leak that wiki!

I'm writing to ask for your reactions to the dissemination over the internet of over 250,000 classified correspondences containing government secrets.  I have had spare time to research the issue, so in case you're wondering what is going on, let me give you my understanding.  An Austrailian computer programmer, Julian Assange, and a group of volunteers collected sensitive government documents from hundreds of government employees who had smuggled (leaked) them from embassy buildings, intelligence centers, etc. in countries all over the world.  Before the most recent leak (cable gate), Wikileaks published a series on the Iraq war, exposing inhumane military activity Assange claims is evidence for war crimes.  Bradley Manning is a private for the US military, detained as a suspect for leaking, facing 52+ years in prison if convicted.
From reading these documents, we get to hear leaders insult each other, see behind the scenes of "alliances"--it turns out Hillary Clinton ordered ambassadors to spy on leaders of our closest allies in UK, Germany, and even Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon from S. Korea.  Having read only a handful of the actual documents whose topics range from coups in Honduras to Chinese companies selling Russian-made gyroscopes to Iran, to Iraqi-American refugees landing in Turkey, having read responses from our government officials, I am convinced our politicians are acting out of embarrassment more than out of concern.  I am eager to read more of these documents but wikileaks' website is overwhelmed with traffic.  www.wikileaks.org

I am very interested to hear your thoughts.  In my opinion these leaked documents hold our leaders accountable to their word, which is why you see them squirming in anguish and making up rubbish like "wikileaks should be considered a terrorist organization" and "what wikileaks has done is worse than a military assault."  But it's possible I am too steeped in "the liberal west coast mentality" as my loved ones in the heartland say.

Hanukkah starts tomorrow, time for Latkes, doughnuts, and applesauce!