The US has branded not only the leakers but wikileaks itself as criminals – as if that excuses being caught red-handed making decidedly undiplomatic comments about everyone else :

From Reuters (and yes the following is all) :

White House calls WikiLeaks, leakers criminals

WASHINGTON | Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:42pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday that the WikiLeaks whistleblower website and the individuals who had leaked classified U.S. documents to it were criminals.

As Small Dead Animals keeps asking :

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

It’s Monday morning. Why isn’t Julian Assange dead yet? And it’s not just me asking.

Stranger things have happened at sea.

One commenter from ZeroHedge (also running the Reuters story nails the real question (imo) :

What I find astonishing about this whole WIKILEAKS saga is – NOBODY seems to be talking about the SLEAZY Tactics of the U.S. and many of the other counterparties – But Rather about how we need to prosecute the people who leaked the information, Forget about the fact that while you were sleeping – governments were secretly encouraging each other to bomb other countries to start wars, engaging in Arms Smuggling and Nuclear Material (Missiles) being shipped to countries that were not supposed to have them, Sabotage, Cyber Attacks — NO – Let’s NOT Talk About That – Let’s put on a full court press to catch the Bastards who leaked the information and make sure we put them in prison for the rest of their lives for bringing this sort of bullshit into the open for all to see!!
Again – WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE – And Where is The MSM?

Indeed.