Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
The person who stole them took them illegally. If I am working for the government then I am obliged to keep to a confidentiality agreement that I signed up to. Assange has never agreed to keep anything confidential, so I struggle to see why he is at fault. He has never worked for the US government, so has no reason to keep things hushed. That distinction is sigifiicant.

Are we to force journalists to sign a contract with the government and be forced to say only good things about their country? No they SHOULD be (though usually aren't) independant and be seeking the truth. If that means governments are forced to look foolish at times, then so be it.

I honestly have no issues with these releases whatsoever and encourage them to continue. As I say, I am VERY interested in seeing what the Bank of America has to say about what has gone on over the past 3 years or so. We have a right to know what those within corporations who have bankrupted the worlds economy and have been given free money really think. The diplomacy thing is not so much my bag, but the economy is and I want to know what has been going on behind the closed doors.


No one is saying that investigative reporting (if that even still exists, thank you left wing news media) is bad. However revealing state secrets at a time where we're already at war and certain nations (Iran and North Korea) are amping up their military and in North Korea's case going so far as to deliberately attack South Korea (miles) I don't think that airing dirty laundry that may exacerbate things is a good idea in this political climate. Assange says he wants to end all government....the only way I see that happening is via the mass use of nuclear weapons. Will we be a happy world after that?