"He was angry that we declined to link our online coverage of the War Logs to the WikiLeaks Web site, a decision we made because we feared — rightly, as it turned out — that its trove would contain the names of low-level informants and make them Taliban targets. "
Also, I would go as far as to say that his deputy's trip to KGB HQ in Minsk was totally unnecessary.
The redactions Assange objected to were those that implicated corporations and political figures. The Guardian claimed that they made the redactions from fear of libel lawsuits.
Only after Leigh published the password for the cables, effectively making them public, did Wikileaks post them to its website.
If you have evidence that Assange systematically published cables of informant names before the password was published by Leigh please share it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.htm...
"He was angry that we declined to link our online coverage of the War Logs to the WikiLeaks Web site, a decision we made because we feared — rightly, as it turned out — that its trove would contain the names of low-level informants and make them Taliban targets. "
Also, I would go as far as to say that his deputy's trip to KGB HQ in Minsk was totally unnecessary.