Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332
US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a letter to the US congress that no sensitive intelligence sources or methods had been compromised by the Afghan war logs disclosure. The Pentagon stated there was no evidence the WikiLeaks reports had led to anyone being harmed in Afghanistan. NATO in Kabul told CNN it couldn’t find a single person who needed protecting. The Australian Department of Defence said the same. No Australian troops or sources have been hurt by anything we have published.
(op-Ed by assange in The Australian from today.. He has been arrested in UK and is fighting extradition to Sweden which in turn has a strong extradition treaty with USA [though purportedly this treaty does not function for the purpose of the prosecution of "espionage"]. -b)
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