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Wikileaks preaches transparancy in the ruling oligarchical class: governments, corporations, other organizations, and people who have acted and/or ruled with impunity.

While it's a slightly slippery argument, Wikileaks has argued that:

1: It is not of the ruling oligarchy. 2: Its own organizational requirements require a certain lack of transparency.

I can sympathize with both arguments, though a pledge, say, to release information at a time when it is no longer harmful to Wikileaks' operations, might be a class act.

As with other movements, I suspect Wikileaks is rather smaller at its core than many people realize. Assange and a few close lieutenants (some no longer quite so close).



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