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I'm okay with exposing fraud or waist or corruption or any kind of illegal activity. This is what we have news organizations for. It's one thing to expose something that is illegal, but another thing to expose hundreds of thousands of classified government secrets with the only intention of embarrassing a country.
In this case, the US isn't embarrassed. These are mostly cables from the US State Department - talking about the secrets of other countries. Lots of governments are pissed about this, pissed about what has been released about them and their governments into the public.... And at the same time they all fear when Wiki Leaks exposes their secrets.
I wonder how many billions this just cost the US - the way the US government around the world sends information will need to be changed, and then the political damage that has been done.... And what did the general public gain? A bunch of documents that no one gives a shit about has been released? LOL.
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