There appears to a habit here at HN to downvote a comment simply because one disagrees with said comment.

You have a valid point. I disagree, however.

One has to weight the situation. A government operating in the darkness of secrecy will not lead to anything good.

It started with simply stopping lawsuits against "renditions" by citing national security concerns (i.e. the government can basically do what it wants and then just draw the "national security" card) and goes on with knee-jerk, infantile reaction against WikiLeaks.