The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The  Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how  to arrange a secure communication. Not really, I confessed. The Times  doesn’t have encrypted phone lines, or a Cone of Silence. Well then, he  said, he would try to speak circumspectly. In a roundabout way, he laid  out an unusual proposition: an organization called WikiLeaks,  a secretive cadre of antisecrecy vigilantes, had come into possession  of a substantial amount of classified United States government  communications. WikiLeaks’s leader, Julian Assange,  an eccentric former computer hacker of Australian birth and no fixed  residence, offered The Guardian half a million military dispatches from  the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. There might be more after  that, including an immense bundle of confidential diplomatic cables. The  Guardian suggested — to increase the impact as well as to share the  labor of handling such a trove — that The New York Times be invited to  share this exclusive bounty. The source agreed. Was I interested?I was interested.Lea el articulo completo en The New York Times