BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN When it comes to journalistic achievements in 2010, the elephant in the room is WikiLeaks. I’ve seen many put-downs of the materials as containing “no smoking guns,” or as being essentially trivial communications to the State Department from U.S. diplomats and kindred government agents around the world. Now, it’s true that the cables were legally available to well over 1.5 million Americans, who had adequate security clearance. But trivial? Don’t believe it. […]
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