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The War on Secrecy

Rogue activist Julian Assange wants to curb government secrecy, but his massive leak of classified U.S. diplomatic cables is undermining the Obama Administration's efforts to do just that More »

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Full Transcript/Audio of Julian Assange Interview

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talks to TIME about the recent focus on the numerous documents released through his controversial organization More »
TIME Exclusive: Julian Assange Says Clinton 'Should Resign'

In a Skype interview, TIME managing editor Richard Stengel asks the WikiLeaks founder whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should keep her job More »

What's Behind WikiLeaks? Too Much Writing

There's simply more to leak now because the digital age has made the creation of oodles of pages of information easier than it has ever been. A remembrance of typewriters past More »
The Wiki Dump: Why More Secrecy Means Less Security

Most of the information in the more than 250,000 diplomatic cables dumped by the website WikiLeaks Sunday will prove to be quotidian and inconsequential More »
Photos: Inside WikiLeaks' Bunker

A look at the former war bunker that hosts the 250,000 secret cables that have so vexed the U.S. State Department More »
Top 10 Leaks

TIME looks at famous leaks that were often as damning as they were sensational More »
Assange on History's Top Leaks

The founder of WikiLeaks gives his opinions on one of TIME.com's top ten lists — the top ten leaks of all time More »
The Afghan War Leaks: Few Surprises, but Some Hard Truths

The data are disparate and of uneven quality. In order to be revealing, the controversial documents ought to be read in the context of Pakistan's history in Afghanistan More »
Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?

Julian Assange is a candidate on this year's list. Cast your vote for or against the Wikileaks founder and other noteworthy figures More »
Combat Video: The Pentagon Springs a WikiLeak

Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has posted a video that purportedly shows a U.S. helicopter crew in Baghdad killing a group of unarmed people, including two journalists More »
TIME Interview with Assange

In a previously unreleased interview from July 27, 2010, TIME talks with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange soon after the release of more than 90,000 documents about the Afghanistan War More »
WikiLeaks' Assange on China's 'Reform Potential'

In a Skype interview with TIME managing editor Rick Stengel, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discusses the 'reform potential' of free speech in places like China More »
Wikileaks Defends Its Release of Iraq War Documents

This disclosure is about the truth," founder Julian Assange said at a London press conference More »
Defending the Leaks: Q&A with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

In an interview with TIME, Assange talks about why he does the work he has become infamous for — and what else to expect from the Afghanistan war documents More »
WikiLeaks Throws Obama Off Message (Again) on Afghanistan

For a White House trying to maintain faltering support for the Afghanistan war, the WikiLeaks documents are yet another stumbling block More »
Reading World Leaders' Reactions to WikiLeaks

The way foreign leaders have responded to the WikiLeaks document dump is as revealing as the cables themselves More »
2-Min. Bio: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

Julian Assange — "the Robin Hood of hacking" — believes total transparency is for the good of all people More »
From the Archive: A Wiki for Whistle-Blowers

In 2007, TIME reported about the debut of wikileaks.org. Would the website become a bold new forum for exposing corruption or a front for an intelligence agency? More »

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