Even if US officials did have evidence that the release of documents lead to someone's death, it may be a small price to pay to force an end to illegal occupations that have killed over a million people, most of them innocent civilians.

It's challenging and inspiring to imagine the courage of PFC Manning, and also Julian Assange. Bradley Manning has been in solitary confinement for 7 months! His battle, although not on the battlefield, is a worthwhile one deserving of respect and honor, not shame and derision. The MSM has it all wrong, most notably NPR (National Propaganda Radio). Our country would have a healthier democracy with more like Manning and Assange.

In many respects the constitution is out of date, in fact Thomas Jefferson said that it may well prove to be imperfect.
But having said that i find it interesting that it is the very people who treat it as the immutable foundation stone of the American nation who are prepared, at the drop of a hat, to ignore it's tenets when it suits their narrow agenda.
Any Americans out there who disagree with my analysis please feel free to point out the error of my ways. I am always ready to learn.

@Ivan Thomas. To keep the constitution up to date we have an amendment system. You know, the first amendment, the second amendment, and so on.

@anon 16:58. The UCMJ is a different penal system than in the rest of the US. I still believe you can put a person on a diet of bread and water only for up to three days at a time. Forget about "cruel an unusual" when it comes to the military. A famous quote -"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

@ anonymous, which particular amendment is it that no longer allows free speech? particularly the freedom of speech of people who happen to live elsewhere on the planet?

The State Department is disingenuous warning of potential "blood on Wikileaks' hands." How about the real, actual provable deaths caused already by US errant policies - 6,000 deaths of brave American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths (remember that Saddam did not have WMD nor was Iraq anyway responsible for 9/11). If there had been more transparency during the buildup to the Iraq war, these actual deaths might have been avoided. Go Wikileaks, Go Assange. Go transparency.

There's a vast territory between death and embarrassment or discomfort. We really don't know what damage may have been done by these leaks, and we may never know. I am not convinced that this is a simple issue... but I do feel if it leads to our getting out of our two wars, it would definitely have great value. This release of information essentially comes across, though, as an attack on America, and on America only. We are left reeling, as if we're the only perpetrators of deceptive behavior. I'm watching and listening, but reserving judgment on the value of the leaks....

Anyone who knows anything at all about international intrigue and the role of intelligence (or lack thereof) in defining world outcomes in the last 100 years realizes this to be devastating.

Any country which FAILS to gather intelligence (RE: Britain and the US "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail" philosophy which nearly cost the free world it's freedom in WW II) is criminal in their failure to provide the governing body with ALL the information necessary to conduct world affairs.

Mr. Assange needs to be tried under National Security Laws in place since WWII and put there by Democrats.

As to the punk "marine" who outed these documents, he will never see the light of day again. That is due and prudent, and necessary under a government fighting numerous world fronts, weather rightfully or not.

It amounts to Treason, pure and simple, and he will pay.

Assange is my hero. And having reached the age of 80 this month, I can name very few in the public arena more deserving of thanks and praise than him - - for finally opening up the flood gates to the truth about how we Americans have been swindled by the thieves who pretend to love this country. Their new mantra should be: "In Greed and Gold We Trust" branded on their foreheads for all the world to see.

Wikileaks is very definiately good for Democracy. It is also a good lesson to those who claim that knowledge of their misdoings is a form of terrorism. For now we can see in the glaring light of information just how lacking in grace and dignity are those who see themselves as our "leaders" in our government, in our justice system, in our supreme Court, in our Congress, in our Cabinet, in our Administration, in our corporate marketing system. It is they who should be in solitary confinement. Private Bradley Manning is a hero and thank God for Julian Assange.

As a democracy, our default state should be that everything is open for every eye to see. Secrecy belongs in totalitarian states such as North Korea and China. If our motives are so generous, pristine and innocent as our government claims, we should have nothing to hide.

Bradley Manning support group.

It would appear that some of you may be interested
in Bradley Manning's website: http://www.bradleymanning.org/
Or perhaps his support group at:
http://lists.bradleymanning.org/listinfo.cgi/supporters-bradleymanning.org
As you can imagine, he has many supporters.
Thanks for your concern, Steve Zimmett

@Mark Ostrum: How do you suggest we (the US) try the citizen of another country for treason. I'm no lawyer (thank goodness), but I believe treason is only conducted against one's own country. I guess if Australia wishes to charge him, that might be appropriate.

