Wikileaks : . @sweden just blocked @WikiLeaks ... - Pale Moon... Vivienne Westwood chooses Foreign Office to campaign for Julian Assange. Never knowingly out of the political limelight, Dame Vivienne Westwood today courted controversy by creating pro-Julian Assange T-shirts for her guests to wear front row at her London Fashion Week show. Held at London’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Westwood chose the occasion and venue to make a stand about the UK’s decision not to block his extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.
Model Jade Parfitt sat front row proudly wearing the ‘I’m Julian Assange’ T-shirt which Westwood had designed. Assange, who denies allegations of rape and sexual molestation, has been fighting extradition to Sweden for the past two years. Anticipation had been building amongst the guests – which included Alice Dellal and Charlotte Free modelling - over the message Westwood would chose to convey at her finale appearance, traditionally the moment when Dame Vivienne reinforces her manifestos in dramatic style. She did, but the fight for Assange was left to the front row. Cabledrum (Cabledrummer) sur Twitter. What's happening to those named WikiLeaks sources?
Earlier this week, I wrote about the case of two Zimbabwean generals who may face treason charges for comments about their superiors made in a confidential conversation with the U.S. ambassador, and whose names were subsequently revealed in last month's unredacted WikiLeaks dump. That case still seems to be pending, but there's been another troubling development in Ethiopia, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists: U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks cited an Ethiopian journalist by name and referred to his unnamed government source, forcing the journalist to flee the country after police interrogated him over the source's identity, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
It is the first instance CPJ has confirmed in which a citation in one of the cables has caused direct repercussions for a journalist. Some of China’s top academics and human rights activists are being attacked as “rats” and “spies” after their names were revealed as U.S. Court Martial Recommended for Private Manning in WikiLeaks Case. Why I felt I had to turn my back on WikiLeaks | Media. I joined WikiLeaks last November as a staffer for a three-month stint. Culture shock came just a few days in, when Julian Assange gathered core staff and supporters at Ellingham Hall, a manor house owned by the Frontline Club founder and WikiLeaks supporter Vaughan Smith. Around the dining table the team sketched out a plan for the coming months, to release the leaked US diplomatic cables selectively for maximum impact.
Phase one would involve publishing selected – and carefully redacted – high-profile cables through the Guardian, New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El Pais. Phase two would spread this out to more media organisations. But clearly a large volume of cables would remain, of little interest to any media organisation. Several at the meeting – myself included – stressed these documents, which would probably number hundreds of thousands, could not be published without similar careful redaction. Julian took Wahlström's their side. Press enquiries started to trickle in. When you talk too much for Twitter. How WikiLeaks vindicated Bush’s anti-terrorism strategy. The illegally released files, in addition to a host of declassified documents on U.S. detention policies posted at www.rumsfeld.com, record complex decisions and excruciating trade-offs that President Bush and national security officials had to make.
They document the deadly techniques and intentions of hundreds of Guantanamo detainees who still desire to return to the fight, and the labors of analysts and interrogators who enabled us to stop additional attacks. Gathering intelligence is a painstaking process. Some information comes in an immediately actionable form. More often, the significance of particular data, whether provided by senior or lower-ranking operatives, does not become apparent for months or years, as happened with the years-long effort to patch together information that led our forces to bin Laden.
The WikiLeaks files reveal that those detainees who could not be held on sufficient evidence were released or transferred to other countries. WikiLeaks Loses Control of Some of Its Own Secrets. US espionage investigation against WikiLeaks: PATRIOT Act order unsealed. (on 2011-08-24) Further proof has emerged of the United States secret Grand Jury investigation into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
Further information has been demanded on the organization and its founder for the US courts, this time under the PATRIOT Act. The Grand Jury has been meeting in Alexandria, Washington DC trying to work up an espionage case against the organization’s founder Julian Assange. The latest information demanded is anything held by WikiLeaks DNS host, Dynadot in California, regarding wikileaks.org, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks have just received a copy of the recently unsealed court Order from the United States, signed by a US magistrate judge on the 4th of January 2011. Using the terms of the PATRIOT Act the Order was issued to Dynadot, the domain registrars for wikileaks.org, for all information they hold on WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and wikileaks.org. 1. Also: WikiLeaks do not know what, if any, information Dynodot provided the US courts with. Print. Wikileaks crashes under cyber attack. Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Wikileaks today announced via twitter that its website has crashed under an apparent cyber-attack; this following the recent release of tens of thousands of US State Department cables.
