The Afghan/taliban mujahideen - documentary "Behind Enemy lines" - SBS Australia 2010. WikiLeaks war logs posting 'will lead to free speech ruling' | World news. US supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has said the court is likely to have to rule on the issue of balancing national security and freedom of speech due to WikiLeaks posting a cache of US military records about the Afghan war.
Sotomayor said the incident, which has been condemned by the Pentagon, was likely to provoke legislation in Congress that would require judicial scrutiny. Her comments came in response to a question about security and free speech by a student at Denver university. The judge said she could not answer because "that question is very likely to come before me". She said the "incident, and others, are going to provoke legislation that's already being discussed in Congress, and so some of it is going to come up before [the supreme court]".
WikiLeaks posted more than 76,900 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the Afghan war on its website last month, providing a devastating portrait of the war. Wikileaks CIA Release – Say What? « The Money Party. Michael Collins Wikileaks offered its first release since the controversial distribution of documents related to the United States effort in Afghanistan. The current leak was posted to their web site on August 25. It is titled CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States “exporting terrorism”, 2 Feb 2010 . The leak describes Red Cell as a CIA unit created by the Director to develop “out-of-the-box” analysis offering “alternative viewpoints” on key intelligence issues. This document doesn’t disappoint in being out-of-the-box . CIA Perception Management – How the World Sees the United States CIA Red Cell starts out by stating, “This report examines the implications of what it would mean for the US to be seen increasingly as an incubator and exporter of terrorism .”
Of most interest, convicted terrorist David Headley is cited as an example. The London Sunday Times pointed out that Headley had been “working for” the US Drug Enforcement Administration as part of a plea deal in 1997. Wikileaks | Search Results. Stryker soldiers allegedly plotted to kill Afghan civilians. Originally published August 24, 2010 at 9:38 PM | Page modified August 24, 2010 at 9:50 PM Last December, Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs began joking with other soldiers about how easy it would be to "toss a grenade" at Afghan civilians and kill them, according to statements made by fellow platoon members to military investigators. One soldier said it was a stupid idea. Another believed that Gibbs was "feeling out the platoon. " Others told investigators Gibbs eventually turned the talk into action, forming what one called a "kill team" to carry out random executions of Afghans. In one of the most serious war-crimes cases to emerge from the Afghanistan war, five soldiers from a Stryker infantry brigade based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are now charged with murder for their alleged roles in killing three Afghan civilians.
In two of the incidents, grenades were thrown at the victims and they were shot, according to charging documents. All five soldiers are awaiting court-martial proceedings. Videos and Photos of Army Special Ops, Navy SEALs, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard in Action - Shock and Awe - Military.com. Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Tied to C.I.A. An exciting new Muslim country to drone attack - Glenn Greenwald. Could Barack Obama become the first person in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize two consecutive years? It is hard to dispute the premise that awarding him the Prize this year would be every bit as justifiable as last year’s award. Fresh off his Nobel-winning escalation of the war in Afghanistan, we now have this monument to world peace: For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda’s offshoots — rather than the core group now based in Pakistan — as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.
The sober new assessment of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has helped prompt senior Obama administration officials to call for an escalation of U.S. operations there — including a proposal to add armed CIA drones to a clandestine campaign of U.S. military strikes, the officials said. Wall St. Journal, today: Reuters, yesterday: Al Jazeera, today: What’s going on here seems fairly obvious. There’s a particularly bitter irony here. Citizens for Legitimate Government | A multi-partisan activist group established to expose and resist US imperialism, corpora-terrorism, and the New World Order. US denies MH370 'cover-up,' denounces Diego Garcia link as 'baseless conspiracy theory' Share US denies MH370 'cover-up,' denounces Diego Garcia link as 'baseless conspiracy theory' --'This is a baseless conspiracy theory that has already been debunked around the world.' - Embassy press attaché Harvey Sernovitz 15 Apr 2014 Washington has strongly refuted all allegations of a cover-up in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
As discussions, including on social media, on the purported role of the United States behind the Boeing jetliner going missing continue to swirl, Washington, through its embassy here, said that they were all "baseless conspiracy theories". The US Embassy here, in an email to the New Straits Times, said claims that MH370 was hidden somewhere in its island military base, Diego Garcia, were also wild allegations... Militias claim victory in Nev. cattle dispute Share Bundy ranch conflict pits tradition against federal regulations Share. WikiLeaks: Pentagon willing to discuss war files - World news - South and Central Asia - Afghanistan. STOCKHOLM — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday the Pentagon has expressed willingness to discuss the online whistleblower's request for help in reviewing classified documents from the Afghan war and removing information that could harm civilians.
