Human Terrain System in Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive
One question we have to ask ourselves is how the managers of the Human Terrain System can use these same records leaked via Wikileaks to make a positive case for the program embedding civilian social scientists with military units. Most of these records were written after the occurrence of the action that is reported, with a couple of exceptions: the exceptions are often written all in uppercase, such as the one record for 2009 that I missed and now appears at the bottom of the original list of records linked to above.
Revealing the Human Terrain System in Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary
This is the fourth and final item in my mini-series on Human Terrain Teams as recorded in Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary. The other articles were:
- Human Terrain Teams in Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary: Raw Data
- Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary: Problems to Note, More to Come on Human Terrain Teams
- Human Terrain System in Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive
Wikileaks volunteer detained
A volunteer for Wikileaks was detained by officials Thursday while entering the country at Newark International Airport. Jacob Appelbaum, noted for his work with the Tor online security project, was searched and “interrogated” for three hours before being released, according to a source who asked to remain anonymous. Wikileaks, a clearing house for information submitted by whistleblowers, released a trove of “War Logs” last Sunday relating to the conflict in Afghanistan.
Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: “largest intelligence leak in history”
An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed.
WikiLeaks Releases Afghan War Reports in Unprecedented Leak
from Mashable! by Samuel Axon
The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World’s First Stateless News Organization
from PressThink by Jay Rosen
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Afghan War Diary
[…] close to 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the raft of mostly classified documents. The war logs expose the true scale of the Western military deployment […]
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Is Wikileaks growing up?
Wikileaks, the controversial website that on Sunday published more than 91,000 U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, has come under fire for its methods, its obvious agenda, and its willingness to publish seemingly anything it can get its digital paws on.
Wikileaks: Q&A with Jacob Appelbaum on “The Afghan War Diaries”
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Leaks create fresh doubts about Afghan war
WikiLeaks floods again with the help of major newspapers
WikiLeaks has struck again, with the biggest intelligence leak in history. Several weeks ago, WikiLeaks received about 91,000 reports concerning raw information of the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented decision WikiLeaks decided not to immediately release the highly classified reports, but instead shared its findings first with the New York Times, The Guardian, and the Der Spiegel.
MAIN FOCUS: Wikileaks reveals image of a dirty war | 27/07/2010
The Internet platform Wikileaks in cooperation with three major media sources published on Sunday secret reports about the war in Afghanistan. They convey an unadorned image of the situation in the country and have triggered an international uproar. Europe’s press is divided about this new transparency.
Internet platform Wikileaks divides EU media
On 25 July, the Sweden-based organisation co-operated with three major media sources to publish secret reports about the war in Afghanistan. The Austrian, British, Swiss and Estonian press disagree on this new transparency
Wikileaks reveal the obvious dangers of Afghanistan
Wikileaks release 90,000 documents relating to war in Afghanistan, Jamie Munn
Washington is condemning the release of over 90,000 military records as an ?irresponsible? action that could threaten the national security of the US. The documents, published by Wikileaks, include the as yet unreported deaths of Afghan civilians, as well as detailed Nato concerns over Iranian and Pakistani involvement with the Taliban. In a press conference held at London?s Frontline Club, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, stated that the reports often ?downplay? civilian deaths.
Wikileaks reveals awkward truths
The scale is breathtaking. This is isn’t a leak, it is a haemorrhage. Some 92,201 secret documents posted on the internet, snapshots from a messy war, the biggest such breach since the Pentagon Papers, the 7,000 pages that arguably changed the course of American involvement in Vietnam.
Liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs
from Global Voices Online by Solana Larsen
The Wikileaks phenomenon: impact on 21st century statecraft?
Yesterday evening, The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel published analyses of a six-year archive of classified documents from US-led forces in Afghanistan, released to them by the organization Wikileaks. The disclosure of the material has already raised much debate about what The Guardian has termed ?the biggest leak in intelligence history.?
Wikileaks megadump reveals US pays local Afghan media to run psyops
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Wikileaks and “Afghan War Diaries”
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Why WikiLeaks Is The Pirate Bay of Political Intelligence
from Mashable! by Samuel Axon
WikiLeaks founder defends release of files
Raw and Cooked Facts in Wikileaks? ?Afghan War Diaries, 2004-2010?
Unless you?ve been living under a rock (where you probably don?t get WiFi and won?t be reading this), you?ve heard something about the release on Sunday of 92,000 primary documents culled from classified US military field reports from Afghanistan compiled by Wikileaks.org and given in advance to the New York Times , Der Spiegel, and The Guardian.
Wikileaks busts myth about the irrelevance of mainstream media
Wikileaks: A counter-argument to the “nothing to see here” crowd
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Wikileaks? Afghan War Diary: Problems to Note, More to Come on Human Terrain Teams
First, in the interest of full disclosure, I am a financial donor to Wikileaks, and another member of this team, John Stanton, has released his own publications to Cryptome, whose founder was also a co-founder of Wikileaks.
