While i agree that this is unusually activist of wikileaks, i have a hard time arguing this move as worse than the status quo. I would rather see governments be

While i agree that this is unusually activist of wikileaks, i have a hard time arguing this move as worse than the status quo. I would rather see governments be actively transparent than actively secretive. Thought experiment: if governments knew that any decision made had a chance of becoming public, would their behavior shift for the better?