@Elizafox I think some of what Wikileaks did in the past may have shortened the Iraq war. A lot of what went on during that war was concealed from the public at the time and so the leaks from Chelsea Manning were shocking. They probably also saved Snowden's life.

Other than that I don't think it was a very effective organization, and appears to have been little more than a personality cult around Assange.

If there is to be any similar leaking organization in future I'd recommend that they don't have a human spokesperson. Just use an innocuous-looking news reader avatar with a voice obfuscator. Or make sure that you have different people talking to the msm each time. Not always the same guy.

There seems to be a general rule of thumb that in any organization which appears to have a charismatic msm-friendly figure heading it up it will later turn out that they're abusing people behind the scenes. That seems to be the nature of charismatic leadership.