Gotta Admit... I'm Pretty Baffled By The Split And Depth Of Feeling Re:The Assange/WikiLeaks Story

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265. There are good explanations

for some of your misgivings. The material about banks (and lots of other stuff) was stolen from Wikileaks and then destroyed. To my best knowledge the release of cables has been slow from part of Wikileaks because of arduous redaction of the vast amount of material, which is how responsible journalism is done (Assange also asked US to help with the redaction work to protect individuals from potential danger, but was refused), but the key to the whole torrent datafile was published by Guardian journalists.

Wikileaks worked together with traditional mainstream media to get more publicity to cables, but sadly traditional media has behaved not as well as expected.

If you think that Wikileaks should not have done basic editorial work to protect individuals from harm to the best of their ability, and just dumped the whole thing as is, then we disagree.