Sources in the US say the mass-disclosure of cables is causing diplomatic setbacks, and embarrassment, for the administration of Barack Obama. Diagram of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, commonly used to bring down websites.Image: Everaldo Coelho and YellowIcon. These previously unreleased cables are said to contain the names of sensitive sources that the authors asked higher bodies to "strictly protect". The authenticity of the latest documents has not been confirmed but, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, "the United States strongly condemns any illegal disclosure of classified information".
The first series of leaks began last November. Former Wikileaks employee destroys unpublished leaked documents. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 A former Wikileaks employee has destroyed 3,500 unpublished leaks to Julian Assange’s site, and taken the site’s encrypted system to create a spinoff project. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Assange’s former right-hand man, left Wikileaks last year after a disagreement between the pair; and, has now demolished files sent to the Wikileaks site such as the US no-fly list, Bank of America documents and "detailed information about 20 neo-Nazi groups".
Domscheit-Berg took the whistle-blower site's submission system to create a rival-site, OpenLeaks, consequently Wikileaks will not be able to receive online leaked files, and will have to use "snail mail" from an Australian PO box. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Domscheit-Berg said the unpublished documents had been shredded to protect their sources. Wikileaks retaliated, claiming the destroying of documents hindered the "leaking of many issues of public importance", accusing Domsheit-Berg of theft and sabotage. New Leak Penalties Proposed in Senate Intel Bill. The Senate Intelligence Committee is proposing to punish leaks of classified information by authorizing intelligence agencies to seize the pension benefits of current or former employees who are believed to have committed an unauthorized disclosure of classified information. The pending proposal would “provide an additional administrative option for the Intelligence Community to deter leakers who violate the prepublication review requirements of their non-disclosure agreements,” the Committee said in its new report (pdf) on the FY2011 Intelligence Authorization Act.
“This option may require individuals to surrender their current and future federal government pension benefits if they knowingly violate the prepublication review requirements in their non-disclosure agreements in a manner that discloses classified information to an unauthorized person or entity,” the report said. The starting point of the Committee proposal is that leakers are rarely if ever punished. Podcast: A Discussion on Wikileaks and Government Secrecy in 2010 « FAS Development Blog. Listen to a new edition of the FAS Podcast: “A Conversation With An Expert,” featuring Steve Aftergood. Topics discussed include the release of records by Wikileaks, the consequences of this release, the other major government secrecy issues in 2010, the Fundamental Classification Guidance Review, and much more! Download the podcast here.
You can read a transcript of this podcast here. Subscribe to the FAS Podcast on Itunes here. Please give us feedback! What is your opinion — Was the release of records by Wikileaks whistle blowing? Should the information in the records disclosed by Wikileaks be used by think tanks in forthcoming reports? Thank you for your continued support of FAS and the Project on Government Secrecy! Podcast Features Steve Aftergood- Transcript.pdf (Objet application/pdf)
Announcing ScienceLeaks. This venture was triggered by the many people complaining that they couldn't evaluate the 'arseniclife' paper because the journal Science only allowed access to its abstract, not to the full paper or its supplementary online materials. In response, Science temporarily opened access to people wiling to register at their site, but when the month ends the barrier will go right back up. This access problem applies to the great majority of scientific papers. The public pays for the research, but the results are locked behind journal-subscription paywalls, accessible only to people with personal subscriptions or affiliated with major research libraries, or to those willing to pay $20-$40 for access to individual articles. Most researchers agree that this legacy of the pre-internet days is morally wrong and unfair to everyone. Those of us who can afford it pay thousands of dollars to the journals to make our own articles open access.
This is just a stopgap solution. Wikileaks Rest in Peace. 30 December 2010. Add Phillip Agee, Frank Snepp and Richard Tomlinson references. 29 December 2010 Wikileaks Rest in Peace The original Wikileaks initiative is dead, replaced by a bloated apparatus promising 260,000 cables at slower than a snail's pace. At the rate of 20 cables a day it will take 13,000 days to finish -- some 35 years. The original merits of Wikileaks have been lost in its transformation into a publicity and fund-raising vehicle for Julian Assange as indicated in the redesign website which billboards him. Its once invaluable, steady stream of documents, packaged in its own, no-frills format, is now a tiny dribble of documents apparently regulated by a compact with a few main stream media which amplify the material well beyond its significance. Will Wikileaks once again deliver its original promise or stay imprisoned in bombshells so beloved by the main stream media?
