Aug 24,2011

Former WikiLeaks Spokesman Disputes Claims About Destroyed Files

A former WikiLeaks spokesman under fire for recently destroying thousands of unpublished documents submitted to the secret-spilling site last year says WikiLeaks is publicly exaggerating the contents of the deleted files, in an increasingly ugly dispute playing out over Twitter and in the press. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “was aware of the submissions and had taken out all the stuff he deemed worthy enough,” wrote former spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg in an e-mail to Wired.com. “It is not like we did not talk to one another, so he was aware of the submissions. He just claims all kinds of stuff now that ...

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