Its important to note that too many are going after the wrong target. (Assange)
Like it or not, this is a free speech issue and the real criminals are those who gave Assange the info in the first place. You can lock him up or kill him but the leaks will continue.
It’s hard to keep secrets these days. Secrets that provide strategic advantage should be more closely guarded. But the recent leaks do seem more like confirmation of stuff we already knew. The reason these are called damaging is because the analysts are stating the truth in their memos and then the government is formulating its official story, which is often the opposite of the truth. So it comes across as an embarrassment. Maybe if the State Department showed some balls and came out publicly to condemn the Saudis or Pakistan or Russia based on evidence and reason instead of their usual BS diplomicized rhetoric we’d command more respect wouldn’t risk a collapsing house of cards. And we wouldn’t be wasting time now apologizing to the world again, they’d already know where we stand.