What happened to the back-log of submissions to Wikileaks? Netwar meets Oprah: The Wikileaks Files, Volume whatever. Like you, KOW reader, I have been pondering the ongoing wikileaks story trying to puzzle out what it all means, what it tells us about what is happening to world society, the state system, war and international security. You are no doubt familiar with the rudiments of the story, if not you are on the wrong blog. So, what does it all mean? For what it’s worth, here’s my take. First off, we have yet more evidence that the great Spirit in the Sky has a taste for comic irony. Consider, what have we learned from the leaks themselves, specifically the gargantuan flood of US government ‘SECRET’ diplomatic cables?
Well, it seems to me, the ‘biggies’, in a nutshell are that American officials when speaking for clarity rather than diplomacy say stuff like this: 1. 2. 3. I paraphrase, of course, but only a bit. Which makes all the more amusing the efforts of the defenders of Julian Assange to prop up his image. If you fancy yourself a contemporary strategist you really need to be reading Castells. Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown ... or not :D. My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act -- Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange | Civil Liberties. December 29, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Rumors are swirling that the United States is preparing to indict Wikileaks leader Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. The modern version of that act states among many, many other things that: “Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States” causes the disclosure or publication of this material, could be subject to massive criminal penalties.
I view the Espionage Act of 1917 as a lifelong nemesis. The 1917 Act has a notorious history. It appears obvious that the Espionage Act is unconstitutional because it does exactly what the Constitution prohibits. It is no accident that Julian Assange may face a “conspiracy” charge just as my parents did. But the reach of “conspiracy” is even more insidious.
My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act -- Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange | Civil Liberties. Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks On House Floor | Ron Paul Speech on Julian Assange | Video. Action : Justice for Assange. Wikileaks. So, Why is WikiLeaks a Good Thing Again? Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity: Tech News « The past week has seen plenty of ink spilled — virtual and otherwise — about WikiLeaks and its mercurial front-man, Julian Assange, and the pressure they have come under from the U.S. government and companies such as Amazon and PayPal, both of which have blocked WikiLeaks from using their services. Why should we care about any of this? Because more than anything else, WikiLeaks is a publisher — a new kind of publisher, but a publisher nonetheless — and that makes this a freedom of the press issue.
Like it or not, WikiLeaks is fundamentally a journalistic entity, and as such it deserves our protection. Not everyone agrees with this point of view, of course. Some argue that there is nothing journalistic about the organization whatsoever, and that it is simply a lawless group of misfits spreading information around that it doesn’t have the right to distribute, without caring for the effects of its actions. So what makes WikiLeaks different from the New York Times? Wikileaks Mirrors. EtherPad: wikileaks. Wikileaks - Wikileaks. Collateral Murder. Stephen Colbert - WikiLeaks Video. Last night Stephen Colbert interviewed Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, which the other week published video of the US military killing 12 individuals in Iraq, two of whom were later revealed to be staff members of the Reuters.
After a sort of jokey opening in which he had his face pixelated and voice altered, Colbert got down to business: Let’s talk about this footage that has gotten you so much attention recently. This is footage of an Apache helicopter attack in 2007. The army described this as a group that gave resistance at the time, that doesn’t seem to be happening. But there are armed men in the group, they did find a rocket propelled grenade among the group, the Reuters photographers who were regrettably killed, were not identified…You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called ‘collateral murder.’
That’s not leaking, that’s a pure editorial. That’s not satire: That’s serious journalism. Read more analysis of the interview at Mediaite. Us-watson1-2010. U.S. warns Ottawa about fallout from pending WikiLeaks release. WikiLeaks: An Inventive New Threat to the Propaganda System (Part 2) Iraq Wardiary, one more leak, one more pearltree. Huffington Post Spying Game. Wikileaks en Suède ? (Le Monde) Kabul War Diary - Afghanistan war logs. WikiLeaks preparing to release 15,000 more Afghanistan documents. Wikileaks: Giving Leaks a Bad Name. Rep. Rush Holt on the Wikileaks Scandal. Wikileaks asked to edit Afghan names from US files.
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Various articles about Wikileaks' founder : Julian Assange. The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian La. How Manning Stole The Cables — Conflict Health. The Race to Fix the Classification System. Shrink the Classification System. Wikileaks - Cablegate / Statelogs. Wikileaks explained. Wikileaks keeps on publishing despite arrest.
Archive Director Tom Blanton decries "Wikimania" WikiLeaks.