Proponents of Wikileaks identify Julian Assange as an international hero and liken him to the Founding Fathers of the United States. Critics cast Wikileaks as a nefarious syndicate deserving the label of foreign terrorist organization. Some go even further by demanding Julian Assange be given the death penalty or summary execution. In either case, the situation and stakes are clear. We are living in the age of the information revolution. The inv...
...again, you see, this is why we have to get money out of politics. GJ: Wikileaks has been instrumental in revealing many of America’s secret wars and covert actions around the world. Given all the recent hysteria about Julian Assange taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, what would your administration’s stance be on Wikileaks? JS: You know, Julian Assange, for starters, should be treated as a member of the press, not as a criminal. And Wikilea...
Early this January, international man of mystery Julian Assange held an extravagant press conference in Geneva. With cameras flanking him on all sides, the WikiLeaks founder was handed two discs of secret banking data from a disgruntled former employee of Julius Baer, a prominent Swiss financial institution. After the release of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, Mr. Assange and his source were now planning to expose the details of int...
...is not to deny that WikiLeaks does not deserve any credit for the work it has done in informing and invigorating public debates worldwide on a wide range of issues. At a more profound level, though, I still believe that Mr. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has done a better job flaunting his utter lack of reverence for the First Amendment than he successfully fulfilled its important functions....
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