Noah Shachtman on Afghan War Diaries: caveat lector
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Army’s Wikileaks dragnet widens
The New York Times reports that Army investigators expanding their inquiry into the Wikileaks document dump to include “friends and associates” who may have aided suspected leaker, Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Afghan Bloggers on Wikileaks War Logs
Earlier this week Global Voices launched a liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs. Now let’s take a look at what Afghan bloggers have been writing on this story.
The AfPak war via WikiLeaks , Paul Rogers
The evidence of escalating violence and increasing insecurity in Afghanistan is confirmed by the WikiLeaks project’s circulation on 25 July 2010 of voluminous official communications and reports about the United States’s war on the ground.
Morning Brief: U.S. military fears that Wikileaks may have endangered Afghan allies
from FP Passport by David Kenner
White House shifts criticism of Wikileaks to focus on “naming of individual” Afghans
The initial response to the Wikileaks Afghan document leak from the Pentagon and White House focused largely on the documents’ purported irrelevance as “old news,” and general condemnation of the leak as a violation of federal law. Now, the response has shifted more specifically to focus on the fact that within the massive cache of documents, names of Afghan informants are included in plain view, with no redaction. Those informants can now be located and punished or murdered by the enemy, the logic goes.
Wikileaks source suspect Manning transferred from Kuwait to Quantico, VA
A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning? who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of classified data including the “Collateral Murder” video and the recent “Afghan War Diaries” archive? was today transferred from the Theater Field Confinement Facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps Base Quantico Brig in Quantico, Virginia. Snip:
How is WikiLeaks’ relationship with the news media evolving?
Wikileaks has dropped two bombshells on the US military thus far this year, the more recent of which was the ‘Afghan War Diary,’ offering more than 90,000 reports containing raw information of the war in Afghanistan. Interestingly, the whistleblower site chose to share its information in advance of a public release with three newspapers: the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
Pentagon: Leak investigaton may go beyond military
WikiLeaks ‘has blood on its hands’ over Afghan war logs, claim US officials
? Defence secretary describes leak as ‘potentially dangerous’
? ‘Loose’ intelligence policy in US army to be reviewed
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UK regulator turns over Internet policing standards to movie and record industries
When the last UK Parliament rushed the Digital Economy Act into law without debate, hours before it dissolved for the election, it appointed Ofcom, the telcoms regulator, to work out the details. Specifically, it charged Ofcom with sorting out some high standards for what evidence a rightsholder would have to produce in order to finger an online infringer (the DEA gives these rightsholders the power to eventually disconnect entire families from the internet on the strength of these accusations).
Google’s response to the FTC’s Discussion Draft on the future of journalism
In a twenty page document responding to the Federal Trade Commision’s Discussion Draft on policy recommendations for journalism, Google presents a valiant defence of its support for newspapers and the fact that “the Internet, rather than being the cause of journalism’s downfall, provides a unique opportunity for news organizations to renew and reinvigorate journalism.”
How the Internet is Affecting Traditional Journalism [SURVEY]
from Mashable! by Jolie O’Dell
Rethinking the Role of the Journalist in the Participatory Age
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
Students who dream of a career in journalism are entering the profession at a time when the question of who is a journalist, and even what is journalism, is open to interpretation. The function of journalism is still to provide independent, reliable and accurate information considered vital to a vibrant democracy. But defining who is a journalist is much harder.
Berlusconi tries law prohibiting reporting on corruption investigation; Italy’s press refuses to report any news in protest
Italy’s media is going on strike today, and practically no news will be reported. This is in protest of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s plan to ram through anti-wiretapping legislation that includes a gag order on reportage concerning government investigation (especially investigation of corruption).
Italy’s ‘day of silence’: news outlets unite to protest proposed gagging law
Italy is experiencing an almost complete 24-hour news blackout today as news outlets join together in a strike against a bill that proposes a type of gagging law which has become known as the Alfano law. The law would limit the ability of police and prosecutors to intercept and record phone conversations, and would stop journalists from publishing transcripts of these. Journalists fear that the law has been put forward to protect politicians from scandal, most notably the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Consumers more satisfied with newspaper sites than Facebook
American consumers are more satisfied with the The New York Times and USA Today websites than with Facebook, according to the 2010 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), released today, The Washington Post reported.
6 Crucial Social Media Tips for Traditional Media
from Mashable! by Erica Swallow
An “uncomfortable paradox” in the relationship between content and SEO
The Financial Times has drawn attention to what it sees as “an uncomfortable paradox”: the fact that content farms such as Demand Media are being created to “ride on the back of search engines.” Such a company creates content that is highly optimized for search engines, tracking who is searching for what and hiring freelancers to write articles on these topics.
Media Conglomerates challenge the US Defense Department
Several major news conglomerations have teamed up against the United States Defense Department to protest censorship of content surrounding Guantánamo Bay. In the 12 page document “Media Policy and Ground Rules for Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba” the Pentagon specifically restricts civilian media publication of information that could breach national security. The Department of Defense is the sole releasing authority of any Guantánamo Bay content, thus arguably stacking the cards against freedom of the press.
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