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July 28, 2010

Thomas Fingar debates significance of U.S. field reports from Afghanistan released by WikiLeaks

Shorenstein APARC, CISAC in the news: France 24 on July 28, 2010

On July 25, WikiLeaks released a compendium of 91,000 U.S. field reports from Afghanistan covering the years 2004-2010. Thomas Fingar joined a panel of experts and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on France 24 for a televised debate, "War and Whistle-blowing," to discuss the significance of the documents. Fingar put the documents in context, stating that it is not the contents of the documents themselves but the sensationalism caused over them that will have an effect.