Margarita Simonyan Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.

Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.

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.

Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

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

WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption.

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

It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.

WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

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