Spies-R-Us
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 June 2013
4 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning, US soldier accused of leaking US secrets, generates more … Washington Post LONDON — It’s rare for an American to generate more sympathy abroad than he or she does at home, but Bradley Manning and his trial are unique in a host of ways. With Manning’s trial Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 31 May 2013
31 May 2013 — williambowles.info The WikiLeaks story exposed, but not resolved Boston Globe Alex Gibney’s overlong but fascinating “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks” manages to convince you that both sides of the equation deserve consideration even as the film carefully separates the strands of a maddening snarl of event and accusation. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 31 May 2013
31 May 2013 — williambowles.info Supporter of leak suspect Bradley Manning settles with US over laptop seizure Boston.com David House, a former MIT researcher, who co-founded an organization to raise money for accused leaker Bradley Manning, accused the Department of Homeland Security of violating his civil rights without a warrant when he passed through Continue reading
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Video: Julian Assange Pt.3: On Meeting With Google, Responds to Anti-WikiLeaks Attacks From New Film to Finances
Assange addresses what he calls “attacks on all fronts against WikiLeaks,” from a monetary embargo involving some of the world’s largest financial firms to a new Hollywood documentary on WikiLeaks, “We Steal Secrets.” Assange also discusses a little-known meeting he held in June 2011 with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. We air an excerpt of audio… Continue reading
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Video: Julian Assange Pt.2: U.S. Probe of WikiLeaks & “Show Trial” of Bradley Manning Aims to Scare Whistleblowers
Speaking from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange calls Manning’s case “a show trial … to terrorize people from communicating with journalists and communicating with the public.” Continue reading
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Video: Julian Assange Pt.2: U.S. Probe of WikiLeaks & "Show Trial" of Bradley Manning Aims to Scare Whistleblowers
Speaking from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange calls Manning’s case “a show trial … to terrorize people from communicating with journalists and communicating with the public.” Continue reading
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Video: Julian Assange Pt.1: Stratfor Hacker Jeremy Hammond Guilty Plea Part of Crackdown on Journalism, Activism
Jeremy Hammond of the hacktivist group Anonymous has pleaded guilty to hacking into the private intelligence firm Stratfor, the FBI and other institutions. Hammond says his goal was to shed light on how governments and corporations act behind close doors. Continue reading
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Bhopal gas tragedy-WikiLeaks expose US role
The [Wikileaks] disclosures known as the “Kissinger cables” make the US Administration ethically and morally, if not legally, responsible for the Bhopal Gas Disaster that took thousands of lives, sickened and maimed many more. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 24 May 2013
24 May 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning and the Damage Done—to Bradley Manning TakePart Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is one of the human faces in Alex Gibney’s latest film, ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks.’ (Photo: Courtesy of Focus World). Failed negotiations for an interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange were incredibly … http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/23/wikileaks-bradley-manning-and-the-damage-done Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 23 May 2013
23 May 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning emerges as the sympathetic star of WikiLeaks doc Washington Post But it was Army Pfc. Bradley Manning who provided those documents, and the 25-year-old emerges as the sympathetic star of the new documentary, “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” which opens Friday — just weeks before Manning’s trial for Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 22 May 2013
22 May 2013 — williambowles.info Parts of Bradley Manning trial to be closed to public Washington Post The judge in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning said Tuesday that she will close portions of the trial to the public to protect classified material, a ruling that is likely to frustrate civil liberties groups that Continue reading
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Julian Assange exposes British eavesdropping agency’s correspondence
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange The UK government eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, is facing embarrassing revelations after its internal correspondence was made public by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 May 2013
12 May 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: NSA Menon apprised US about PM Singh’s frustration over Pakistan NitiCentral WikiLeaks reveal that National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon told US embassy that PM Manmohan Singh was confused and frustrated on how to deal with Pakistan. “Menon confirmed that, fundamentally, the PM was frustrated and confused about who Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 11 May 2013
11 May 2013 — williambowles.info The good soldier – Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Morning Herald In part, The Passion of Bradley Manning can be read as a biography. Manning, a talented but troubled computer geek, enlisted in the army (perhaps because of an unhappy relationship with his father) and, despite struggling as a recruit, Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 10 May 2013
10 May 2013 — williambowles.info Wanted: Bradley Manning trial court reporter Politico (blog) Frustrated by government restrictions surrounding the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has announced a crowdsourcing campaign to pay a professional court reporter to transcribe the trial. In a release … http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/05/wanted-bradley-manning-trial-court-reporter-163608.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 9 May 2013
9 May 2013 — wiliambowles.info Bradley Manning SF Pride: Directors Try to Weasel Out Of Ditching Manning … PolicyMic In a press release on the afternoon of May 7 prior to their monthly board meeting, the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors released a statement intended to clarify the reasons that Bradley Manning was Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 8 May 2013
8 May 2013 — williambowles.info SF Pride’s Bradley Manning Imbroglio Could End Up in Court SF Weekly (blog) If Bay Area peaceniks had their druthers, the whole SF Pride Manning-gate imbroglio would end tonight. Pride board members are scheduled to have a meeting at 7 p.m., at which point they’ll probably discuss the issue Continue reading
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Statewatch: Austerity, democracy and civil liberties
The Journal has been redesigned and each issue will now have a thematic focus. This issue focuses on the nexus between austerity, civil liberties and democracy. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 7 May 2013
7 May 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Reaching New Level Of Secrecy Huffington Post FORT MEADE, Md. — Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website. A military judge, Col. Denise Continue reading
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