8 June 2013 — williambowles.info
Assange: US rule of law suffering ‘calamitous collapse’
Economic Times
US soldier Bradley Manning is being court-martialled for leaking the huge cache of government files to WikiLeaks, while there has been an outcry in the US media after the government seized the phone records of journalists at the Associated Press and …
Wikileaks Redux? Intel Officials Fear More Leaks
ABC News
There is concern in the intelligence community that these leaks may be the
tip of the iceberg — that the administration is facing another WikiLeaks
situation with an individual with access to lots of classified information
and prepared to leak more …
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/wikileaks-redux-intel-officials-fear-more-leaks/
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fears for US Internet spying whistleblower
NDTV
Washington: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that he fears the
whistleblower who exposed a vast US surveillance programme could face the
same fate as the US soldier who leaked files to his website. In an
interview from the Ecuadoran embassy …
On the record with ‘WikiLeaks’ director Alex Gibney
STLtoday.com
Because movies take months or even years to produce, documentaries can lose
their relevance by the time they reach theaters. But Alex Gibney’s new film
“We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks” is showing at the Chase Park
Plaza (and on …
Whistleblower ‘may be next Bradley Manning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian …
Herald Sun
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange said he fears the whistleblower who
exposed a US surveillance program could be treated like Bradley Manning. In
an interview with CBS This Morning from the Ecuadoran embassy in London
where he has been holed up …
Rooney: ‘We Steal Secrets’ juicy look at WikiLeaks
East Valley Tribune
In addition to WikiLeaks founder Assange, Gibney devotes almost equal time
to the fascinating figure of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, allegedly the
source of the largest volume of classified military documents leaked by
Assange. It’s an awkward irony …
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/movies/article_8728cce8-cec9-11e2-ba7b-001a4bcf887a.html
Hacker who turned Manning in takes witness stand
Las Vegas Sun
A one-time computer hacker who told authorities Pfc. Bradley Manning was
giving military information to WikiLeaks is testifying at the soldier’s
court-martial. Adrian Lamo is a convicted hacker. Lamo has said Manning
confided to him in May 2010 that he …
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jun/08/ap-us-manning-wikileaks/
Assange preocupado por soldado
YouTube
En una entrevista el viernes en la embajada de Ecuador en Londres, el
fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, habló sobre el programa de
espionaje en los Estados Unidos y el juicio al soldado Bradley Manning,
acusado de filtrar información confidencial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWYRsuAR-sI
‘Story of WikiLeaks’ a study in duality
OCRegister (subscription)
Alex Gibney’s documentary “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks” is a
psychological suspense film with an open ending that’s more haunting than
the tricky climaxes of most post-Hitchcock thrillers. Using archival
materials as well as original …
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/manning-511750-assange-gibney.html
Assange: US rule of law suffering “calamitous collapse”
Channel News Asia
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday that the US justice
system was suffering from a “calamitous collapse in the rule of law”, as
Washington reeled from the sensational exposure of vast spy agency
surveillance programmes. Speaking in …
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/assange-us-rule-of-law/702118.html
We Steal Secrets
Pleasanton Weekly
The title of Alex Gibney’s ambitious documentary has an ironic edge:
WikiLeaks doesn’t steal secrets. The website functions as an electronic
drop box that anonymously and untraceably cross-publishes sensitive
documents in such ways that the information …
http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/movies/reviews/We-Steal-Secrets?review_id=2802
US likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks -officials
Reuters
Articles come in same week as start of WikiLeaks trial. By Mark Hosenball.
