Amnesty International has also confirmed that a number of WikiLeaks releases have clear relevance to human rights violations around the world, including previously released information about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and recently released information about the U.S. involvement in Yemen and complicity between U.S. and Germany around the investigation of CIA agents in relation to the illegal detention and disappearance of Khaled el-Masri. Several media sources have compiled their own "top lists" of critical information, which will continue to evolve as more cables are revealed (see references).
CONCLUSION
As citizens who are interested in our own safety and in the
safety of our children (at home and fighting abroad), in what our leaders say
and do in our name, in the sustainability of our future, and in how our
neighbors across the globe are treated by us - the truths about Assange and WikiLeaks
bring up a lot of questions about where our leaders stand when it comes to
issues of ethics and civil liberties.
Whether you'd want to have coffee with Assange or not, you have the right to know the whole story and not just the part that is shrouded in myth, threats, and accusations, some of them grounded in an absence of the due process which is supposed to help make this beautiful place the home of the free.
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December 12, 2010 Note: The original article had some comments about Osama Bin Laden under Myth #3 that I have removed because they were "thrown out" by me without doing any reading or research on the topic, and therefore did not follow the spirit or intent of the rest of the article, which was to integrate information from the sources below, which I consider to be trustworthy.
REFERENCES:
Is WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News
WikiLeaks release: Timeline of the key WikiLeaks revelations
Operation Payback Cripples Mastercard Site in Revenge for WikiLeaks ban
Ex-Inteligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures
Amnesty International Q & A Freedom of Expression
An Interview with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
Reuters Special Report: STD fears sparked case against WikiLeaks
The Arrest of Julian Assange as it Happened
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