re: Wikileaks is a threat to American National Security

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Because Russia and China make no claim to be guarantee freedom and liberty for their citizens. You either believe in America exceptionalism or you don't.

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That doesn't answer the question. Is their mission to protect civil rights and liberties or to highlight for a few hundred million people what the other 7.2B people in the world already know--that Americans have a healthy dose of hypocrisy and lack self-awareness.

And they've leaked against Kenya, some Latin American shitholes, and Iran. So obviously they aren't only going after goody goody hypocrites.

So... my asking the OP if he believed Wiki only published US docs has now turned into proving Wiki published docs relating to countries with no US interests.

Holy Moving Goalposts, Navy!

I'm not sure what their stated mission is. I can accept the argument that the only countries that matter on a macro scale for the next generation are the US, Russia, China, and Germany, so it's inconsequential and empty for them to leak what the Kenyan government is doing. Only two of those meaningful countries proclaim to respect democratic principles.

It's fair criticism to say Wikileaks won't leak documents from Russia or China, but most, if not all, of the leaks have to do with civil liberties versus the role and intrusiveness of government into the private lives of citizens. They're not leaking troop levels and the location(s) of missiles.

Would it really be a big shock to learn China censors the internet and Putin has killed journalists?

I get the need for state secrets and I'm not totally thrilled about some of the leaks, but I do believe the public has the right to know and debate before giving their consent to be governed.

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Do you wonder why they don't have problems with terrorism?

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Have you ever heard of Chechnya or the Beslan school siege?

I don't mind them leaking shif when it shows our government being corrupt, but when they share stuff that takes away our technology advantage we've gained and jeopardizes our ability tongather critical intelligence, I have a problem with that.

Yet there is still terrorism in Russia.

I can see some merit in your position, but I would rather rely on due process that has served us well for 250 years.

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I don't know why Wiki hasn't published docs from Russia or China. Probably no contacts. We can speculate as to why that is but we don't really know.

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Well they're awfully active and have been caught with their pants down by other means a number of times. We and our allies have rolled up a lot of people involved in Russian and Chinese espionage. Why are they somehow Wikileaks proof? Are their services now magically impenetrable just as cyber connectivity has made everyone else seemingly more vulnerable?

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they're the enemy - then what would you have in it's place in order to gain intelligence on our enemies?

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The CIA most likely helped create those enemies. If we knew the scope of their work, all of us would be appalled.

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I don't know why China and Russia don't have leaks on WL, but Turkey, IMF, EU, Gulf States, and Germany have leaks on the main page.

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They published some videos about Tibet some years back. So there's their targeting of China. They also leaked some stuff about an Iranian nuclear accident and some random corruption and scandals in various shithole countries. Everything else has been a US or US ally interest. Notably the Brits, Germans, and TPP Why haven't they done anything to really get after the clandestine services or key interests of Russia and China--the two most oppressive world powers on Earth who also happen to be aggressive worldwide intelligence collectors. Why is a freedom fighter like Snowden living as a tool under the paw of a corrupt autocrat?

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That's from the first page. And I noted that Turkey is a NATO ally who's been instrumental in our joke of a ME foreign policy and that Sweden is a NATO partner in a separate post. Didn't allude to our GCC partners, though. My bad.