Wikileaks

Charli Carpenter seems like a fine human being, but the degree of wrong-headedness involved in her position on Wikileaks is really remarkable. When Assange et alia released the first round of leaked documents there was much gnashing of teeth about the innocents abroad his dunderheaded dunderheadedness put at risk often with a side of the documents are a whole load of meh. Here for example and there seems to be some of the same this go round.. There is of course no evidence for the first and the second relies on the documents being

[i]n a number of respects the Iraq War Diaries . . . a repeat of the Afghan War Diaries – a massive data dump bringing to light few unknowns but casting knowns in much sharper relief.

Well, here's some sharper relief for you.  15,000 officially dead Iraqi civilian,details of 23,000 previously unreported "violent incidents."  As to the unknowns, the War Logs themselves make it

possible to examine such data and to compare and combine it with other sources in a way that adds appreciably to public knowledge.

So there you have other than adding new facts, numbers, and information Assange and Co. have done little other than spread light where there was once darkness and no one got hurt in the process.

UPDATE:
The leaked documents only prove that top US officials lied like rugs.

Here's the thing, though: According to then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his top commanders, it never happened. These killings, these dead, did not exist. According to them, reporters like myself were lying.

To be sure, nearly everyone who agrees with the proposition that top US officials lied like rugs already knew that top US officials lied like rugs.  The fact that

 Thanks to Wikileaks, though, I now know the extent to which top American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world, as the Iraq mission exploded.

Is a mere bagatelle.