Peter T. King Quotes

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 also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

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

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

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.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

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.

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

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.

We should be adult enough to understand that major countries are going to be spying on us.

An obsession with secrecy persists in leading industrial countries.

The United States is the only country in the world that has ever released the operations files of its intelligence agency.

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

RT was one of the first channels to cover the Wikileaks story and to interview Julian Assange a long time ago, way before it made headlines around the globe.

Clearly there are some things about WikiLeaks... the material is in part very interesting although none of it is a real game-changer. I think if I was an American I'd be rather proud that American diplomats are quite assiduous in the way that they chronicle issues. Of course the impact has been that the whole culture of sharing is going down the tube.

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.

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

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.

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

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

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.