Beginning Sunday, the website WikiLeaks, an organization designed to release covert government documents, began to release batches of top-secret papers.
Sending groans and cat-out-of-the-bag shockwaves across the world, the documents reveal some very shady dealings about American affairs.
Among the findings: corruption in the some-would-say-American-selected Afghan government involving Afghanistan’s vice president and a wad of cash totaling $52 million; secret bargaining with countries to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison; and records indicating Saudi Arabia, the supposed American ally in the Middle East, is the highest financier of the Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda.
And while we feel secret documents are kept secret for a reason, the Editorial Board recognizes the sinister secrets WikiLeaks tell expose the evil side of America and do little to compromise national security.
National officials don’t want the documents to remain secret for security reasons; they want them to remain secret to not anger any country we supposedly have a fake alliance with and to keep the American people thinking everything is A-OK.
It’s all too similar to the grade school note-passing game with Susie when we call Doreen fat. We don’t want Doreen to know we called her fat because we want her to like us. Because everyone should like us.
And if secret documents never played an important role in American history, Nixon might have stayed president.
