Reply #65: Okay now...

[moodforaday]

1. You were the one to introduce the (entirely false) analogy to someone's private bank account, and when you're taken to task for it, you accuse people of twisting things. They are not twisting anything, they point out the illogic of your arguments.

2. The government is not a corporation, and the government is not a private citizen. It does not "own" anything. It can issue a legal statement that says "this piece of paper is classified", which has nothing to do with ownership or any rights of ownership. If the government is abusing this privilege in order to hide criminal acts, how is exposing them wrong?

If anything, YOU own the documents, since your taxes helped pay for them.

3. At best, you could call it stealing of someone had to break into a government building and physically remove the documents. COPYING data or PUBLISHING data can in no way be called stealing, that much should be obvious. But in the cases under discussion, no theft of documents took place. People who already had access to them, gave them to other people. How's that stealing?