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Fordham University’s Official Journal of news, Analysis, Comment And Review October 27, 2010 volume xxxix issue viii page 2 the paper october 27, 2010 the paper represents the Caf price is too damn high party. We were asked to cough up $13 to enter the Caf. It is outrageous. Did you hear that? That was a paper editor’s stomach growling, ‘cause they’re hungry. We’re hungover. And we need food to dis- place the booze that is in our tummys. We demand reasonable prices for sub-par foodstuffs. As karate experts, we will not directly insult the Sodexo food or staff because what matters is that the Caf price is TOO DAMN HIGH. Every issue online and blog posts about everything and nothing. Check us out online: fupaper.wordpress.com Fan mail? Hate mail? “Worst Things Received While Trick-or-Treating ” Editors-in-Chief Write to us! 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If you don’t like it, shut your pie of papers past, Timothy Bridge hole (or come write for us)! october 27, 2010 the paper page 3 news Broadening the Discourse WikiLeaks Releases Hundreds of Thousands Of Classified Military Documents from the Iraq War by Bobby Cardos with all journalists to increase of the documents, and also has cupation by showing how the When dealing with a database CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF the amount of knowledge avail- several categorical subdivisions military reports its own events. this large, different news orga- his past Friday, WikiLeaks able. based on the activities detailed, Assange has received criti- nizations can focus on differ- Treleased 391,832 docu- Advanced technology has the region, or the Military divi- cism for releasing classifi ed ent elements of the documents ments of classifi ed military re- greatly helped WikiLeaks in the sion or affi liation. The Iraq War information in the past. The as pertains to the story they are ports from the Iraq occupation. successful gathering and dis- Logs page, programmed by Times reports that the deci- trying to tell. It marks the largest leak of in- tribution of information. Very OWNI, shows randomized logs, sion to put out the Afghan pa- One early revelation from telligence in U.S. history, more rarely does anyone at WikiLe- complete with a detailed break- pers completely uncensored in the Logs was that there is some than fi ve times the documents aks learn the identity of the down, map of the activity site, July was entirely his own, and kind of record of civilian casu- WikiLeaks released on the Af- whistleblower contributing in- and links to occupation-related caused confl icts even within his alties, albeit coming inciden- ghan war in July and more than formation, and because most articles from the Times and The circle of WikiLeaks volunteers, tally through the signifi cant fi fty times the 7,000 page Pen- of the informa- many of whom activities reports. An article by tagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg tion is submitted thought that the the Christian Science Monitor leaked to the New York Times in via the internet, information’s shows that the numbers from the 70s. they are able nature could un- the reports roughly agree with WikiLeaks is a website cur- to encrypt and necessarily en- the casualty numbers given on rently run and maintained by bounce informa- danger troops website www.IraqBodyCount. Julian Assange, who acts as tion around the and Afghan citi- org. It also provides documen- its primary voice to the public internet, through zens by exposing tation of Blackwater (now Xe) (though he is in fact part of a the servers of their movements operatives opening fi re on civil- nine member board of direc- countries like and affi liations. ians on numerous occasions. tors). Started in 2006, WikiLe- Belgium and Some have ex- Though the events in the aks boasts the largest collection Sweden, so they plicitly claimed documents have been reported of classifi ed documents, and, in become covered that Assange’s throughout world news outlets, the few years of its existence, by their journal- ideological cru- they are still valuable in their has released more classifi ed in- istic protections. sade has blood sterility, giving them credit both formation than the rest of the This makes it on its hands. as primary and objective sourc- world’s media combined. signifi cantly eas- However, De- es. And they will have a par- It operates on a general ier—and safer— mocracy Now ticular importance in the U.S., principle that information gov- to leak informa- reports that a where many of the incidents are ernments and corporations try tion and more recent Pentagon downplayed, obscured through to conceal—as Assange puts diffi cult for gov- letter reveals that the nature of American news re- it, “spend work to conceal”— ernments to trace none of the intel- porting, or entirely ignored. As tends to be the kind of informa- leaks. As Daniel Call me the James Bond of ligence released Assange said after the release of tion that is most important, that Ellsberg com- journalism. has compro- the Afghan documents in July, has the ability to have a public mented, “It is, mised military regarding the video leak “Col- impact. Concealed information of course, a leak efforts or other- lateral Murder,” which showed is often powerful information. on a scale that wise endangered Apache helicopter pilots fi ring This view has been affi rmed I couldn’t have troops. on eleven unarmed civilians, through past leaks like the Kroll done forty years ago, without Guardian published on the day There is obviously a similar two of which were Reuters jour- report, the release of which ef- scanners and digital capabili- the report was made. Since the concern with these documents, nalists, “The people in Bagh- fectively shifted the Kenyan ties. I used the most advanced logs are often in military short- but their impact will not be clear dad, the people in Iraq, the peo- election in 2007.