Logan Symposium. Azeem Ibrahim: Don't Let Anyone Fool You That the WikiLeaks Affair Is Not Important. Of all the responses to the recent WikiLeaks affair, one of the most interesting was the argument that the leaks actually are not a big deal. The idea seems to be that the political damage from the leaks to the governments who have supported the war can be minimized by arguing that what has been leaked is simply not all that important.
Probably the best proponent of this view was an op ed from a fellow at the Center for a New American Security in the New York Times. The argument is based on the proposition that the leaks do not tell us anything new of any importance, but rather paint a more detailed picture of what was already known to analysts. For example, it is claimed that the leaks which show the Pakistan's spy agency -- the ISI -- is believed to be conspiring with the Taliban and other insurgents, are not a big deal because American intelligence officers already knew this, and have said so in anonymous leaks to the press. This nicely misses the point. Wikileaks makes contact with US government. 22 June 2010Last updated at 10:23 By Chris Vallance BBC News Julian Assange talks about Bradley Manning Whistleblower website Wikileaks has made contact with the US government over claims that an American serviceman is one of its sources.
Soldier Bradley Manning has been held for three weeks without formal charge. The US is investigating claims that he passed confidential information to Wikileaks. Site editor Julian Assange told BBC News that, so far, the US authorities have not yet been in touch with him. He said that lawyers representing Wikileaks have been in touch with the US administration but that neither the Department of State nor the Department of Defense had made any attempt to approach the site. In spite of the silence from the US, Mr Assange said he felt it was "important to have a channel open in these matters". No conversations could take place which might reveal the identity of any source, he added. Not proved Continue reading the main story “Start Quote. Why WikiLeaks Is The Pirate Bay of Political Intelligence. WikiLeaks is currently in the news because its Afghan War logs comprise one of the largest and most controversial intelligence leaks to date. But while WikiLeaks is relatively new to the public, it is actually a product of a long-established culture.
That culture has already had a banner-bearer; a quintessential exemplification of its values — The Pirate Bay. WikiLeaks is akin to The Pirate Bay, but for another purpose. WikiLeaks disregards the letter of the law and grants political analysts and citizens new information, then defends that choice with an argument for a higher virtue: Freedom of information and knowledge. The founding figures behind WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay each claim to place that value above all others — that, and a little bit of anti-establishment zeal. At this point, its name is merely symbolic — a statement of philosophical association. The connections between WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay are not merely conceptual. [img credit: Markchew2010] Why WikiLeaks and the Mainstream Media Still Need Each Other. Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City.
Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington. The July 25th release of 92,000 military documents by the site WikiLeaks dominated the news cycle, but many critics dismissed the leak as inconsequential. By the end of the week Frank Rich summed up the sentiment of many of his colleagues. “They are historical documents describing events largely predating the current administration,” Rich wrote. Regardless of the content, it’s clear that WikiLeaks’ partnership with The New York Times, Der Spiegel and The Guardian was unprecedented. The Old Way Prior to last week’s leak, there were two paths that any would-be whistle blower could follow. The second model was pioneered by websites like WikiLeaks and Cryptome, both of which were inspired by the Internet’s freedom of information culture.
What’s Next? US source protection bill amended to exclude WikiLeaks | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog. The furore surrounding WikiLeaks continues this week, as US Senators reportedly working on a “media-shields” legislation to protect journalists from revealing sources are making amendments to ensure no such protection can be afforded to the whistleblowing site. According to a report by the NYTimes.com, senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein are drafting the amendment to outline that the bill’s protections would “extend only to traditional news-gathering activities and not to websites that serve as a conduit for the mass dissemination of secret documents”. Quoting Schumer in a statement he claims the amendments will ensure there is no chance of the law ever being used to protect websites like WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks should not be spared in any way from the fullest prosecution possible under the law. According to the NYTimes.com report, the new bill would require a person to “exhaust all other means” of getting the names they desire before they could take a journalist to court. After Afghan War Leaks, Revisions in a Shield Bill. Senators and , Democrats of New York and California, are drafting an amendment to make clear that the bill’s protections extend only to traditional news-gathering activities and not to Web sites that serve as a conduit for the mass dissemination of secret documents. The so-called “media shield” bill is awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. “WikiLeaks should not be spared in any way from the fullest prosecution possible under the law,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. “Our bill already includes safeguards when a leak impacts national security, and it would never grant protection to a Web site like this one, but we will take this extra step to remove even a scintilla of doubt.”
