WikiLeaks's justification for releasing confidential State Department materials is that the more the public knows about how our government conducts its foreign relations, the better the outcome will be.
"This information, whether it's a tax payable or taxable income or total income, is already in the hands of the ATO and we are questioning whether there is a real justification for releasing the details about privately owned Australian companies, as opposed to multinationals, into the arena where there could be serious commercial and personal risk," Frydenberg said in March.
Whether you buy WikiLeaks' justification for releasing the cables and whether you accept the arguments by the Times's Bill Keller and other top editors about why they published and reported on the cables will be popular debates among bloggers and guests on cable TV and talk radio.
The FCC gives some justification for releasing the report, stating that it would be "unfair to the parties and participants" who've been working on this deal, and noting that AT&T is still planning on moving forward with this merger, according to its own statement.
Now he is going to be President, and some other Americans are using his ascendancy as a justification for releasing the safety valves that today's social culture encourages us to keep in place on our more violent or hateful tendencies.
If this sounds a bit much as justification for a release date, it's worth remembering that the neoconservative Frum, once a speechwriter for George W. Bush, was an early and ardent supporter of the Iraq war.
Trump cites an Internal Revenue Service audit as his justification for not releasing his federal income tax returns, but the audit does not prohibit from releasing the returns.
All governments need some measure of secrecy, but there can be no justification for not releasing, in full, government records that are over 50 years old in full.
Trump, as The Washington Post reported in September, cited executive privilege as justification for declining to release thousands of pages of records from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as a White House staffer.
As details of his confinement begin to come out, the justification for negotiating his release becomes all the clearer.
There is no justification for continuing to imprison some 86 detainees there who have been cleared for release or transfer.
