As for the way the leak was published, Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks have more to answer for. He recently criticized Mr. Assange, noting that WikiLeaks’ “hostility to even modest curation is a mistake.”Mr. Assange has also leaked documents to benefit his private aims. Mr. Shamir is also the father of Johannes Wahlstrom, a Swedish journalist who helped to engineer a vilification campaign against the two women who accused Mr. Assange of sexual assaults and who was to be a key witness had Mr. Assange been tried for rape in Sweden. Mr. Assange still claims that WikiLeaks is a beacon of transparency. (Later, Mr. Assange and his followers attacked both me and my film.)

Source: New York Times August 08, 2016 07:18 UTC