The bill would allow reporters, when faced with subpoenas seeking to compel them to testify about their confidential sources, to ask a federal judge to quash the demand rather than fining or jailing them for contempt of court if they refuse to comply. Paul J. Mr. Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership" This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: For reaction to the WikiLeaks documents, we’re joined now by world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of over a hundred books, including his latest, Hopes and Prospects. Well, 40 years ago, Noam and the late historian Howard Zinn helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg edit and release the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret internal U.S. history of the Vietnam War. Noam Chomsky joins us now from Boston. It’s good to have you back again, Noam. Why don’t we start there, before we talk about WikiLeaks. What was your involvement with the Pentagon Papers? NOAM CHOMSKY: Dan and I were friends. AMY GOODMAN: So, explain, though, how it worked. NOAM CHOMSKY: From Dan and — Dan Ellsberg and Tony Russo, who had done the xeroxing and the preparation of the material, yes, directly.
AMY GOODMAN: [inaudible] exactly did you edit? [break] With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged. Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (II) [Part I] Life and Death in the Obedience Culture I have sometimes described America today as an "obedience culture. " The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of the values of "civilization" and "order" -- that is, those who contend they and only they are the true defenders of Western civilization generally -- insist on the primacy of one virtue above all others: obedience to authority. What is probably the most significant root of this belief lies in the patterns of thought and feeling that are beaten into all of us in the earliest years of life.
I've described the manner in which this unquestioning belief in the necessity of obedience is implanted as follows (from "Let the Victims Speak"): Many of my previous essays trace the operations of this mechanism across a wide variety of examples. I'm reminded of a passage I wrote six years ago, in "When the Demons Come. " Listening to Wikileaks Julian Assange at the European Parliament. Rarely does a lobbyist listen to someone and feel utterly impressed, no strings or cautious thoughts attached…Or at least, not an “old rot” like me…But today, just for a few minutes, I felt like “not all was lost”…that some sense would come out of the ongoing debates on how to “handle the Internet” if someone with the eloquence, brains and proven delivery record of Julian Assange could be invited to speak in a place such as the European Parliament, in the context of the ALDE organised debate on (Self) Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Europe.
And so he did, and he did well, at both a philosophical level and in terms of quoting facts, cases, real life. Sitting on the panel was also the representative of the Icelandic Parliament that spearheaded their “Safe Haven” law for publishers and whistle blowers, and a professor specialised in libel and defamation laws, whom I will not name just in case he sues me for “attacking his reputation”, as he seemed really gung ho on that one. Administration Hardens Stance Against Leaks to Press - NYTimes.c. He took his concerns everywhere inside the secret world: to his bosses, to the agency’s inspector general, to the Defense Department’s inspector general and to the Congressional intelligence committees. But he felt his message was not getting through.
So he contacted a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Today, because of that decision, Mr. Drake, 53, a veteran intelligence bureaucrat who collected early computers, faces years in prison on 10 felony charges involving the mishandling of classified information and obstruction of justice. The indictment of Mr. Drake was the latest evidence that the Obama administration is proving more aggressive than the Bush administration in seeking to punish unauthorized leaks. In 17 months in office, has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions.
Mr. In fact, Mr. Though the inquiries began under President Bush, it has fallen to Mr. Though he is charged under the Espionage Act, Mr. Video: Logan Symposium: The New Initiatives. Bio Julian Assange Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, programmer and Internet activist, best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website.
Lowell Bergman Lowell Bergman, Director of the Investigative Reporting Program, is also a producer and correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline, and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism. After working in the alternative press, Bergman co-founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977. Soon after, he joined ABC News where he became director of investigative reporting and a producer at 20/20. Birgitta Jonsdottir Birgitta Jonsdottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland 1967. Jonsdottir has been active in the Icelandic literature, music, and art scenes for more then 20 years and is considered one of the pioneers in bringing art and literature to the Internet. Charles Lewis Lewis was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998.
