Wikileak's Sarah Harrison, Snowden asylum assistant now in exile

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75. Have you read any of the Wikileaks cables? Apparently not. Russia wasn't happy

with Wikileaks, going quite a way back, BEFORE you apparently became aware of them, but they wisely mostly ignored them rather than draw attention to what they were revealing.

Wikileaks did NOT 'get secret information' from anyone. Do you know anything about this new media at all?

Let me help you. They NEVER sought information directly. What they did, in reaction mostly to China's suppression of freedom of speech after Tiananmen Sq, remember that, was to determine that Whistle Blowers in countries like China, Russia and many African nations could not safely leak material exposing corruption in their governments.

So they set up a safe service to allow Whistle Blowers to get their material out safely without being turned in by corrupt news organizations.

That is ALL they did. Used the new technology brilliantly to by-pass untrustworthy news media and get information out to the world with full protection for the leakers.

It was a huge success. Corrupt leaders of course hated them and even they were surprised and perhaps not prepared for, the danger THEY themselves found themselves in after exposing some pretty nasty characters.

It is hilarious to see anyone claim that Wikileaks had nothing to say about Russia. Too bad you weren't following them back during the Bush years.

At least let's stick to facts when we go after a free and open press. The model they created cannot be shut down now. We are in a new era of news reporting and while the US tried to silence them, something Russia did not do, wisely as can be seen by the over reaction to try to protect Bush War Criminals (why is this important to Dems, most of Manning's leaks were about Bush, did you know that?) they drew more attention to their own willingness to try to silence the media.

The remark about Russia and Wikileaks was ridiculous to anyone who knows the history.

And that is a fact.