Tougher Laws for US to Guard Military Secrets

Wikileaks leader Julian Assange has released more than 400,000 pages of US documents about Iraq. Daniel Ellsberg commented saying that the Wikileaks release will more than likely encourage the US to pass new legislation to better protect US secrets. The article then went on saying that if Assange had leaked documents about British military operations, then he and his sources could be jailed under Britain's Official Secrets Act. President Obama is using the Espionage Act "as if it were a kind of Official Secrets Act." So, some leakers have been charged for leaking certain documents. The article then went on to say that Bradley Manning had been charged under the Espionage Act for leaking thousands of pages of secret Afghan war documents.
Most of the time the media receives First Amendment protections that leakers do not, which would make it possible for the leakers to be charged, but not the media source, which would still uphold the First Amendment right to freedom of the press. Although the Pentagon Papers case would argue that WikiLeaks is protected under the First Amendment. Also, a problem might arise if legislation was proposed that would make publishing secret documents that have been leaked by others punishable because Congress would oppose the movement. Also the article talked about how if restictions were placed on leakers that they must have some sort of defense avalible because if they leak documents that are seen as "dangerous" or "misconceived", they will not think twice about it, for the fear of prosecution. The importance of this article is to show how some things are protected under the First Amendment, and others are not, and how the freedoms granted can be interpreted in different ways. Also how the government can limit the freedoms granted in the First amendment.
I think that if the documents that Wikileaks drops threaten national security, then charges should be filed. But if the documents that are leaked expose lies that the government has told, or releases important information to the public then the leakers should not be charged because they are not threatening national security, and the public has a right to know some things.

Will WikiLeaks nudge US toward tougher laws to guard secrets?