Publishing Military Documents on the Internets

Last week the Government released 2,500 pages of military documents to the opposition in response to their demands for more information. In a matter of days, all of these documents were posted on CBC.ca with "journalists" like Kady O'Malley encouraging her dozens and dozens of minions to read through every last page for any tidbit of incriminating information that she might have missed. How quickly do you think it took for those 2500 pages to hit the press at Taliban HQ? Yes, even the Taliban have access to the internets.

Personally I do not put much trust in our "sacred" public broadcaster to handle this issue appropriately. The day after the documents were released, CBC reporter Terry Milewski went on TV and said that there is nothing in the blacked out portion that could threaten national security or the safety of our troops in the field; despite the fact that he had not read any of the censored information! Terry read one page with a statement and used that to conclude that the whole 2500 pages of redaction was about hiding "national embarrassment, not national security". He had no idea what was blacked out, but presumed to draw lofty conclusions based on a tiny sample.

Personally, I don't want detailed information about our military operations released on the internet while we are at war. Our young men and women are over there fighting these people right now. If you assume that the people we are fighting will find this information, the more they know about our combat operations, the more effective they will be at launching attacks against our forces. Honestly I don't think that is of grave concern to Ujjal Dosangh who wants to put everything on the table WHILE we are at war. Canada is set to end combat operations in 2011.