Wikileaks Newslinks 12 June 2013

12 June 2013 — williambowles.info

 

WikiLeaks chief says he is in touch with ‘hero’ Snowden

Times of India

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday called whistleblower Edward Snowden “a hero” and said he has been in indirect contact with the ex-Central Intelligence Agency employee who exposed a vast surveillance programme by the National …

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/WikiLeaks-chief-says-he-is-in-touch-with-hero-Snowden/articleshow/20548223.cms

 

Wikileaks soldier told aunt video would cause ‘big splash’

TVNZ

Manning, 25, is on trial for allegedly leaking more than 700,000 files,

videos and other documents to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy website. The

largest release of classified data in US history included a gunsight video

from a 2007 Apache helicopter …

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/wikileaks-soldier-told-aunt-video-would-cause-big-splash-5462764

 

WikiLeaks trial builds toward airstrike video

Post-Bulletin

The court-martial of a U.S. Army private who gave troves of classified

material to the website WikiLeaks is building toward testimony about video

of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan. The trial of Pfc. Bradley

Manning resumed Tuesday morning at …

http://www.postbulletin.com/news/nation/manning-trial-takes-on-cloak-and-dagger-feel/article_e07ad2c3-196e-59a5-a55d-5ae9f2b93f01.html

 

WikiLeaks founder solicited US secrets: court-martial witness

Reuters

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – The founder of the WikiLeaks website, at

the center of the trial of a soldier charged with the biggest U.S. leak of

classified material, solicited secret military information during a 2009

conference in Berlin, a Marine …

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idINBRE95A02W20130611

 

WikiLeaks trial focuses on Gitmo detainee records

Post-Bulletin

The court-marshal of an Army private who sent troves of classified

documents to WikiLeaks is turning to information gathered from Guantanamo

Bay detainees. Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial enters its sixth day Wednesday

at Fort Meade, near Baltimore.

http://www.postbulletin.com/news/nation/wikileaks-trial-focuses-on-gitmo-detainee-records/article_e07ad2c3-196e-59a5-a55d-5ae9f2b93f01.html

 

WikiLeaks scandal: Evidence suggests Manning leaked sensitive names

Straits Times

FORT MEADE, Maryland (AP) – Prosecutors in the court-martial of army

private Bradley Manning are offering evidence that says the reams of

classified documents he leaked revealed sensitive information about

military operations and tactics. The evidence …

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/wikileaks-scandal-evidence-suggests-manning-leaked-sensitive-names-2013061

 

WikiLeaks trial focuses on Gitmo detainee records – abc27 WHTM

abc27

A Philadelphia lawyer says a subcontractor charged in a deadly building

collapse is a scapegoat who was merely following orders. The lawyer for

Sean Benschop denies that he was impaired by marijuana and Percocet

while…More  …

http://www.abc27.com/story/22567730/wikileaks-trial-focuses-on-gitmo-detainee-records

 

WikiLeaks Founder Tells Snowden: ‘Go to Latin America’

TPM

Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, told CNN host Anderson

Cooper on Monday night that Edward Snowden, the source of recent NSA leaks,

should seek asylum in Latin America. “I would strongly advise him to go

to Latin America. Latin America …

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/wikileaks-founder-tells-snowden-go-to-latin-america

 

Is Alex Gibney’s WikiLeaks film “state agitprop”?

Salon

Hedges issued a thoroughgoing takedown of Alex Gibney’s documentary “We

Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” describing it as a work of

“agitprop for the security and surveillance state,” designed to

marginalize both WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange …

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/11/is_alex_gibneys_wikileaks_film_state_agitprop/singleton/

 

Manning revealed sensitive names to WikiLeaks, says US Army

NitiCentral

The mountain of classified material US Army soldier Bradley Manning gave to

the anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks revealed sensitive information

about military operations and tactics, including code words and the name of

at least one enemy target, …

http://www.niticentral.com/2013/06/12/manning-revealed-sensitive-names-to-wikileals-says-us-army-88907.html

 

Assange Tells Snowden to Seek Refuge in Latin America

ABC News

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has some advice for Edward Snowden, the

NSA leaker who revealed his identity on Sunday. In a recent interview with

CNN, Assange said that Snowden, who was last seen in Hong Kong, should go

to Latin America, if he …

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-advice-nsa-leaker/story?id=19377216

 

Evidence suggests GI’s leaks revealed tactics – KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview …

KLTV

The mountain of classified material Army Pfc. Bradley Manning gave to the

anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks revealed sensitive information about

military operations and tactics, including code words and the name

of…More . The mountain of …

http://www.kltv.com/story/22559029/wikileaks-trial-builds-toward-airstrike-video

 

Evidence suggests GI’s leaks revealed tactics – WREX.com – Rockford’s News …

WREX-TV

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) – The mountain of classified material Army Pfc.

