Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra
Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra
The WikiLeaks founder and once-fugitive Julian Assange lands in Canberra after a plea deal gives him "time-served" on a conspiracy charge for leaking US intelligence 15 years ago.
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Yeah, the informants names he purposefully published who were surely executed after will never get to go home. Fuck this guy, sincerely.
The US court he was in literally said they hadn't found any evidence of that. It was a core part of this deal that no harm was found.
This didn't happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.
Name one person.
IIRC a password providing access to some of the full, unredacted documents was leaked, so despite Wikileaks vetting the documents some names did still get out. It was fairly quickly scrubbed and its believed that nobody was harmed in the end, but it got pretty close.
That was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.
Can anyone verify if this exchange is factually correct?
You could read David Leigh's book, in which he published the full decryption key: https://www.amazon.com/WikiLeaks-Inside-Julian-Assanges-Secrecy/dp/161039061X
That's literally how he leaked it.
The wikipedia article on it has the whole "he said - she said":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assange's_War_on_SecrecyIncluding the lie that is frequently parroted about Assange not caring about people dying.
That's true, but Wikileaks does share at least some of the blame for making the encrypted documents accessible. They're not immune to leaks themselves and should handle these incredibly sensitive documents accordingly. In this case, they failed to do so and an external party triggered a leak. Wikileaks should probably have deleted the documents alltogether.