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PBS:

Was Julian Assange prepared to publish some of the leaked documents without adequately redacting the names of people who could have been harmed by the disclosures? “Julian was very reluctant to delete those names, to redact them.” David Leigh of the Guardian newspaper tells FRONTLINE of meetings he attended with Assange in the run-up to publication of the war logs. “And we said: ‘Julian, we’ve got to do something about these redactions. We really have got to.’ And he said: ‘These people were collaborators, informants. They deserve to die.’ And a silence fell around the table.”

When the Wikileaks documents first came to light, there was considerable discussion as to whether Assange's failure to redact the names of people who could suffer serious harm by their publication was simple sloppiness or laziness or something else. I think now we can attribute it to sheer bloody-minded malice.

But hey, karma's a bitch, huh? What goes around comes around. Very Buddhist, when you think of it.

Which is why there won't be many tears shed when his bullet-riddled corpse is fished out of the local canal.

Fun Assange Fax!

He has a mighty curious name. Well, besides that Julian part too.

I was wondering about the derivation of "Assange." No idea what that is, ethnically. So let's break it down.

The first syllable, "Ass" seems quite self-explanatory. That leaves "ange."

Wait a minute. Isn't that the French word (or more correctly,"l'ange") for "angel"?

Julian Ass-angel. Works for me, and I'm sure his future bunkmates in a Swedish prison are going to be delighted to hear it.