Former WikiLeaks Spokesman Admits Deleting Data From Site

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Ongoing tensions between former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg and embattled founder Julian Assange have reportedly reached a fever pitch after the deputy claims to have destroyed 3,500 of the site’s unpublished documents obtained from unknown informants.

As Spiegel Online is reporting, Domscheit-Berg says that the documents, which he had obtained off WikiLeak’s servers prior to his well-publicized departure from the whistleblowing organization last year, were “shredded over the past few days in order to ensure that the sources are not compromised.”

Among the documents from the database said to have been destroyed: a copy of the U.S government’s “No-Fly list,” which contains names of terrorism suspects who are prohibited from boarding aircraft, and other materials containing insider information relating to 20 far-right organizations…

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