[pygy_]

... I feel "freedom of information" should end where it endangers those people's lives who are working for their countries ...

Who exactly has been endangered by the leaks? No concrete example has been given so far, and if there had been any, the US government would have jumped on the occasion to demonize Wikileaks even more. Without any proof, those allegations amount to FUD and hypocrisy, since the death toll caused by the US government is considerable.

Taking the Irak war as an example (but others abound, e.g. Chile or Vietnam): Bush attacked Irak based on lies, and, by 2006, the war had caused 654,965 excess deaths (direct and indirect casualties) [1]. I couldn't find a more recent estimate, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number had doubled by now.

Now that is a big death toll caused by hidden information, isn't it?

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casu...

[xentronium]

I believe, Wikileaks emailed the government on the matter of redacting the sensitive information and they [the government] rejected doing so.

[jyoti00]

For fear of making it a political debate, I will humble refrain from any more comment.

Only one point: Neither Iraq war nor War in Afghanistan is justified by ANY argument at all.

If WikiLeak is so powerful then it should have exposed how Bush conspired to destroy these two countries, kill millions of people over there and get its own soldiers killed in a war no one can justify.

Michael Moore did more to expose the wrongness of Iraq war through his book "Dude, Where's my Country" then WikiLeak can claim to have done. Michael Moore was the first American celebrity who opposed Iraq war from Oscar podium and for that he was booed. He stood against the general public sentiment and two years down the line, people realized how right he was. Please read that book if you can, you can find some information about that book in Wikipedia, here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Country%3F regards.