[KlaraNovikoffaZ]

Reading some of Reg's muck here makes me think we need a refresher course on the differences between secret and classified.

Unsealed documents are secret. If they get out in the public, it can be embarrassing, but there's no threat to U.S. interests, other than a bloddy nose.

Disclosure of the identiy of a government agent to get back at a reporter is disregarding all sorts of levels of classified. That's something a terrorist would do. Or, the vice president of the United States and his cronies.

[pimbertiemoft]

A Republican VP, you mean. Other than that, Assange is pretty much cut from the same cloth as Drudge.

[BlackBird]

OMG! Just to think... now the CIA has set up a task force to investigate the damages that may have occurred - Wikileaks Task Force (W.T.F.) - Google it.

[raskrutkaseo]

I guarantee you that if Drudge or Breitbart had the opportunity to leak any of these documents and use them to embarrass the Obama administration, he'd not only do it but would be practically catapulted to sainthood by Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, etc.

The chatter on the right isn't about this being a real threat, it's professional jealousy that one of their guys didn't get to it first.

[ugosanchezo]

Assange has inked a $1.3 million book deal.

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikil...ry?id=12480583

WikiLeaks.org founder Julian Assange has inked a $1.3 million book deal to cover legal costs relating to his arrest and any lawsuits aimed at his controversial whistle-blowing website.

The book is to be published in the U.S. by the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House, and British publisher Canongate.

In an interview with the UK's Sunday Times, Assange, 39, said he is writing the book in order to cover his mounting legal fees.

"I don't want to write this book, but I have to," he told the Sunday Times. "I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat."