30 July 2013 — Jonathan Cook
I have just watched We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Wikileaks and Julian Assange. One useful thing I learnt is the difference between a hatchet job and character assassination. Gibney is too clever for a hatchet job, and his propaganda is all the more effective for it.
5 July 2013 — williambowles.info
5 July 2013
Missourians rally in support of Snowden and whistleblowing
KBIA
As the National Security Agency domestic-spying controversy unfolds nationally, community members from across Missouri have rallied in support of whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Manning is accused of leaking classified …
http://kbia.org/post/missourians-rally-support-snowden-and-whistleblowing
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 …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jun/25/wikileaks-baltasar-garzon-edward-snowden
10 June 2013 — williambowles.info
We Steal Secrets a WikiLeaks Documentary
Movie News Guide (blog)
We Steal Secrets is a misnomer. The truth is that WikiLeaks, the subject of the documentary, doesn’t steal any secrets. The web site serves as an electronic drop box that users use to publish documents anonymously. The information posted on the site …
http://movienewsguide.com/entertainment/reviews/2013/06/09/we-steal-secrets-a-wikileaks-documentary/
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info
Where ‘We Steal Secrets,’ The Wikileaks Film, Falls Short
ReadWrite
The film traces the creation of the Wikileaks site, focusing primarily on Assange’s troubled past and conflicted present. It then quickly touches on several of Wikileaks’ greatest hits – the so-called “collateral murder” video from Iraq, the release of …
http://readwrite.com/2013/06/08/we-steal-secrets-a-review-of-the-new-wikileaks-film
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 …
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info
3 days in, WikiLeaks trial comes into focus
Businessweek
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Three days into Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court-martial for giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, prosecutors have shown the soldier was trained to guard classified information and knew it could easily fall into …
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-06-06/3-days-in-wikileaks-trial-comes-into-focus
1 June 2013 — Global Research
Every documentary filmmaker begins with deciding on the story to be told, and, then, how to sustain audience interest.
If your goal is to inform the public or take a stand on an important issue by explaining its origins and exposing wrong doers then you go one way. If your goal is to entertain and shroud your motives by exploring murky personality contradictions, you go another.
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.
29 may 2013 — Democracy Now!
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy last year to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex assault and rape allegations. He fears that Sweden will agree to extradite him to the United States. On Tuesday, Ecuador’s foreign minister accused the British government of trampling on Assange’s rights by refusing to allow him to travel to Ecuador, which granted him political asylum almost a year ago. Joining us from the embassy, 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 recording from that meeting.
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
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 those …
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 …
3 May 2013 — williambowles.info
‘We Steal Secrets’: WikiLeaks and the US intelligence-industrial complex
The Seattle Times (blog)
Into this stew marched WikiLeaks and Assange in 2010. Despite antipathy for Assange himself, I admire his vision and skill at piercing the shadow world of government secrecy. As the film notes, WikiLeak’s first big expose – a military video showing a …
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinionnw/2013/05/02/wikileaks-we-steal-secrets/
1 FEbruary 2013 — williambowles.info
Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate …
Cleveland Leader
According to the RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, FBI agents landed in Reykjavík in August 2011 without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations within the country. However, their plan was interupted when …
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20013
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