EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.” [Below is a news release put out by the Institute for Public Accuracy, co-signed by Daniel Ellsberg] Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures WASHINGTON – December 7 – The following statement was released today, signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Grevil, Katharine Gun, David MacMichael, Ray McGovern, Craig Murray, Coleen Rowley and Larry Wilkerson; all are associated with Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in. The people listed below this release would be pleased to shed light on these exciting new developments. Odd, isn’t it, that it takes a Pravda commentator to drive home the point that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history.
Motivation? There is nothing to suggest that WikiLeaks/Assange’s motives were any different. How to inform American citizens? Opinion Journal: WikiLeaked--Bret Stephens explains the impact of the latest document release. Ten Theses on Wikileaks. By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens These 0. “What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on ‘Western Civilisation’) These 1. These 2. These 3. These 4. These 5. Traditional investigative journalism consisted of three phases: unearthing facts, cross-checking these and backgrounding them into an understandable discourse. These 6. These 7. These 8. These 9. Maybe Wikileaks will organize itself around an own version of the IETF’s slogan ‘rough consensus and running code’? These 10. Amsterdam, late August 2010. Vijf lessen van Wikileaks. Terecht. Assange veranderde samen met de anderen achter Wikileaks de spelregels rond journalistiek, bronbescherming en klokkenluiders.
De impact is enorm, en zal de komende jaren alleen maar groter worden. Nu al zijn vijf lessen te trekken. Ten eerste, klokkenluiders blijken meer vertrouwen te hebben in Wikileaks dan in traditionele media. Het systeem van Wikileaks is gebaseerd op anonimiteit. Er kan via beveiligde servers informatie worden gestuurd. Ten tweede, oude en nieuwe media hebben elkaar nodig. Ten derde blijkt dat openbaarheid van bestuur weinig garanties verschaft. Dat heeft te maken met het vierde punt: overheden hebben gefaald bij het werkelijk beschermen van klokkenluiders. Les vijf volgt daarop: overheden zullen de beveiliging van gegevens moeten verbeteren. WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act. Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday. Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. said the Justice Department and Pentagon are conducting "an active, ongoing criminal investigation.'' Others familiar with the probe said the FBI is examining everyone who came into possession of the documents, including those who gave the materials to WikiLeaks and also the organization itself. No charges are imminent, the sources said, and it is unclear whether any will be brought. Former prosecutors cautioned that prosecutions involving leaked classified information are difficult because the Espionage Act is a 1917 statute that preceded Supreme Court cases that expanded First Amendment protections. Holder was asked Monday how the United States could prosecute Assange, who is an Australian citizen. ‘Chaos’ at WikiLeaks Follows Assange Arrest | Threat Level. The arrest without bail of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday has left the organization in a state of uncertainty, despite transition plans laid out prior to his surrender to British police, according to one dispirited WikiLeaks activist who spoke to Threat Level on condition of anonymity.
Assange left Icelandic television journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson in charge of the group in his absence, the activist said. But now the embattled organization’s secrecy and compartmentalization are apparently hindering its operations. Specifically, midlevel WikiLeaks staffers have been mostly cut off from communicating with hundreds of volunteers whose contact information was stored in Assange’s private online-messaging accounts, and never shared with others. “There is an ongoing plan, but that plan was only introduced to a few staffers — key staffers,” explained the source. “We are experiencing chaos.” Assange appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London Tuesday. See Also: Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think - Umair Haque. By Umair Haque | 12:06 PM December 8, 2010 Rather than seeing WikiLeaks through the lens of morality or national security, let’s look at it through an institutional lens. To those of you who’ve been reading this blog for a while, that may be second nature.
But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean. Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it’s also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. So at the Cancun climate talks, one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. When GDP’s updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won’t work.
Now let’s go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks. Consider just how moribund yesterday’s institutions are when it comes to information collecting and sharing. Are you fighting the future — or are you fighting for the future? Review & Outlook: Attack by WikiLeaks. Joris Luyendijk: 'The old model of journalism is broken' | Media. Video: Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk on how the news agenda defines our views of different countries – and how to stop sustainability seeming boring Link to video: 'Journalism is about exceptions to the rule, what is different, what is spectacular' Many journalists have mid-life crises when they begin to doubt their capacity to capture the truth in words or escape the media echo chamber.
