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WikiLeaks plans to release CIA paper on Wednesday - Payback time.

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"payback time" for what? Why are you quoting your own one-liner comment from that page in your submission? And why not just link to the original Reuters article, instead of linking to something that looks a lot like a machine-generated spam blog?

(All your HN submissions are links to that site, btw. What's your relation to them?)

The lad at Wikileaks have been framed last week in a fake rape allegation, allegedly because he refused to remove the previous files from his site. He is paying them back by releasing yet more files today.

The video on the top have the report on that, plus the report on Reuters, plus all links being shared at this moment all over the internet. That is why I submitted it, there is actually information in there, it is not a spam blog.

Can we please blog that host - there has to be otter places to get the same info that isn't decked out in commercials, popups, and which actually have some content?

Have you even bothered reading the page ? There is also the video from the court case itself at the top of the page, it is a video actually not a commercial. The stuff at the sides is not propaganda either. Popups go away with a standard popup blocker.

Suppose its missing a big blinking neon sign on top of every item saying 'NEWS IS HERE', 'VIDEO IS HERE', etc. Jeez.

I can't believe that there's someone with such balls that he is ready to challenge the CIA. Not sure if it's genius or stupidity, but much kudos to him.

I don't agree with everything he does, but I think if it gets governments to stop making any random paper "secret" it will only be a good thing. Governments are becoming less and less transparent.

It is wonderful to live in a day and age when a single person (albeit with good connections) can confront the CIA, all thanks to technology.

I think you have to be very careful of backing someone who appears to be risking getting carried away with his own image and hype. Playing tit-for-tat with the information they hold is not how whistleblowing should be handled. A lot of said information could risk, or cost, livelihoods and lives and deserves better.

Maybe I am reading it wrong through the how the situations involving Wikileaks have recently been handled, but that it the perception I am building about it at the moment.

As noted above, I'm also not sure actualeurope.info deserves the oxygen of publicity.

I hear you about actualeurope's attention-grabbing efforts. And while I take some issue with how Wikileaks has handled the information that they have, I think that what they are doing is valuable. With an entity like Wikileaks, governments can potentially be held accountable like never before.

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