Wikileaks And Responsibility

Wikileaks wrote to the the US ambassador in London asking which of the 250,000 plus cables might be a threat to life, offering to redact such information in consultation with the US government/State Department. A lawyer from the State Department responded, repeating the same old pre-pepared spin about a general threat to life but no specifics. None whatever.

Wikileaks, rightly in my opinion, shared their information with respected publications and gave the US government ample opportunity to give information about any specific threats that may result from publication. They could not have acted any more responsibly.
As for the argument that ‘global trust’has been ‘damaged’ or ‘compromised’. That would be the same trust that has been left intact after the debacles of Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, Gaza…… would it?