[Psycho_Bunny]

“What do you think about a serial killer asking the police for a less painful way of killing?”

The premise is absurd. Why would the US make itself a party to a crime being committed against itself? What, were we supposed to form a commission to study the documents and vote on which were damaging?

[AndyJackson]

Oh brother. The Media goest to the government all the time with documents and asks that sensitive information be redacted before relase. The government readily cooperates for all the obvious reasons.

Much of Assange's information is unclassified. The government cannot tell him he cannot publish any of it because some of it might be classified.