Claim: WikiLeaks Didn’t Usher In New Era Of Transparency

“That basic idea — leak, publish and wait for outrage — is an old idea. The premise of this recent episode was that new technologies were basically supercharging the process. It was easier to leak, easier to publish, and by implication, more likely to produce substantial policy change. But in the grand scheme of things, the scope of these leaks was perhaps not that much larger than similar breaches in the pre-Internet.”