This WikiLeaks business has caused me to take stock of a lot of my position on a range of issues.

George Bush has repeatedly admitted that he authorised "torture" (waterboarding) but that seems to be OK. No calls from senators, congressmen and the main stream media for his prosecution.

Then we have some creepy sort of guy who gets handed a flash drive with 250,000 items of State Department correspondence some of which is classified secret (but none top secret) and starts to "leak" them slowly on the internet and hitherto thought to be sane senators, congressmen and members of the main stream media go ballistic, calling for assassination, contract hits, drone strikes and the like. The mind boggles.

As one US journo has said "WikiLeaks brings out the worst in U.S.". I remain a fascinated observer.