WikiLeaks
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 June 2013
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 … Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 9 June 2013
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning: Martyr To Freedom Of Expression Or Traitor? Sunday Leader Will the 25-year-old Bradley Manning, former First Class Private of the US Marines, now being tried for leaking the biggest ever trove of diplomatic and military secrets of America to the web site Wikileaks, in the future be considered a 21st Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 8 June 2013
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 … Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2013
8 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks trial: Book parts delivered as it happens Los Angeles Times Leftie publisher O/R Books is covering the Bradley Manning trial for a book slated to appear in October, “The United States vs. PFC Bradley Manning: A Graphic Account From Inside the Courtroom.” The chronicler is Clark Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 7 June 2013
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 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point RollingStone.com Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn’t have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there’s a reporter character named “Sam Miller” played by actor Troy Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 6 June 2013
6 June 2013 —williambowles.info WikiLeaks trial comes into focus New Zealand Herald Three days into Private 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 enemy hands, yet defied … http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10888732 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 6 June 2013
6 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning remembered as a computer whiz Los Angeles Times MEADE, Md. — Bradley Manning’s former Army supervisor described him Wednesday as a highly competent computer whiz who could easily get around secret passwords to retrieve information about enemy terrorist cells. “He indicated to me he was very … http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-manning-trial-20130606,0,3183792.story Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 June 2013
5 JUne 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Court Martial Underway Voice of America FORT MEADE, MARYLAND — The court martial of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, who gave hundreds of thousands of secret government files to the WikiLeaks website, began this week in a courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland. Some analysts say … http://www.voanews.com/content/wikileaks-court-martial-underway/1675346.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 June 2013
5 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Looks Downright Ghostly San Francisco Chronicle *In response to Manning’s confinement, more than 250 of the most eminent U.S. legal scholars sent a letter to President Obama in protest of Manning’s treatment; UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez called it “cruel, inhuman and … http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Bradley-Manning-Looks-Downright-Ghostly-4577722.php Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 4 June 2013
4 June 2013 — williambowles.info Wikileaks soldier ‘naive but good intentioned’ – defence TVNZ Military prosecutors say arrogance drove the US soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in US history through the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website three years ago. But at the opening of the court martial of Private First Class … http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/wikileaks-soldier-naive-but-good-intentioned-defence-5454764 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Court-Martial: Secrecy and Injustice on Trial By Stephen Lendman
America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. Manning is heroic. He risked great personal harm. He did so to reveal vital truths. Washington has no right to conceal them. People have a right to know. Continue reading
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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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“We Steal Secrets” The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks By Danny Schecter
You could say that Wikileaks, the subject of We Steal Secrets also began with a fury – a fury against war and secrecy, and was moving as fast as it could to challenge media complacency in the digital realm. Now, it is being ganged up on by a media that invariably builds you up before… 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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