The latest Wikileaks dump isn't journalism; it's pure terrorism

Mediaite

. . . "But WikiLeaks defenders must answer this question: what precisely is so newsworthy that justifies blasting an innocent woman’s Social Security number out to the entire Internet?

"That’s exactly what they’ve done. The most recent information dump WikiLeaks has thrust upon the Internet is the contents of CIA Director John Brennan‘s emails. One of the documents most heavily promoted by the site is a questionnaire given to applicants for all national security positions. Among the unredacted information in the document that anyone, anywhere can now view are:

• Brennan’s address (everyone for the past thirty years, in fact)
• His phone numbers
• His passport number
• His wife’s Social Security number, address, and phone numbers
• His best friends’ addresses and phone numbers
• The addressees of his daughter, his father, his mother, and his brother, his sister, and his father-in-law

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"Now I don’t doubt that to some who support WikiLeaks, spitefully spreading personal information about our nation’s highest intelligence officer is justified, because he’s part of the eeeevil military-industrial complex, or because they have to fight the man, or because of some other juvenile tripe. But what the hell is served by doxxing innocent men and women whose only crime is loving a man you hate?" . . .

Wikileaks releases CIA chief's personal emails  . . . "Hackers are low life scum and Wikileaks isn't much better for publishing clearly private emails that contain no information regarding Brennan's public duties or US policy. that the director hasn't said in public already.

"Peeping Toms like this hacker should be caught and spend 20 years in jail. forbidden to ever again own or use a computer. A few sentences like that and even teenagers out for a lark will think twice about violating the privacy of individuals.