Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.