Alma, you seem to be treating wikileaks as a source, when it's actually acting as a filter to make sure that information that could actually endanger soldiers in the field, for instance, is redacted. Without wikileaks, the leak would still have taken place, it would have just used a different outlet, and this one might not have tried to filter it at all. I think you're drawing a false separation between media outlets and wikileaks. There is no reason to think that the leaks would somehow have disappeared if wikileaks specifically wasn't around.
Edited, Dec 8th 2010 9:10am by Xsarus