Archive for the 'Wikileaks' Category

(RussiaToday) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formally unveiled on Monday the latest release from the whistleblower site, Project K, calling it “the single most significant geopolitical publication that has ever existed.” Read the rest of this entry »

(Manning) – Bradley Manning tried to save the eleven men who died – burned alive – on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010. But Barack Obama and the New York Times made sure that wouldn’t happen. Read the rest of this entry »

(Corbett) – When faced with the overwhelming evidence of the widespread, systemic conspiracies that take place at the very highest levels of government, the general public has been pre-programmed to respond with the all-too-familiar retort: “But someone would have talked.” Read the rest of this entry »

(CommonDreams) – During the last week of March, more than 30,000 people signed a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning. While the numbers continue to mount on the petition website, so do the comments from individual signers. Read the rest of this entry »

(NNN) – Did former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning commit treason, or tell unpleasant but necessary truths? Did he aid the enemy and betray his fellow soldiers, or did he expose criminal misconduct that took place in the context of an illegal war? Was he a traitor, or a hero? Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Abby Martin talks to former US assistant secretary of state for public affairs, P.J. Crowley, about his resignation following remarks about whistleblower Bradley Manning’s treatment in military detention and his thoughts about drones and US foreign policy Read the rest of this entry »

(TheNation) – In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. Read the rest of this entry »

“I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information… this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general…” —Pfc. Bradley Manning in his plea statement, February 28th, 2013

(CommonDreams) – This past Thursday, I was among a handful of individuals seated in the small windowless room at the military court facility in Fort Meade, Maryland, where Private First Class Bradley Manning would confess as the source of the largest leak of classified information in history. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday)  – US prosecutors are set to call a Navy SEAL – possibly one who participated in the killing of Osama bin Laden – to testify against alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning to prove he ‘aided the enemy,’ a crime punishable by death in the US. Read the rest of this entry »

(DemocracyNow) – Former CIA agent John Kiriakou speaks out just days after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, becoming the first CIA official to face jail time for any reason relating to the U.S. torture program. Under a plea deal, Kiriakou admitted to a single count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing the identity of a covert officer to a freelance reporter, who did not publish it. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – Birgitta Jónsdóttir says she has held back from visiting long enough and plans tour to express support for Bradley Manning Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – It’s now obvious to everyone that – even though criminal fraud dominates Wall Street – the Obama administration refuses to prosecute white collar crime.

Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton each prosecuted financial crime more aggressively than Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

(MSNBC) – January 20th, 2013

(VeteransToday) – Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets.  We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Read the rest of this entry »

(PCR) – Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States.  Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to the government or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology–to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Read the rest of this entry »

(RealNews) – Michael Ratner: Manning describes cruel and unusual punishment; offers to plea to lesser charges Read the rest of this entry »

(BusinessInsider) – Erin Burnett of CNN put Julian Assange “Out Front” for an 11-minute interview Nov. 28, and the shouting match that concluded the segment had very little to do with the subject of the interview. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Wednesday marked the two year anniversary of the release of sensitive information by the website Wikileaks which changed the face of whistleblowing as we know it. The information leak known as “Cablegate” exposed the corruption in Egypt to the killing of innocent civilians by the US military in Iraq. Adriana Usero breaks down the top 10 WikiLeaks revelations. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Two “hard right” politicians, Joseph Lieberman and Peter King, went directly to the transnational credit card corporation MasterCard and arranged an extrajudicial financial blockade of Wikileaks, according to heavily redacted European Commission documents. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Pre-trial hearings have begun in the case of U.S. army private Bradley Manning accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, with the defence claiming he was the subject of abuse while in detention. Chase Madar, a lawyer and author of a book on Manning, says not all the military are against the alleged whistleblower. Read the rest of this entry »

