Is Wikileaks release of war documents responsible or irresponsible journalism?

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said he did this because “it is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abuses” as he see’s the US Involvement in the Afghan war.

Also is it thusly good journalism for news organizations like the New York Times to publish this information? Does writing about their struggle over whether or not to make the information public make it OK that they did?

”Deciding whether to publish secret information is always difficult, and after weighing the risks and public interest, we sometimes chose not to publish. But there are times when the information is of significant public interest, and this is one of those times. The documents illuminate the extraordinary difficulty of what the United States and its allies have undertaken in a way that other accounts have not.”

The White House has condemned this act by Wikileaks as irresponsible, I am curious as to how my fellow Jellies feel about this??