This Thanksgiving weekend, the website Wikileaks released eighty thousand documents regarding the U.S State Departments policies to foreign nations across the world. The release of the documents have brought about deep embarrassment to the U.S State Department. Various Politicians/pundits have called for the source of the leak to be investigated and the leaker charged with treason and executed. Some pundits also admonished news organizations who published the information leaked on their websites/newspapers/news channel.
I am of the opinion that the leaks deserve to be published and newspapers/website owners should not be prosecuted for publishing information that was leaked to them. The New York Times was one of the newspapers which published information contained in the leaks and the constitution makes safe guarantees for the press and I believe that the New York Times as a newspaper falls under the protection of those guarantees.
As long as what the newspaper publishes is the truth, the information no matter how damaging to the government should never be censored. It may be put on hold or postponed but it should never be censored in my opinion.
The Wikileaks website has been able to maneuver the situation to their advantage as the documents released has piqued the interest of many Americans regarding the policies employed by their government.
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