WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets

formfeed writes "According to the AP (through Google News), WikiLeaks isn't just sitting on the recent material so they can release it bit by bit to the press, as many people implied. On the contrary, it's quite the other way around: 'only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material' are they releasing it themselves. These newspapers 'have been advising WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents.' AP questions whether WikiLeaks will follow these redactions, but nevertheless seems quite impressed by this 'extraordinary collaboration between some of the world's most respected media outlets and the WikiLeaks organization.'" I wonder if some of the anti-WikiLeaks fervor evident among US lawmakers will also be brought to bear against the AP and other mainstream media sources. Update: 12/05 17:42 GMT by T : Yes, that's WikiLeaks, rather than (as originally rendered) WikiPedia. HT to reader Mike Hearn.

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Re:I know it's called WikiLeaks, but...

[Opportunist]

Have you EVER been reading/watching what Wikileaks was "leaking"? If you can name ONE instance where something that got out could harm an (innocent) person, I'd love to hear it.

I wouldn't call publishing war crimes committed by US military personnel and remaining unpunished or even unexamined "compromising national security". If your national security relies on protecting war criminals, I guess the world's better off with it being compromised.