Assange is an immature man-child, and his organization reflects that. This is simply sloppy, and defies all of his principles.

not to say a little sloppy, to refer to this as an "unredacted Wikileaks dump".

Equally: "Given that a central tenet of WikiLeaks' model is protecting the identity of its sources, it seems pretty tough to defend the exposing of a journalist in an authoritarian country, even if it embarasses the U.S. government in the process. "

For the sake of a few more words and accuracy it could be mentioned that access to the unredacted, encrypted source files was enabled by a Guardian journalist David Leigh publishing the password. Or, more accurately, the encryption key.

If you want to argue that Wikileaks security was careless, that's another matter, but the Guardian, NYT and Der Spiegel were given priviliged access presumably on the grounds that this would be respected. The Guardian journalist had no reason except self-importance to ever publish the key, and you would do well, for the sake of accuracy, in acknowledging that.

When the Committee to Protect Journalists complains "U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks..." the irony is palpable. A journalist disclosed the cables.

Whether you approve of Wikileaks or not -- and it can certainly be argued to serve a purpose the media world has seriously fallen short in these last ten years -- you do yourself no service at all by blatant inaccuracy.

First release of Wikileaks was about scandals in central Africa nearly six years ago. Releases of American documents and that notorious helicopter video came late in the day to a startling initial response: Huckabee, before he became fat and started building a multibillion dollar home well away from his home state, called for the execution of whomever leaked the cables, apparently no trial needed; other sachems declared Assange, a foreigner, treasonous against America -- an impossibility; and people who would describes themselves as journalists raced into print online within 48 hours of the first major release to say is wasn't worth a hill of beans. These so-called journalists were describing things that by that time, they most certainly had not been able to look through in any detail. The claim was widespread that Wikileaks was about to lead to widespread deaths, torture and the like among named parties.

No substance to that last claim, and what's revealed in today's account here doesn't change that much. The "neo-Maoists" of China 2011 sound much like Huckabee and others of 2010.

I invite comparison of what today's story discloses with Michael Moore's new memoir recounting life after he told the Oscars evening that Bush grounds for the attack on Iraq were fictional. He drove home to find three truckloads of horse manure dumped in his drive, and thereafter hired nine navy Seals as personal bodyguards who protected him from serious physical assault on sundry occasions. Nevertheless, quite a lot of patriotic Americans take the Moore view today.

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How quick to fault Wikileaks for an unintentional release of cables, a release by a reporter not connected to Wikileaks of an embedded password!

Where is the criticism of the far more costly failures, many purposefull, by US mainstream media, the NYT, WaPo, and others the cable and broadcast media whose first concern is there quarterly bottom-line? Media that see journalism as dedicated to protecting the government and not the American people by informing us? These are the media that hopped on GWB's bandwagon of lies and plunged us into unnecessary, costly and murderous wars. Where is the exposure and condemnation of the mainstream executives, editors and shoddy journalism?

Where is the criticism of the financial reporting that never warned Americans about the consequences of deregulation, the gambling by our major banks on unregulated derivatives? So many media business programs, interviews, and so few warnings!

What Assange is being condemned for is revealing the failures of US mainstream journalism. How embarrassing for the latter! Assange does his job as a reporter. The mainstream in untrustworthy.

Assange is being condemned for is revealing the failures of US mainstream journalism. How embarrassing for the latter! Assange does his job as a reporter. The mainstream in untrustworthy.
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As I envisioned at the outset before the dust settles on this thing people will lose their lives, just so that Assange can get his 15 minutes of fame.
Sadly enough the average patron of journalism doesn't find the subtle intracacies of these leaks even remotely interesting, but the intelligence agencies do.

Whadda mar-oon...

WikiLeaks this nonsense ....
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