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I don't care what the technicalities and semantics are. Manning did the right thing. He exposed many of the realities of the war that the government has been hiding from us, details that would be evident if they would give the press free access to war zones like they used to.
This is inaccurate. Wikileaks sorts through data and releases details which are high profile yet low risk. They don't just summarily take data and give it out to the world. Assange himself has said in many interviews that Wikileaks routinely withholds certain information from release because it could pose a danger to a lot of people.
Assange is right about one thing though, our free press is coming to an end. Western governments are cracking down on information exchange at an alarming rate. The fact that they could cut financial access to Wikileaks through all banking institutions and credit companies just goes to show that freedom of speech no longer exists.
You are still free to disagree with me, just as I am still free to disagree with you. And I do. Freedom of speech does not extend to posting classified information on the internet, where it can be used to do harm by our nation's... or any nation's... enemies. Espionage, treason, giving aid to the enemy are not constitutionally protected activities.