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Earlier today, for the first time we got a glimpse into some of the American names allegedly contained <\/a>in the “Panama Papers”, largest ever leak. “Some”, not all, and “allegedly” because as we said yesterday<\/a>, “one can’t help but wonder: why not do a Wikileaks type data dump, one which reveals if not all the 2.6 terabytes of data due to security concerns, then at least the identities of these 441 US-based clients.<\/strong> After all, with the rest of the world has already been extensively shamed, it’s only fair to open US books as well.”<\/p>\n The exact same question appeared in an interview conducted between Wired magazine <\/a>and the director of the organization that released the Panama Papers, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, or ICIJ, Gerard Ryle.<\/p>\n This is what Ryle said:<\/p>\n Ryle says that the media organizations have no plans to release the full dataset, WikiLeaks-style, which he argues would expose the sensitive information of innocent private individuals along with the public figures on which the group\u2019s reporting has focused<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re not WikiLeaks. We\u2019re trying to show that journalism can be done responsibly<\/strong>,\u201d Ryle says. He says he advised the reporters from all the participating media outlets to \u201cgo crazy, but tell us what\u2019s in the public interest for your country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Question aside about who <\/strong><\/em>it is that gets to decide which “innocent private individuals” <\/em>are to be left alone, Wikileaks clearly did not like being characterized as conducting “irresponsible” journalism – and to the contrary, many in the public arena have called for another massive, distributed effort to get to the bottom of a 2.4TB treasure trove of data which a handful of journalists will simply be unable to dig through – and moments ago, on Twitter, accused the ICIJ of being a “Washington DC based Ford, Soros funded soft-power tax-dodge” which “has a WikiLeaks problem<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n Washington DC based Ford, Soros funded soft-power tax-dodge "ICIJ" has a WikiLeaks problem #PanamaPapers<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/xEXlmGg0fG<\/a><\/p>\n — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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