What do you think of Assange and Wikileaks?

I thought the order of document classification was: top-secret -> secret -> confidential -> unclassified. Regardless, the man who is suspected of leaking the information to wikileaks was not a highly ranked officer, or even an officer at all. In fact, he was a Private First Class. My understanding is that this a one of the lowest ranks in the military (only enlisted, not an officer or warrant officer). The officer, Bradley Manning, was only arrested on providing unauthorized use and disclosure of U.S. classified information. If this is indeed the case, he didn't go above his level of security clearance. It then follows that the information was already pretty freely available, if someone with his rank and his security clearance could access things that are so important that they are national threats.

You're comparing an enlisted soldier to an average citizen with that however. Sure someone with as low a rank as him could access it, but anyone off the streets would have an issue with getting that same information easily.