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    The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the
    more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership 
    and planning coterie. This must result in minimization 
    of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an 
    increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent 
    system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased 
    ability to hold onto power as the environment demands
    adaption.
Julian Assange is seeming more and more prescient every other day.


> Julian Assange is seeming more and more prescient every other day.

Quite true.

He was considered quite bold and respectable for all his work until the cables happened. As long as his leaks did not have anything to do with back home you know. At least that's how it all seems to me.


Also the alleged rape really hasn't helped.


The cables are what created the celebrity. Relatively very few knew or cared about Assange before that point.


Another way of saying the character assassination didn't start until the cables were published.




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