> One wonders whether a real impactful whistleblowing leak might be disadvantaged in this climate;
This one is pretty real.
For one we now have official confirmation that the Netherlands hosts a foreign countries nuclear weapons inspite of numerous politicians being on the record to the contrary and for that alone I thank Julian Assange.
I'm pretty sure that there are lots of other bits and pieces that are relevant to various parties.
One thing this all shows is that you really can't trust governments with any collection of data and that's another useful thing to know with direct application to everyday life.
To the best of my knowledge the Dutch government, like the Belgian, never confirmed nor denied that US nuclear warheads were stored on Dutch resp. Belgian soil. Everybody knew for at least 25 years that they were there, and nobody was even coy about it - just that there was no 'official' confirmation. So it's not a new fact at all.
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> One wonders whether a real impactful whistleblowing leak might be disadvantaged in this climate;
This one is pretty real.
For one we now have official confirmation that the Netherlands hosts a foreign countries nuclear weapons inspite of numerous politicians being on the record to the contrary and for that alone I thank Julian Assange.
I'm pretty sure that there are lots of other bits and pieces that are relevant to various parties.
One thing this all shows is that you really can't trust governments with any collection of data and that's another useful thing to know with direct application to everyday life.
To the best of my knowledge the Dutch government, like the Belgian, never confirmed nor denied that US nuclear warheads were stored on Dutch resp. Belgian soil. Everybody knew for at least 25 years that they were there, and nobody was even coy about it - just that there was no 'official' confirmation. So it's not a new fact at all.