Wikileaks Fails “Due Diligence” Review. In the past week, both the Washington Post and the New York Times have referred to WikiLeaks.org, the web site that publishes confidential records, as a “whistleblower” site.
This conforms to WikiLeaks’ own instructions to journalists that “WikiLeaks should be described, depending on context, as the ‘open government group’, ‘anti-corruption group’, ‘transparency group’ or ‘whistleblower’s site’.” But calling WikiLeaks a whistleblower site does not accurately reflect the character of the project. It also does not explain why others who are engaged in open government, anti-corruption and whistleblower protection activities are wary of WikiLeaks or disdainful of it. Intelligence Policy on Unauthorized Disclosures (2002) “Intentional leaks of intelligence are a violation of law, may result in irrevocable damage to national security, and will not be tolerated,” according to a 2002 directive from the Director of Central Intelligence (pdf) that was itself leaked.
The directive largely reiterates longstanding policy, though perhaps with increased vigor. It states twice that leaks will not be “tolerated” and twice more that intelligence agencies will take “aggressive” measures to combat leaks. National Security Directive on Space Exploration Policy (2004) A newly disclosed National Security Presidential Directive on space exploration (pdf) illustrates the broad topical scope of such directives, as well as their practical limitations.
The Bush Administration directive, issued in 2004, ambitiously called for “a sustained and affordable human and robotic program to explore the solar system and beyond” and even a “human presence across the solar system.” The document has not been formally released to the public, and multiple requests for its disclosure have been rebuffed by the National Security Council. It was obtained and released by Wikileaks.org, a website that publishes confidential documents. See “U.S. Space Exploration Policy,” National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 31, January 14, 2004.
Knight Foundation. Knight Foundation Hands Out Grants to 12 Groups, but Not WikiLea. The Knight Foundation announced on Wednesday 12 winners of its News Challenge grants, projects costing a total of $2.74 million that will use new technology to spread information in local areas. The winners included a platform for collaborating to report local news and a plan to spread virtual town halls across Vermont. Among the 2,400 proposals passed over was one from the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks, which was asking for more than a half-million dollars to be spent over two years to bring its anonymous method of leaking documents to local newspapers.
US Army: Nuclear Operations, FM 100-30, 29 Oct 1996. CIA OSC The Google Controversy 2008. The secret Ritual of Alpha Sigma Tau, 1975. Newfoundland Masonic Lodge Annual Report, 2006-2007. Mormon Church Handbook of Instructions, 2006. From WikiLeaks Unless otherwise specified, the document described here: Was first publicly revealed by WikiLeaks working with our source.Was classified, confidential, censored or otherwise withheld from the public before release.Is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance.
Any questions about this document's veracity are noted. The summary is approved by the editorial board. See here for a detailed explanation of the information on this page. If you have similar or updated material, see our submission instructions. Release date January 3, 2009. Who watches WikiLeaks? It has proclaimed itself the "intelligence service of the people", and plans to have more agents than the CIA.
They will be you and me. WikiLeaks is a long way from that goal, but this week it staked its claim to be the dead drop of choice for whistleblowers after releasing video the Pentagon claimed to have lost of US helicopter crews excitedly killing Iraqis on a Baghdad street in 2007. The dead included two Reuters news agency staff. The release of the shocking footage prompted an unusual degree of hand-wringing in a country weary of the Iraq war, and garnered WikiLeaks more than $150,000 in donations to keep its cash-starved operation on the road. It also drew fresh attention to a largely anonymous group that has outpaced the competition in just a few short years by releasing to the world more than a million confidential documents from highly classified military secrets to Sarah Palin's hacked emails. WikiLeaks has promised to change the world by abolishing official secrecy.
Kabul War Diary. Wikileaks, Raw Intel, and the Rise of the Taliban. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment in Konar province, Afghanistan, Aug. 14, 2009 What a week its been for us document hounds!! The dust is still settling from the wikileaks dump of over 70,000 raw, uncensored US military intelligence reports from Afghanistan. They have certainly revealed some interesting tidbits [Major caveat: just because the docs report these things does not make them true; they were composed quickly in the rough Afghan terrain under harsh battle conditions and often relied on unconfirmed sources , even rumors]: According to first hand accounts, the Afghan police and army are incompetent and corrupt.The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents routinely supported (support?) The Afghan insurgency.There is a mysterious Task Force 373 (assassination squad?)
And all that is just from a tiny snippet of the documents. Julian Assange of wikileaks. And then there’s the National Security Archive versus wikileaks angle.” Map showing Spin Boldak.