Unfortunately I can’t make up my mind - right or left wing - about the cables.

I think it’s important that whistleblowers can reveal serious wrongdoings by any government, whatever classification the document has. This comes with the responsibility not to put anyone in harm’s way.

I would suppose and hope that such information is better guarded. The cables have underwhelmed me. They look interesting for anyone studying history, they confirm a lot of things we already suspected but whether the publishing of all those files is really necessary I simply cannot say.

The drama around WL and Assange is definitely overblown and the - unwarranted - hysteric reaction of the U.S. government has given those files an exposure they probably shouldn’t have gotten.

It should have been clear to U.S. official that once the files - which 2,5 million people had access to after all - there was no way to stop them from being know to the general public. Yet it was the U.S. government (and to a greater extent the right wing media) who really pushed that thing over the edge. Whatever happened to the Internet Czar, damage control and all that?

What if Hillary had said that all this was mainly embassy gossip and analysis embassy interns write?

Of these files only a fraction rises above the confidential level, and even those “secret” files are boring most of the time.

Instead they have hyped Assange’s ego so much that he could commit suicide by climbing up his ego and jumping down.

Assange isn’t doing “his” case any favor. If the media isn’t doing its job it’s good to have a free platform to go to, with people knowing what responsibility means. Assange instead is using Wikileaks to fight his personal crusade against the U.S. and adhering to some stupid hacker ethics that claims that every information need to be published.

No, it does not. Government needs control, but foreign policy cannot be conducted the way Assange wants it.

But it can be justified to publish even “top secret” info after careful review. Imagine a future U.S. government suppressing essential info on AGW, for example, and slapping a “top secret” on those docs.

Should we publish them? Hell yes, if we can.