[guns]

No, this issue neither falls on the "left" or "right"; it is better framed as the tension between central authority vs personal liberty. Both progressives on the left and conservatives on the right ask the government to regulate and control different aspects of society.َ†

George Washington was widely praised for disbanding the Continental Army after dispelling the British, and also declined a third term as President despite unflagging adoration from the public.

Times have changed, and some of this idealism has perhaps been lost to pragmatism over the years, but this is the golden legacy that the General and the other officers of the Executive are willfully squandering in the pursuit of a few terrorists.

† Hence the old joke that progressives want the government in their business but out of their bedroom, and conservatives want government out of their business, but in their bedroom.

[mpyne]

Indeed, this is far different than just a left/right thing.

Assange, for instance, has been pushing a lot of these disclosures but he is not a leftist. He denies climate change, opposes unions (and social entitlements in general) and says the best politicians in the U.S. Congress are in the libertarian wing of the G.O.P.

Note that I'm not trying to denigrate his political views... just agreeing with you that it's not as simple as left-wing/right-wing. Just because you believe in 'no secrets' doesn't mean you believe in the workers controlling the means of production.