{"id":11637,"date":"2011-01-31T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11637"},"modified":"2011-01-31T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:07:56","slug":"julian-assange-is-indifferent-to-lives-being-put-in-jeopardy-by-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/julian-assange-is-indifferent-to-lives-being-put-in-jeopardy-by-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange is indifferent to lives being put in jeopardy by Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Julian Assange said U.S. informants named in secret cables ‘deserved’ to be killed and initially refused to redact their names, a new book has revealed.<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks published thousands of names of Afghans in 77,000 classified war files put on the whistle-blowing website, attracting criticism from international charities and governments.<\/p>\n

In later releases of secret U.S. embassy cables in November around 15 per cent of files were withheld to protect lives and every file was checked before release.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International said in a letter to WikiLeaks last year that all names in Afghan war logs should be redacted.<\/p>\n

‘We have seen the negative, sometimes deadly ramifications for those Afghans identified as working for or sympathizing with international forces,’ it said.<\/p>\n

Assange’s apparent gung-ho attitude in an early meeting to naming to naming U.S. informants stunned his media collaborators, the new book claimed.<\/p>\n

The title said he told international reporters: ‘Well, they’re informants so, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.’ The book continues: ‘There was, for a moment, silence around the table.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this is true \u2013 and there is little reason to doubt that it is \u2013 Assange has painted a rather large target on his back. Of course, if he is assassinated \u2013 well, he had it coming to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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