What it boils down to is that the news is on Assange and Wikileaks, who are not the problem. They are a foreign group of volunteers running a whistle blower website, and reporting on the documents that have been sent to them.
It is irresponsible for them to seem to have a vendetta against the United States, but it is not irresponsible for them to report on leaked documents. Journalists should report on whatever large pieces of information they come across, especially primary sources, and especially those that may show evidence of corruption or deception.
The focus right now should not be on Wikileaks or Assange. The focus should be on finding out who stole these documents, like in the case with the PFC, and sentencing them to treason. I'm not saying whether or not that's just. I'm saying that that is what a self-preserving government should do. Someone who is willing to cause such an uproar by releasing confidential goverment documents should be willing to die for their cause. This should mean that you'd better be darn sure that what your releasing shows genuine proof of misconduct on that government's part.
That's where the current situation gets fuzzy. It doesn't seem like this leak is showing real misconduct, so much as just candid opinions of our diplomats. Are those not valuable? That those opinions and conversations are now public shows we're not dealing with a whistleblower, we're dealing with a terrorist.
