Your take: the importance (or danger) of Wikileaks

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You’ve been weighing in all week on Wikileaks ? from worries and anger about the danger of secret information becoming public, to the idea of freedom of the press.

Tamera writes on our site:

It’s freedom of information. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. All administrations have promised to be open with the public but have not done so. It takes freedom to stand up to the government.
It’s freedom of information. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. All administrations have promised to be open with the public but have not done so. It takes freedom to stand up to the government.

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