"This week we received contact through our lawyers that the General Counsel of the U.S. Army says now that they want to discuss the issue," Assange told The Associated Press by telephone. In Washington, Army spokesman Col. Thomas Collins denied army lawyers are involved but said Assange might have meant to say the Pentagon lawyer instead. When asked to clarify, Assange said he had misspoken and meant the general counsel of the Pentagon. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman, however, denied that the Pentagon had been in direct contact with WikiLeaks and said it is not interested in helping the website review classified war documents to post online. "We have not had any direct contact with Wikileaks. Last week, U.S. Shhhhhh! JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for 'Special Access Programs' Share The US military's most elite counter-terrorism force, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), prides itself on the secrecy of its operations.
JSOC runs classified, compartmentalized task forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere around the world. It has operated secret prisons and detention sites globally and is the premiere organization tasked with killing or capturing individuals deemed by the president to be threats to the national security of the United States.
It maintains a "hit list" of people targeted for kill or capture, including Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen living in Yemen. What has become abundantly clear is that the Obama administration has taken the Bush-era doctrine of the world as a battlefield and run with it. Over the past few days, the ultra-secretive JSOC has publicly posted several jobs listings that open a small window into the type of work JSOC is performing under the Obama administration. Obama's US Assassination Program? Part 1. Sound too conspiratorial to be true? Like the cover-up ops of spy novels? Well, it’s reality. And it is possibly the most bizarre, inhumane and abusive way that the White House is expanding its power over the American people. It’s not an extremist belief or theory of the far right.
It’s a fact that has been confirmed by The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC and even documented by the far-left online magazine Salon.com. And it’s the gravest nightmare of U.S. citizens and abandonment of our Constitution to date: a presidential assassination program in which U.S. citizens are in the literal scopes of the executive branch based upon nothing more than allegations of terrorism involvement as the branch defines it. Of course, the CIA has executed covert assassinations of foreigners for decades. “A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing”? That’s right. A former director of national intelligence, Adm. If you are wondering who the “we” are to whom Adm. Robert Weller: Wikileaks Swedish Case Handling Raises More Questions. The swift withdrawal of rape charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises more questions than it answers.
Assange's claim of making an offer to allow the U.S. Defense Department to vet documents still unreleased raises even more questions. The spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecutor's office has defended the release of information about the claim to a tabloid newspaper. However, when Karin Rosander was asked if it might have been a setup she said, "I have no idea. " Rape investigations normally are kept confidential and not released to the media to protect the alleged victim(s) and to prevent the alleged rapist from learning of it. On Monday a statement on the prosecutor's website confirmed that when a newspaper called about the case the duty officer confirmed Assange was the suspect. One of the two women Assange allegedly attacked told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that neither was afraid of him because he was not violent. He didn't accuse the Pentagon of being involved.
Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face. Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing it less than a day later. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said the short-lived warrant had damaged his group nonetheless. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said an "on-call" prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Assange late Friday only to see it revoked the next day by a higher-ranked prosecutor, who found no grounds to suspect him of rape. "The prosecutor who took over the case yesterday had more information, and that is why she made a different assessment than the on-call prosecutor," said Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the authority. She declined to specify what the new material was, but said there was "absolutely nothing" that suggested errors had been made by either prosecutor. There was no immediate reaction Sunday from the Pentagon on Assange's comments.
The Inside Story of WikiLeaks's Latest Bombshell. The Columbia Journalism Review has a really interesting piece up about WikiLeaks's latest news coup and how it all came to pass. WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, is a famously independent and skittish entity, and has never to my knowledge coordinated with a news organization. So how exactly did three major news publications publish simultaneous in-depth reports using WikiLeaks's information? Apparently, it wasn't Assange's idea--at least, Assange didn't spearhead it. Nick Davies, a senior contributor to The Guardian, was intrigued by exposure of Bradley Manning, who claimed to have passed WikiLeaks boatloads of information.
