Hey liberals, what do you think, is a rich man voting for a Republican like a black man voting for Colonel Sanders?

This is not a matter of free speech. The Freedom of Information Act says that information can't be kept secret just for purposes of protecting the US govt. Or its agencies from embarrassment.

These documents were illegally classified as 'secret' to begin with. I'm sure the Justice Dept. Has a team of people going over these docs as we speak (it's a huge volume of stuff, it will take a long time to go through it completely).

If they find anything that actually compromises the security of the US, people could be prosecuted for releasing it. But so far as I know, (1) nothing here is a bombshell, nothing that big or unexpected and (2) nothing compromises national security, it just shows how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been run. I think the American people have a right to know this stuff.

(Again, it might take weeks or months to look at all of it. So I'm staying tuned.) Did you ever read about the Pentagon Papers, the cache of classified docs that was released during the Vietnam War that embarrassed President Nixon? That was before the Freedom of Information Act.

And those papers were much more damaging to the reputation of the Nixon administration and the military than these are. Even so, Daniel Ellsberg, who released them, could not be prosecuted because it couldn't be shown he'd damaged national security, cooperated with an enemy, or anything like that. A democracy requires a certain amount of transparency in government.

If The People make the ultimate decisions, The People have to have good information on which to base their choices. As they say, sunlight is a disinfectant. We all agree that some (a lot!) information has to be kept secret to protect our country but Presidents, congressional and party leaders, etc., should not be allowed to operate in the dark.

Only if they paid the rat private that gave them the stuff.....if so the guy will die for treason just as the traitor that sold the info. He may be an Irishman but Great Brittan has soldiers there also. Film at eleven.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.