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What is the relationship between someone publishing leaked emails about public policy where the "leaker" has been arrested and requesting the emails of a professor who is not otherwise related to policy making in an attempt to intimidate opposition?

How is the wikileaks in any way related to this?

Was wikileaks created in order to intimidate opposition to a certain policy?

Wikileaks has nothing to do with the use of FOIA and related laws, and the person who leaked those documents is arrested under pretty severe conditions. In fact, FOIA and related laws pretty explicitly require that public interest be greater than privacy and confidentiality concerns. The worst that the professor may have committed here is violating University of Wisconsin terms of use for their email system, so it is not a legitimate concern with public interest that motivates this. It is about maybe finding some embarrassing email in this fishing expedition and using it as a way to intimidate other people who might use that radical tool of writing blog posts.

This was a very weak attempt at a to quoque fallacy. There is no contradiction between supporting FOIA and related "right to know" laws (such as defending the publishing of now publicly available information without endorsing the leakers themselves) or demanding more government transparency and recognizing when these laws are being abused in an attempt to silence opposition. There is no real public interest in reading these professor's emails.