2011-01-13 Bradley Manning Support Network: WikiLeaks fulfills pledge
Jeff Paterson, speaking for the Bradley Manning Support Network, released this statement today about WikiLeaks’ contribution towards the defence of the accused whistleblower.
What WikiLeaks reveals about the changing map of global power
Reuters Blogs (blog)
For instance, the 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Survey revealed that in Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey, just 17% of people have favourable perceptions of the United
The Excuse is Wikileaks. The Object is Freedom of Speech. The Subject is Authoritarianism.
If you were asked which regime is described by the following actions and characteristics, what would you answer?
- A regime that produces a death list of citizens abroad to be executed by its secret intelligence service, without arrest, without trial by a jury.
A secret grand jury against Assange is not “change we can believe in”, Ryan Gallagher
It was more or less confirmed on Saturday that a secret grand jury has been assembled in America to consider espionage charges against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange. Last month a subpoena was issued to Twitter by a court in the state of Virginia, under section 2703(d) of the Patriot Act, demanding the website hand over account details of individuals associated with the organisation. The court, it appears, is attempting to establish evidence that Assange colluded with the young man allegedly responsible for leaking thousands of classified U.S. government files, Bradley Manning.
The Best of Cablegate: Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks
Since late November, the whistleblower website Wikileaks has been in the process of releasing in waves over 250,000 leaked United States diplomatic cables. Known as “Cablegate,” this is the largest publication of confidential documents by any organization. (Catch up on Wikileaks developments by reviewing EFF?s page on this issue).
The Aftermath of Wikileaks
The U.K.?s freedom of information commissioner, Christopher Graham, recently told The Guardian that the WikiLeaks disclosures irreversibly altered the relationship between the state and public. As Graham sees it, the WikiLeaks incident makes clear that governments need to be more open and proactive, ?publishing more stuff, because quite a lot of this is only exciting because we didn?t know it. . . WikiLeaks is part of the phenomenon of the online, empowered citizen . . . these are facts that aren?t going away. Government and authorities need to wise up to that.? If U.K. officials take Graham seriously (and I have no idea if they will), the public may see more of government. Whether that more in fact provides insights to empower citizens or simply gives the appearance of transparency is up for grabs.
2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorship on Twitter
It was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter users in question to become aware of the situation, and it allowed them an opportunity to dispute the order–an opportunity they would not otherwise have had.
Twitter?s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena
Everyone’s naturally tweeting about it: Twitter successfully fought to make public government subpoenas for information about Wikileaks supporters. When the ruled for Wikileaks and unsealed the subpoenas, the Wikileaks supporters then were informed of the subpoenas and could fight them on their own.
Twitter and the Feds
from Wiki Leaks by Charles Homans
2011-01-07 Andy Worthington discusses Guantánamo and WikiLeaks
An unreliable* source (Vanity Fair), now widely cited, claims that WikiLeaks possesses “a fourth cache” of U.S. government documents “containing the personal files of all prisoners who [have] been held at Guantánamo.”
Former CIA agent indicted after leaking classified information
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, an ex-officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was taken into custody Thursday by federal agents in St. Louis, Missouri. He was indicted on six separate counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information, as well as four additional charges: mail fraud, unlawfully keeping national defense information, obstruction of justice, and unauthorized conveyance of government property. Sterling, aged 43, had been employed by the CIA from May 1993 until he was fired in January 2002. During his arraignment, a judge declared that he would be held until a Monday hearing because the government called him a danger to the community.
WikiLeaks to U.S. Politicians & Media: ?Stop Inciting Assange?s Murder?
from Mashable! by Jolie O’Dell
US embassy cables: Greece tackles migration and asylum issues
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DEPT PASS TO PRM/PIM:SUZANNE SHELDON
AMEMBASSY ANKARA PASS TO AMCONSUL ADANA
AMEMBASSY ASTANA PASS TO AMCONSUL ALMATY
AMEMBASSY BERLIN PASS TO AMCONSUL DUSSELDORF
AMEMBASSY BERLIN PASS TO AMCONSUL LEIPZIG
2011-01-11: Jason Ching’s Legal Analysis on Prospects for Prosecution of Assange
2011-01-12 Stephen M Walt: Wikileaks, April Glaspie & Saddam Hussein
Mozambique: Drugs and open secrets ?wikileaked?
Written by Janet Gunter
The first Wikileaks cables from the US Embassy in Maputo revived the discussion on narcotics smuggling that had happenned in mid 2010. Back then, the US Treasury added Mozambican businessman Mohamed Bachir Suleman to its list of international drug kingpins, sanctioning his businesses by freezing their US-held assets and preventing Americans from doing business with them. Suleman was one of a list of only 87 individuals globally. In June, this move provoked reactions in Mozambique, as Suleman is a high profile person who owns the biggest and newest shopping center in Maputo.
Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
Assange: China is WikiLeaks’ ‘technological enemy’
from Wiki Leaks by Charles Homans
Lifestyles of the corrupt and Central Asian
If we’ve learned one thing from WikiLeaks, it’s that the leaders of corrupt, former Soviet autocracies are very, very, strange people. Today’s entry in the genre comes from Uzbekistan, where the U.S. Embassy managed to obtain a video showing the wives of Uzbek officials partying it up in style with the wives of senior organized-crime figures:
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