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Why do some think julian assange is a hero, first amendment champion for dumping the documents he got from manning? >> it is fair to say in the case of the afghan war logs, he did release documents on his website which had not been properly redacted. he withheld some thousands of those documents. when he released the iraq war logs he got it right, releasing documents but properly redacted. in the original state department release, he only released a few thousand. he held back a great many. there was a con thicket going on inside wikileaks but it is not fair to say he dumped them all. he made a...

Are said to have endangered sources and methods in a way that seemed to be indiscrimin t indiscriminant. why do some people think that he's a hero, first amendment champion for dumping these documents? >> i think it's fair to say that in the case of the afghan war logs, he did release documents on his website which had not been properly redacted. but he also withheld thousands of those documents. when he released the iraqi war logs, he got it right. in the original state department release, he only released a few thousand. he held back a great many. so i think there was a conflict going on ins...