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A few thoughts about the latest #ASSANGE recording...
1. It's dated August 26 2011.
2. Days later (Aug 29) Der Spiegel reported the "accidental release" of the Cablegate files, noting the secret archive had existed online since the start of the year. https://web.archive.org/web/20111104230039/http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783084,00.html
1. It's dated August 26 2011.
2. Days later (Aug 29) Der Spiegel reported the "accidental release" of the Cablegate files, noting the secret archive had existed online since the start of the year. https://web.archive.org/web/20111104230039/http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783084,00.html
3. Same day Aug 29 @NYTimes reported: "The disclosures take place as a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., continues to hear evidence in a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks for disclosing classified information." USA already had a sealed indictment. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/30wikileaks.html?_r=1&ref=world&gwh=88BDFA564D6DAF5A757D1B85518B48D2
4. Next day Aug 30 State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told AP that “any autocratic security service worth its salt” would probably already have the complete unredacted archive. @wikileaks only released the full archive to PROTECT those named.
5. WikiLeaks published a statement on 1st September 2011 blaming the Guardian for publishing the password (Leigh/Harding book was published February 15, 2011) and "an individual in Germany who was distributing the Guardian passwords for personal gain": https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html
6. DDB was first suspended from WL in August 2010. WikiLeaks published an August 20 2011 statement on his departure (a week before the latest State Dept recording) noting that negotiations to return stolen files had failed: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/chek37
7. August 22 2011 DDB told the media he had deleted over 3,500 files including the USA No Fly List. Ironically, he claimed Assange was not doing enough redactions to protect people. https://web.archive.org/web/20110901180200/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14616899
8. Worth re-reading that statement from (5) above. The Guardian: broke their signed confidentiality agreement with WikiLeaks; named @xycelsea as the Cablegate source; secretly passed the entire archive to NYT; and did not follow security procedures to keep files off the Net.
