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WikiLeaks’ Assange Threatened Lawsuit Over Leaked Diplomatic Cables

Just weeks prior to unveiling a giant cache of leaked U.S. State Department cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to sue the Guardian newspaper in Britain over publication of the documents, according to a fascinating Vanity Fair article publ

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/vf-wikieaks/

Assange, suddenly faced with having lost control of documents that WikiLeaks itself had received from a source, asserted that he owned the information and had a financial interest in how and when it was released, the magazine reports.