Why, what it means (and doesn’t), and what next

(CourageToResist) – Army Private Bradley Manning recently informed the military court that he was, in fact, the source of information published by WikiLeaks. While the 24 year old Intelligence Analyst, effectively, took responsibility for transferring classified documents, in violation of military regulations, he maintained that he was not guilty of all 22 charges against him. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – “Protect Whistle blowers: …Such acts of courage and patriotism….should be encouraged rather than stifled.  Barack Obama will strengthen whistle blower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud and abuse of authority in government.  Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistle blower claims and whistle blowers have full access to courts and due process.” – from the official Obama / Biden campaign website posted in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Britain is considering pulling the plug on whistleblowers. A bill is circulating through parliament there which, if it comes into force, might discourage people from speaking out against serious violations and corporate wrong-doing. Sara Firth looks at the possible risks for those who want to do the right thing. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – A US air force systems analyst who expressed support for WikiLeaks and accused leaker Bradley Manning triggered a formal military investigation last year to determine whether she herself had leaked any documents to the group. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Declassified military documents reveal personnel contacting Wikileaks and Julian Assange face execution for communicating with enemies of the state. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The hacker group Anonymous has taken down Interpol and a British police website in a campaign to free of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (HuffPost) – Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Faces No Criminal Charges In U.S., Sources Say – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Ecuador is prepared to go as far as the International Court of Justice in The Hague, to defend its sovereign decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange. Speaking exclusively to RT’s Spanish channel, the country’s Foreign Minister said they’re standing up to London and Washington to protect freedom of speech and the right to personal integrity. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – A group of protestors have gathered outside the British consulate in New York, the US, over London’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – The alternative media proven right again as the Swedish government admits they will extradite Assange as long as he does not face execution. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Global hacktivist group Anonymous claim to have taken down the several UK government websites as part of a protest to free Julian Assange. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – US intelligence operatives are step up their information warfare campaign against Assange spamming the same talking points in news reports and article comments all over the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – You decide – Assange came out of hiding for the first time in 2 months to give a speech, bashed by the media for promoting ‘self-interests’. Read the rest of this entry »

(JP) – In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. In both cases, the mass murder was barely news. What mattered were the cynical vacuities of a political celebrity, the product of a zeitgeist driven by the forces of consumerism and the media with the aim of diverting the struggle for social and economic justice. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The US is looking to hang Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as a traitor for doing the same thing corporate media reporters win Pulitzer prizes for. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Dreamworks studio has announcing they are planning a film about the life of whistleblower Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Read the rest of this entry »

(ZeroHedge) – Wells Fargo has frozen and closed the account of the mortgage fraud whistleblowing website ML-Implode in retaliation for a series of articles about the bank. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – For Julian Assange, you just can’t do right by USA’s establishment.  They’ve got it in for him now.  Assange says they’ll call him a traitor for interviewing radicals.  Journalist Glenn Greenwald says the attacks on Assange and RT reveal as much about the critics:

“The real cause of American media hostility toward RT is the same as what causes it to hate Assange: the reporting it does reflects poorly on the U.S. Government, the ultimate sin in the eyes of our ‘adversarial’ press corps.” Read the rest of this entry »

(PatrickHenningsen) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made a career out of feeding the media with millions of documents, as well as being interviewed on his political situation, both of which have landed him in hot water with the US State Department and the British Foreign Office. Following 500 days awaiting extradition under house arrest in rural Great Britain, Assange has managed to turn the media tables, with Russia Today initiating him the host of their new talk show, The World Tomorrow. – Read the rest of this entry »

“If Manning had committed war crimes in Iraq instead of exposing them, he would be a free man today”

(BFP) – It’s unfortunate and disturbing that Bradley Manning’s attorneys have chosen to consistently base his legal defense upon the premise that personal problems and shortcomings are what motivated the young man to turn over hundreds of thousands of classified government files to Wikileaks. They should not be presenting him that way anymore than Bradley should be tried as a criminal or traitor. He should be hailed as a national hero. Yes, even when the lawyers are talking to the military mind. May as well try to penetrate that mind and find the freest and best person living there. Bradley also wears a military uniform. Read the rest of this entry »

