Me Wikileaks News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Names of informants, and things like that. and we did communicate that. they asked us to do that because basically they didn't have a line of communications open to wikileaks. >> as you know, the "times of london" has reported that wikileaks posted hundreds of names of afghan informants who were helping the u.s. and its allies and this probably has put them at risk. now, i know you've -- >> we've reported that too. >> yes. and i know you made it clear that the "new york times" didn't do this. and i know you've made it clear that wikileaks made its own decisions. but to some observers it kind o...

Establishing that our independence and the importance, the premium that we put on an handling this material very, very carefully. >> right. it takes about two seconds to google it obviously in this age. the "times" was sort of in the unusual position, you have said and the paper has said, of carrying a message from the white house during the reporting process here to wikileaks. what was that message, and did that make you feel like you were in an odd situation? >> well, i mean, it's a little bit of an odd situation in the -- just the nature of the material and the fact that we were in this wit...

"reliable sources" an organization called wikileaks has pulled off the biggest military leak since the pentagon papers with the help of the "new york times." "times" editor bill keller on why he agreed to publish secret documents about the war in afghanistan. plus, she once roamed the globe for cnn. we'll look at christiane amanpour's debut this morning as a sunday talk show host. and later, how did whoopi, barbara, joy, elisabeth, and sherri fare when the president came on "the view"? [ gasps ] [ rattling ] [ laughing ] [ announcer ] close enough just isn't good enough. - if your car is in ...

Audiences that those publications have would be the kind of people who are curious and would be interested. i think he may have also recognized that we and "the guardian" and "der speiegel" hae resources that wikileaks does not, the ability given some time to really sort through these documents and appraise them and compare them with the experience of reporting in the field and other documents that we've seen. >> he's now somewhat unhappy with the "new york times," particularly for not providing a link to his website. here's what he had to say. in an interview with amy goodman of democracy now...

Unprofessional conduct to me. >> and he also said it was pusilanimous. your response. >> well, what he calls pussilanimous i would just call prudent. we handled this material with extreme care. we wanted to be careful not to put anything in the paper or anything on our website that would put lives at risk. now, as a rule, when we do a story that's based on some kind of a repository of data we link to the data. so we owed our readers some explanation of why we hadn't do that in this case, and we didn't do it because we really had no such assurance about the risks posed by the raw material that ...