Reply #60: You were quoting from what is obviously an opinion piece, not a news story.

[LooseWilly]

Just because an opinion is printed in a newspaper doesn't mean that it's true... and it certainly doesn't mean that that opinion now carries more weight than it would if it had been scribbled on a bar napkin, or on a roll of toilet paper.

The allusion to giving away the secrets of D-Day is ridiculous in this day and age... unless we are worried about Al-Qaida beefing up the defenses on an Afghan or Pakistani beach somewhere.

And, from what I've heard thus far, neither Assange nor Wikileaks have actually released the information you refer to... they've merely distributed it with the threat to release it if he's arrested or killed/injured grievously.

From my point of view, that's no more reprehensible than the US Government's threat of the use of economic and military might to prevent the arrest of Dick Cheney on bribery charges in Nigeria (not to mention refusal to extradite him)... let alone the refusal to prosecute Bush for the waterboarding he ordered.

As far as I'm concerned... more power to Assange for maneuvering himself into a position where he, like the president and all the president's men, is untouchable by the law.
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