Glenn Greenwald Glenn Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American political journalist, lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013.[1][2][3] He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor to The Guardian.[4][5][6] Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator. At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal topics.[7] He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times,[8][9][10] the Los Angeles Times,[11] The American Conservative,[12] The National Interest,[13] and In These Times.[14][15] Early life and education[edit] Career[edit] Litigation attorney[edit] Businessman[edit] In 2002, Greenwald was offered the partnership in a consulting company, Master Notions Inc., by a friend, Jason Buchtel. Unclaimed Territory[edit] Salon[edit] The Guardian[edit] First Look Media and The Intercept[edit] Books[edit]
Yuko Mohri: The execution of Mary | 5uper.net Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences, Vienna 2009 Yuko Mohri uses a scanner as a plate with salad and also a printer with four wheels which runs along a platform…? Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work with data; on the other hand, these machines carry within the possibility to be treated as real objects. In her installation, computer and data devices, used in an unconventional way, are subjected to unusual operations and becoming “performative objects”, open up unpredicted possibilities. Yuko Mohri (Japan) Yuko Mohri, an artist, was born in 1980.
Manning 'Guilty' on Most Counts, Faces 100 Years in Prison Manning supporters outside Fort Meade, Tuesday (Photo via Twitter / Ed Pilkington) Pfc. Bradley Manning, the army whistleblower who exposed egregious U.S. war crimes after revealing military documents to the website WikiLeaks, has been found guilty of almost all of his charges in a military court in Fort Meade, Maryland and could face a maximum of more than 100 years in jail. On Tuesday, Judge Col. Denise Lind found Manning not guilty of his most severe charge, "aiding the enemy," which supporters had feared because it held the potential for "life in prison." Manning's official sentencing phase begins Wednesday morning at 9:30 EST. Watch Democracy Now! Follow live tweets from journalist following the trial here: As reporter Kevin Gosztola points out , the verdict comes on the anniversary of the U.S.' As Norman Solomon writes today , Manning's "moral courage" has shown throughout the lengthy trial and has highlighted the depravity of the U.S. government:
Edward Snowden In 2013, Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA.[4] On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill. Snowden came to international attention after stories based on the material appeared in The Guardian and The Washington Post. Further disclosures were made by other newspapers including Der Spiegel and The New York Times. On June 21, 2013, the U.S. A subject of controversy, Snowden has been variously called a hero, a whistleblower, a dissident, a patriot and a traitor. Background Childhood, family, and education Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983,[7] in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.[8] His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Political views Career Employment at CIA NSA sub-contractee as an employee for Dell Global surveillance disclosures
Adrian Lamo Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.[4] In 2010, Lamo reported U.S. soldier PFC Bradley Manning (now known as Chelsea Manning) to federal authorities, claiming that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. Manning was arrested and incarcerated in the U.S. military justice system and later sentenced to 35 years in confinement.[5][6] Early life and education[edit] In the mid-1990s, Lamo became a volunteer for the gay and lesbian media firm PlanetOut.com.[14][17] In 1998, Lamo was appointed to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Youth Task Force by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.[18][19] During this period, in 2001, he overdosed on prescription amphetamines.[1][20] Activities and legal issues[edit] Security compromise[edit] DNA controversy[edit] See also[edit]
Transcript | US v Pfc. Manning, Article 39(a) Session, 11/08/12 For more information on the lack of public and press access to United States v. Pfc. Manning, visit the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) "to order the Judge to grant the public and press access to the government's motion papers, the court's own orders, and transcripts of proceedings, none of which have been made public to date." This transcript of the Article 39(a) Session held on November 8, 2012 at Fort Meade, Maryland in US v Pfc. Manning was taken by hand from the public gallery. It, therefore, may contain omissions or errors. Judge: Army Col. Judge Lind Please be seated. Prosecution (Fein) [Appellate exhibit 379] ....after [yesterday's] session, defense and the Government [had a] discussion. [This next part concerns interrogatories from the defense to the prosecution concerning the Speedy Trial motion. Your motion says that defense does not object. Defense (Coombs) No objection... ...will agencies participate?
After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracking program Hours after the Senate balked at reauthorizing the bulk collection of U.S. telephone records, the National Security Agency began shutting down a controversial program Saturday that senior intelligence and law enforcement officials say is vital to track terrorists in the United States. The Senate had debated into early predawn hours Saturday but failed to reach a deal to reform the program or extend its life beyond May 31, when the law used to authorize it is set to expire. Lawmakers then left on a weeklong recess, vowing to return at the end of it to try again in a rare Sunday session. Administration officials said later that they had to start the lengthy procedure of winding down the counter-terrorism program in anticipation of Congress failing to act. “That process has begun,” an administration official said Saturday. The data include the number dialed, duration, date and time for most telephone calls made by Americans. Opponents of the program, including presidential candidate Sen.
WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder, with ov... Cornel West and Chris Hedges discuss Bradley Manning verdict Whistleblower Michigan Cop Files Suit Over Allegations of Fellow Cops Having Sex With Teen Ride-Along A popular Michigan police officer is suing his chief, claiming he was demoted for questioning the mishandling of an investigation about two fellow officers who allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old runaway girl. Saline police officer Don Lupi had “expressed concerns to persons in city government about two fellow officers allegedly having sexual relations with a minor female who was known to the department as a runaway (and would accompany officers on ‘ride-alongs), and her friend,” the lawsuit states. Lupi, an 18-year veteran of the department, spending 13 years as a detective, faced severe backlash after reporting the misconduct, especially since one of the parties was a sergeant and therefore his superior. “Be careful of Lupi, he’s a snake and a rat,” the suit asserts that the sergeant told other officers. The rare good cop had also reported his coworkers in the past for falsifying their time sheets. Story continues below... “I was only doing the right thing,” Lupi told MLive.
Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe | Th Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. PFC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. A family member says he’s being held in custody in Kuwait, and has not been formally charged. Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with whom he spoke online. In the course of their chats, Manning took credit for leaking a headline-making video of a helicopter attack that Wikileaks posted online in April. Wired.com could not confirm whether Wikileaks received the supposed 260,000 classified embassy dispatches. The State Department said it was not aware of the arrest or the allegedly leaked cables.