You Don’t Have to Like Assange to Defend Him

LONDON—You do not have to spend a long time in a room with Julian Assange to realize that he will be difficult. First it published the dynamite “Collateral Murder” video, showing an attack on a group of people, including two Reuters journalists, by American military helicopters in Iraq. Though few knew it at the time, this was the first in a series of ever-larger and more dramatic leaks of classified documents, shedding unprecedented light on how the United States conducted its wars, its diplomacy, and its detentions: the Afghan and Iraq war logs, the American diplomatic cables, and the Guantanamo Bay files.

Source: www.theatlantic.com