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Wired’s Threat Level reports on what seems to be an employee revolt at whistleblower site Wikileaks. The conflict started after founder Julian Assange agreed to let media outlets embargoed access the group’s upcoming tranche of leaked Iraq war documents without consulting with his employees and, according to them, before Wikileaks will have time to fully ...
Wired's Threat Level reports on what seems to be an employee revolt at whistleblower site Wikileaks. The conflict started after founder Julian Assange agreed to let media outlets embargoed access the group's upcoming tranche of leaked Iraq war documents without consulting with his employees and, according to them, before Wikileaks will have time to fully redact the names of U.S. collaborators and informants in Iraq.
When the group's German spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg questioned Assange on the decision, he was accused of leaking internal information to Newsweek. That resulted in this IM exchange:
Assange: If you do not answer the question, you will be removed.
Wired’s Threat Level reports on what seems to be an employee revolt at whistleblower site Wikileaks. The conflict started after founder Julian Assange agreed to let media outlets embargoed access the group’s upcoming tranche of leaked Iraq war documents without consulting with his employees and, according to them, before Wikileaks will have time to fully redact the names of U.S. collaborators and informants in Iraq.
When the group’s German spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg questioned Assange on the decision, he was accused of leaking internal information to Newsweek. That resulted in this IM exchange:
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