Quote Originally Posted by poop
Here's a question: How do wikileaks verify what they're publishing is a legitmate document? Shouldn't that be an important part of a whistleblower's agenda?
This is actually a very good question, one that obviously I can't answer, and one that I have pondered myself. That said, they appear to do a very good job of it.

A spy can pretend to be a whistleblower, that's my point. (And by 'spy' obviously I'm broadening the definition outside of simply 'passing information' to include other types of espionage).
Well, you're taking the word "spy" outside of the scope I would use that word. Who is the leaked information going to? Why was the information leaked? The answers to these question determine whether we're talking about a spy or a whistleblower, at least in my view.