WikiLeaks is largely the creation of Julian Assange and to this day from all we can see is very heavily influenced, if not outright controlled, by him. Since a few years when it first came on the scene as a little known site, it gained respect for being a repository of eventually a million or more documents and files that were leaked (or hacked and uploaded) to the site, from a wide range of countries around the world, but mostly from Asia.
WikiLeaks has consistently portrayed itself as a web site where those who leak (“sources”) will not be revealed and where those sources cansecurely and anonymously publish documents or files that they wish to leak in order for documents and files in the public interest to gain exposure and see the light of day. Journalists would then be able to further examine those documents and add context to them as well as give added exposure.
Julian Assange is an exceptionally talented and intelligent former computer “hacker” who strongly believes that governments and government departments and agencies need a lot more transparency in order to be kept in check against the excesses of abuses of power and office that so often comes with secrecy. Corruption itself is able to thrive where there is secrecy but not openness and this also applies to corporations, banks, and organisations.
Julian Assange is an Australian citizen something the Australian government and establishment media are not keen to highlight, for obvious reasons: there is an obligation to protect and assist Australian citizens, and this Aussie is being targeted by Australia's powerful militaryally master, the United States government and notably the Pentagon (Department of Defence).
This question is not so strange and a lot of people are now asking it. First, if you don't agree with government openness and transparency, and its importance to democracy, human rights and ultimately to peace and well being, then this article is not for you. If you do, you will be hoping that WikiLeaks is something that will multiply and be worthy of support.
This writer would say that from all that can be seen of recent developments inside and outside WikiLeaks, the “organisation” that has no structure, and is stateless (things we understand well), is now consisting almost entirely of volunteers and friends that are total “yes men” to Julian Assange. Because of this, the essential question is not so much whether WikiLeaks as it exists today is genuine, but whether the man Julian Assange is genuine.
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