The prosecution in the Assange extradition trial has falsely alleged that WikiLeaks recklessly published unredacted files in 2011 which endangered people's lives.
As Assange's defense highlighted during the trial, the unredacted publications were the result of a password being published in a book by Guardian reporters Luke Harding and David Leigh, the latter of whom worked with Assange in the initial publications of the Manning leaks.
The attempts to smear Assange as reckless, cold and cavalier with the Manning leaks have been forcefully disputed by an Australian journalist named Mark Davis, who was following Assange closely at the time filming footage which would become the documentary Inside WikiLeaks.
Davis details how The Guardian, the New York Times, and Der Spiegel journalists were putting Assange under extreme pressure to go to press before Assange had finished redacting names from the documents.
None of the outlets offered any resources or support to help redact them, and Assange had to pull an all-nighter himself and personally cleanse the logs of over 10,000 names before going live.
Davis says the only conversation that he witnessed on the topic of redaction was between Davies and Leigh, and Assange wasn't present.
Finally there is a quote attributed to Assange by Leigh, "They're informants, they deserve to die," with regard to the sources in the logs that he painstakingly redacted all their names from.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/27/debunking-the-smear-that-assange-recklessly-published-unredacted-documents/
As Assange's defense highlighted during the trial, the unredacted publications were the result of a password being published in a book by Guardian reporters Luke Harding and David Leigh, the latter of whom worked with Assange in the initial publications of the Manning leaks.
The attempts to smear Assange as reckless, cold and cavalier with the Manning leaks have been forcefully disputed by an Australian journalist named Mark Davis, who was following Assange closely at the time filming footage which would become the documentary Inside WikiLeaks.
Davis details how The Guardian, the New York Times, and Der Spiegel journalists were putting Assange under extreme pressure to go to press before Assange had finished redacting names from the documents.
None of the outlets offered any resources or support to help redact them, and Assange had to pull an all-nighter himself and personally cleanse the logs of over 10,000 names before going live.
Davis says the only conversation that he witnessed on the topic of redaction was between Davies and Leigh, and Assange wasn't present.
Finally there is a quote attributed to Assange by Leigh, "They're informants, they deserve to die," with regard to the sources in the logs that he painstakingly redacted all their names from.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/27/debunking-the-smear-that-assange-recklessly-published-unredacted-documents/
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