Nice Try

But I don’t think this will work. From Wired…

The secret-spilling site Wikileaks announced this week that it’s acquired thousands of e-mails belonging to a top aide to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. But don’t look for them online. In a departure from its full-disclosure past, Wikileaks is auctioning off the cache to the highest bidder.

Wikileaks began soliciting bids from media organizations on Tuesday, for what it describes as thousands of e-mails and attachments from 2005 to 2008 that provide insight into Chavez’s management, CIA activities in Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution.

The winner gets exclusivity and embargoed access to the documents, though Wikileaks will publish all of them eventually.

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