(Fair) – This week on CounterSpin: The burning of copies of the Koran by US military in Afghanistan touched off a week of protests, including attacks on US soldiers. While US media have by and large denounced the Koran burning as unacceptably stupid, they still seem to be having trouble placing the current violence within the context of the larger decade-long violence that is the US/NATO occupation. We’ll talk to Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan’s Women Mission and KPFK’s Uprising radio show about what the Washington Post calls “saving the Afghan strategy.” Read the rest of this entry »

(ZeroHedge) – Earlier today, Wikileaks made its latest startling release on Twitter, telling the media world to standby for a ‘major announcement’. Alas, in keeping with the recent tradition from Wikileaks, the “release” was a dud and is merely the collected dump of all the emails previously hacked from Stratfor by Anonymous, as was noted here previously. Alas a quick perusal through the emails so far reveals absolutely nothing exciting, except for the communiques of a paid intelligence provider, which may at times have had a few delusions of grandure and a mistaken and rather overblown sense of self-importance (hardly unique). Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (WashPost) – Bradley Manning declines to enter plea at court-martial – Read More Here

Also: (CommonDreams) – Updated: Alleged US Army Whistleblower, Bradley Manning, Arraigned
Manning defers plea after being formally charged with aiding the enemy – Read More Here

(BradleyManning) – Yesterday’s arraignment for Bradley Manning lasted a little under an hour, as expected. Replacing the Investigating Officer from the Article 32 hearing is military judge Denise Lind. After members of the prosecution and defense declared their certifications and qualifications, the judge addressed Pfc. Manning directly, asking if he understood that a military counsel is available to him at no cost, or a civilian counsel is available at no cost to the government. “Yes, your honor,” Manning replied. She then asked who he wished to represent him, and he replied that he wanted to keep Mr. Coombs and the rest of the defense team with him. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Private First Class Bradley Manning was arraigned in a military court at Fort Meade, Maryland on Thursday. Manning deferred his plea in the largest cast of leaking classified information in US history. Although he is being accused of aiding the enemy, many see Manning as a true patriot. President Obama has gone on record accusing the 24 year old of being a criminal, so will Manning have a fair trial? Kevin Zeese, the organizer of the October2011 Movement, joins us to discuss the whistleblower’s case. Read the rest of this entry »

… And, that’s not all that doesn’t make sense

(BFP) – This week, the organizers of a UNESCO conference, “The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World,” refused to let a WikiLeaks representative participate as a speaker. In so doing, they deprived the world of a full and balanced discussion of issues critical to protecting human rights.  Neither UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) nor the conference organizer, the USA-based World Press Freedom Committee, are apologizing, and traditional news media (with one exception) looked the other way. Read the rest of this entry »

(Pilger) – This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain. Read the rest of this entry »

(WarIsACrime) – Yesterday, December 16, 2011, 40 supporters of Bradley Manning saw him in person in the military courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland and another 60 saw him on a video feed from the court, the first time Manning has been seen by the public in 19 months.  Over 100 other supporters, including 50 from Occupy Wall Street who had bused down from New York City, were at the front gates of Fort Meade in solidarity with Manning. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (BFP) – Gulenists’ & the Turkish Government’s Fraudulence War on the KCK – Read More Here

The Question(s) of Disappeared Documents & Missing Links

(BFP) – A year or so ago I wrote a couple of pieces on the WikiLeaks case explaining my reluctance to form and communicate a conclusive opinion or reaction on this confusing intrigue. I encourage you to read my only two responses to the case here and here. Today, a new article paired with another fairly recent development in the case and a not so recent disclosure by a former WikiLeaks insider prompted another long-withheld response from me. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashPost) – Washington Post Advocates Mandatory EAS Alerts For Internet, Phones – Read More Here

(EFF) – Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle

A district court judge in Virginia ruled against online privacy today, allowing U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to Wikileaks. The judge also blocked the users’ attempt to discover whether other Internet companies have been ordered to turn their data over to the government. Read the rest of this entry »

(MSNBC) – October 15th, 2011 – Protests outside London Stock Exchange and in Rome heat up. Read the rest of this entry »