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Assange himself would agree that the emmotional impact was strengthened and has said so in his interviews: his aim is to get the biggest political impact to hon
by charlesattlan 16y ago
Assange himself would agree that the emmotional impact was strengthened and has said so in his interviews: his aim is to get the biggest political impact to honour the courage of the submitter. The full video was an hour long if I recall and this was condensed into a watchable 10 minutes. Nothing was added apart from annotations and the original video was released. The New York Times is not to be trusted; they are begrudgingly reporting on these leaks. I shall give you concrete evidence that there is heavy censorship at that paper:
"Frago 242" (short for Fragmentary Order 242), was a high level dictat to troops to ignore torture by Iraqi forces, or at least not to intervene directly. This was a key expose for that release, and Assange talks of a story actually getting killed by the editors -
140 results Guardian.co.uk
http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=frago+242#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%22frago+242%22+site:guardian.co.uk&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=ec580a23bbcb13e1 http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&...
And buried in some community comment section a solitary 1 result at NYTimes.com
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=despeigle#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=site:nytimes.com+%22frago+242%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=ec580a23bbcb13e1 http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...
You are not being fair to Wikileaks.