cazatou
"Lord Haw Haw" (William Joyce) was a civilian - didn't save him from the Gallows though.
True, but he was actually promoting foreign propaganda. This guy didn't seem to be promoting any nation's agenda.
Also, as I understand it the UK doesn't have a death penalty anymore
(we do in the United States, however).
ColinB
Posting from France you may recall the Dreyfus case where if someone had have had the fortitude to blow the the whistle a terrible injustice would have been avoided.
Agreed
Roadster280
Assange decides to publish it for his own self-aggrandisement purposes.
That's not 100% certain. For all we know the US government might have done it. After all, the intelligence agencies has more than adequate capabilities to decrypt the files, then release them. Sure it would leave some sources out to dry, but it would justify bringing the hammer down on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for good. It could even be used to justify various forms of internet censorship.
Secrets are secret for a reason.
Seems so simple, except sometimes the government misuses the classification system not to protect the nation from enemy attack, but to insulate itself from scrutiny.
In the case where the classification was only to protect the nation, you would have a much better argument