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Wikileaks is refuting some elements of this story on Twitter, https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks: "A wired article today misdescribes
by guelo 13y ago
Wikileaks is refuting some elements of this story on Twitter, https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks:
"A wired article today misdescribes a volunteer's role. Earlier statement: http://wikileaks.org/Eight-FBI-agents-conduct.html http://wikileaks.org/Eight-FBI-agents-conduct.html … description of role: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/herbert-snorrason-wikileaks-google-assange http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/herbert-snorraso... …"
"At no time did Sigurdur Thordarson 'work' for WikiLeaks. At no time did he have access to sourcing or publishing systems."
- sneak 13y agoUnfortunately, the damage is already done. MSM has a much wider reach than WL's twitter, and the net effect of this "FBI press release" picked up and run as journalism will be that fewer people will trust WL to not have internal government moles and be able to protect source identities. Now that they're helping Snowden, they are whatever the military intelligence equivalent of Scientology's famous "Fair Game" policy is. They can do whatever they want to smear and discredit them, insofar as they don't get caught with their hands dirty. Unfortunately, for these people, the delusional ends justify the underhanded means.