>>Have you read any of them?
>>If so, then of the one's that you have read who did you consider to have been 'damaged' and why ?
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>I have and I agree with Amnesty International the he risked the lives of the informants names he did not black out. I will not post their names here - that would be just as irresponsible as that idiot.
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html
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>Several WikiLeaks colleagues say he alone decided to release the Afghan documents without removing the names of Afghan intelligence sources for NATO troops. “We were very, very upset with that, and with the way he spoke about it afterwards,” said Birgitta Jonsdottir, a core WikiLeaks volunteer and a member of Iceland’s Parliament. “If he could just focus on the important things he does, it would be better.”
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>My issue with him is the lack of responsibility in hiding the identities of those involved. It's fine to out policies and deaths and anything else that comes about due to government policies, but to risk the lives of those involved in supporting our national interests is irresponsible. How many intelligence sources do you think trust us now? Not only that other countries were involved as well and so it damages them as well.

I haven't been following the details of this case very closely, but I'm curious - has he been publishing information dangerous to Mossad or FSB?

It seems a lot of the issue is are we or are we not at war? If some Swiss journalist in 1944 was publishing - or threatening to publish - information about Enigma or our breaking the Japanese naval code I can't imagine Donovan or Cummings hesitating for a heartbeat and there would be no thought of "prosecution" on charges trumped up or otherwise.

I remember the Phillip Agee affair very well and I remember some people dying.

I wonder how many people died because "the public's right to know" we could intercept Bin Laden's sat phone transmissions was considered sacrosanct.

All so journalists can continue to write about the heroism of journalists ...

"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."