Spies-R-Us
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 11 July 2013
11 July 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning defence rests after calling just 10 witnesses The Guardian The defence has rested its case in the trial of the WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, rounding off its portrayal of the US soldier as a young man who accepted that he was wrong to have leaked a vast trove of state secrets but Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks – a journalism high point: US court-martial witness Reuters FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – WikiLeaks and its model of decentralised leaking of secrets is a high point in journalism history, a Harvard professor testified on Wednesday at the court-martial of a U.S. soldier charged with passing secret documents … http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idUSBRE9690NZ20130710 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — williambowles.info Key witness in Bradley Manning trial: Guantánamo files just ‘baseball cards’ The Guardian A key defence witness at the trial of Bradley Manning has told the court that in his expert opinion as a former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, the assessment files on detainees passed by the young soldier to WikiLeaks would have Continue reading
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Defense begins case in trial of Bradley Manning By Thomas Gaist
The defense began its case this week, but it has been hamstrung in advance by military judge Colonel Denise Lind’s ruling that Manning’s political motives were irrelevant to case, which effectively denies the defendant any ability to mount a whistleblower defense. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 July 2013
9 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks trial opens with leaked video of US helicopter attack CTV News FORT MEADE, Md. — Lawyers for a U.S. Army soldier who gave thousands of classified documents to the secrets-spilling website WikiLeaks opened their defence at his trial Monday with leaked video of a helicopter attack in Baghdad — footage that … http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/wikileaks-trial-opens-with-leaked-video-of-u-s-helicopter-attack-1.1358287 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 9 July 2013
9 July 2013 — williambowles.info Of drones and whistleblowers The Guardian (Australia) While courageous whistleblower Bradley Manning continues to languish in a US military prison for daring to tell the world about the deliberate US policy of assassinating civilians and other unarmed opponents of its policies, the US leadership continues … http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2013/1601/21-culture.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 8 July 2013
8 July 2013 — williambowles.info Defense gets its turn to present case as WikiLeaks trial for Bradley Manning … Washington Post FORT MEADE, Md. — An Army private who admittedly sent troves of classified information to WikiLeaks is preparing to refute the government’s charge that he aided the enemy. The court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning enters its sixth week Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 2 July 2013
2 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Edward Snowden makes expanded asylum requests Politico WASHINGTON — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, believed to be in legal limbo in the Moscow airport, is expanding his requests for asylum to another 19 countries, including China, according to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy … http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/wikileaks-edward-snowden-asylum-requests-93644.html?hp=l3_b2 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 1 July 2013
1 July 2013 — williambowles.info Wikileaks founder says Snowden info will keep getting published Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Sunday that Edward Snowden made sure that the information he took about U.S. surveillance programs will continue to be published regardless of what happens to the former U.S. spy … http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/30/us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE95T0CA20130630 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 July 2013
1 July 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning sympathetic star of WikiLeaks doc Reading Eagle “And after all, this is a story about a leaking machine that’s supposed to keep everyone anonymous, but it turns out it’s not that simple. It turns out that leaking ends up being a human relationship, and so in that Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 30 June 2013
30 June 2013 — williambowles.info ‘Tensions don’t exist’: WikiLeaks refutes media reports about ‘Ecuadorean … RT (blog) “The story is spun to be about tensions that don’t exist,” WikiLeaks posted on its Twitter account in response to the article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. “Hacked/intercepted emails in relation to an NSA spying story. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 28-29 June 2013
29 June 2013 — williambowles.info 29 June 2013 Judge: WikiLeaks Tweets Admissible in Bradley Manning Trial Mashable The judge in the Bradley Manning trial ruled that two tweets from WikiLeaks can be used against the military whistleblower. The decision came on Friday, the 12th day of the Manning court martial. In a blow to Continue reading
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CIA Manipulation: The Painful Truths Told by Phil Agee By William Blum
efore there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about U.S. foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed. Continue reading
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Tracking Edward Snowden: Chartered Russian Jet lands in Reykjavík, Iceland
Yesterday evening June 26th, at approximately 3:00am Iceland time, an in-bound Russian Sukhoi Super Jet 100-95 chartered flight landed at Keflavik International Airport, after being held in a holding pattern for approximately 45 minutes while circling the airport. Continue reading
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Top Secret: NSA Leaked files
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: here are three three original leaks by Edward Snowden Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 June 2013: EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE
27 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE 1. EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: For those that missed here are three three original leaks by Snowden:2. UK: SPYING ON THE EU: Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ’s secret cable trawl3. EU-USA-UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 26 June 2013
26 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks’ Baltasar Garzón, the man Edward Snowden wants on his side The Guardian One such is Baltasar Garzón, the celebrated – and controversial – Spanish human rights investigator who, as the legal head of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, is considering a request for help from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden is thought to be Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 24 June 2013
24 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Snowden going to Ecuador to seek asylum Boston.com Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said his government has received a request for asylum from Snowden. WikiLeaks, which is giving Snowden legal assistance, said his asylum request would be formally processed once he arrived in Ecuador, the same country … http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2013/06/23/wikileaks-snowden-requested-legal-help-safety/pga1udk7ZNJfr4nQnYKZCO/story.html Continue reading
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