By the logic of the report, the New York Times should have been shut down or marginalized when Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. http://en.wikipedia.

By the logic of the report, the New York Times should have been shut down or marginalized when Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers Maybe a better response by the government to Wikileaks would be to ignore it as a specific source of leaks, and instead: a) Ensure that what the government does is legal and moral, and if the government cannot always be forthcoming with the public it is at least not lying. b) Assuming a), tighten up control of classified information. c) Be a strong enough government that it can withstand the occasional leak. d) Stay the heck out of my internets. Edit: added "by the government" in intro to bullet list.