"...one of the sources has been locked in isolation for months and months."
As a potential source, wouldn't this make one less confident in wikileaks' ability to protect their sources? I realize that in this particular case it's abundantly clear that he was fingered by someone outside of wikileaks, but it is not beyond the realm of the possible that a flaw in wikileaks' system could leave sources vulnerable.
> As a potential source, wouldn't this make one less confident in wikileaks' ability to protect their sources?
No because in this particular case, Manning has bragged and got himself caught. It wasn't Wikileaks. But I believe he is persecuted and held in isolation in order to pressure him to implicate Wikileaks. Because of this, one would trust Wikileaks as they clearly do not have a buddy-buddy relationship with the US govt. I wouldn't be able to say the same thing about WSJ.
As a potential source, wouldn't this make one less confident in wikileaks' ability to protect their sources? I realize that in this particular case it's abundantly clear that he was fingered by someone outside of wikileaks, but it is not beyond the realm of the possible that a flaw in wikileaks' system could leave sources vulnerable.