I place blame on the intelligence officer who leaked the information, not wikileaks.
Agreed, though until yesterday, I was waffling on the "rightness" of Wikileaks involvement. Yesterday, I learned that Daniel Ellsberg had weighed in with the observation that the alarmist bleating about Asange is the exact same alarmist bleating that was leveled at him, some forty-two years ago. Q.E.D.
It is the right, nay, the responsibility of the media to
report. Anything that abridges their ability to carry out that responsibility is a threat to our liberty.
Anything.
Does it suck that our country's international relations were hurt by this? Sure, but that is not the fault of Wikileaks. They are
not responsible for the leak. They certainly aren't responsible for the behavior of those who conduct foreign relations on our behalf and who have done things that would "embarass" us.
Has anyone actually been harmed by the leaks? As it turns out, just as it did in the case of "The Pentagon Papers", the answer is no, alarmist bleating notwithstanding. Indeed, Ellsberg's revelations showed that the American people
had been lied to, and that the liars knew full well that the Vietnam War could not be won and that continued operations there would result in
needless casualties. Now many lives could have been saved and injuries prevented if the American people had, years earlier, come to the realization that the war was a bad idea?
