Пузырик лопнул, неаппетитные брызги разлетаются
Главная газета прогрессивного человечества разразилась едко-печальными откровениями своего бывшего исполнительного редактор, плотно работавшего над досье (досьями?) Wikileaks.
Wikileaks, a Postscript
Заслуженного автора-правдиста пропёрло на следующие признания:
It was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as the documentarians yearn to believe, some new digital age of transparency. In fact, if there is a larger point, it is quite the contrary.
...I decided to check up on the lingering fallout from what may be the nation’s all-time greatest cascade of blown secrets.
Assange himself, who gave a handful of journalists early access to the pilfered data, has moved from a supporter’s country mansion to much more modest digs while he fights extradition to Sweden on sexual abuse charges. An American grand jury is believed to still be mulling an indictment for his role in the leaks. He compiled many hours of interviews for an autobiography, then backed out of the project, but his publisher - in the proper anarchist spirit of WikiLeaks - published it over his objections. (Evidently not for profit. It is No. 1,288,313 on the Amazon list of best-selling titles.) Assange’s newest project, announced last month, is a television talk show in which he will interview “iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders.” So says the proud buyer of this series, RT (formerly Russia Today), the Kremlin’s English-language propaganda arm and keeper of the cult of Putin. No, not kidding...
What we cannot know for sure is the fate of the many informants, dissidents, activists and bystanders quoted in the American cables. Assange published source names over the strong objections of the journalists who had access to the data (we expunged the names from our reports) and to the horror of human rights groups and some of his WikiLeaks colleagues. I’ve been told that a few exposed sources fled their countries with American help, a few others were detained by authorities, and none are known to have been killed. But would we even know? When I read stories like the Reuters account last week of the three men beheaded in Yemen for giving information to Americans, I worry anew about the many innocent witnesses named in the WikiLeaks cables.
Ну и т.д., и т.п. Остается открытым только вопрос о том, кто такой Ассанж: идиот, провокатор или и то, и другой вместе.
Русский дайджест статьи можно прочесть здесь.