Without Bush, would WikiLeaks have happened?

  • Tony Kevin

13 December 2010WikiLeaks is the product of a time of great stress in the international system, argues Tony Kevin in Inside Story


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IN RECENT DAYS I’ve been looking for answers to a series of questions raised by the massive WikiLeaks releases over the past two weeks. What is driving Julian Assange? Why is WikiLeaks publicly dumping 250,000 US State Department cables? What does he hope to achieve, and what are his chances of success…?

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