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s administration is
likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly
classified documents that revealed …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/08/usa-security-leaks-idUSL1N0EJ1SO20130608
Julian Assange’s future: UK agrees to talks with Ecuador’s foreign minister
BBC News
Foreign Secretary William Hague will discuss the future of WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange at a meeting with Ecuador’s foreign minister, the
Foreign Office has said. Ricardo Patino offered to meet Mr Hague during a
forthcoming trip to London. Mr …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22816226
Second try at a shield law echoes the first
hays Post
But it died the next year in the Senate, in large degree because of the
then-breaking controversy surrounding Manning and his leaking of hundreds
of thousands of secret military reports and diplomatic cables to the online
organization Wikileaks. Just …
http://www.hayspost.com/2013/06/07/second-try-at-a-shield-law-echoes-the-first/
UK, Ecuador ministers to discuss Assange
Herald Sun
THE British government has agreed to meet a senior minister from Ecuador to
try to reach an agreement over the future of Australian WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange. Ricardo Patino, Ecuador’s foreign minister will travel to
the UK later this month on …
Assange on PRISM: US justice system in ‘calamitous’ collapse
RT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has slammed a recently exposed NSA
mass-surveillance scheme as a “calamitous collapse in the rule of law.”
Google, Facebook and other tech giants apparently involved have denied
giving the NSA access to their servers …
http://rt.com/news/assange-nsa-surveillance-program-401/
Britain and Ecuador arrange talks on Julian Assange’s future
London24
The Government has agreed to meet a senior Ecuadorian minister to try to
reach an agreement over the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who
has been living in the country’s embassy in London for almost a year.
Picture: Philip Toscano/PA Wire …
Meeting to discuss Assange’s future
Newstalk ZB
Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino will fly to London on the eve of
the Wikileaks founder’s arrival at the Ecuadorian embassy. Mr Assange fears
he will be extradited to the US for questioning over Wikileaks publications
if he is sent to Sweden …
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbint/857088855-meeting-to-discuss-assange-s-future
Manning court martial press coverage kicks off as expected
Hot Air
The Army is laying out the details of the mountain of classified
information Manning dumped onto the web, courtesy of his buddies at
Wikileaks, and the defense is saying he’s just really misunderstood, you
know? There was at least one new element …
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/08/manning-court-martial-press-coverage-kicks-off-as-expected/
Dirty Wars & The American Taliban
Global Grind
“It’s impossible to quantify how important WikiLeaks has been to my work.
We found some of these warlords in Somalia because of the WikiLeaks cables.
Our knowledge of the American role in that cruise missile attack in that
village in Yemen, where we …
http://globalgrind.com/news/dirty-wars-american-taliban-danielle-deabreu
US likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials
Livemint
The Guardian and Post stories appeared in the same week that US Army
Private First Class Bradley Manning went on trial in Maryland accused of
leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. In an
email to Reuters on Friday, Poitras …
Obama admin likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: Officials
India Today
The Post report on the PRISM program was co-written by Laura Poitras, a
filmmaker who has been working on a documentary on WikiLeaks, with the
cooperation of its founder Julian Assange, and who last year made a short
film about Bill Binney, a former …
5 Risque Items You Still Can’t Buy With A Credit Card
Business Insider
Shortly after WikiLeaks — the rogue information-gathering and
dissemination website — leaked hundreds of thousands of classified U.S.
diplomatic cables to the public in 2010, Visa and MasterCard blocked
donations to the site. At the time, MasterCard …
http://www.businessinsider.com/purchases-that-credit-card-companies-reject-2013-6?op=1
The Embarrassing Debate Over Bradley Manning
Huffington Post
They try to rationalize the lovefest by heralding Manning’s WikiLeaks
“revelations,” in pieces that invariably amount to either catalogs of
ignorance or blatant attempts to mislead. A couple of “revelations” from
Slate’s most recent stab: “In Baghdad …
IS EGO KILLING THE HURRIYAT?
Kashmir Watch
So, even when the Wikileaks exposé independently confirmed the existence
of very serious internal differences within this amalgam, the Hurriyat
instead of addressing this malaise, chose to bury its head in the sand,
just like the proverbial ostrich. So …
http://kashmirwatch.com/opinions.php/2013/06/07/is-ego-killing-the-hurriyat.html
‘We Steal Secrets’: The new film about WikiLeaks infuriates …
A new documentary about WikiLeaks has put the transparency organisation up
in arms.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/06/20136895652601426.html
Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious “Enemy …
Interview with WikiLeaks lawyer Michael Ratner on the opening statements of
Bradley Manning’s Trail.
The New Dark Age 