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WikiLeaks Sues the Guardian Over Leak

Posted by samzenpus on from the leaking-the-leakers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WikiLeaks complaining of a leak is hard to get one's head around. That it's suing The Guardian — its great ally — is even harder. That The Guardian did such a ridiculous thing to warrant litigation in the first place almost defies belief." Update: 09/01 04:59 GMT by S : Changed the first link to point to the statement on WikiLeaks' website. The Guardian has denied the allegations, saying, "Our book about WikiLeaks was published last February. It contained a password, but no details of the location of the files, and we were told it was a temporary password which would expire and be deleted in a matter of hours."

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  1. Re:Wikileaks change of position? by mgiuca · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your post basically answers itself. They did change their position on the issue because they got a lot of heat for not redacting the cables. That is why for the past year (with the Cablegate cables) they have been working with news organisations to carefully redact them before releasing, and releasing them in small batches a few at a time. That has consistently been WL's position for the past year. Complaining that The Guardian released the cables that were supposedly sent to them for the sole purpose of redacting them is not inconsistent with their recent position.

    (I have often said that one is not a hypocrite for changing one's beliefs, only for simultaneously saying one thing and doing another.)

  2. Re:Wikileaks should be happy... by Inconexo · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's just false.

    Assange advocates for public knowledge and control about the things that governments and enterprises are doing. He also advocates for personal privacy.

    Please, read what Assange says before writing nonsense about his believes.