Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Redaction in Wikileaks

Amer wrote me this (I cite with his permission):  "Wikileaks does not always hide the sources and names well, here, they removed the name of the US informant in Syria, but at one place, they forget to cover his name "h..." (a.. h..?). Lucky for him Syrian Mukhabarat are not competent, otherwise, someone called H...would have died in Damascus tonight. I've seen that problem with other documents."

PS I can report to you that Al-Akhbar has worked very hard in redaction to protect individuals mentioned in documents (they for example redacted names of Iraqi translators with US troops whose names appeared in requests for immigration visas and such).