'New York Times', 'Guardian' Condemn WikiLeaks

Former partners say leak endangers sources

The whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks is in hot water again—and this time, it is being condemned by news outlets that had been its partners.

In a joint statement they put out Friday, the New York Times, the Guardian, El Pais, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde condemned WikiLeaks for releasing via Twitter the unedited versions of all 251,000 of the secret U.S. diplomatic cables in its possession. 

“We deplore the decision of WikiLeaks to publish the unredacted state department cables, which may put sources at risk,” the news organizations said in the statement, which was published in the Guardian.

In 2010, the organizations partnered with WikiLeaks to publish a selection of diplomatic cables that were carefully redacted to protect certain individuals whose names appeared in the correspondence.

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