2010-12-10, 04:58 AM
MasPan Wrote:The information is extremely highly classified and the government has the ability to prosecute people for simply possessing it, let alone publishing it. Illegal may be the wrong word, but it was highly immoral and irresponsible of him to do so. I personally hold what he did to be espionage - he encouraged people to deliver classified information to him so that he could publish it.
WikiLeaks never said "please give us things to embarrass the USA." WikiLeaks setup an anonymous method that anyone in the world can give them information they feel should be published. WikiLeaks then reviews the information and decides to publish it. They jsut happened to get someone who had these cables.
Also, relevant:
[video=youtube;xhZk8ronces]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces[/video]
transcript: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Res...271961.htm