[Shaun]

Originally Posted by letmein

Assange should be awarded a medal! The world has the right to know what the government is doing in their name!

That's rather assumptive of the world dealing with said information responsibly. Instead, this is going to fuel the paranoid and the insecure (and lord knows we have enough of those in power) with justification for war and tension.

There's absolutely no right to know what the government is saying and doing - most of these are off-the-cuff remarks that are now going to be magnified by those who assume they 'have a say' and a 'right to hear' everything, which has been fuelled by mass media.