What is WikiLeaks?

WikiLeaks is an international, non-profit organization that publishes secret information, including news leaks, from anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 in Iceland by Julian Assange. The group says it specializes in the analysis and publication of large amounts of censored or restricted information “involving war, spying and corruption” and claims to have published more than 10 million documents and analyses. Julian Assange, a believer in the free movement of information, registered the domain name WikiLeaks.org in 1999. But he didn’t start to use it actively until 2006. That year, he feverishly transformed the website into a secure location for whistleblowers, specifically those who wanted to give secret documents a public airing. As he characterizes it, WikiLeaks was “an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis”. The first posting, in December 2006, was a decision by a Somali rebel leader to execute government officials. In 2007, Assange announced the formal launch of the site

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