More on Joe Lieberman’s Censorship Campaign Against WikiLeaks

Glenn Greenwald:

I just spoke with the creator of the “visualizations”: a British freelance journalist named James Ball. The only thing these “visualizations” are were charts summarizing the material released by WikiLeaks (for instance, the charts counted the documents which originated from each country, the number of documents by year, and the like). These charts contained no classified information whatsoever, and disclosed nothing about the content of the cables. It was the completely innocuous work of a freelance journalist to inform the public about the categories of documents released. Those charts were then linked to from the WikiLeaks site, but hosted separately by Tableau.

As Jeffrey Goldberg asks, why doesn’t Lieberman go after The New York Times, too?

★ Thursday, 2 December 2010