Reply #36: Sometimes secrecy is vitally important, even in a democracy.

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For example, from the London Daily Mail:

"Just imagine that D-Day is only weeks away.

"Months of secrecy and disinformation have succeeded in confusing the Germans about when or where the inevitable invasion will come.

"Then an anarchist activist, insisting that in a democracy everyone has the right to know everything, publishes the secret plans for Operation Overlord.

"Inconceivable then, but today that is precisely what WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, would do in a similar situation."

SNIP

Pressed on whether his actions risk harming the innocent - soldiers on active service for example - he says, in a scary echo of the kind of the language used by the military that he despises, that 'collateral damage' is inevitable, and concedes that WikiLeaks might end up with 'blood on our hands'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297917/Is-Wiki...