Wikileaks poses a threat to United States security.

Con Case Wikileaks first came under the Government spotlight in November of 2008 when it became a popular site for internet "Whistle Blowers." As the website rose in prominence, its resources grew; and with those resources they managed to procure and publish almost one hundred thousand confidential documents pertaining to the United State's war in Afghanistan, and later almost four hundred thousand documents pertaining to the Iraq war. These Documents entailed troop logs, political meetings, Civilian Casualties, and even friendly fire. This would not have been reported of if it had not been for Wikileaks. We as the Negative strongly agree in the negation of the resolution Resolved: Wikileaks poses a threat to United States security. And we disagree with the Pro on these three main points. First, Wikileaks strengthens National Security by showing flaws in our Governments information sector. (Quote+Name) This is because it is beneficial for our Government to be aware of its flaws so it may fix them and improve upon itself. This transparency also makes politicians and diplomats more conscientious of what they say, lest they be quoted in an unfavorable document. Secondly, Wikileaks is not liable for the information it releases and does not violate the First Amendment. Evan Hansen from the news reporting station "Wired" had to say this about Wikileaks, "Instead of encouraging online service providers to blacklist sites and writing new espionage laws that would further criminalize the publication of government secrets, we should regard Wikileaks as subject to the same first amendment rights that protect The New York Times." Saying Wikileaks is detrimental to our security is the same thing as punishing a journalist for doing his or her job too well, or condemning a newspaper for publishing in depth stories. This is not illegal activity; it is people on the front lines of information gathering fighting for our right to know what our Government is doing. Some might argue that effective diplomacy is held behind closed doors, but those doors also prevent those diplomats from seeing what the people need; and that need is the truth. We need to know where our money is going; we need to know why we are in a war and who is really attacking us. Wikileaks is not putting anybody's life in danger, but our government is putting lives at risk by putting us into war after war with no clear definition of why we are there. Last of all, Wikileaks is not detrimental to our National Security, but those in the government who are able and willing to release harmful information are. Wikileaks is nothing more than a website; a medium for sharing information. We cannot argue that out of the many hundreds of thousands of documents released are all perfectly harmless. Some might be, but does that still mean that Wikileaks should be held reliable for what they publish? Wikileaks did not steal this information from the government; it was given to them by government officials. And it is those officials who are detrimental to our national security, not Wikileaks. There are still many more mediums to release these documents on other than Wikileaks that these corrupt officials can upload documents onto. If Wikileaks never published those documents then there would be another, or many other websites who would pick up the slack. In regards to our holding in the Middle East, Wikileaks is making our ties there even stronger. Syed Yanha Hussainy of the prominent Pakistani news source "New Pakistan" said that "In Pakistan, right wing conspiracy theorists see the documents as proof of a secret plan to seize the nation's nuclear assets; their counterparts on the American right wing see the documents as proof that Pakistan is secretly working with terrorist militants. In actuality, the documents tell a very different story—one in which US-Pakistan relations are stronger than ever." Not only is Wikileaks helping us with Pakistan, but the website's help sparked the uprising in the country of Tunisia, and in turn Egypt. Helping the spread of democracy and free choice further into the Middle East, which has always been the goal of our country; to promote democracy and free choice.