Reply #80: That might be the case

[Azathoth]

Even though my personal feeling is that this is a needlessly elaborate twist which has much more to do with PR and showmanship than it does with truth-telling, what you propose is at least possible. But if it is true, it strikes me as morally questionable on Assange's part. He would be gambling that, as you say, the benefit of revealing the unredacted information to the public would outweigh any negative impact on innocent people. Given the unsurprising and banal nature of the revelations we've seen so far, I'd say that's quite a risk.