Central Asia specialist Joshua Foust on the Wikileaks affair…

That was a good interview, with sufficient depth, the right questions asked of Foust, and some intelligent trading of comments concerning the thoroughly unprofessional behaviour of Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks colleagues.

That said, PBS’s Jon Meacham could have been a little more assertive in his questioning, as one has to listen very carefully indeed to follow Foust’s subtly qualified condemnation of WikiLeaks and the Afghan War Diaries. Foust knows his stuff, and one should defer to his undoubted expertise on Afghanistan. But Foust is an insider embedded to the n-th degree, and to my mind he isn’t entirely convincing in his plea for the rest of us to trust him and his official sources.

WikiLeaks is Dead. Long Live Son of WikiLeaks!

Hat tip: Terry Glavin