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loquitor: you act as though this release of material vaporizes the deliberative privilege. were that what was happening, i'd likely be arguing something much closer to your position, actually.
but that's not what's happening. there's been a leak, it was made public and there we are. there's handwaving and some attempts to shore up the appearances of closedness of this information stream and that's about the extent of it. a few patch-up phonecalls or meeting where appropriate.
that's it.
personally, i'm far closer to anarchism than i am to libertarian. and i approve of direct action from time to time. i don't buy the idea that it's revolutionary, but in some cases it can have a salutary effect. this particular leak is one of them.
i do think that the problem pointed out in the shanghai scrap piece i posted above is real, however. and i think that exposing it is worth the embarrassment it causes both the people involved and those who think in system terms about those people.
i should also say that so far anyway, there's been little real damage done because so far the leak does not reveal anything terribly untoward---this is quite different from what would have been the case under the bush administration.
so i see little harm in this. i see an interesting political action.
and i don't really care about the "trafficking in stolen information" line because i view this as a political action. the entire rhetoric of "trafficking in stolen information" is an attempt to strip out the politics from it and transform it into some criminal action.
but that's just conservative rhetoric.
should i say something snippy-seeming here? vaguely disapproving? i feel like i should.
maybe that'll be another disappointment.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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