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"information wants to be free(d)"
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013...itmo-detainee/The secret diaries of the Guantanamo Bay detainee known as Abu Zubaydah, which the Bush administration heavily relied upon in its justification for many elements of the “War on Terror,” are no longer solely in government custody.
Al Jazeera America has obtained the U.S. government’s English translation of the diaries that span more than a decade from Abu Zubaydah’s time as a student to just days before his capture in March 2002 in Pakistan. Al Jazeera says it will publish reports and the six volumes of the diaries over the course of multiple installments, the first of which is available today.
The diaries are routinely used by U.S. officials as the justification for holding several prisoners in Guantanamo, but were never made available to experts or journalists despite several vigorous campaigns to obtain them through the Freedom of Information Act.
The sensitivity of obtaining the do ents is underscored by Al Jazeera’s decision to send a company representative from New York to Los Angeles to retrieve the diaries from reporter Jason Leopold, who says he obtained the volumes from a former U.S. intelligence official.
"information wants to be free(d)"
through ethically troubled heralds like Leopold, it would seem.
the message is the message, the medium is not.
Jason Leopold seems to me an odd choice of point man. Lotta weird baggage.
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