What if the AP had been communicating with Julian Assange?

[Zorra]

44. Irrelevant question. Julian would never leak this type of information to AP.

Leaking information about corporate and/or government violations of people's rights and violations of democratic principles abroad is a far cry from leaking information to the press about a terrorist plot. The plot was a CIA contrivance as part of a sting operation; nevertheless, Julian would not leak this type of information if he had accessed it. Julian is about protecting and furthering equality and justice by exposing government and/or corporate wrongdoing, not about exposing necessary investigations of terrorist groups who intend to blow people up, even if the investigative operation is a bogus one.

It would be much better to speculate on why several republicans were appointed to sensitive high level cabinet posts and other sensitive upper level positions in the Obama administration.

This should be a no brainer for any Democrat in office:

If you put weasels in the henhouse, the weasels are definitely going to kill all the hens, and eat all the eggs as well

For the allegorically/analogically challenged, this simply means:

If you don't want your staff to fuck you up on purpose, then don't appoint enemies to your staff.

It's not rocket science.