Don ' t reveal trade secrets pls <| sep |> why should people leak to an unverified service ? Chelsea Manning is in jail for life . This isn ' t a game . Most definitely not a game . But loudly and incessantly demanding a POL or compromised also increases the risk for people who have already leaked the documents to WL the same as for future leakers . What if tomorrow , WL finished vetting a bunch of classified documents and published them . Are we to dismiss them because WL is unable to give a POL for their editor in chief ? What about the Chelsea Manning in that situation ? They risked their lives to expose some sort of truth and we ' ve collectively weakened the outlet they leaked to by shouting to every tom , dick and harry that WL is compromised .