Ball's credibility is questionable. At a high level it seems that he was trying to advance his career and leveraged his Wikileaks access to do so. Part of that

Ball's credibility is questionable. At a high level it seems that he was trying to advance his career and leveraged his Wikileaks access to do so. Part of that appeared to be feeding information and possibly documents to David Leigh who he later wrote a book with and helped him secure a job at the Guardian. http://justice4assange.com/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html#4004 http://justice4assange.com/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html#4... As a counterpoint to the Shamir story: http://wlcentral.org/node/1412 http://wlcentral.org/node/1412 http://wlcentral.org/node/1186 http://wlcentral.org/node/1186