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Originally Posted by loquitur
from a fairly cursory read of the news reports it looks to me like the documents mainly confirm what any reasonably astute observer already knew or suspected.
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So if it's obvious information to anyone who is involved, what's the problem with
releasing it? I hope we aren't going to do the whole "It's going to ruin everything" followed by the "But it isn't anything everyone didn't already know" bullshit again.
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I'd still like to know who appointed or elected Julian Assange to make decisions about what should be public. Maybe someone should print his home address, personal phone number and license plate number, just because the public has the right to know.
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This type of grumbling is irrelevant. The fact that Assange gets the bulk of this type of criticism whilst the media organizations who are playing a large part in the dissemination of this information don't seem to get any criticism is pretty telling.
How many "serious" pundits will follow their criticisms of Assange by repeating and commenting on the very information they're criticizing him for publicizing? He is a pretty interesting guy. He apparently has the power to get Hillary Clinton and the viewers of Fox to agree on something.