re: #241 ozbloke

I assume from your nic that you’re Australian.
Australia sees potential risk in release of Iraq documents

Australia’s defence department set up a taskforce to go through classified documents about the Afghanistan war released by the website earlier this year.

Mr Smith says the same taskforce will go through the lastest documents.

“It still does potentially give people an insight into the way into which we do operations and it does potentially put people at risk who have assisted us in the past, but we’ll go through that painstaking course and treat it in exactly the same way we’ve treated the earlier unauthorised disclosure of classified military information,” he said.

This puts Astralians in danger as well. I think it’s important to be realistic about warfare. If an Aussie soldier in Afghanistan fucks up and kills some civilians does the military hold a press conference the next day to identify the soldier and advertise the tragedy?
Countries at war do not operate on transparency. It’s just not realistic.