Leaks?

What is the global/historical focus of this artifact?

The importance of this is the protection and safety of classified military documents. My question is how does this happen? It seems that under each of our presidents in this country, there seems to be "leaks" that are discovered and I agree with Representative Jim Hines when he states, "this is an institutional problem, not a bipartisan problem."

What is the historical story being told by this media message?

Our government and entities have information (classified, unclassified) that must need protecting and there arevery smart people who have ways of obtaining this information and sharing it with the world. Not sure what or why this information is so important, but it must be.

How is this portrayed and why?

I think this is portraying the U.S. as an incompetent country that doesn't really have a way of protecting what our government and others consider as important information.

What is made public or kept private within this message?

I mean, it is made public that confidential documents have been leaked and have been on the open web (some "gamers" site) for quite some time. Not sure what these documents were pertaining to, but apparently these are pieces of information our government did not want out. My question still remains the same, "how does someone know how to and where to get this information?"

What would be the consequence of making the reverse true?

Complete censorship???

Who benefits or loses in these differing situations?

People and government lose in my opinion. Who do we trust with information? Should it be anyone? Should we trust the government and assume it will all be ok?