WikiLeaks
founder urges the holders of the Panama Papers to establish “a
transparent path to publishing the vast majority of that data set.”
Speaking to
the media from the Ecuadorean Embassy where he lives under political
asylum, Julian Assange called for greater transparency in the Panama
Papers leak.
In an April
9 interview with Al-Jazeera, the WikiLeaks founder praised the work
of Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German newspaper that received the
massive leak of financial data revealing the offshore tax havens of
the world’s rich and famous.
“We’re
very pleased about the work that SZ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) — did in
the beginning in developing that source. We think that’s really
good work. The work of the source of course is the most impressive
and then pulling together that collaboration is also impressive
work,” Assange said.
After
receiving the leak, which contains 11.5 million documents,
Süddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists organized a coalition of hundreds of
journalists who collaborated to analyze the files over the course of
over a year before publication began.
The praise
hasn’t gone both ways, though. Gerard Ryle, director of ICIJ,
seemed to cast aspersions on Assange’s work earlier this month,
when he told WIRED magazine, “We’re not WikiLeaks. We’re
trying to show that journalism can be done responsibly.”
WikiLeaks
hosts searchable archives of data sets like emails sent from Hillary
Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State and
hacked emails from private intelligence firms, but Ryle insisted that
a similar archive of the Panama Papers would be a violation of
privacy.
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