Deconstructing WikiLeaks

In Deconstructing WikiLeaks the author, Daniel Estulin, tries to find the truth behind Julian Assange and his infamous WikiLeaks website. Estulin is an investigative journalist and author. He is well known for his work and expertise in the field of crisis literature. However, he is not settled just by describing crisis, he hopes to bring truth to some of the world’s most secretive and mysterious occurrences. Through this book, Estulin provides detailed stories and analyses in attempt to fully understand the story behind the largest government and news leakage source in the world—WikiLeaks.
Estulin dives immediately into the heart of the issues of interest. As someone who knew little to nothing about WikiLeaks, I had hoped that the book would provide a general background about the organization. Through reading the book and doing my own outside research to familiarize myself with the topic, I was able to understand some of the fundamentals of the organization. Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 under the Sunshine Press of Iceland. The entire organization is controlled through the website wikileaks.org which is run as a non-profit organization. Over the past seven years WikiLeaks has continuously leaked documents, which often become popular news stories. The leaks, Julian Assange, and WikiLeaks in general have been a source of many debates and questions throughout the recent years. In the very beginning of the book, Estulin states “there is more to WikiLeaks than meets the eye” (Estulin 5).
One of the largest problems within the WikiLeaks organization is the source of their financial funding. According to Assange the money comes from a variety of reasonable sources such as similar-minded foundations and rich individuals w...

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...ifferent people and organizations who are a part of WikiLeaks in some way. Additionally the amount of information he gives is extremely overwhelming. Almost every page of the book is filled with numerous facts and figures.
I found this book to be very informative. I think that the author does a good job of explaining some of the issues within WikiLeaks without forcing his believes on the readers. It is clear that Estulin thinks that WikiLeaks has ties to the US government in some way, but he does not try to prove that this is the only possibility. Based on the evidence he gives I am inclined to believe that Estulin is on to something with his claims—I think that by deconstructing WikiLeaks, one can see that it is possible that the US Government is working with WikiLeaks.

Works Cited

Estulin, Daniel. Deconstructing WikiLeaks. Walterville: Trine Day, 2012. Print.