Daniel Domscheit-Berg disputes WikiLeaks claims about destroyed files
A former WikiLeaks spokesman under fire for recently destroying thousands of unpublished documents submitted to the secret-spilling site last year says WikiLeaks is publicly exaggerating the contents of the deleted files, in an increasingly ugly dispute playing out over Twitter and in the press.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “was aware of the submissions and had taken out all the stuff he deemed worthy enough,” wrote former spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg in an e-mail to Wired.com. “It is not like we did not talk to one another, so he was aware of the submissions. He just claims all kinds of stuff now that is not true.”
Domscheit-Berg shocked WikiLeaks supporters this week when he told the German newsweekly Der Spiegel that he’d deleted more than 3,500 unpublished documents that he and an associate took with them when they left the organization last year. He said he destroyed the documents because Julian Assange could not guarantee safe handling of the files or their sources.
