He says it is important. He didn't pass judgment on fleeing the country. He, and Tony Russo, in fact, set the standard by not fleeing.
Let's hope this leak does less harm than the last one.
Taliban Use Wikileaks to Hunt, Murder Named Afghans
registan.net 
The Times (firewalled again, I’m sorry) asked Wikileaks founder Julian Assange what he thought of it:
• He claimed that many informers in Afghanistan were “acting in a criminal way” by sharing false information with Nato authorities.
• He said the White House knew that informants’ names could be exposed before the release but did nothing to help WikiLeaks to vet the data.
• He insisted that any risk to informants’ lives was outweighed by the overall importance of publishing the information.
Mr Assange said: “No one has been harmed, but should anyone come to harm of course that would be a matter of deep regret — our goal is justice to innocents, not to harm them. That said, if we were forced into a position of publishing all of the archives or none of the archives we would publish all of the archives because it’s extremely important to the history of this war.”
I don't know the backstory, or if it goes back to Manning.
WIKILEAKS has killed 1,300 people. OK, not killed but led to their deaths. Not our opinion but that of fame-hungry Julian Assange, who has undone the brilliant site by steering it towards an anti-USA agenda and media prominence. He claims that Wikileaks swung the Kenyan 2007 elections. There was much bloodshed:
“1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak.”
Well…
“On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information and 40,000 children a year die of malaria in Kenya. And many more die of money being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased.”
anorak.co.uk
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Horrible… Wikileaks Document Led to Hanging Death of Western Spy This Week in TehranPosted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 8:18 PM
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