{"id":3282,"date":"2016-02-08T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2016-02-08T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:41:46","slug":"seven-years-ago-today-wikileaks-published-6700-crs-reportsand-nobody-was-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/seven-years-ago-today-wikileaks-published-6700-crs-reportsand-nobody-was-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Years Ago Today, WikiLeaks Published 6,700 CRS Reports\u2026And Nobody Was Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wikileaks<\/a><\/p>\n

Feb. 8, 2009 began like any other Sunday for me. I was up early taking care of a young child, gulping coffee and scanning the news. The <\/em>New York Times<\/a><\/em> turned my stomach with its report that a Polish engineer had been beheaded by the Taliban. The Grey Lady also gleefully described the tribulations of Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele. A happier bit of news came fromThe Washington Post<\/em>. Its sports section reminded me that my Cleveland Cavs were playing the Los Angeles Lakers on television at 3:30 that afternoon.<\/p>\n

At some point that morning, I managed to get online. (I did not have a smartphone back then.) The Internet was abuzz with speculation about the 51st Grammy Awards, which were that night. (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss would fare well<\/a>.) And there sat an email from a colleague of mine at the Congressional Research Service<\/a>, asking if I had heard that WikiLeaks had published a trove of our reports.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t…. (Read more at the R Street Institute Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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