In his upcoming book, Public Parts, one of Jeff Jarvis’ early drafts contained this paragraph:

Wikileaks has pushed the definition and question of transparency to its limit and beyond, releasing hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through media organizations including the Guardian, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and OWNI, a French site devoted to digital journalism that built a crowdsourcing tool so readers could cull through the docs to find important bits. … Now nothing, not even war, can be carried out in assured secrecy.

Good. Wikileaks finally made it so that the government must wage its wars in the same way individuals wage their loves: in public. For what is clear to me from having loved is that it is not, in fact, possible to do it secretly.