is a wiki leaks about to fall apart according to former wiki leaks staffers a domino chain of resignations is under way including the organization's second best known name daniel schmidt a spokesman now why the change of heart from members of the world's most famous whistle blowing site well according to these former employees julian asuncion has become somewhat of a tyrant even chanting the following he said quote i am the heart and soul of this organization its founder philosopher spokes person original coder organizer a financier and all the rest and if you have a problem with it piss off. that's true too now some former staffers were complained the pressure was so men's to release huge documents that not enough time was given to properly redact all the information to put others in jeopardy and with the upcoming october eighteenth release of documents from iraq if all goes as promised of course questions are beginning to arise could wiki leaks be done and if so why would that mean for whistleblowers and for the idea that information should be open to the public when joining me from san

but wiki leaks is a foreign organization so does the men even apply to it. it's really hard to say. you can argue that the actions were taken in the united states that's often the case when people try to claim jurisdiction. for activities that occur over the internet where they take orders and the organization is in a foreign country but in fact wiki leaks is international it doesn't really have to take orders these guys are prepared to elude capture so it really seems to be just kind of a token symbol it doesn't have much meaning to wiki leaks ok so then if we can really you know gets off free let's talk about other websites then perhaps that might have this information i mean these days it's really hard to decide who counts as being a journalist these days when anybody can have a blog online and write about it so you know i mean does this meant meant infringe upon their freedom of speech could they be important danger now. for this particular. it would depend on how the courts would decide to return true this statement mass dissemination.

are going to do bad things it's pretty simple or do you think that julian assange is perhaps of wiki leaks is he doing good or bad that. the problem there is. we actually are. i don't really know enough about what's going on i think there's a kind of general principle which is which is good i mean i think the basic hacker principle or the basic i would call it a hacktivist principle that information should be free is more or less good the basic distinction you have to make though and the hacktivist are going to make this distinction is between information that should be public information that should be private and everyone believes that there should be private information in fact activists develop. tools for people to use you know to keep to keep their secrets bottled up but in certain cases information comes into your hands and then you've got a moral decision to make are you going to consider this to be public information or are you going to consider it to be private information and at that point right there's that kind of inflection point where the decision you make is a decision that

attorney seth barron's week then will investigate the increasing amount of resignations within team wiki leaks important players are throwing in the towel because they say that it's just too difficult to work with a too radical julian assange wired editor kevin colson will join me to discuss the website's troubles and then we're going to look at the state of america's infrastructure with the rise of natural disasters and mounting troubles with bridges and roadways we have to ask is the u.s. starting to crumble literally correspondent christine will have that story but now let's move on to tonight's top story. today the jury selection began just blocks away from ground zero in the first civilian trial of a guantanamo bay detainee it's the case of ahmed khalfan ghailani he faces two hundred eighty six federal counts related to the august seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety eight bombings of u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya where twenty two hundred twenty four people were killed including told americans now golani is accused of helping deliver bomb making components including t.n.t. and

redacted one well they found some of the black dog material was stuff you could easily find on wiki leaks on google so what possibly could have struck such a chord with the pentagon or earlier i caught up with retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer himself and i asked the author to tell me the truth what did he write it was so bad. you know i say actually question i'm still fascinated having sat in a room with do you do you have to go through the second look at the manuscript and in some instances i can understand their perspective i have said several times i don't mix i don't agree with that i have been forced to agree with it by the fact of the army reserve and a lot of it has to do i believe with information relating to things they don't like they don't want to have out and let me be clear on this when the army did its review was made i worked over eight months with them and anything they asked to have removed it was taken out automatically i had a researcher actually go out and find open source information which would help fill in the story and let me begin let me be very clear on

join us with that story then we'll ask our hackers heroes or villains the controversy surrounding wiki leaks has brought the question to the foreground those who want to make information free to the public and those who believe that the author already should not be trusted also down professor peter ludlow to discuss that topic and we're sure that you know the westboro baptist church gets you guys as fired up as it gets me we're going to introduce you to a comedian who really gets a laugh out of them and their ridiculous and quite offensive protest his name is rick stone and he'll join us at the end of tonight's show but now let's move on to tonight's top story. well there is a war brewing in pakistan and for some reason people keep denying it but we are fighting just this past weekend fifty three people were confirmed dead after nato helicopters chased militants across the afghanistan border into pakistan and then struck rather unusual attack because this one came from a manned aircraft not just dropped now this violent weekend brings the total number of killings there to one hundred and one

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