WikiLeaks
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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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A Conspiracy To Commit Journalism: The Justice Dept’s Dangerous New Argument Threatens Basic Reporting
Secrecy expert Steven Aftergood wrote, the government’s argument “all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime.” 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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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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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 6 May 2013
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian AssangeTruthdigIn these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 May 2013
4 May 2013 — williambowles.info Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world – report RT More and more regimes across the world are using Western-made ‘lawful intercept’ software to spy on their own citizens, a brand new report has revealed. Citizen Lab, a digital research unit at the University of Toronto, says that Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 3 May 2013
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 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 2 May 2013
2 May 2013 — williambowles.info The most bitter Bradley Manning-Pride piece yet San Francisco Bay Guardian Lots of people angry about the Pride Committee’s decision to fire Bradley Manning as a grand marshal. But the most savage, all-out assault comes from Steven W. Thrasher, a former Village Voice writer who has nothing good to Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 May 2013
1 May 2013 — williambowles.info Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament CBS News Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 30 April 2013
30 April 2013 — williambowles.info Protesters slam Bradley Manning parade decision San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Parade-goers at the San Francisco Pride celebrations won’t see Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the website WikiLeaks, marching down Market Street in June. But if they passed by SF Pride headquarters on Continue reading
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