What they mean is that there was no journalistic responsibility
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I know what you mean. That's exactly why many other journalists are distancing themselves and why the big outcry hasn't happened. But it's simply not accurately portrayed. Everything they accuse him of in this regard is turning out to be untrue. Like, for example, he didn't redact, he acted recklessly, people were harmed by the leaks: It's not true. For instance, the Guardian journalists Harding/Leigh published the password to the data, the data was initially published by John Young on a US server (before WikiLeaks), Assange warned the US authorities, there are witnesses like Goetz and Davis who totally refute this allegation of the prosecution: None of this has been revealed to the public in recent years. It's good that all of this is coming to light now. Finally!