Wikileaks

Today, tons of thousands of confidential reports were leaked on a website called Wikileaks. These lifted a curtain on our foreign policy, making private reports commenting candidly on foreign leaders and how to deal with situations in Iraq public. These papers were intended to be solely for those who were granted privilege to see them, and certainly not for the public or other countries to see. This has the potential to be harmful to our national security and relationships with other countries. Although I think that the American people have the right to be informed of certain things that happen within our government, I think that there is a point when the safety of our country and the security of our position in the world is more important than our right to be informed of what our government is doing, and so it is vital that the government has certain powers to keep certain things private and confidential.