Great analysis of the accusation that Wikileaks is a terrorist organization.

He makes some very interesting and thought-provoking arguments. Not much support for any of them. But, hey, it's an opinion piece.

this is a well-respected paper,the guardian, establishing its justification for publishing the u.s. embassy cables coming from wikileaks. it is cogent in putting the u.s. in the center of events which run the world at this moment. the power and purpose of the press is being served here. the writer also points out the differences in revelations between the previous war logs from wikileaks and the information contained in these cables.

This is an informative and thoughtful commentary. There is a fine line between what the public should know and what they need not know. This commentary shows the dilemma well.

Yes, this is good journalism, and a balanced opinion piece. But newspapers also bear responsibility to reveal if adequately sourced. Actually, the electronic archive of embassy dispatches from around the world was allegedly declassified by a US soldier and passed to WikiLeaks. They made it available to the Guardian, The New York Times, Der Spiegel in Germany, Le Monde in France and El País in Spain. All of them, showed restraint, and published extracts from the most significant cables, but didn't reveal the dataset into the public domain, or published names that would endanger innocent individuals.

Simon Jenkins gets it right about the latest leaks. And he of course is correct that it gives outsiders and inside view of the disastrous course of American decision-making in the Middle East.

Mr. Jenkins does a fine job in raising questions about the propriety of offering up sensitive state information to the public. For him, the current state of world affairs certainly warrants at least a partial airing of diplomatic 'laundry'. Well written and relevant considering the state of foreign policy the world finds itself in.

this is a good article but it seems like only having one source for this information even though it is a viable source makes it more of speculation then truth when these things are leaked and they report them in the media. Additionally its irresponsible of a journalist because who's truly to know if the document leaked is really true and what is actually happening in the government.