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The SWIFT revelation.

10:00 AM, Jul 9, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

The 9/11 Commission castigated the CIA for neglecting to collect and analyze intelligence about terrorist financing. It noted that “information about terrorist money helps us to understand [al-Qaeda] networks, search them out, and disrupt their operations.”

The Open Society and Its Enemy: WikiLeaks

9:30 AM, Jul 7, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

Private First Class Bradley Manning, arrested in May and transferred from Iraq to a detention center in Kuwait, has now been formally charged with passing a classified video to Wikileaks.org, and also with providing the shadowy website with more than 50 classified State Department cables.

And beyond the law?

8:25 AM, Jun 15, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

Is there nothing we can do about Wikileaks? Is it really a website where anyone can post any U.S. government secret no matter how injurious it is to American security?

A lesson from North Korea.

9:10 AM, Jun 11, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

“A senior Korean military commander has been arrested on suspicion of leaking the South’s military defense plans to Kim Jong Il’s regime,” reports The Australian. “The major general, identified only as Kim, arrested by military authorities yesterday, faces charges of supplying confidential information to North Korea.”

What the public knows our mortal adversaries will know as well.

9:50 AM, Jun 9, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

We may soon have before our eyes the mother of all leaks. “The State Department and American embassies around the world,” reports the Daily Beast, “are bracing for what officials fear could be the massive, unauthorized release of secret diplomatic cables in which U.S. diplomats harshly evaluate foreign leaders and reveal the inner-workings of American foreign policy.”