Too bad the newspaper decided to go with the &quot;NSA is spying on x president&quot; headline rather than focusing on the content of the spying (involving details relevant to Italian politics and history) which is clearly the intended goal in releasing this.<p>The responses here on HN are sadly predictable as a result and likely will draw a similar response from the public.<p>Wikieaks has never really had a moral agenda like Snowden in regards to why they are releasing the information in the first place. Assange has repeatedly stated that he simply believes all secret information should be released. In the process they hope to expose corruption in the political systems. The fact they released proof the NSA was spying on a foreign leader isn&#x27;t the story here, nor it that really a big noteworthy reveal considering the endless Snowden leaks, so we should stop pretending that was the real goal here and dismissing it on those grounds.<p>That being said, the fact Wikileaks was capable of getting access to plaintext NSA intercepts <i>is</i> in fact interesting. Not the usual high-level vague Snowden powerpoint slides. So if we&#x27;re going to play that game this is still atypical in the greater scope of the NSA releases in the past two years.