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he risks completely discrediting Wikileaks by clearly risking agents' and informers' lives.
This bit puzzles me.
Are there actually diplomatic cables that say "Mr X Y at Z is a US informer"?
Why are there such messages? It seems the number one rule for keeping someone's identity secret is to
not refer to their actually identity. That's surely why there's codenames and similar things.
(There's also the question that if these documents were apparently so readily available within the US gov, how do we know the "bad guys" hadn't already obtained them; by bribing an employee or sending in a spy or whatever?)
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In some regards it would be better for Wikileaks role as an organ if free speech if he was no longer actively associated with it.
Without a crazy uh... "news magnet"(?), do you think it'd get as much attention?
Certainly it might not have reached mainstream (who's heard of
Cryptome? They've been around ten years longer.)
Since drawing people's attention to this stuff is at least as important as releasing it in the first place, it needs some kind of figure-head to help stuff make the news?