Julian Assange is the tech world's Donald Trump

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63. Yes, lies, but you all are really playing a semantics game.

and acting as if Cablegate was the only release by WikiLeaks ever.

WikiLeaks exposed lies, but that's only part of it's importance. Arguing about what constitutes a "lie" versus secret or plausible denial or lack of transparency or propaganda tactic is really just a tactic. Stuff we suspected revealed, stuff that was denied revealed (lies), stuff that was unknown revealed. Details about this have been posted her over and over for the past four years or so, and now, semantic games and parroting of mainstream pundit talking points ("there's nothing here&quot , show up here again and again to replace that for political reasons. Sad.

'WikiLeaks exposed US, British govt lies about Iraq casualties'

http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/wikileaks-saudi-oil-lies-exposed/1423

WikiLeaks Exposes Saudi Oil Lies

Yesterday, the latest Wikileaks revelation indicated Saudi Arabia's oil reserves may have been inflated by about 40%.

http://www.alternet.org/story/149393/wikileaks%27_most_terrifying_revelation%3A_just_how_much_our_government_lies_to_us?paging=off

N.Y. Times headline announcing its publication of the Wikileaks "Afghan War Logs": "View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal Of War In Afghanistan."

These "Afghan War Logs", like the Iraqi war logs after them, and much material in Wikileaks' recent release of diplomatic cables, reveal above all that U.S. Executive war-making is marked by massive deception of the American people -- particularly lying about (1) the enormous civilian casualties the U.S. is causing and (2) its claim to be pursuing a "counter-insurgency strategy" designed to install a democratic Afghan government. The Times and Guardian stories describe how these official U.S. documents reveal constant U.S. Executive Branch lying to the American people.

When the Iraqi war logs were published 3 months later, they revealed even more shocking information -- particularly that U.S. soldiers had handed over Iraqi civilians to Iraqi police, knowing they would be hideously tortured employing electric drills, acid and other devices before being savagely murdered. Ellen Knickmeyer, the Washington Post Bureau chief in Baghdad in 2006, wrote that these revelations meant that U.S. officials had been lying daily to the U.S. media

-- and American people -- by saying they were not aware of this mass murder.

http://www.collateralmurder.com

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.