WikiLeaks Defense: Tom Hayden’s Letter

Letter to Peter King, chair of the Homeland Security Committee
Excerpts:
I am hoping you will reconsider your call to place WikiLeaks on the list of foreign terrorist organizations.
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As a result of the WikiLeaks documents, the American public has learned, for example, that:

* our government is deceiving the public and Congress by denying our secret bombing of Yemen;
* our Special Forces are in Pakistan;
* the CIA has directed a secret army in Afghanistan;
* there is a secret Task Force 373 conducting assassinations in Afghanistan.
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I urge that you and your colleagues not overreact, not turn to scapegoating, not contribute to a climate of violence, but instead respect freedom of the press, freedom of dissent, and the right to due process under a system of law. We all need more light shed on our secret policies, not greater limitations on the public’s right to know.