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WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.
Julian Assange
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Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
Julian Assange
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It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
Julian Assange
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The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
Julian Assange
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
Julian Assange
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I never made any reference to John Podesta's email.Does it say #WikiLeaks, #Assange? Julian Assange said, Stone predicted that his emails would be hacked. No, I didn't. I never said anything of the kind.
Roger Stone
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.
Daniel Ellsberg
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As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.
Jeremy Hammond
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WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.
Peter King
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
Jimmy Wales
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WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.
Julian Assange
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When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.
Ray McGovern
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WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.
Julian Assange
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What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.
Rachel Maddow
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The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
John Perry Barlow
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WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
Michael Moore
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Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
Evgeny Morozov
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[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.
Amy Goodman
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But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
Noam Chomsky
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Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
Julian Assange
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
Julian Assange
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The WikiLeaks documents show how the media conspires and collaborates with the Clinton campaign including giving the questions and answers to Hillary Clinton before the debate.
Donald Trump
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Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Michael Moore
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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.
Evgeny Morozov
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There is also evidence that the people close - that people close to the [Donald] Trump campaign had advanced notice of WikiLeaks actions and may have had direct contact with WikiLeaks itself while they were releasing those documents from the Democratic Party, from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign.
Rachel Maddow
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WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.
Julian Assange
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
Abdallah II
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I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can't use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?
Jeff Jarvis
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It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Hillary Clinton machine.
Donald Trump
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This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same.
Rush Limbaugh
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I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.
Martin Sorrell
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WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
Evgeny Morozov
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WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.
Thomas de Maiziere
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A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
Julian Assange
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The [Donald] Trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those WikiLeaks dumps started.
Rachel Maddow
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The most important publication of WikiLeaks is that it has published more than 10 million documents. The most important single collection of material we have published is the US diplomatic cable series. We started with 251,000 in 2011, but are up to 3 million now and have more coming.
Julian Assange
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WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.
Charles Ferguson
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I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
Julian Assange
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If your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta.
Thomas Frank
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The John Podesta WikiLeaks dump came just about one hour after the "Access Hollywood" tape was published. The "I like to grab them by the p-word" tape, one hour after that came out is when WikiLeaks dropped the first tranche of John Podesta e-mails hacked by the Russians.
Rachel Maddow
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Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.
Jesse Ventura
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People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
Bob Weinstein
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When Wikileaks comes out, which I have nothing to do with, they're giving classified information. They're giving information about Hillary [Clinton] cheating on the debates. No one mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates. Seriously, can you imagine if I received the questions? It would be the electric chair, ok?
Donald Trump
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I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...[Edward] Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.
Scott Eastwood
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October 7th [2016], indeed, WikiLeaks released its whole new dump. A whole new bunch of e-mails and documents, this time from [Hillary] Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, e-mails that U.S. intelligence say were hacked by Russia. Apparently, again, they were waiting for the best possible timing on the release.
Rachel Maddow
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
Bill Keller
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What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.
Noam Chomsky
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The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.
Julian Assange