Cables reveal covert US support for Syria's opposition. Security, two ways: Online transactions, and court fight over Twitter-WikiLeaks information. When Journalism Becomes ‘Terrorism’ Senior Pentagon adviser Richard Perle abruptly announced his resignation on March 27 as chair of the Defense Policy Board, an influential Pentagon advisory panel.
Not coincidentally, Perle had shortly before his resignation described the respected journalist Seymour Hersh as a "terrorist," and threatened to sue Hersh for libel in Britain. Pulitzer-winner Hersh’s report in the New Yorker (dated 3/17/03) on Perle’s messy finances became the first of a series of embarrassing stories that threatened Perle’s considerable access to power. It now looks as though Perle, frequently described as the chief architect of the war in Iraq, launched his counter-attack on Hersh as part of a "hide-in-plain-sight" strategy--dodging scrutiny, not the spotlight--in a calculated spin campaign.
Hizballah Exploiting Wikileaks Cables. By IPT News • Apr 14, 2011 at 2:56 pm U.S. cooperation with pro-Western Lebanese politicians is actually a conspiracy against Hizballah, according to identical reports on the terror organization's news website and in Iranian media.
The stories cite U.S. diplomatic cables released by the website Wikileaks and say the United States backed a compromise Lebanese presidential candidate in order to "embarrass" Hizballah and harm its political allies. From Hizballah's perspective, the documents show the subservience of Saad Hariri's pro-Western bloc to the United States and their Saudi allies. War on Tierra: WikiLeaks Reveals Climate Blackmail. Conference of Parties 16 (COP16), United Nations Global Warming Summit Cancún, Mexico, 2010 Hardly a lunar landscape, the Moon Palace resort in Cancún, Mexico, boasts material opulence cum tropical paradise, complete with its own skull-like circumference of militia to protect the world's most revered gray matter - or should I say green matter?
Slated between the dates of November 29 and December 10, this meeting of minds attracted over 20 heads of state, coupled with environmental ministers representing 193 countries. The impetus of their gathering: to settle their differences and patch together some kind of an agreement over what should be done to address climate change on a global scale. Following the flatlining of 2009's Copenhagen Accord, which European Union President Herman Van Rompuy regarded as an "incredible disaster," those in attendance this year were far from interested in any ecologically sustainable outcome.
Is this what is happening? Social Media and Subpoenas: The Loophole That Puts Journalistic Sources at Risk. The Department of Justice issued Twitter a subpoena for access to the accounts of Julian Assange and several others in relation to its investigation of the whistle-blower organization, which released roughly 2,000 classified cables.
As a result of its current law enforcement guidelines, Twitter is going to divulge the information. The provision is fairly typical for technology startups to include in their policies as a way to protect themselves from getting involved in legal issues pertaining to the platform's users. With such a policy, Twitter is not held responsible, and in many ways it should not be. According to the media lawyers we interviewed, this kind of government request is not unique. Via news.yahoo.com. Vatican, U.S. Embassy Respond to Wikileaks. State Department To Columbia University Students: DO NOT Discuss WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter. Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week.
An email from SIPA's Office of Career Services went out Tuesday afternoon with a caution from the official, an alumnus of the school. Students who will be applying for jobs in the federal government could jeopardize their prospects by posting links to WikiLeaks online, or even by discussing the leaked documents on social networking sites, the official was quoted as saying. "[The alumnus] recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter," the Office of Career Services advised students. "Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government. " Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That. View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger map Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks?
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the Afghan war logs, despite a demand from the Pentagon that WikiLeaks “return” its entire cache of published and unpublished classified U.S. documents. Amazon Unplugs WikiLeaks After Government Pressure: Tech News « Key Lawmakers Up Pressure on WikiLeaks and Defend Visa and Mastercard. US Defense Department bans removable media to curb Wikileaks. On the Heels of Recent Domain Seizures, ICANN Insists "We Don't Take Down Websites" Following the recent government seizure of over 80 websites, there was a certain amount of finger-pointing aimed at ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the nonprofit organization tasked with managing IP address spaces and managing top-level domains.
ICANN has just issued a statement, saying that it was not responsible for any part of the government actions. "As we have said many times, ICANN was not a party to those actions" by the U.S. Immigation and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), "nor was it a target of them. " According to Domain Incite, the requests to take down websites went through VeriSign, the company that operates the .com domain. "ICANN does not take down domain names," the ICANN statement says, "we have no technical or legal authority to do that. While not an official agency, ICANN was created in part by a mandate from the U.S. government. Via Index on Censorship. Evading a shutdown, WikiLeaks mobilizes Twitter supporters.
In a bid to stay one step ahead of the governments, companies, freelance hackers trying to shut down its operations, WikiLeaks mobilized its vast base of online support Saturday by asking its Twitter followers to create copies of its growing archive of hundreds of classified State Department cables.
By late afternoon Eastern time, more than 200 had answered the call, setting up "mirror" sites, many of them with the name "wikileaks" appended to their Web addresses. They organized themselves organically using the Twitter hashtag #imwikileaks, in a virtual show of solidarity reminiscent of the movie V is for Vendetta. In that 2005 film, a Guy-Fawkes masked vigilantee inspires thousands of Londoners to march on the Parliament similarly disguised -- while it blows up in front of their eyes. Presumably, many of these people believe they are facing the same sort of tyranny that V, the film's protagonist, fought against. Debunked: "Wikileaks Has Blood On Its Hands" The Falsehood: During its War Log Releases, Wikileaks carelessly/wantonly/maliciously failed to redact the names of soldiers/informants.
As a a result, NATO/Allied troops and/or Afghan/Iraqi informants and/or their families were endangered/killed. The Explanation: This allegation has been made in various forms since Wikileaks released the Afghanistan War Logs, and with renewed intensity after the Iraq War Logs. The Source: 18 U.S.C. § 793 : US Code - Section 793: Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information. PayPal Cuts Off WikiLeaks’ Cash Flow.