WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs: US Troops Abused Prisoners Years After Abu Ghraib. This story is being updated Despite a vigorous attempt by the Pentagon to stop WikiLeaks from releasing 400,000 pages of classified military documents about the Iraq War, the group has gone ahead with its latest document dump. To search the documents, click here. And if you find something interesting, tell us about it by emailing wikileaks@huffingtonpost.com Most shockingly, the documents allegedly show that U.S. troops abused prisoners for years even after the Abu Ghraib scandal and that the U.S. ignored systemic abuse, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, according to several news reports.
In one of the most devastating reports, a U.S. The Apache crew killed the men, according to the report: February 22 2007 CRAZYHORSE reports AIF [Anti-Iraqi Forces] got into a dumptruck headed north, engaged and then they came out wanting to surrender... The reports date from August 2005 until the end of 2009. This video shows every incident of detainee abuse uncovered in the logs: Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action. This is a coda to my earlier post, Wikileaks and the Long Haul. It’s an attempt to express a partially formed thought about the Pentagon Papers case and the global media environment.
A bit of potted history first: The Pentagon Papers were a secret history of US involvement in Vietnam, produced by the Department of Defense and leaked in 1971 by Daniel Ellsberg to the NY Times, who published excerpts and analysis from them. The government attempted to prosecute the Times under the Espionage Act; the Times, with Floyd Abrams as their lead attorney, argued the case before the Supreme Court. The Times won, and the decision, New York Times Co. v. United States (403 U.S. 713), established the principle that it was illegal to leak secrets, but not to publish leaks. I was thinking about Black’s opinion, and particularly his emphasis on an “unrestrained press”, in light of two things I’ve read on Wikileaks. [I]f Mr. So with secrecy. Neither of these fantasies is going to come true. MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Radio Berkman 171: Wikileaks and the Information Wars.
Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Our emails have been dinging off the hook here at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with notes from journalists and concerned citizens trying to make some sense of the story-in-progress that is Wikileaks. So today we pull together some of the brightest minds at the Berkman Center to talk about Wikileaks, with Jonathan Zittrain and Lawrence Lessig moderating. Zittrain, Lessig, and the Berkman Center Fellows explore many facets surrounding the Wikileaks imbroglio, including the values of transparency and freedom of speech; the legality and ethics of the Wikileaks data dump; the role of the news media; and the involvement of government and private tech organizations to take Wikileaks down. Thanks so much to all the journalists, commenters, and tweeters who sent in their questions. See some additional resources below, including a full transcript for download.
CC-licensed Music this Week from Morgantj and Robert Rich, and . WikiLeaks Taps Power Of the Press — The Media Equation. Wikiriver.org. Wikileaks, free speech and traditional media. I find it fascinating how US government has chosen to try to dismantle the support network that makes wikileaks possible – pressuring paypal, amazon and numerous others into refusing to enable wikileaks to work.
They have pressured pretty much every stakeholder with one exception. The traditional media. Why does the US government rail against wikileaks and pressure paypal and yet is silent about the New York Times involvement? (or the Guardian’s or the other media partners involved?). The NYT had advance access to the materials, they helped publicize it and, in the case of the Guardian, have been helping users get access to the wikileak documents when wikileaks website went down.
This fact, above all else, demonstrates the weakness the government’s legal case. The fact that organizations like Amazon and Paypal have caved so quickly should also be a red flag for anyone who care about free speech. I see three outcomes from all this. Winner: Traditional media. Like this: Like Loading... Is WikiLeaks the Beginning of a New Form of Media?: Tech News « As WikiLeaks continues to release classified diplomatic cables, and fights to remain online and solvent, it’s becoming increasingly clear what’s happening has less to do with WikiLeaks itself, and more to do with what seems to be a new form of media emerging: not a news or journalism entity specifically, but a kind of media middleman that exposes secret or undiscovered information, which can then become a source of news. Could WikiLeaks — and similar efforts it appears to be spawning — become a crucial new part of the digital media ecosystem? Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen WikiLeaks attacked by the U.S. government — now apparently considering espionage charges against leader Julian Assange for publishing the cables — and shut down by companies such as PayPal and Amazon (which seems to see no irony in selling a book including excerpts from WikiLeaks cables).
WikiLeaks' leader Julian Assange Do newspapers and other media need WikiLeaks? Related GigaOM Pro content (sub req’d): Amazon Unplugs WikiLeaks After Government Pressure: Tech News «