As I wrote the other day, Wikileaks isn’t an “antisecrecy” organization as the media would like to claim. The organization is just fine with secrets — so long as they’re convenient secrets. Wikileaks isn’t on a crusade on defeat secrecy, it’s on a crusade to harm the United States and its global interests.

And here’s the proof. Wikileaks is pissed that some journalist with the Guardian leaked a secret password to the entire, unredacted archive of cables. They say they’ll launch a lawsuit over this negligent or malignant behavior.

Someone entrusted with secret information violating that trust and carelessly leaking information to the world? Say it ain’t so!

Statement on the betrayal of WikiLeaks passwords by the Guardian.

GMT Wed Aug 31 22:27:48 2011 GMT

A Guardian journalist has, in a previously undetected act of gross negligence or malice, and in violation a signed security agreement with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, disclosed top secret decryption passwords to the entire, unredacted, WikiLeaks Cablegate archive. We have already spoken to the State Department and commenced pre-litigation action. We will issue a formal statement in due course.

WIKILEAKS

They say this as their Twitter avatar has “Free Bradley!” as part of the graphic. That’s a reference to Bradley Manning, a disgraced soldier who leaked the secret cables in the first place.

So just to be clear, secrets involving Wikileaks and the information it possesses are just fine. It’s only secrets held by the United States government that are evil. But Wikileaks is totally “antisecrecy”. Or something.