Don't get me wrong ... a little whistle-blowing is a good thing. It leads to accountability and excellence. If a company or government agency is guilty of mismanagement or illegal behavior, it should be exposed.But WikiLeaks crossed the line. We are in a war on terrorism, and they compromised our position. If our intelligence network is weakened, we are more suspectible to the attacks we've committed to stopping.
I've heard Julian Assange speak, and he's a raving lunatic. Our system of laws has guided us since the days of John Adams on how to deal with these situations: it's treason.
We'll have plenty of opportunities to save people from unfair free speech infringements. This is not one of those times.
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