Bradley Manning gave to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks revealed

sensitive information about military operations and tactics, including code

words and the name at least one …

http://www.wrex.com/story/22559029/wikileaks-trial-builds-toward-airstrike-video

 

Ellsberg: Snowden revelations more significant than Pentagon Papers …

Washington Post

Ellsberg, 81, told The Associated Press Monday that the leaks by Edward

Snowden, 29, to The Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers are more

important than the Pentagon Papers as well as information given to the

anti-secrecy website Wikileaks …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ellsberg-snowden-revelations-more-significant-than-pentagon-papers-mannings-wikileaks-leaks/2013/06/11/708418f2-d299-11e2-b3a2-3bf5eb37b9d0_story.html

 

Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir talks asylum options for NSA whistleblower

San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Icelandic Member of Parliament and Wikileaks supporter happens to be in

San Francisco at the moment, working to raise awareness about the trial of

Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, and preparing for a speaking

engagement this evening …

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/06/11/icelandic-mp-birgitta-j%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir-talks-asylum-options-nsa-whistleblower

 

Fight for Assange’s right to sunbathe

The Australian

ECUADOR will lobby for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be allowed to

sunbathe because it is a “fundamental right”. Foreign Minister Ricardo

Patino will visit Mr Assange on Sunday at the Ecuadorean embassy in London

where he’s been holed up for …

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/fight-for-assanges-right-to-sunbathe/story-fn775xjq-1226662234162

 

Leaks That Have Rocked America From Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers

ABC News

Leaks That Have Rocked America From Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers. By

JOAN E. GREVE. June 11, 2013. Font Sizes. Print. View All. PHOTO: Former

Associate Director of the FBI W. Mark Felt appears as a guest. CBS Photo

Archive/Getty Images …

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/leakers-rocked-america/story?id=19373569

 

Secrets and Tries

Seattle Weekly

Visiting town for SIFF last month to discuss his new documentary We Steal

Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, director Alex Gibney knew that Julian

Assange was still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and he knew

that Bradley Manning was …

http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/947234-129/assange-gibney-wikileaks-julian-film-says

 

Manning leaked sensitive names: US govt

SBS

The mountain of classified material US soldier Bradley Manning gave to

WikiLeaks revealed sensitive information about military operations and

tactics, according to evidence presented by the US government. The

25-year-old Manning has said he didn’t …

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1777359/Manning-leaked-sensitive-names-US-govt

 

WikiLeaks founder solicited secret military information during 2009 Berlin …

BreakingNews.com

WikiLeaks founder solicited secret military information during 2009 Berlin

conference, US Marine Corps computer security expert testifies at Bradley

Manning trial – @Reuters. Story metadata: Submitted June 11, 2013, 5:02

p.m. GMT by editor; Share …

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGM243w8M/2013/06/11/wikileaks-founder-solicited-secret-military-information-during-2009-be

 

Bradley Manning Testimony Centers On ‘Terrible’ Afghanistan Air Strike Video

Huffington Post

Today, Petraeus is out of public service, and Pfc. Bradley Manning is on

trial on charges of leaking vast archives of government documents —

including the air strike video — to WikiLeaks. The video has never been

released to the public. What it shows …

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/bradley-manning-testimony-afghanistan_n_3424229.html

 

Assange Says Snowden Should ‘Go to Latin America’

U.S. News & World Report

WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador in June 2012,

but has yet to set foot in that country, spending the last year stuck in

the country’s London embassy. Assange is urging Edward Snowden, the former

Booz Allen Hamilton …

http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/06/11/assange-says-snowden-should-go-to-latin-america

 

Bradley Manning trial to be recreated in comic-book form

Raw Story

Stoeckley, who drives a truck covered with the WikiLeaks logo to the court

in Fort Meade each day, said: “It [the truck] definitely turns heads. My

feeling is that if they allow the Fox News truck on base they have to allow

me here too, right?” He is …

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/11/bradley-manning-trial-to-be-recreated-in-comic-book-form/

 

How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars

Truthdig

The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army,

will be pulling out all the stops when it calls to the stand a member of

Navy SEAL Team 6, the unit that assassinated Osama bin Laden. The SEAL (in

partial disguise, as his …

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_dystopian_secrecy_contributes_to_clueless_wars_20130611/

 

WikiLeaks trial focuses on Gitmo detainee records – The Daily Record

By Associated Press

The court-marshal of an Army private who sent troves of classified

documents to WikiLeaks is turning to information gathered from Guantanamo

Bay detainees.

http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/06/12/wikileaks-trial-focuses-on-gitmo-detainee-records/

 

FORT MEADE, Md.: WikiLeaks trial focuses on Guantánamo …

The court-marshal of an Army private who sent troves of classified

documents to WikiLeaks is turning to information gathered from Guantánamo

Bay detainees.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/12/3446808/wikileaks-trial-focuses-on-guantanamo.html

 

Tech experts tie WikiLeaks soldier to database breach …

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – Computer forensic experts testified on

Monday that they traced break-ins to a secret U.S. government website to

Bradley …

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-wikileaks-manningbre95a02w-20130610,0,6550153.story

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