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Or we can just not like Mr. Assange for needlessly putting peoples lives in danger?

I don't know why but when I read the headline I chuckled. It is so apropos.

Whose life has been threatened by him? Please provide sources.

If any of that data is HUMINT it is quite easy to put lives in danger.

Then it can also be said that not disclosing also puts lives in danger. Talking is cheap. There is yet no reason to beleive that Wikileaks hasn't acted responsibly.

If you assume it's best to disclose US clandestine activity to Russia, China and North Korea.

Valerie Plame.

You are saying if her cover wasn't blown we wouldn't have gone into Iraq? Not sure I follow.

It is a fact that revealing HUMINT data has a high probability of ending the life of informant or spy.

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