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Explosive eyewitness account from highly respected Australian investigative journalist Mark Davis - it was #JulianAssange in 2010, not The Guardian or NYT or Der Spiegel, who redacted names to protect identities. Anything else is “a complete lie” consortiumnews.com/2019/08/09/wat…
2/ Mark Davis says, “I was there when they formed ‘the bunker’ at the Guardian [with] Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The New York Times and #JulianAssange. Every moment that #Julian was there I was there.”
3/ “No-one “expressed any concern whatsoever about the lives of people [named in leaked documents], except for #JulianAssange. EXCEPT for Julian Assange.”
4/ “The Guardian journalists had disdain for the impact of [the leaked] material. They - at best - had a type of gallows humour as to what would happen to anyone revealed in these documents.”
5/ “It was #JulianAssange who brought that issue to the fore. Not the Guardian. Not The NYT… The release was to be on Monday morning. It was Friday when Julian said, well, we need to pull these names out – the names that are identified as informants.”
6/ “Julian asked for [the publication date] to be delayed, because they weren’t going to assist him in [redacting the names]. He said well I’ll do it, but we need time.”
7/ “So all these people who now write books about how concerned they were, they all went home on Friday afternoon, and Julian was left with not just the task, but the moral responsibility of trying to cleanse those documents in some way, and he did.”
8/ “[Julian worked] All night. ALL night. When I say ‘all night’ I mean from 5pm until 9am the next day. Julian removed 10,000 names. By himself. Not with the support team of The Guardian etc etc. By himself. He removed them.”
9/ “[Guardian journalist] David Leigh is the bloke that printed the password to the original files in his book. The password that had been redacted - that Julian had physically redacted - this clown put the password up, printed it and it was still active. It still worked!”
10/ “So these high priests of journalistic ethics… had set Julian up from the start. When you see this recurring slur – this slander – against Julian, that he’s cavalier with people’s lives and he has no ethics, it started in 2010.”
11/ “I would have well and truly thought it would have washed away by now. But to see it on Four Corners AGAIN, nine years later, in great detail, I feel compelled [to come forward with what I know]” Thank you Mark Davis.
