If only BP could have pulled the same public relations response the federal government is rolling out now.
In response to growing international criticism of WikiLeaks, including some calling for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s resignation, which amounts to the worldly equivalent of a 250,000-page “Mean Girls” burn book that bashed the entire world, the Obama administration is ordering all federal employees to not view the secret notes passed around the globe.
If only BP could have tried to avoid its international criticism by just pretending nothing happened. Imagine how many pelicans could have been saved!
While we agree the documents released are classified information, the Editorial Board does not agree with the federal government’s sloppy response to cleaning up the mess from all the gossiping this country has done. And, more importantly, we don’t agree with the federal government mandating an enormous censor on its employees after the United States was rightfully caught in an international scandal that sounds more like a bad WB high school sitcom.
We’re glad the federal government has yet to take the Orwellian step of banning the WikiLeaks website on federal computers. But we’re waiting for it.
The federal government should be ashamed of everything WikiLeaks brought to the international spotlight.
As Ron Paul said on his Twitter, “In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”
