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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Fair shake?? He's encouraging illegal activity and providing a platform for spreading information obtained illegally. Not to mention the guy has absolutely no regard for what information is leaked, and how it might affect people implicated in it. I'm not talking about diplomataic gossip, how about the Afghan and Iraqi informants named in previous leaks? How about the list of sensitive sites that terrorists could attack to affect the ecomonmy. I guess we don't care about peoples lives in our quest for thruth. Why should legimitate businesses aid his endeavours? They open themselves to legal problems with the US. I also love the blackmail approach hes taken in recent days now that the heat is on. The guy doesnt care about the truth, hes trying to shame the US anyway he can. If you're going to engage in activities like this, you better be sure you're cleaner than preachers sheets, otherwise of course they're going to nail you anyways they can. Personally I feel bad for the idealist morons who leaked this information to him, who will now spend the rest of their lives in jail, while he parades around like a hero.
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First: Nothing he's done in regards to these leaks has been found to be illegal in court.
Second: Furthermore, nobody has even charged him with anything in connection to the leaks.
Third: He made several efforts to work with the US state department to redact anything that put any individual informants in danger. On the Afgan war docs they actually worked with him and censored names and locations. Not enough? It's not entirely his fault. In this latest batch of releases the state dept. refused to work with him. Any redactions that should have been made but weren't are not his fault.
I'm leaving all the moral stuff out of it about whether or not he
should be doing this and releasing everything he gets his hands on and if he's unfairly picking on the USA. That's a whole other can of worms.