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Facebook In Particular Is The Most Appalling Spying Machine That Has Ever Been Invented. Here We Have The World's Most Comprehensive Database About People, Their Relationships, Their Names, Their Addresses, Their Locations And The Communications With Each Other, Their Relatives, All Sitting Within The United States, All Accessible To Us Intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. All These Major Us Organizations Have Built-in Interfaces For Us Intelligence. It's Not A Matter Of Serving A Subpoena. They Have An Interface That They Have Developed For Us Intelligence To Use.

As Editor Of Wikileaks, I Am Very Proud Of Three Things. Number One, We Have Never Got It Wrong In Terms Of What We Say. A Document Is What It Is. Number Two, We Have Never Revealed One Of Our Sources Ever. Number Three, What Are We Proud Of? We Are Proud That There Is Not A Single Instance Of Anyone Coming Into Physical Harm As A Result Of Our Publication.

The Best Type Of Government Comes From A Government That Is Scrutinized By The People When They Have True Information About Our Governments, Major Corporations, Other Power Actors In Society.

I Don't Like The Word Transparency; Cold Dead Glass Is Transparent. I Prefer Education Or Understanding, Which Are More Human.

It Is The Role Of Good Journalism To Take On Powerful Abusers, And When Powerful Abusers Are Taken On, There's Always A Bad Reaction. So We See That Controversy, And We Believe That Is A Good Thing To Engage In.