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Who's Afraid of Wikileaks?
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
6/1/2010
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Personality occasionally steers policy in surprising directions, and the zeal with which the justice department has lately taken to investigating unauthorized leaks suggests an interesting possibility: could Barack Obama’s long-professed commitment to greater transparency in government be trumped, on the particular issue of leakers, by his legendary personal discipline—his steadfast desire to keep his people in line and maintain a tight and leak-free ship? Or do these investigations reflect a broader anxiety about the future of leaking, and an effort, through a few high profile prosecutions and the the deliberate introduction of a "chilling effect," to forestall a new leaking crisis that has only just begun? Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog. |
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