Bruce, I think the thing about Assange and his organization is that without them (and similar organisations) we'd be in the dark on topics like this, and on topics like gitmo, intentional targeting by the IRS and all those other things that most people associate with corrupt governments. In order for the US to fulfill it's claim of being a democratic nation, and for it's people to make informed decisions about who's governmening them how, they need to know about this sort of thing. Otherwise it's much to easy to fix the political system one way or the other (like Russia).