This is a good reason for not simply giving The Guardian a giant encrypted dump of all the data. Either way, The Guardian's lack of opsec doesn't set the bar for Wikileaks.

Wasn't the whole idea behind Wikileaks supposed to be that it was run by people with the greatest possible opsec/tradecraft crediblity? How does it make sense for that group to literally delegate all their security to a news publishing organization?

And having done that, by their own admission, how does pointing the finger at The Guardian's lack of opsec capability exonerate Wikileaks?