Floyd Abrams Takes on WikiLeaks

As America’s premier First Amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams is a force to be reckoned with. The force is on display at full power in today’s Wall Street Journal, where he takes up the subject of WikiLeaks and offers a very dim view of the activities of Julian Assange. Among other things, Mr. Abrams contrasts the WikiLeaks data dumps to the leak of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times back in 1971 in which Mr. Abrams represented the newspaper. As Mr. Abrams notes,