THANKS, JULIAN:

How WikiLeaks vindicated Bush’s anti-terrorism strategy (Donald H. Rumsfeld, 5/12/11, Washington Post)

Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of U.S. special operations forces is a major success in our country’s war against al-Qaeda. As a result of the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program and the intelligence gained from detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a major fraction of al-Qaeda’s senior leadership has been captured or killed since 2001.

This conclusion was inadvertently reinforced recently by WikiLeaks’ illegal disclosure of more than 700 classified Defense Department files on Guantanamo Bay detainees. Their publication has harmed our security and cemented the impression among allies that America is incapable of keeping secrets. But the material also provides compelling evidence of the effectiveness of Bush administration anti-terror policies after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Considering all the nonsensical conspiracy theories that people believe in, it's surprising that no one has adopted one that actually makes perfect sense, that Wikileaks is a government plot intended to make us look uniformly good and our enemies bad. (Of course, honest leaks couldn't help but do so.)

Posted by oj at May 14, 2011 7:46 AM
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