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The government has botched it's response to Wikileaks.

As Kevin Rudd points out, Assange didn't leak anything, the leak was by somebody who got access to the information, and Wikileaks simply disseminated it, something that could have been done by any news media, or by a private individual on the Internet. As we have seen lately, lots of news agencies consider the contents of the leaks to be newsworthy, and are quite willing to publish them, and have published them. If Wikileaks didn't publish this stuff, there are dozens or hundreds of others who would. So again, as Rudd states, the problem is not in the media, it lies within the US government, which was much too lax in it's security.

And if security was so poor that some low-ranking enlisted person could get his hands on this stuff, you can bet that long before it was leaked to Wikileaks, every major foreign intelligence agency had already gotten it and analyzed it, and intercept our diplomatic communications on an ongoing basis. The only people being kept in the dark by the secrecy was the public; and at some level, most of the public understands this; which is why Assange has so many supporters.

But the government botched the response, because instead of ignoring Wikileaks and tightening up security for classified documents, they went after Wikileaks and are trying to make an example of Assange, which only serves to publicize his efforts and make a martyr of him, leading to a determination among like-minded people to carry on Assange's work, even if he is killed or taken down in some way by the legal system.

As we see now, from the hack attacks, there is no way of putting the genie back in the bottle, and the government has definitely lost this round.