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Rights Activists Decry Treatment of Imprisoned WikiLeaks Suspect
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmnesty International says that the U.S. military's harsh treatment of the soldier who allegedly passed secrets to WikiLeaks is so inhumane that British officials must intervene. U.K. supporters of Pfc. Bradley Manning argue that while he was born in the United States, he is considered a British citizen "by descent" as well because his mother was born in Wales. Amnesty International called conditions of his detention in a military prison "harsh and punitive" and said they should be improved to conform with international standards, The Guardian reported Tuesday. They have asked British ...
Rumsfeld Memoir Highlights VIP Access to Government Files
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsTwo days after WikiLeaks began publishing classified diplomatic cables, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped forward to condemn the massive leak, declaring on his Twitter feed, "I was a co-sponsor of [the Freedom of Information Act] in 1966. There is an appropriate, lawful process for declassifying material. It's not #Wikileaks." To emphasize that "lawful process," Rumsfeld then added that his soon-to-be released book, "Known and Unknown," would be accompanied by hundreds of supporting documents -- some once secret -- and that all of them would be cleared by the U.S. ...
WikiLeaks Says It Won't Be Intimidated by Pentagon
By not in system - AOL NewsSTOCKHOLM (Aug. 14) -- WikiLeaks will soon publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents, despite warnings from the U.S. government, the organization's founder said Saturday. The Pentagon has said that secret information will be even more damaging to security and risk more lives than WikiLeaks' initial release of some 76,000 war documents. "This organization will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group," WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange told reporters in Stockholm. "We proceed cautiously and safely with this material." He said WikiLeaks was about halfway ...
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks 'Treason' — Fluently
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySome 70 years ago, actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood responded to the accusation "You speak treason!" with the now-classic retort, "Fluently." We all loved that kind of treason, and maybe you'll learn to love this kind too. You gotta admit Mr. Assange is hot. (Yes, I'm shallow. All you deep people out there, move along.) Julian Assange, whose website WikiLeaks just released 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, hails from Errol Flynn's country of Australia. As does the charismatic Hugh Jackman. Jackman alone makes up for Australia giving us pop crooner Peter Allen (whom ...
WikiLeaks: Just Put Your Lips Together and Whistleblow
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Can the US Stop WikiLeaks From Dishing Secrets?
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(June 11) -- It has all the makings of a spy novel: a treasure trove of leaked documents, an imprisoned soldier accused of betraying state secrets, and an international man of mystery taunting the world's most powerful government. Welcome to the ongoing saga of WikiLeaks, the renegade leak organization that may be in possession of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. Or it may not. Now the question is whether there's anything the United States can do to stop them. Leoboundv, Flickr Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks. Earlier this week, Wired.com reported that the Army ...
White House Changes Course, Will Release NYC Flyover Photos
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House said today that it will release a photograph of one of the planes in the presidential fleet taken during last week's controversial low-altitude flyover of lower Manhattan. The Administration said earlier this week that the photographs taken during the flight, which were described as publicity photos, would remain classified. But at today's press briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that a photograph and a report detailing the shoot will be made public.The photo shoot caused panic in New York City and Jersey City, NJ, last week, as frightened office workers ...
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