Wikileaks, look what you have done!

[Enrique]

i hope you're happy.

http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/critics-jab-pentagon-press-secretary-s-ruined-easter-1.142083


WASHINGTON – Careful the things you tweet; new media critics will listen.

A bit of Easter Sunday snark tweeted by Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell, a Twitter neophyte, has drawn some guffaws from the international blogosphere. Morrell’s reaction to late-breaking Sunday news reports on a Wikileaks dump of classified information, this time about the treatment of nearly every Guantanamo prisoner since 2002, did not go unnoticed.

Morrell tweeted on Monday, “Thx to Wikileaks we spent Easter weekend dealing w/NYT & other news orgs publishing leaked classified GTMO docs"

“The real victims so often get ignored,” Salon’s Natasha Lennard wrote that day, tongue firmly in cheek. “Here we were, concerned about the inmates with psychotic illnesses, the senile old men and the children detained at Guantanamo Bay, and not once did we think about what Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell had to sacrifice because of the Guantanamo Files leaks: his Easter weekend.”

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[Duke Newcombe]

1. Sounds like he just "wants his life back"... n/t

[Thunderstruck]

2. You and I are surely not the only ones with this first thought upon reading this OP.

[Wilms]

3. Sounds like it scrambled his plans to attend the Easter Egg Roll.

Just another tool in the box.