Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
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.
These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.