Assange placed an encrypted dump on the internet. Luke Harding and The Guardian published the key to that dump in a book. The dump contained information that p

Assange placed an encrypted dump on the internet. Luke Harding and The Guardian published the key to that dump in a book. The dump contained information that placed individuals at risk; Assange made the information public as quickly as he could, so that affected individuals could take protective measures. Luke Harding and The Guardian were responsible for exposing the data, not Assange. They betrayed him, and they still haven't admitted it. They were supposedly collaborating with him (also Spiegel and NYT). I still don't know what happened at that time; MI5 came to the Guardian offices with Dremels and angle grinders to pulverize a laptop, in an obvious piece of theatre. Shortly after, the editor-in-chief (Alan Rusbridger) resigned and was replaced by a lightweight. The full truth will come out sooner or later.