Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
I think out of all the &quot;news&quot; media so far Wikileaks is probably the most trustworthy.<p>I&#x27;ve seen people claim they altered the emails or Russians wrote the emails, I think they&#x27;d have to point to specific instances for me to see it. I don&#x27;t remember a single instance of them altering an email. I don&#x27;t remember anyone credible refuting and saying they didn&#x27;t write it.<p>How do we know these emails are interesting and useful -- we listen to the CNN of course, remember folks &quot;...it is illegal to possess these stolen documents. It is different from the media. So everything you learn about this, you are learning from us.&quot; that was my first hint documents should be read very closely.<p>When mass media lies about something it overcompensates, and one heuristic I use is I just reverse the meaning of it. &quot;don&#x27;t read the documents&quot; and I interpret it as &quot;that&#x27;s a place to take a look&quot;, or &quot;we are exporting democracy to the Middle East&quot; that means &quot;we are installing puppet regimes there&quot; and so on. It is a funny exercise.