Joris Luyendijk had his crisis early – when he was 31, to be precise. He was Middle East correspondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, was widely admired, had just covered the Gulf war . . . and he packed it all in to write a book. A book that sought to demonstrate that it was almost impossible for a journalist to say anything worthwhile about the Middle East, where societies are closed, sources are often in the pay of the secret service, and western media lack the patience to get to grips with "the Arab world", a term he in any case rejects.
Hello Everybody! Is not a piece of agitprop. President Clinton on Technology, Wikileaks & the World's Problems. In the closing keynote at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, former U.S. President Bill Clinton discussed the significance of using technology to solve what he believes to be the world's three greatest problems: Inequality, instability and unsustainability. To make his point, Clinton spoke about economic inequalities and the huge disparity between the rich and poor, both in the U.S. and around the world. He also briefly addressed the ongoing "Wikileaks issue" as an example of instability in cyber security. The whistleblower organization and its creator have come under intense fire from the U.S. government following the publication of confidential diplomatic cables. Clinton spoke of the matter as regrettable, pointing to the untold stories of people who have been outed and lost their jobs as a result of publication.
The 42nd U.S. According to Clinton, the idea that the American Dream is most available in America has become a myth. Lead image courtesy of Flickr, bestrated1. WikiLeaks Documents: Fallout from Diplomatic Cables' Exposure. Come with me through 117 pages of euphemisms, bureaucracy, and mayhem. Oops, April 15th… Why do they call it a tax “return”? The cable company doesn’t call its bill a “waste-of-time return.” Or is the IRS saying that, since government prints the money, we’re supposed to return it to where it came from? Anyway… Got up bright and early this morning—by freelance-writer standards—around 10:30 AM. Went straight to work “filing” my tax “return” with the Internal Revenue “Service.”
Freelance Writer, Let Me Point Out Some Further IRS Abuses of the English Language… I have a file cabinet. At least no tipping is expected. Googled “File Income Tax”… Found a lot of ads offering to do this for free. Scrolled Down… Until I came to irs.gov/Filing, which I take to be the real thing. Clicked… And got a page with the IRS logo. I’m easily distracted when doing my taxes, aren’t you? Page with Crest Was Titled… “Do I Need to File a Tax Return?” Had thought there was a law about that. Clicked Some More… U.S. “Exemptions”… Umberto Eco Not such wicked leaks | Presseurop – English. For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication.
The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a bogus scandal, a scandal that only appears to be a scandal against the backdrop of the hypocrisy governing relations between the state, the citizenry and the press. On the other hand, it heralds a sea change in international communication – and prefigures a regressive future of “crabwise” progress. But let’s take it one step at a time. Embassies have morphed into espionage centres The rule that says secret files must only contain news that is already common knowledge is essential to the dynamic of secret services, and not only in the present century.
The same goes for secret files. So why so much ado about these leaks? A real secret is an empty secret. Zunguzungu Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” (en Español) (auf Deutsch) (in het nederlands) “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity. The piece of writing (via) which that quote introduces is intellectually substantial, but not all that difficult to read, so you might as well take a look at it yourself.
Authoritarian regimes give rise to forces which oppose them by pushing against the individual and collective will to freedom, truth and self realization. Conspiracies are cognitive devices. The Unknown Blogger Who Changed WikiLeaks Coverage - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. When historians look back at WikiLeaks and how the world's pundits tried to make sense of what was happening, they'll see a familiar list of sources: Foreign Policy's Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian's John Noughton, The New York Times' David Carr, several people from the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, and various long-time digital leaders like Geert Lovink and Larry Sanger.
