Eric Morse raises an interesting point in an Ottawa Citizen piece:

Weak leaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Who will watch the latest self-appointed custodians of freedom?
Photograph by: Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images, Citizen Special
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Assange has made other claims: “We have files that concern every country in the world with a population of over one million,” he said this week. “Thousands of databases and files about all sorts of countries.”

It’s reasonable — from his point of view — that he should release this particular lot. It is far more sensational than, say, a similar dump of Russian Federation Security Service files on the brutal North Caucasus counterinsurgency — if he has anything like that in the first place [by the way, deaths on all sides in the Russia's Chechen wars make the so-called "nine-year" Afghan war look rather like a tea party by comparison]…

Might the assidous Mr Assange actually have a pretty uni-targeted agenda? Earlier:

Leaked AfPak docs: Journalistic ethics? Shmethics! Plus: “Shame on [Canadian] us”–and the NDP

Update: Conference of Defence Associations’ media round-up:

Wikileaks is No Smoking Gun

Plus from Brian Platt at The Canada - Afghanistan Blog:

How Wikileaks Will Get Afghans Killed

Sweet, eh?

Mark
Ottawa