david leigh wrote:
Sep 9th 2011 8:59 GMT
I want to be informative and I'm sorry if my exasperation shows through. The Guardian published a book in February, 7 months ago. It mentioned a password which Assange of Wikileaks had assured us was a defunct gateway to a file no longer on a server. No harm came of the publication. Assange was quite untroubled by the old password publication. He made no complaint then or later. Indeed as recently as August, he was trying to persuade the Guardian to work with him again, telling us we were his 'natural ally'. Unbeknown to us, however, and for unknown reasons, Assange also re-used the password to a file called z.gpg which he posted online among a batch of others. No-one of the public knew what was in it or how to locate it. Then suddenly, in late August, a quarrel flared up between Assange and his former partner and rival Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Assange says he feared Berg knew how to get access to the cables file. Apparently in order to steal a march on him, he dropped hints about the file's online location, deliberately ensured it was surfaced thanks to the 'rumors', and then carried out his plan to publish the entire file in searchable [and unredacted] form himself. He tried to claim he had been 'forced' to publish thus because of the Guardian book - a fairly transparent excuse. Those are the facts to the best of my knowledge.
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