Why is Wikileaks Only Targeting the West?
George Grant, The Telegraph | December 3, 2010
By making the West the focus of recent diplomatic disclosures, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, betrays an agenda every bit as sinister as the one of which he accuses his enemies. ++ Where are the "Chinese embassy Cables", or the "Iran files"? ++ If recent disclosures were really about encouraging whistle blowing about issues that genuinely impact human lives, instead of just weakening and embarrassing the United States, he would not be so reckless. ++ The truth of the matter is that this doesn’t really seem to be his objective at all.
Sat, Dec 4th 2010, 16:28
Marcus Seyfarth, University of Freiburg, University of Marburg, Association of International Relations and Security Studies (AIRES), Bronze Contributor (23)
If there were sources in Iran or China willing to leak secret information, Wikileaks would release them as well, I suppose. I therefore consider the "anti-US political bias" argument as weak albeit they clearly have political goals. But as every principle, transparency of government has its borders, especially where people's life is at risk. They undertook measures to prevent this, though.