{"id":72706,"date":"2011-01-29T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/29\/le-guardian-et-assange-suite\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T06:56:28","slug":"le-guardian-et-assange-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/29\/le-guardian-et-assange-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Guardian<\/em> et Assange (suite)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Guardian<\/em> et Assange (suite)<\/h4>\n

A l’occasion de la parution de son livre WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s war on secrecy<\/em> (en vente lundi), le r\u00e9dacteur en chef du Guardian<\/em>, Alan Rusbridger, publie (ce 28 janvier 2011<\/a>, dans le Guardian<\/em>) des extraits qui permettent d’avoir une id\u00e9e bien plus pr\u00e9cise du r\u00f4le du Guardian<\/em> et des relations de ce journal avec Julian Assange, fondateur de WikiLeaks<\/em>, dans l’affaire WikiLeaks<\/em>\/Cablegate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’attitude et la personnalit\u00e9 de Julian Assange sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es d’une fa\u00e7on assez contrast\u00e9e, avec des aspects n\u00e9gatifs. Mais, d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, Rusbridger reconna\u00eet au fondateur de WikiLeaks<\/em> l’immense vertu d’\u00eatre un pionnier dans une op\u00e9ration fondamentale et qui est appel\u00e9e \u00e0 durer. Le passage ci-dessous, \u00e9crit aux d\u00e9pens de l’\u00e9volution sans nuance ni crainte des contradictions grossi\u00e8res de Hillary Clinton vis-\u00e0-vis d’Internet, pr\u00e9sente bien la consid\u00e9ration o\u00f9 Rusbridger tient Assange. (A noter l’emploi que faisait Clinton en janvier 2010 du mot samizdat<\/em> pour d\u00e9signer Internet, d’apr\u00e8s le mot caract\u00e9risant la presse dissidente et clandestine en URSS dans les ann\u00e9es 1960-1980 ; c’est un mot auquel nous avons fait souvent r\u00e9f\u00e9rence pour caract\u00e9riser Internet, depuis le 10 juillet 1999<\/a> sur ce site.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abUnnoticed by most of the world, Julian Assange was developing into a most interesting and unusual pioneer in using digital technologies to challenge corrupt and authoritarian states. It’s doubtful whether his name would have meant anything to Hillary Clinton at the time or even in January 2010 when, as secretary of state, she made a rather good speech about the potential of what she termed a new nervous system for the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbShe described a vision of semi-underground digital publishing the samizdat of our day that was beginning to champion transparency and challenge the autocratic, corrupt old order of the world. But she also warned that repressive governments would target the independent thinkers who use the tools. She had regimes like Iran in mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHer words about the brave samizdat publishing future could well have applied to the rather strange, unworldly Australian hacker quietly working out methods of publishing the world’s secrets in ways which were beyond any technological or legal attack.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbLittle can Clinton have imagined, as she made this much praised speech, that within a year she would be back making another statement about digital whistleblowers this time roundly attacking people who used electronic media to champion transparency. It was, she told a hastily arranged state department press conference in November 2010, not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests. It is an attack on the international community. In the intervening 11 months Assange had gone viral. He had just helped to orchestrate the biggest leak in the history of the world only this time the embarrassment was not to a poor east African nation, but to the most powerful country on earth.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSur les conditions de la collaboration entre des syst\u00e8mes comme WikiLeaks<\/em> avec la presse papier, et sur l’avenir de ces formes d’action, Rusbridger se montre tr\u00e8s optimiste. Il confirme dans son livre que c’est le Guardian<\/em> qui a pris l’initiative de proposer la collaboration de cette press\u00e9 \u00e9dit\u00e9e avec WikiLeaks<\/em>, garantissant ainsi un impact consid\u00e9rable et une certaine respectabilit\u00e9 aux fuites massives. Pour Rusbridger, ce syst\u00e8me de coop\u00e9ration est appel\u00e9 \u00e0 durer, et le Guardian<\/em> entend bien y prendre une place pr\u00e9pond\u00e9rante. (A noter que Rusbridger semble avancer que l’inculpation aux USA d’Assange sur cette question de publication de documents confidentiels ne pourrait se faire sans que les cinq grands journaux papiers qui ont publi\u00e9s ces documents soient eux-m\u00eames inculp\u00e9s, ce qui donnerait, comme il l’\u00e9crit, \u00abthe media case of the century<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abOne of the lessons from the WikiLeaks project is that it has shown the possibilities of collaboration. It’s difficult to think of any comparable example of news organisations working together in the way the Guardian, New York Times, Der Speigel, Le Monde and El Pa\u00eds have on the WikiLeaks project. I think all five editors would like to imagine ways in which we could harness our resources again.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe story is far from over. In the UK there was only muted criticism of the Guardian for publishing the leaks, though their restraint did not always extend to WikiLeaks itself. Most journalists could see the clear public value in the nature of the material that was published.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIt appears to have been another story in the US, where there was a more bitter and partisan argument, clouded by differing ideas of patriotism. It was astonishing to sit in London reading of reasonably mainstream American figures calling for the assassination of Assange for what he had unleashed. It was surprising to see the widespread reluctance among American journalists to support the general ideal and work of WikiLeaks. For some it simply boiled down to a reluctance to admit that Assange was a journalist.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhether this attitude would change were Assange ever to be prosecuted is an interesting matter for speculation. In early 2011 there were signs of increasing frustration on the part of US government authorities in scouring the world for evidence to use against him, including the subpoena of Twitter accounts. But there was also, among cooler legal heads, an appreciation that it would be virtually impossible to prosecute Assange for the act of publication of the war logs or state department cables without also putting five editors in the dock. That would be the media case of the century.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAnd, of course, we have yet to hear an unmediated account from the man alleged to be the true source of the material, Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old US army private. Until then no complete story of the leak that changed the world can really be written. But this is a compelling first chapter in a story which, one suspects, is destined to run and run.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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