"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."

Truth, Journalism, States, United

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"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."

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"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."

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"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."

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"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature."

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"We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit."

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"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."

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"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."

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"That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information."

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"True information does good."

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"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."

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