Zitat des Tages über Wikileaks:
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.
Immigration is the most difficult issue I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody's firmly made up their mind. It's a polarized issue.
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.
Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.
There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.
My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K.
Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'
It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.
There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.
Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.
This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.
Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.
One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.
Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.
Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps.
WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
