Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.