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If any USA soldier or Afghan collaborator had ever been harmed as a result of Wikileaks' journalism, the war media would have been wall-to-wall on the story for years. That has never been reported. Ergo, it never happened.


https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/712659290/how-much-did-wikile...

This article suggests that certain people have at least been threatened. You may deem that to be worth the value of the information being leaked, but it has been reported on.


This seems to be the most damning phrase from that link, and it was uttered by a federal government spokesperson in 2010:

"No doubt some of those people were harmed when their identities were compromised."

That's so weak. "I'm sure it will probably happen at some point!" NPR on Friday afternoon is the sockpupppet the lizards prefer for their most pathetic, half-assed spin attempts. No one is listening, no one will challenge the narrative, they can say whatever they want, and that was all they dared to say? Yikes.


Wikileaks didn't leak that in information, it was the german newspaper "Der Freitag" which published the password for the encrypted files .

Wikileaks has worked together with the US authorities to edit the documents.


> Wikileaks didn't leak that in information, it was the german newspaper "Der Freitag" which published the password for the encrypted files .

https://www.wired.com/2011/08/wikileaks-leak/:

> The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named "cables.csv," which is reportedly circulating somewhere on the internet, according to Steffen Kraft, editor of the German paper Der Freitag. Kraft announced last week that his paper had found the file, and easily obtained the password to unlock it.

It sounds like Wikileaks was, at the bare minimum, extremely sloppy.

There's also this:

> After nine months of slow, steady publication, WikiLeaks abruptly opened the spigot last week on its cable publications, spewing out over 130,000 by Monday afternoon – more than half the total database.




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