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Quotes About WikiLeaks

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
~ Jimmy Wales
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
~ Bob Weinstein
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
~ Vladimir Putin
Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.
~ Sarah Harrison
WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.
~ Jemima Khan
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
~ Noam Chomsky
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.
~ Sarah Harrison
This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.
~ Tim O'Reilly
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.
~ George Packer
Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps.
~ Terry Glavin
We're in this amazing frontier of transparency. WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden. 'Westworld' is reflecting that with these robots gaining consciousness. Them coming into consciousness is almost like us, human beings, coming into the truth of the fact that government is corrupt. Police are corrupt. Banks are corrupt. Etcetera, etcetera.
~ Thandie Newton
It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
~ Jack Kingston
Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
~ Valerie Plame
The 'conspiracy theorist' is no longer a crazy person with a tinfoil hat, but they are the Edward Snowdens and the WikiLeaks that bring down major institutions and are the catalysts for social change.
~ Dean Haglund
WikiLeaks' disclosures should be protected under the First Amendment.
~ Amal Clooney
The fallout from Wikileaks is incomparable to 9/11, the U.S.S. Cole, numerous embassies, et al.
~ Dana Loesch
Just as somebody who lived through that campaign, I do believe that there was probably collusion. At least between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks... The Trump campaign was just way too ready to jump on whatever leak happened each day.
~ Jennifer Palmieri
RT was one of the first channels to cover the Wikileaks story and to interview Julian Assange a long time ago, way before it made headlines around the globe.
~ Margarita Simonyan
The owner of Wikileaks has gone mad or he has joined hands with our opposition parties to malign my government.
~ Mayawati
WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.
~ Charles Ferguson
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in a speech to Cambridge students in March 2011, it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen. It is not a technology that favours freedom of speech. It is not a technology that favours human rights. It is not a technology that favours civil life. Rather it is a technology that can be used to set up a totalitarian spying regime, the likes of which we have never seen.
~ John Naughton