LemonHunter wrote: {...} two separate issues involved in this situation: one being the content of the stolen confidential documents, and the other the fact that those confidential documents were in FACT STOLEN!! {...} They were submitted to WikiLeaks. Not stolen by Wikileaks. There is a difference between the collector , the publisher and the emitter of information. PayPal knew about Wikileaks and it's activities all along, most likely for years. Now there comes a little politician and threatens Paypal and they fold. That's despicable, those 180 Degree cow turns. Exactly the legality or illegality are at question here: I think all the so-called DIPLOMATS who made those not-so-diplomatic statements should be fired and punished. And those who are in charge of safeguarding the so-called Secrets should be fired and punished. You cannot let you wallet lie unsupervised around and then have you complaining that someone has picked it up and then you call that "stolen". That is not stolen, that is plain negligence. What is all that Diplomatic "Top Secret" classification good for if they are virtually incapable of guarding the secrets? Totally futile undertaken, I would say. I guess that not so few Intelligence Analysts (in various countries) out there are either yawning or being amused about long-time obsolete "secrets". And ask yourself that question: How confident can you be in the US government capabability of keeping ANY secret if an underfunded computer enthusiast is able to gather so many "Secrets"? Don't kill the messenger. WikiLeaks is the messenger, not the Author or Subject of the contents of the cables. Killing WikiLeaks does not make the material less disturbing or vanish. The ultimate embarrassment and the black eye lies in the ease of with which that information was collected. "Top Secret, confidential, blah, blah". Ridicoulously easy.
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