Twitter Must Provide Data on 3 Users, Judge Rules. Court Order Seeks Email Data of WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum. ACLU, EFF challenging US 'secret' court orders seeking Twitter data. Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government's 'secret' attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks.
The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their investigation secret; and, that with Birgitta Jonsdottir being an Icelandic Parliamentarian, the issue has serious international implications. National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance. Air Space - a trip through an airport detention center. The sunset on the flight from Reykjavík to Seattle is among air travel's most beautiful sights.
Though Keflavík Airport is covered with clouds and rain, the people's spirits there are usually jovial. The Iceland Air lounge has helpful staff—the welcome desk offers helpful tips on avoiding airport hassles and even provides free internet access. They'll help you read your boarding pass and even answer questions about all its confusing symbols. Banking Blockade.
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For further information on the banking blockade against WikiLeaks download this PDF. A kit with full information on the blockade and tools to assist WikiLeaks through it can be downloaded here. Created: 24th October, 1pm GMT. Don’t Look, Don’t Read - Government Warns Its Workers Away From WikiLeaks Documents. WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name. The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively "killing" its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.
The whistleblowers' website went offline for the third time in a week this morning, in the biggest threat to its online presence yet. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security, earlier this week called for any organisation helping sustain WikiLeaks to "immediately terminate" its relationship with them. On Friday morning, WikiLeaks and the cache of secret diplomatic documents that have proved to be a scourge for governments around the world were only accessible through a string of digits known as a DNS address. The site later re-emerged with a Swiss domain, WikiLeaks.ch.
CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables' exposure by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force.
But at CIA headquarters, it's mainly known by its all-too-apt acronym: W.T.F. WikiLeaks: guilty parties 'should face death penalty' Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules. The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks source.
Juan Mendez has completed a 14-month investigation into the treatment of Manning since the soldier's arrest at a US military base in May 2010. He concludes that the US military was at least culpable of cruel and inhumane treatment in keeping Manning locked up alone for 23 hours a day over an 11-month period in conditions that he also found might have constituted torture. "The special rapporteur concludes that imposing seriously punitive conditions of detention on someone who has not been found guilty of any crime is a violation of his right to physical and psychological integrity as well as of his presumption of innocence," Mendez writes. US versus Manning, Assange, WikiLeaks, and the Press, the Time Line.
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Populating content today... This is a transcript of the Motion Hearing held on June 6, 2012 at Fort Meade, Maryland in US v Pfc. Bradley Manning. Judge: Army Col. Denise LindProsecution: Captain Ashden Fein, Captain Joe Morrow, Captain Angel Overgaard, Capt. 09:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Judge Lind Called to order. Congressional committee holds hearing on national security leak prevention and punishment. Recent leaks of classified information prompted concerned members of the Congressional House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing today to address consequences for those involved in releasing and publishing national secrets.
The Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, among other things, listened to testimony about the effectiveness of the Espionage Act of 1917. Recently published investigative news articles in notable newspapers including The New York Times and The Washington Post on cyber warfare, drone strikes and other classified information have brought the issue of leaks to national attention. At the packed hearing, several committee members presented the idea of targeting journalists who knowingly publish leaked information. Members raised questions about the intent of newspapers that print such material and whether journalists should be subpoenaed to testify about their sources. "Why not send a subpoena to the reporter? Attorney Kenneth L. Rep. Rep. Cable Viewer. Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th 2010 publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain.
The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities. The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February 2010, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret. The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next year. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice. Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington – the country’s first President – could not tell a lie. Groups to contact for comment. Kabul War Diary. Sunday, July 25 5pm EST.
Baghdad War Diary. At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.
The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). Collateral Murder.