Showing posts with label U.S. Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Military. Show all posts

Friday, December 17, 2010

What is really achieved?

The last 400,000 leaks have been heavily redacted and names removed and the Pentagon says they “contain nothing new” (to them) but also, the harm to them may be less than to others. For example, what if the U.S. Military has changed much of its systems so that these files may only throw some light on obsolete systems, procedure or facts already known or compromised to their adversaries (Israel and Iran), for example.

And what if, most of the damage by the release of the “Afghan logs” has been to Pakistan, and most of the damage from the “Iraq logs” is to Iran. Ahh but then what about the new information that can and will help human rights lawyers in England, and enable further cases to be taken against the British?

Yes. But this is Britain you are talking about. The British “judicial system” is geared toward money-making for lawyers, and endless delays, and justice delayed is almost never justice served. Memories will fade, new issues will replace old ones, and ten years from now by the time anything is achieved after constant delays, appeals, obfuscation and legal chicanery, this will not be big news.