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Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This is a new section for my newly updated ongoing mega-article Debunking All The Assange Smears<\/a>, a resource for debating 30 of the most common smears against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Use it, share it, and let me know if there\u2019s anything you think should be changed or added.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecution in the Assange extradition trial has falsely alleged<\/a> that WikiLeaks recklessly published unredacted files in 2011 which endangered people\u2019s lives. In reality the Pentagon admitted that no one was harmed<\/a> as a result of the leaks during the Manning trial, and the unredacted files were actually published elsewhere as the result of a Guardian<\/em> journalist recklessly included a real password in a book about WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key government witness during the Chelsea Manning trial, Brig. Gen. Robert Carr, testified under oath<\/a> that no one was hurt by them. Additionally, the Defense Secretary at the time, Robert M Gates, said that the leaks<\/a> were \u201cawkward\u201d and \u201cembarrassing\u201d but the consequences for US foreign policy were \u201cfairly modest\u201d. It was also leaked at the time<\/a> that insiders were saying the damage was limited and \u201ccontainable\u201d, and they were exaggerating the damage in an attempt to get Manning punished more severely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Assange\u2019s defense\u00a0highlighted during the trial<\/a>, the unredacted publications were the result of a password being published in a book by\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reporters Luke Harding and David Leigh, the latter of whom\u00a0worked with Assange<\/a>\u00a0in the initial publications of the Manning leaks. WikiLeaks\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that it didn\u2019t speak publicly about Leigh\u2019s password publication for several months to avoid drawing attention to it, but broke its silence when they learned a German weekly called\u00a0Freitag<\/em>\u00a0was preparing a story about it. There\u2019s\u00a0footage of Assange calling the US State Department<\/a>\u00a0trying to warn of an imminent security breach at the time, but they refused to escalate the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents This is a new section for my newly updated ongoing mega-article Debunking All The Assange Smears, a resource for debating 30 of the most common smears against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Use it, share it, and let me know if there\u2019s anything you think should be changed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,2001,1426,29113,880],"class_list":["post-51439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-julian-assange","tag-misinformation","tag-unredacted-files","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51440,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions\/51440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}