Benkler, who is co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, was accepted by the court as an expert on the future of journalism in the digital age, despite prosecution attempts to have him disqualified. Under defence questioning, according to a transcript of the court proceedings provided by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Benkler roundly dismissed any connection between WikiLeaks and terrorist organisations and damned as “a relatively mediocre effort” a counter-intelligence report titled “Wikileaks.org \u2013 An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups?”.<\/p>\n
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