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"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
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"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."
"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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