Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I...
by thingexplainer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:53PM
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I could learn to see past an insurance file for WikiLeaks and still regard them as journalists, the idealized WikiLeaks is struggling in an asymmetric conflict with nation states and could probably use some insurance.
Not "for maximum impact", or if threatened, or "if something happens to me", or any other variation.
If nothing else, it frees (or minimizes) accusations of you being bribed, blackmailed, extorted, having an agenda beyond "releasing information".