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by nroman 5629 days ago
They didn't redact informants and collaborators names from many of the documents they leaked. I would hardly call that exercising caution.

I understand that in some cases redacting names weakens the impact of the leak and its political statement. However, releasing the name of some random informant working on the ground in Iraq has no substantial effect on the impact of the whole leak, but can have an enormous effect on that person's life, especially if he's killed.

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Assange asked the US government to specify which names and identities should be anonymized prior to the leak, but the US refused to cooperate.