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Except to the Guardian, Der Spiegel, and the NYT. They got them all.



So at what point at those organisations going to start getting heat for being in possession of classified documents?

Why is Assange taking so much heat (yes, I know he wanted to be the lightning rod)? Is it merely that it would look bad to go after 'name-brand' news sources?


Yep.


Assange is getting the heat because he's purposefully seeking it out — even with the case in Sweden he fanned the flames earlier this year so that it could blow up now


any reference on how he "fanned the flames"?


That's true. I don't think they're going to pass them all on except on a much longer timescale (decades, likely).

If the whole cache is ever going to hit the streets in plaintext it will likely be through wikileaks.




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