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Old 25th October 2011, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by quote from The Guardian View Post
WikiLeaks said in a statement: "The blockade is outside of any accountable, public process. It is without democratic oversight or transparency.

"The US government itself found that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a US financial blockade.
"Captain, our irony meter is being pinged."

"Dive, dive!"

Is WikiLeaks subject to an accountable, public process? Does it operate on lawful grounds?

Despite the characterization, I'm occasionally sympathetic to WikiLeaks' stated goals of exposing corruption (though not necessarily their methods). I'm just not convinced that being right is the same as being legal.
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