Joe Lieberman Quotes

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

In the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are very concerned about the way in which the United States government and some companies have handled Wikileaks.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.

In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate''s portrayal of the 'Guardian''s work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

Wikileaks could not survive for more than a few months if it did not have public support

Over the next decade, the market-driven explosion of surveillance sensors and data analytics will bring an unprecedented level of transparency to global affairs. Commercial satellites will capture daily images of the entire globe, offering inexpensive and automated reports on everything from crop yields to military activity. Journalists, NGOs, and bloggers will increasingly use crowdsourced data to uncover wartime atrocities and expose government hypocrisy. Private security companies will discover the sources of cyberattacks and data theft. Biometric systems will expose the identities of clandestine operatives, and government agencies will struggle to contain leakers and whistleblowers.

As our use of technologies grows exponentially, so do our country's vulnerabilities. Our national security depends on the stability and reliability of our communications infrastructure. The cyber threat to IT and national security systems has never been greater.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe.