murdered. Making a politician look like an ass is apparently worse than filling mass graves with the bodies of your own people.

How sad.

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The priorities of most of the American political class are this: protecting Americans isn’t as big a deal as protecting themselves. Ego and greed come first.

The United States government has created an environment where you are going to be treated like a terrorist regardless — simply for exposing the lies and the cover-ups. If you even openly question the status quo, it “terrorizes” the so-called powers that be these days. That’s probably why everyone from Libertarian Party candidates to members of Catholic Workers groups are being labeled “terrorist” by various U.S. Government agencies.

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The U.S. political class is actually incentivizing a system where efficiency brings better rewards to groups like OpenLeaks than, well, the careful system that Assange had in place with Wikileaks.

The U.S. government, with its ridiculous authoritarianism, may have created a monster.

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