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Many interesting things going on here:
- First and foremost, the whole release of classified and secret documents, which has the support of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Bottom line: security vs. transparency.
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On the iPhone so I'm gonna take this in sections and keep it shorter than i might otherwise.
As for comparisons to the Pentagon Papers, Assange isn't Ellsberg but instead he is the New York Times. He's not a whistleblower he's the guy receiving the leaked docs.
As near as I can tell, Assange and Wikileaks haven't broken a single law....even if they are beholden to US law in the first place. That doesn't mean there won't be a show trial.