{"id":94,"date":"2010-12-14T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahtan.org\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-12-14T01:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:53:07","slug":"leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really follow the news much for some reason, but I do kept myself updated of what&#8217;s going on generally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much hullabaloo about this wikileaks site which is releasing highly confidential government documents to the public&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I can understand it&#8217;s original intent for journalist anonymity whilst exposing a story, but in recent years, the site&#8217;s original purpose has seemingly gone missing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst originally a site where anyone can submit an exposing story, vetted by a group of conscientious fact finders, now it seems to be run by a team of troublemakers out to start world war 3&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The very same public that lauded the site for exposing unethical treatments in Africa are now criticizing them for spreading anarchy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The person allegedly running this site has been arrested and I wonder how he would feel if things he told his lawyer; things told in confidence; things bound by laws concerning privileged information, are made public&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A lot of information that is out there, is placed out of context&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd most people would just take such information at face-value, without discernment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes uncovering scandals and coverups are good&#8230;<br \/>\nIt helps to keep the government accountable to the people they serve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge is power&#8230;<br \/>\nBut true wisdom comes from knowing when to exercise that power&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really follow the news much for some reason, but I do kept myself updated of what&#8217;s going on generally&#8230; There&#8217;s much hullabaloo about this wikileaks site which is releasing highly confidential government documents to the public&#8230; Now, I can understand it&#8217;s original intent for journalist anonymity whilst exposing a story, but in recent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}