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The Guardian's Complicated Relationship With Julian Assange
Sonny Yatsen writes "Vanity Fair has published an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the unlikely and tumultuous working relationship between WikiLeaks' Julian Assange and The Guardian as the Iraq War Logs were being published. The piece highlights the differences and conflicts between the Guardian's journalistic standards and WikiLeaks' transparency. Particularly interesting is the revelation that Julian Assange threatened to sue The Guardian if they publish a portion of Iraq War Logs leaked to them by a disgruntled WikiLeaks volunteer, claiming 'he owned the information and had a financial interest in how and when it was released.'"
....we've heard enough about Julian's complicated relationships, thank you very much CIA.
Assange is, as best I can tell, a moron. I rank this right up there with his saying that the decision to publish his incriminating police files is "disgusting." Sauce for the goose, Mr. Saavik...
Of course. We idealistic geeks like to say that the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.
We live in a world of information warfare. Watch CNN or Foxnews if you require proof. Until we are able to summon the being of Aquaman or Jesus Christ(TM) to dig up the ultimate truths, we should be thankful for the illumination we can get. When events are manipulated to the point when our hero Assange(more importantly, Wikileaks itself) disappears or is otherwise subdued, we can only hope for a successor (the money seems to be on openleaks) and more unfortunate truths being released into our hands. Voyeurism, the desire to know, is a sword that cuts both ways.
Anybody calling for open-source and open-everything-else would hope for that. Everybody else is just a consultant or contractor profiting from their own secrecy.