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> In either case, I lose respect.

Really? So if a dissident decides to stop dissenting due to increased government pressure, we should lose respect to all the work he did previously? Just because he was not courageous enough to continue, someone, who didn't have the courage in the first place, will lose respect to him? Moral hypocrisy 101.

Or (c) one of their trusted members sabotaged them and deleted their unreleased information before it could be made public. I'd go with (c) because we know a guy called Daniel Domscheit-Berg actually did this. Coincidentally, he's also one of the sources this film is based on.

They did the same thing with the bank info.

who knows what happened for those stories. <shrug>

Daniel Domscheit-Berg (the same guy who wrote the hit-piece book on Assange and worked on "The Fifth Estate" movie) destroyed those leaks in an apparent attempt to sabotage Wikileaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/wiki-war-35...