Seven Thoughts on Wikileaks. WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy - Interactive Feature. A Note to Readers - The Decision to Publish. Pourquoi "Le Monde" publie les documents WikiLeaks. LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Sylvie Kauffmann Pour la deuxième fois, Le Monde publie, à partir de dimanche 28 novembre, sur son site lemonde.fr, et à partir de lundi dans le quotidien, des informations tirées de documents officiels secrets américains, mis à sa disposition par le site WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks est une organisation informelle créée en 2006 par un apôtre de la transparence intégrale, l'Australien Julian Assange, dans le but de rendre publics sur Internet des documents officiels qui n'étaient pas destinés à le devenir. En octobre, nous avons rejoint trois journaux, le New York Times, le quotidien britannique The Guardian et l'allemand Der Spiegel, déjà partenaires de WikiLeaks dans la diffusion d'une première vague de documents militaires américains sur l'Afghanistan, en juillet, pour pouvoir analyser par nous-mêmes une nouvelle masse de documents du Pentagone livrés à WikiLeaks, cette fois sur l'Irak, et offrir aux lecteurs francophones notre propre expertise.
Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Upcoming Iraq War Wikileaks Docs (Part 1 of 2) Editor's note: publishing the cables. The articles published today and over coming weeks are drawn from US state department cables which were sent earlier this year to WikiLeaks, an organisation devoted to exposing secrets of all kinds.
The Guardian is one of five publications around the world which has had prior access to the material – around 250,000 cables in all – on condition that we observed common deadlines over the timings of release. The others are the New York Times, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel. The leaked material is the third such exercise in which the Guardian and other publications have been involved. The previous two involved military records from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The current release is of leaked dispatches from more than 250 US embassies and consulates worldwide. WikiLeaks has not revealed the source of its information. During the course of working on the material over many weeks each publication has formed its own individual judgments about specific stories. WikiLeaks site's Swiss registrar dismisses pressure to take it offline. WikiLeaks received a boost tonight when Switzerland rejected growing international calls to force the site off the internet.
The whistleblowers site, which has been publishing leaked US embassy cables, was forced to switch domain names to WikiLeaks.ch yesterday after the US host of its main website, WikiLeaks.org, pulled the plug following mounting political pressure. The site's new Swiss registry, Switch, today said there was "no reason" why it should be forced offline, despite demands from France and the US. Switch is a non-profit registry set up by the Swiss government for all 1.5 million Swiss .ch domain names. The reassurances come just hours after eBay-owned PayPal, the primary donation channel to WikiLeaks, terminated its links with the site, citing "illegal activity".
France yesterday added to US calls for all companies and organisations to terminate their relationship with WikiLeaks following the release of 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables. 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. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. 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. It is neither.