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Whenever scandal rears its head—Charles Rangel's financial dealings, the subprime crash, the Valerie Plame affair, Jack Abramoff and Randy Cunningham's crimes, Bernie Kerik's indiscretions, water-boarding, Ted Stevens' convictions, the presidential pardon of Marc Rich, the guilty pleas of Webster Hubbell, the Monica Lewinsky thing, the Iran-contra scandal, the Iran-contra pardons, the savings-and-loan fiasco, BCCI, and so on—we're hammered by how completely base and corrupt our government really is. *
I love WikiLeaks for restoring distrust in our most important institutions. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
Le paradoxe Wikileaks | Slate
- Le fondateur de Wikileaks Julian Assange à une conférence du Frontline Club à Londres, le 26 juillet 2010. REUTERS/ Andrew Winning - Julian Assange, le fondateur de WikiLeaks, ne connaît pas l'identité de la personne qui a envoyé les milliers de documents sur la guerre en Afghanistan classés top secret que le site a publiés fin juillet. Rien d'inhabituel, c'est la manière dont WikiLeaks a toujours fonctionné.
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | The Australian
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."
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage.
WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker
Blog Archive » Followup to my Facebook research
Some of you may have heard what I did this month. It turns out, depending on who you listen to, that I'm either an evil " Facebook hacker " or just some mischievous individual doing "unsettling" research . But, one way or the other, a huge number of people have read or heard this story, and that's pretty cool.
