With Email Dumps, Wikileaks Tests Power of Full Transparency

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders?   “Consider what would happen,” Assange wrote in 2006, if one of America's two major parties had their emails, faxes, campaign briefings, internal polls and donor data all exposed to public scrutiny.   “They would immediately fall into an organizational stupor,” he predicted, “and lose to the other.”   A decade later,...

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