"Redaction of these individuals' names would merely add a layer of confusion and opacity to the documents without any additional privacy benefit, " they wrote.
Instead, it will allow the source to designate any media or non-governmental organizations he or she chooses and have that information passed on for fact-checking, redaction and publication.
How did an organization that, for a time, prided itself publicly on a strenuous redaction process that worked to safeguard the identity of those who might be endangered by the leaks of sensitive government documents come to dump a massive and unredacted trove of U.S. State Department cables on the Internet with no consideration for the human consequences?