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WikiLeaks: Hillary Clinton 'Told Diplomats To Spy In UN' Among Secret US Files Released By Website | World News | Sky News
The secret files - believed to be the first batch of up to 2.7 million documents to be published - are expected to be released in their entirety this evening. President Barack Obama 's government has said the move will put countless lives at risk, threaten global counter-terrorism operations and jeopardise US relations with its allies. The US State Department 's top lawyer has warned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to stop the "illegal" publication.
Wikileaks and the Control of the Internet | La Quadrature du Net
Op'Ed by Jérémie Zimmermann initially published in French in Mediapart WikiLeaks has become the symbol of disturbing information that can't be stopped. Recent declarations and actions against the organization clearly expose the will of governments to control the Internet.Wikileaks documents indicate China behind Google attacks
Cables released by Wikileaks seem to indicate the cyberattack aimed at Google earlier this year was approved by senior Chinese politicians. Diplomatic cables released as part of Wikileaks latest set of documents seem to indicate that the sophisticated cyberattack launched against Google earlier this year —which eventually saw the company move its Chinese operations to Hong Kong—were carried out at the behest of senior Chinese politicians, once of whom was reportedly upset to find online criticism when searching for his own name. One cable claims a “well-placed” contact claimed the action against Google was “100 percent political in nature,” and “directed at the Politburo Standing Committee level.” A cable from May of 2009 indicates that an unnamed member of the Politburo Standing Committee was angered on discovering that Google linked to the international version of its search engine from its official sanitized Chinese site, and that the international search results were not censored.
Pirate Parties Supply Wikileaks With Much Needed Servers | TorrentFreak
While most traditional political parties are wary of supporting the actions of whistleblower site Wikileaks, Pirate Parties around the world have made it very clear whose side they are on. Just before the weekend Wikileaks moved to a Pirate Party owned domain, and today a conglomerate of Pirate Parties have just announced that they are now providing the site with several much needed mirror servers. This week has been quite a ride for Wikileaks, and for the herd of journalists that have been reporting on the site’s hosting difficulties.
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US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Is it justified? Should a newspaper disclose virtually all a nation's secret diplomatic communication, illegally downloaded by one of its citizens? The reporting in the Guardian of the first of a selection of 250,000 US state department cables marks a recasting of modern diplomacy. Clearly, there is no longer such a thing as a safe electronic archive, whatever computing's snake-oil salesmen claim. No organisation can treat digitised communication as confidential. An electronic secret is a contradiction in terms.WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker
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. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.”
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State Department To Columbia University Students: DO NOT Discuss WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter
UPDATE: On Monday, John H. Coatsworth, the SIPA Dean, reversed the university's earlier position, affirming that students "have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena...without fear of adverse consequences." Wired obtained the email : Freedom of information and expression is a core value of our institution. Thus, SIPA's position is that students have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena that they deem relevant to their studies or to their roles as global citizens, and to do so without fear of adverse consequences
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After reading in the news that PayPal has cut access to Wikileaks' donations I have cancelled my account. Not only my account but the netlabel that I co-manage as also deleted it's account on PayPal. It is not PayPal's role to decide what causes people support or not.In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution. The previous month, a Spanish human rights group called the Association for the Dignity of Spanish Prisoners had requested that Spain's National Court indict six former Bush officials for, as the cable describes it, "creating a legal framework that allegedly permitted torture."
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe | Mother Jones
Amazon bans WikiLeaks from using its servers
WikiLeaks, the notorious whistleblower website, has been kicked off Amazon.com’s U.S. servers. This comes on the heels of the organization moving its operations only a day ago. WikiLeaks has been the center of controversy this week due to having released more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables onto the internet and into the hands of select news organizations. Many of the cables are sensitive in nature and describe U.S. relations and efforts with countries such as Russia, South Korea and Pakistan. As can be imagined, the U.S. government is not too happy about the release of these confidential documents and has been putting a lot of pressure against the website.In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business. Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on. (For the full transcript of Forbes’ interview with Assange click here .)