Leon Crawl

Can someone explain how it is that Wikileaks represents a new model for information-gathering? Aren’t they just setting a bucket out and hoping someone will be motivated to put things in it? It’s not like the documents in the last two “dumps” they sent to newspapers were in any way crowdsourced. Unless I’m mistaken, which is possible, Wikileaks came upon those documents by way of two individuals, which is not different from how normal reporters get things.