The WikiLeaks IT guerrillas realize that dependable information--the truth about the real state of the world and the forces responsible for the endless crises, crimes, horrific unnecessary suffering, and wholesale terrorism--can indeed ultimately make people free, and aim to facilitate the process. The enormous beneficial potential of WikiLeaks seems to be obvious to many top thinkers on the left, including Daniel Ellsberg, the brave whistleblower to whom Julian Assange is most frequently compared, but, not too surprisingly, the point either eludes or is shamelessly ignored by prominent liberals like Katha Pollitt and Rachel Maddow. |