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>Sorry, but you've got that the wrong way round. Assange was the one who wanted careful redaction and it was his media partners at the Guardian and Der Spiegel

>Sorry, but you've got that the wrong way round. Assange was the one who wanted careful redaction and it was his media partners at the Guardian and Der Spiegel who were impatient and wanted to publish early. In the end, it was the recklessness (perhaps malice) of the Guardian journalists which resulted in the unredacted cables being released. They published the password to decrypt the unredacted archives in their book (unbelievable, but true). Thanks for correcting this. It's frustrating how many people get this, and many other so called facts in his case, wrong.

pessimizer 5y ago
It's not their fault, the US and UK media gloss over the facts whenever they directly report on him, and references to him in editorials or stories about other events refer to the "beliefs" of authority figures and agencies, and the charges, but never directly to specific allegations, facts, or timelines. People have no hope of having an accurate picture of events unless they invest a significant amount of time into something that will not benefit them. Journalists at major outlets are more concerned about the Assange case than their papers, but still have zero chance of getting accurate stories published about it.