Gavin MacFadyen. WikiLeaks Documents: What War Info Can Be Verified? | PBS NewsHour. News + public affairs player: video. Eric Schmidt. Click on the photo to download a larger, print-quality image. Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. As executive chairman, he is responsible for the external matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues. From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Schmidt "true anonymity is too dangerous." TRUCKEE, Calif. --For those concerned with privacy, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave them a few more things to start worrying about. At a conference here Wednesday, Schmidt noted that using artificial intelligence, computers can take 14 pictures of anyone on the Internet and stand a good chance of identifying that person. Similarly, the data collected by location-based services can be used not only to show where someone is at, but to also predict with a lot of accuracy where they might be headed next. "Pretty interesting," Schmidt said. "Good idea, Bad idea?... His comments came at the start of Techonomy, a new conference devoted to looking at how technology is changing and can change society.
Schmidt said that society really isn't prepared for all of the changes being thrust upon it. Schmidt said these records are a challenge for everyone, himself included, as he noted he was a child of the 1960s. "We invent our way out of problems, even the problems we create," Petre said. Wikileaks Fails “Due Diligence” Review. In the past week, both the Washington Post and the New York Times have referred to WikiLeaks.org, the web site that publishes confidential records, as a “whistleblower” site.
This conforms to WikiLeaks’ own instructions to journalists that “WikiLeaks should be described, depending on context, as the ‘open government group’, ‘anti-corruption group’, ‘transparency group’ or ‘whistleblower’s site’.” But calling WikiLeaks a whistleblower site does not accurately reflect the character of the project. It also does not explain why others who are engaged in open government, anti-corruption and whistleblower protection activities are wary of WikiLeaks or disdainful of it. And it does not provide any clue why the Knight Foundation, the preeminent foundation funder of innovative First Amendment and free press initiatives, might have rejected WikiLeaks’ request for financial support, as it recently did.
On occasion, WikiLeaks has engaged in overtly unethical behavior. Wikileaks source suspect Manning transferred from Kuwait to Quantico, VA. John Naughton on WikiLeaks | Technology | The Observer. The Gilmore aphorism about censorship first saw the light of day in 1993 – in a Time article about the internet – and since then has taken on a life of its own as a consoling mantra about the libertarian potential of the network. "In its original form," Gilmore explains, "it meant that the Usenet software (which moves messages around in discussion newsgroups) was resistant to censorship because, if a node drops certain messages because it doesn't like their subject, the messages find their way past that node anyway by some other route. " But, he continues, "The meaning of the phrase has grown through the years. Internet users have proven it time after time, by personally and publicly replicating information that is threatened with destruction or censorship.
" The aphorism came up a lot last week following publication by the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel of extensive reports based on the stash of classified US military reports published on the WikiLeaks website. Epoch Times - Wikileaks, Transparency, and National Security. Wikileaks editor interrogated by US border police - Americas, World. WikiLeaks: An Editor-In-Chief Or Prolific Source? Media Player. How WikiLeaks Is Changing the World. Al WP Broadcasting board decides Voice of America can peruse WikiLeak documents. Wikileaks: History Is The Only Guidebook Civilization Has (Daniel Schmitt at re:publica 2010) NOS Zoekresultaten : wikileaks. Zoek. Three digital myths. Pentagon-papirer sikret i atom-bunker - VG Nett om Sverige. Wikileaks now hosted from an underground nuclear bunker. WikiLeakiLeaks: Open Attack or Honest Attempt At Media Transparency? Wikileaks Servers Move To Underground Nuclear Bunker. WikiLeakiLeaks.org. Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their Founder Is a Megalomaniac?
WikiLeaks: The revolution has begun – and it will be digitised | Heather Brooke. Wikileaks: bondgenoot van journalisten | Villamedia Community. WikiLeaks: Transforming journalism - Al Jazeera Top 10 Of The Year.
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