The Washington Examiner’s Mark Hemingway wrote earlier about how Wikileaks is helping the bloodthirsty dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, hunt that country’s democratic opposition by publicly leaking its leader’s pleas for help to American diplomats and his request that they keep in place sanctions against the thugs who control Zimbabwe’s security apparatus. “Where Mugabe’s strong-arming, torture and assassination attempts have failed to eliminate the leading figure of Zimbabwe’s democratic opposition, WikiLeaks may yet succeed.”

A Washington Post column similarly notes that Wikileaks has given “dangerous ammunition to a tyrant.” As it notes, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s purported devotion to transparency is selective.  It “is not directed at revealing the secrets of the United Nations . . .It is guided by antipathy for America. The United States, in Assange’s view, is an ‘authoritarian conspiracy’ that should be crippled by disrupting its flow of information. It doesn’t matter if American methods are martial or diplomatic, since its purposes are inherently imperialistic and colonial. In this belief, Assange counts at least one strong supporter. Mugabe not only shares it; it is the main message of his propaganda.”