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Updated, 9:56 a.m.: Assange compares the Kissinger Cables to “essentially like what Aaron Swartz was doing” — namely collating documents which are hard to access, or available only through a specific intermediary. I’m not convinced it’s an entirely appropriate comparison — above all since Swartz never made public the JSTOR documents he downloaded. Updated, 9:30 a.m.: In a D.C. press conference, Julian Assange is discussing the latest cable leak via video link from his London hideout. He is highlighting a number of significant stories that have emerged from the 1970′s records relating to diplomatic relations world wide. Examples include the U.S. creating a “torture exemption” for the Brazilian military junta in order to send them aid, despite widespread use of torture that should have excluded the country from U.S. aid at the time.
WikiLeaks dumps 1.7 million “Kissinger Cables”
Pentagon Suggests Sequester Would Impair Ability to Fight WikiLeaks
Pentagon builds cyber army (US government photo in public domain & posted by Fort Meade) Four days away from massive austerity that would result in cuts to the United States government, the Pentagon is suggesting the cuts would make it harder to fight cyber threats. Posted by Secrecy News , Zachary J. Lemnios, the assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering, was asked by Sen. Rob Portman what would be the impact to “cybersecurity” if the cuts went through. Though Portman did not mention WikiLeaks, Lemnios responded:
Over 1,000 days without a trial: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the culture of secrecy
9 in Share Jump To Close You could be forgiven if you’ve forgotten Bradley Manning. Even before his arrest in May 2010, the 25-year-old Army intelligence analyst could go unnoticed.
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Confidential Wikileaks Cable (US Embassy in Nicosia) on Russian Money in Cyprus
Curiously, the imposition of a tax on money deposited in Cyprus banks will hurt many Russian tax evaders, as the Wikileaks released cable below highlights, the amount of money placed in Cyprus by Russians attempting to evade Russian taxes is significant relative to the overall Cyprus banking system. The imposition of the tax is surely going to cause a flight of these funds out of Cyprus to a more stable tax haven--which is likely to destabilize the Cypriot banking sector even more.By Amber Harrison Posted: 03/13/2013 - 1:46 pm PDT | Last Updated: 03/13/2013 - 1:46 pm PDT · 0 Comments Freedom of the Press Foundation has published the full, previously unreleased audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. In the young man’s voice, we hear PFC Bradley Manning reveal the reasons behind the greatest government information leak in history.
PFC Bradley Manning WikiLeaks Court Recording
On the Tenth Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq: When WikiLeaks Exposed the 'War Logs'
In this special posting, marking the tenth anniversary of the launch of the criminal Iraq war, here is an excerpt from my book, The Age of WikiLeaks , covering the release of the “Iraq War Logs” more than two years ago and the reaction. The release of the Iraq documents, some 391,000 in number, was originally set for August. But a week before that happened, Julian Assange told The Guardian ’s David Leigh that he wanted a more diverse group of partners for this round, “and asked that Leigh delay publication to give the other outlets time to prepare programs,” Sarah Ellison would recount in Vanity Fair. Leigh said he’d agree to a six-week delay if Assange handed over so-called “package three,” the biggest leak of all (which would become Cablegate). According to Leigh, Assange said, “You can have package three tonight, but you have to give me a letter signed by The Guardian editor saying you won’t publish package three until I say so.” Leigh agreed.
Sundance 2013 WIKILEAKS Communique
Film Music Magazine’s Bureau Chief, Michael Rogers and videocolumnist Leslie Harlow had the honor of interviewing Sundance 2012 Documentary Premiere feature, WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS’ composer, Will Bates (composer of 2012 Sundance Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film and Special Jury Prize winner, ANOTHER WORLD, Korean War documentary, CHOSIN) in the Sundance ASCAP green room. To lend global significance to the film’s thematic arena impact, according to Wikipedia,WIKILEAKS is: “an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks , and classified media from anonymous sources . Its website, initiated during 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its initiation. Julian Assange , an Australian Internet activist , is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director.Information may be the most valuable commodity on Earth, especially when it pertains to the inner workings and policies of major governments. Julian Assange drew the ire of countless officials in governments across the globe when he published state and military secrets through his online portal WikiLeaks . Documentarian Alex Gibney ( Freakonomics , Taxi to the Dark Side , Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ) trained his camera on Assange and the furor surrounding WikiLeaks and the reveal of US military documents and videos, taken from classified servers and provided to Assange by Pfc.
‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’ Trailer: Truth and Secrets
Marjorie Cohn: The Uncommon Courage of Bradley Manning
The Uncommon Courage of Bradley Manning Posted on Mar 1, 2013 By Marjorie Cohn
Manning makes his plea for role in WikiLeaks documents | News | DW.DE | 28.02.2013
The US Army private accused of feeding documents to WikiLeaks has pleaded guilty to misusing classified material, but denies aiding the enemy. Bradley Manning faces life in prison if convicted of that. Manning entered his pleas on Thursday, ahead of his June 3 court martial for the biggest leak of government secrets in US history. Though he pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy, Manning did cop to a series of 10 lesser charges related to misusing classified information. The documents he released to WikiLeaks, Manning said, "represent the underground realities of the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan."
US soldier Bradley Manning has admitted being the source of classified material provided to the Wikileaks website. In front of a military court, US army private Manning, 25, pleaded guilty to 10 out of 22 charges, saying he leaked the documents because he thought Americans had a right to know “the true cost of war”. Accused of the biggest leak of state secrets in US history, Manning was arrested in May 2010 for sending Wikileaks thousands of intelligence documents, diplomatic cables and combat videos. Manning faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for the offences he admitted – but will receive time off due to harsh treatment he suffered at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia where he has been held for over 1,000 days. For some of his imprisonment, Manning was in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day. Manning pleaded not guilty to 12 charges, including the most serious one of aiding the enemy, which could lead to a life sentence.
Manning admits leaking confidential US information to Wikileaks
Alex Wong/Getty Images Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty to 10 criminal counts in connection with the leak to WikiLeaks.
Bradley Manning Admits Providing Files to WikiLeaks
Army Pvt. Bradley Manning admitted in a court filing Tuesday to leaking at least some of the classified US military and State Department documents that made Julian Assange 's Wikileaks a controversial sensation three years ago, in an apparent bid to get an opportunity to explain his motives. Skip to next paragraph Dan Murphy
Bradley Manning to admit partial guilt in WikiLeaks case
Wikileaks Continues to Battle DDoS Attack
UPDATE : Wikileaks reported Monday evening that it was back online after a week-long DDoS attack. Whistleblowing organization Wikileaks says it continues to suffer a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The organization first reported the attack, which has expanded to include affiliated sites, on Aug. 3 .This originally appeared at MondoWeiss
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