The New Republic Daily
Report
04/27/11
‘The New York Times,’ WikiLeaks, and the Ethics of Guantánamo Coverage Jeffrey Rosen
On Sunday night, as Michael Calderone has reported, two
groups of news organizations began publishing details of secret inmate reports
from Guantanamo Bay. Some, like The London Telegraph, had gotten the
documents from WikiLeaks; others, like The New York Times, had not.
Although the Times did not identify its independent source, WikiLeaks
itself provided a clue in a tweet it issued on Sunday: “Domschiet, NYT,
Guardian, attempted Gitmo spoiler against our 8 group coalition. We had intel on
them and published first.”
Domscheit is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Assange’s former Number Two at WikiLeaks and author of a compelling new tell-all memoir in which he describes how he became disillusioned with Assange’s paranoid megalomania, secretive resistance to transparency, political partisanship, and proclivity for concentrating power in his own hands—all the vices WikiLeaks was established to oppose. The “8 group coalition” is a group of news organizations, such as the Telegraph, with whom Assange is still on good terms and to whom he had promised the Guantánamo documents on the condition that the recipients respect an embargo imposed by Assange himself. The tweet suggests that Domscheit-Berg, or another disaffected former WikiLeaks staffer, may have given the documents to the Times, and that Assange suddenly lifted his own arbitrary embargo when it looked like he might be scooped by the former colleague who turned on him.
Continue reading "‘The New York Times,’ WikiLeaks, and the Ethics of Guantánamo Coverage"
The Conservative Establishment’s Hopeless Infatuation With Mitch Daniels Ed Kilgore
Stanley Fish’s Obsession With the Perfect Sentence Stanley Fish
04/27/11
‘The New York Times,’ WikiLeaks, and the Ethics of Guantánamo Coverage Jeffrey Rosen
On Sunday night, as Michael Calderone has reported, two
groups of news organizations began publishing details of secret inmate reports
from Guantanamo Bay. Some, like The London Telegraph, had gotten the
documents from WikiLeaks; others, like The New York Times, had not.
Although the Times did not identify its independent source, WikiLeaks
itself provided a clue in a tweet it issued on Sunday: “Domschiet, NYT,
Guardian, attempted Gitmo spoiler against our 8 group coalition. We had intel on
them and published first.”Domscheit is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Assange’s former Number Two at WikiLeaks and author of a compelling new tell-all memoir in which he describes how he became disillusioned with Assange’s paranoid megalomania, secretive resistance to transparency, political partisanship, and proclivity for concentrating power in his own hands—all the vices WikiLeaks was established to oppose. The “8 group coalition” is a group of news organizations, such as the Telegraph, with whom Assange is still on good terms and to whom he had promised the Guantánamo documents on the condition that the recipients respect an embargo imposed by Assange himself. The tweet suggests that Domscheit-Berg, or another disaffected former WikiLeaks staffer, may have given the documents to the Times, and that Assange suddenly lifted his own arbitrary embargo when it looked like he might be scooped by the former colleague who turned on him.
Continue reading "‘The New York Times,’ WikiLeaks, and the Ethics of Guantánamo Coverage"
The Conservative Establishment’s Hopeless Infatuation With Mitch Daniels Ed Kilgore
Stanley Fish’s Obsession With the Perfect Sentence Stanley Fish
