On the contrary, with publishing such highly classified documents, national security might be threatened (BBC News, 2010). Among the documents published by the WikiLeaks are also the Afghan War Diary which include reports of Afghan civilians’ killings that were unreported until the leak. The spokesman of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Col Dave Lapan said that the leaks published might “threaten the United States and coalition personnel” (BBC News, 2010). What is more, WikiLeaks has also given the access to these files firstly to the New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
What is more, since the founder of WikiLeaks is not an American (he comes from Australia) and he has been actively trying to disseminate classified information about a government that is not his according to Reidenberg, “It is certainly an aggressive, hostile act against the United States because it’s designed to compromise the CIA’s ability to do its job”.

“They were highly classified, and I think that their release did cause damage to U.S. national security,” said Nate Jones, director of the Freedom of Information Act Project at the National Security Archive at George Washington University (Villarreal, 2017).
Moreover, some of these documents contain steps how to breach the security of different electronic devices used by public. Generally, classified documents belong to military action and can be divided into three different categories: confidential, secret and top secret. According to Nate Jones, one may argue that for instance, not every wiretap has a sensitive intel as it may be a person talking about his or her pet. Nevertheless, even though the intel might not be sensitive, the method used for obtaining this information is delicate (Villarreal, 2017). But most importantly, the authorities did not plan to share their unethical and even illegal practices with the public.
On a positive side (from regular citizens’ point of view” technological companies like Android and Apple will get the opportunity to rebuild the security system and its breaches which their devices are disposed with. As a result, the CIA will no longer be able to use the tools they have made to get into people’s devices (Villarreal, 2017).