Re: When Leaker Becomes Leakee

I love the conservatives taking the side of the govt. over individual on 
this issue.  Talk about hypocrisy - What a crock!  The right of privacy 
extends to the individual not the govt.  Govt. has no rights - it is only 
supposed to recognize and protect the rights of the individual.

The debate about what Assange did is one thing but to make these comparisons 
and confuse the issue is laughable and lamentable.

Mike F.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Peter Chattaway
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 4:00 AM
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Subject: [DADL-OT] When Leaker Becomes Leakee

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/384769

Abe Greenwald - 12.21.2010 - 10:04 AM

Julian Assange thinks he’s doing the world an incalculable humanitarian 
favor by exposing all manner of leaked documentation to the public. But 
transparency has its limits, of course: “Speaking from the English mansion 
where he is confined on bail, the 39-year-old Australian said that the 
decision [by the Guardian newspaper] to publish incriminating police files 
about him was ‘disgusting.’”

Oh, really? Why is that? “Mr. Assange claimed the newspaper received leaked 
documents from Swedish authorities or ‘other intelligence agencies’ intent 
on jeopardising his defence. ‘The leak was clearly designed to undermine my 
bail application,’ he said.”

Only *he* can leak things to undermine targets of his choosing — understand? 
The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Assange, naturally enough, has gone from 
whistleblower to blackmailer.

   Mr. Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of 
material about a bank which it intends to release early next year.

   Shares in Bank of America recently fell after speculation spread that it 
was the target.

   “We don’t want the bank to suffer unless it’s called for,” Mr Assange 
said. “But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be 
resignations.”

Julian Assange does not expose secrets. He traffics in them. He is not an 
enemy of secrecy. He is a secrecy entrepreneur. Secrecy is his métier. It’s 
his capital and source of leverage. How far will his defenders go in 
sticking up for blackmail and hypocrisy?


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