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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 have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage."
"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."
"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up."
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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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