Wikileaks: Aah, what if things were the other way around?

Investigative journalist Michael Hastings - he who "exposed" General McChrystal's all too candid views on a variety of subjects, including of his president - asks in his twitter post:

"Thought experiment: if [Wikileaks' Julian] Assange had exposed thousands of secret docs from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc, would we consider him a hero or villain?"