Many of us, especially those of us from the Vietnam era, are tired of the lies promulgated by government to hide the fact that our "wars" are little more than barely cloaked acts of imperialism, focused on gaining the resources of another country or a strategic geopolitical advantage. Most of them since 1945 have NOT been fought for our freedom, and many to destroy the freedom of others in countries beyond our borders.

This is NOT what the Founding Fathers (or President Eisenhower) saw as in our best interests as a nation.

I say again: Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. The U.S. government has demonstrated how anti-democratic it is, and now, let the truths come out.

Where is your mind? These are controlled leaks to assist in the next war. Have you not noticed WTC 7 and the false flag that is 9/11 and now the bogus Wikileaks portraying Iran as the enemy of everyone? Buy a clue. You're being played like a violin.

"What would WikiLeaks say if a war breaks out between Saudi Arabia and Iran because of the publication? Dealing with freedom and information implies one thing above all: responsibility. But that's a word the online anarchists appear not to understand. Their actions are simply criminal!"

This from a German popular newspaper: Tages Zeitung.

It would have nothing to do with WikiLeaks's responsibility, but with the responsibility of the respective countries.

Jeremy Lynes: read Chomsky and you will find out that Iran is not portrayed as the enemy of everyone.

"...bogus Wikileaks portraying Iran as the enemy of everyone"
No.

The leaks will make diplomacy more difficult, wars more likely, since without confidentiality there is no trust and therefore no diplomacy. The leaks are not pro-democracy, they are anti-diplomacy.

The content of the leaks is more embarrassing to other countries than t0 the US. Considering the sheer volume of documents leaked, it's amazing there aren't more embarrassing documents leaked about Americans.

Shakespeare himself couldn't have come up with such a comedy. It is truly a miracle to see so many so undone. It is not just the emperor with no clothes, it is the entire ruling elite. I am thrilled to see them so exposed. Until now I had little hope for the disinfectant effect of sunlight. Now it is like all the King's men are racing around to find the pieces to Humpty Dumpty.

This isn't just good for our democracy it is good for the spirit of all thinking people.

"The content of the leaks is more embarrassing to other countries than t0 the US. Considering the sheer volume of documents leaked, it's amazing there aren't more embarrassing documents leaked about Americans."

I've been pondering this for a while. I am getting a nasty suspicion that this leak might really be an elaborate psy-ops program by elements of the US government. Everything seems to fit a common narrative: US diplomats are hard working, NKorea is isolated, Iran is crazy dangerous, everyone wants us to attack Iran, and so forth.

We have only to ask if it was good that the atrocity of Mi Lai was exposed. The military has gotten their way in this country long enough. With over 800 high-paid generals, they are too much a burden on the U.S. economy.

Bravo to Wiki and Jullian and Manning!
The egg currently on the faces of the hypocritic diplomatic corps is well deserved. If some of you think that the diplomats and embassies of all nations do not help out with spying, please get a grip.
State secrets? Hardly! Foolish behaviour and ill-considered languaging?,yes, that most certainly occurred, in spades.
What chaps my hide is that a real she-ro like Valerie Plame Wilson, an official who was actually doing good, solid work for the CIA in the arena of terrorism, was hung out to dry and actual people did die because of her outting by the Bu$h-Cheney White House.
Tenent, Cheney, Libby, Armitage and the rest are criminals of the highest order.

7:55 If you don't believe Iran is crazy dangerous, you haven't been paying attention. That's OK, neither has Obama.

You people are absolutely amazing. I find it hard that Americans can feel this way. PFC Dumbass should spend the rest of his life in prison. He's no hero.

I think most of you, including the author of the lead article, have not understood Mr. Assange's purposes and practices. He does not intend to improve democracy. He regards the government of the U.S. (and of many other countries) and the major corporations -- the ruling classes -- as malign conspiracies. In order to function, a conspiracy must be opaque to the outsiders, but transparent within. Encouraging and publishing leaks does not cause the ruling class to become more overt; quite the opposite, it impedes their ability to communicate with each other because each internal channel of communication may be compromised. Thus it decreases their ability to function, to cohere, to act upon and against outsiders. If they are indeed malign conspiracies -- I believe a rational argument can certainly be made for that assertion -- then this must be a desirable outcome, a kind of political chemotherapy.
 
See http://tinyurl.com/2fhmu5o and http://tinyurl.com/39bnlgx for two perceptive interpetations of Wikileaks and Assange.  A link to Assange's own words can be found on both pages (assuming they haven't all been eliminated by the secret police).
 

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