re: #102 Mark Winter

Was Wikileaks wrong?

In my opinion, yes. If what you say is true, and a legal judge agreed to an injunction banning that newspaper from publishing the contents of the document. Then the process under the law was broken.

I believe in the law. Could what you describe also been exposed without breaking the law? I am sure it could have been. It might have taken more time, and cost more…. but it would have been within the law.

In the past many here have discussed the use of torture to speed up getting the information from a terrorist that might save lives. I see this as a parallel issue. Allow wikileaks and it’s ‘editors’ the freedom to publish anything they deem as important, and you give them way too much power.

Did everything they published in the past 3 years have the results you make as an example? No. Did innocent people get their personal secrets exposed, despite doing nothing illegal? Yes.