He is said to have given the Belarusian regime of the dictator Alexandr Lukashenko private access to leaks containing the names of opposition activists. Just before Christmas and just after these alleged events, Lukashenko rounded up and imprisoned 600 opposition figures. The original leaker of the cables, Bradley Manning, or whoever that may be, was presumably not expecting his actions to help the security work of an oppressive regime. Shouldn’t a responsible publishing organisation – Wikileaks likes to portray itself as one – consider the consequences of its actions? If it is in the nature of the leaking organisation to allow characters such as Shamir to take advantage of it, then surely it is compromised beyond redemption?