But among that list you'd also find Aaron Bady and his blog zunguzungu.wordpress.com. His probing analysis of Julian Assange's personal philosophy and possible motivations became an oft-cited piece of the global conversation about what WikiLeaks might mean. Before Bady's November 29 post, Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; "To destroy this invisible government", only a few hundred people a day found their way Bady's blog. In the days afterward, tens of thousands of people swarmed to the site -- and Bady ended up linked by some of the most influential media outlets on the planet. Deugt WikiLeaks? Francisco van Jole, hoofdredacteur van de VARA-debatsite Joop, schaarde zich aan haar zijde en startte de internetpetitie ‘Rutte, Red WikiLeaks’. Nederland is, lezen we erin, ‘van oudsher een land dat onderdak biedt aan mensen die zich inzetten voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting’. Ook Van Jole wees Rutte op diens eigen woorden.
‘Het kabinet bevordert een vrij en open internet,’ las hij in de regeringsverklaring. Nota bene bij PowNews mocht Van Jole zeggen dat Assange een held is. Zijn vroegere vijand van GeenStijl, Dominique Weesie, verklaarde: ‘Het is oorlog.’ Marbe, Van Jole en Weesie vinden elkaar in het gemak waarmee ze een verband leggen tussen de vrijheid van meningsuiting en WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks als ondermijning van de democratieNatuurlijk niet, betoogt hoogleraar natuurkunde en blogger Ad Lagendijk op Van Joles eigen site Joop. Ook volgens The Daily Beast-blogger en hoogleraar Tunku Varadarajan is Assange een gevaarlijke vandaal die zich als moraalridder vermomt. Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths. Elizabeth Cook's artist impression of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, where he was denied bail after appearing on an extradition warrant.
Source: AP WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win. " His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli.
Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public. I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. We are the underdogs. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested - U.S. news - WikiLeaks in Security. LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was refused bail and jailed for a week by a British court Tuesday, pending an extradition hearing over alleged sex offenses in Sweden. Assange turned himself in to U.K. police earlier in the day in the latest blow to his WikiLeaks organization, which faces legal, financial and technological challenges after releasing hundreds of secret U.S. diplomatic cables.
Swedish prosecutors had issued an arrest warrant for the 39-year-old Australian, who is accused of sexual misconduct with two women. Assange surrendered at 9:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. ET) Tuesday. The U.K.'s Guardian newspaper reported that Assange later arrived at a London court accompanied by British lawyers Mark Stephens and Jennifer Robinson. During his court appearance, Assange said he would fight extradition to Sweden and he provided the court with an Australian address. Judge Howard Riddle asked Assange whether he understood that he could agree to be extradited to Sweden.
U.S. VOA | WikiWars | USA. Time to Speak Up – Part One « Jester's Court – Stay Frosty My Friends. Jester (th3j35t3r) Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown. Flash: PdF Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom, Announced for Saturday December 11. Julian Assange's rape case: is Sweden just making it up? Julian Assange's former lawyer writes for Crikey. WikiLeaks on the run. Wikileaks, en de boze opzet van de macht" (vrije lezing #26) How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. « Emily Bell(wether) Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators - Glenn Greenwald.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London. Bert Koenders, Jort Kelder en Alexander Klöpping - 6-12-2010: De Wereld Draait Door. DeBUi. Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice | John Naughton. WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard' | World news. Likely Service Disruption - Twitter status at downrightnow.
Politieke druk op WikiLeaks onwenselijk precedent. Operation Payback. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London. Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech - Dan Gillmor. In de zaak Julian Assange is de nuance zoek. ?All-out cyber war? erupts over WikiLeaks: ?Anonymous? hackers take MasterCard offline | Raw Story. WikiLeaks schaadt kansen op arbeidsmarkt. Domain Name System.
Al Jazeera interviews Julian Assange. Harper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileaks director. An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. IGP Blog :: Why Wikileaks polarizes America's Internet politics. Assange Is in Court to Face Charges in Sex Inquiry. 2cyfcow. :: The Future of the Internet ? And How to Stop It. Protecting the President's Power | Cheney | washingtonpost.com. One ambassador’s embarrassment is a tragedy, 15,000 civilian deaths is a statistic.