Happy Trails to all traveling to celebrate the holidays.

Glenn Greenwald is just killin’ it re: WikiLeaks.(as Will Wilkinson put it so well).
Public calls for assassination, prosecution of new sources, VP leaning on private citizens, distorted facts, US to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011, it's a topsy-turvy world full of change I am too sad I can believe is happening... or is this the brave new world of Obushma we all new was here forever?

Love of Wikileaks, for restoring our distrust in our most important institutions...

The recent WikiLeaks release, for example, shows the low regard U.S. secretaries of state hold for international treaties that bar spying at the United Nations. Both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, systematically and serially violated those treaties to gain an incremental upper hand. And they did it in writing! That Clinton now decries Julian Assange's truth-telling an "attack" on America but excuses her cavalier approach to treaty violation tells you all you need to know about U.S. diplomacy.

Meanwhile, Assange is wanted by Interpol...

Update/edit - nice summation on the media's response in general from Glenn Greenwald:

The WikiLeaks disclosure has revealed not only numerous government secrets, but also the driving mentality of major factions in our political and media class. Simply put, there are few countries in the world with citizenries and especially media outlets more devoted to serving, protecting and venerating government authorities than the U.S. Indeed, I don't quite recall any entity producing as much bipartisan contempt across the American political spectrum as WikiLeaks has: as usual, for authoritarian minds, those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon...