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> but suddenly God knows how many people are out for this fellow's blood.

It's propaganda, in aggregate. The stated rationales don't matter. All that matters is that the idea gets lodged in the public mind, that Wikileaks is a legitimate threat, an enemy of the state, a rogue organization. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter, so long as enough people believe it.

Why I don't know. What's the next play? When I heard the term "cyber warfare" in the past, I wouldn't have thought of this, but here we are.

Informant > Civilian. To those people at least.

I think that the old adage "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic" is quite applicable here.