“We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.” — Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) – Via Wikileaks.org

The Washington Post leaked the (soon to happen?) release of Wikileaks.org.  Though there is no there there yet, the Post says it will be "a Web-based way for people with damning, potentially helpful or just plain embarrassing government documents to make them public without leaving fingerprints." 

It will be great to see how well this works out.  Is it the kind of tool that can respond to governance dodges like Henry Reid’s recent "dead-of-night legislating" or will we need more specialized responses? 

In any case, it is certain that for the policy commons to be effective, transparency will be a critical dimension and Wikileaks is addressing the transparency need head-on.