Davies took it upon himself to track down Assange, a notoriously transient and mysterious fellow, to see if there might be a news story in all those leaked documents. The reporters divided up some of the tasks, as there simply was not enough time or manpower to independently research tens of thousands of documents in a few short weeks. WikiLeaks Keeps Its Funding Highly Secret. From the Wall Street Journal: How WikiLeaks Keeps Its Funding SecretBy JEANNE WHALEN and DAVID CRAWFORD AUGUST 23, 2010 The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial network to protect a big secret of its own—its funding. Some governments and corporations angered by the site’s publications have already sued WikiLeaks or blocked access to it, and the group fears that its money and infrastructure could be targeted further, founder Julian Assange said in an interview in London shortly after publishing 76,000 classified U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July.
The move sparked international controversy and put WikiLeaks in the spotlight. In response, the site has established a complex system for collecting and disbursing its donations to obscure their origin and use, Mr. Assange said. Which all sounds suspiciously like the fundraising operations used by the Mr. "I was exposed to an assault '| News. Aftonbladet har pratat med en av kvinnorna bakom anmälan för våldtäkt mot Julian Assange. När hon kom i kontakt med en kvinna som berättade att Assange hade våldtagit henne gick de båda till polisen. Kvinnan är i 30-årsåldern och vill nu gå ut med sin berättelse i Aftonbladet för att berätta om vad anklagelserna handlar om i sak och för att korrigera en del felaktigheter i den nyhet som publicerades i Expressen i morse.
Under sitt besök i Sverige har Julian Assange träffat de båda kvinnorna. Han misstänktes först ha våldtagit den ena, misstankar som på lördagseftermiddagen drogs tillbaka av chefsåklagare Eva Finné, men han misstänks fortfarande för ofredande av den andra kvinnan. Anser sig utsatt för sexövergrepp Kvinnorna och Assange träffades under hans vistelse i Stockholm och har inte tidigare träffat vare sig honom eller varandra. Kvinnan i 30-årsåldern uppger att hon för sin del anser sig vara utsatt för ett sexuellt övergrepp, eller ofredande, men inte en våldtäkt. Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges. She reported the Wikileaks founders | Newzglobe.com. Meet Wikileaks Founder's Alleged Sex Victim.
TomDispatch. Welcome to Voters for Peace! - www.votersforpeace.us. "war in afghanistan" - Wikileaks Create Bad Picture Of Afghanistan War - Free Daily News - Wiki Denmark. Democracy Now! Wikileaks - WikiLeaks owner privileged of sex allegations (AP) | Daily Posted News. Facing Afghan mistrust, al-Qaeda fighters take limited role in insurgency. On Aug. 14, a U.S. airstrike in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz killed a Taliban commander known as Abu Baqir. In a country where insurgents are killed daily, this attack was notable for one unusual detail: Abu Baqir, the military said afterward, was also a member of al-Qaeda. Although U.S. officials have often said that al-Qaeda is a marginal player on the Afghan battlefield, an analysis of 76,000 classified U.S. military reports posted by the Web site WikiLeaks underscores the extent to which Osama bin Laden and his network have become an afterthought in the war.
The reports, which cover the escalation of the insurgency between 2004 and the end of 2009, mention al-Qaeda only a few dozen times and even then just in passing. Most are vague references to people with unspecified al-Qaeda contacts or sympathies, or as shorthand for an amorphous ideological enemy. Bin Laden, thought to be hiding across the border in Pakistan, is scarcely mentioned in the reports. Change in strategy. Wikileaks smear campaign starts - Can the spooks get more obvious? Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange seems to be at the centre of a smear campaign with allegations of rape and molestation appearing in the Swedish press.
A mysterious allegation of rape was levelled at him and Swedish prosecutors issued and then later withdrew, an arrest warrant against him for rape. Prosecutors initially said he was wanted for questioning about accusations of rape and molestation following reports in the Swedish newspaper Expressen. The complaints were brought by two women in Sweden, where the Australian-born internet activist has been staying for the past week. Hours after the arrest warrant was announced, red faced prosecutors said that the the warrant had been withdrawn and the rape suspicion was unfounded. Assange described the accusations as an attempt to smear him over his whistleblowing work. WikiLeaks is soon going to publish 15,000 more documents about the Afghan war which will show the US government up as genocidal maniacs. Wikileaks: a branch of Mossad. Wikileaks: Antidote for Pentagon's History of Burying Truth? | The LA Progressive.
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