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Editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Ken Kuranchie, has lashed out at some political and opinion leaders in Ghana accusing them of exhibiting a complete lack of discretion during interactions with foreign diplomats as evidenced in the leaked cables by whistle-blower website, Wikileaks. To him, some of the country�s leaders are plain talkatives and expressed disappointment at how some of them can open up and imprudently disclosed just about everything to foreigners without considering its repercussions. Ken Kuranchie, who was contributing to discussions on the WikiLeaks Expos� on Citi FM�s Big Issues program said �it is as if the leaders in Ghana have verbal diarrhea,� who somehow fail to comprehend that information can sometimes be used as a �weapon�. �Why do our leaders talk so much? We have leaders who have verbal diarrhea; they don�t know what is Ghanaian and what to say to others. We do not know that information is a weapon and the American�s are always chasing and extracting information from people because they know they can use it to their advantage. The WikiLeaks report has exposed our character,� he stated. The Daily Searchlight newspaper Editor also expressed disappointment at the conduct of his colleague senior journalist and Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, for the startlingly revelations he allegedly made to a US Embassy official about the character of NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo. He castigated him for being cagey on the issue and for suddenly developing selective amnesia. ��if you could follow somebody for so many years through demonstrations and as a friend for all this while and you can say such a thing about him to others, then it is unfair,� he added. Ken Kuranchie minced no words in describing personalities named in the Wikileaks cables as speaking ill of others to foreign diplomats as nation wreckers, he however, commended the whistle-blower website�s expos� as an interesting journalistic piece of work. �Such journalism should be encouraged in the country because it will put people especially the leaders on their toes and guide their tongues,� he said.