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Aussie Official: Assange Not to Blame for Leaked Cables
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Australia's foreign minister says it's the United States, not WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, that is responsible for the unauthorized release of thousands of secret diplomatic cables. "Mr. Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the U.S. diplomatic communications network," Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd told Reuters. "The Americans are responsible for that." Rudd served as prime minister of Australia from Dec. 2007 until he was ousted by a revolt within his own Labor party in June of this year. Rudd said the leaked documents ...
WikiLeaks Founder Says Next Target Is Major US Bank
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says big business is next. Early next year, WikiLeaks will publish tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank, exposing the institution's rampant corruption and unethical practices and executives' brazen self-interest, Assange said in an exclusive interview with Forbes magazine. "It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms," Assange said in an interview conducted before this past weekend's leak of diplomatic memos. "It's ...
Report: WikiLeaks Readying Massive Iraq Leak
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- WikiLeaks is allegedly preparing the "biggest leak of military intelligence that has ever occurred," three times larger than the stash of 76,000 confidential Afghan war documents released by the site in July, according to Newsweek. Iain Overton, editor of the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, told the magazine that WikiLeaks was working with several news organizations on the new documents, most of which are "U.S. military field reports related to the Iraq War." Overton said that the release would take place in "several weeks." Newsweek has previously reported ...
WikiLeaks Lesson: Information Does Not Always Want to be Free
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyBetween 2006 and 2009 I wrote a column at Slate.com under the header Hot Document dedicated to dissecting interesting ephemera. It was in that job that I first encountered WikiLeaks, the now infamous website which last week released 92,000 classified military field reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan. For those not familiar with the 3-year-old nonprofit, WikiLeaks allows unidentified sources to upload nonpublic documents to an online platform where anyone can read them. Launched in 2007 by enigmatic founder Julian Assange, WikiLeaks was presented as "as a safe place for whistleblowers to ...
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning Suspect in WikiLeaks Afghan Documents Case
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyInvestigators are zeroing in on Pft. Bradley Manning as a prime suspect in the leaking of Afghanistan war documents between 2004 and 2009 to the website WikiLeads, which posted the reports earlier this week. A defense official told the Wall Street Journal that a search of Manning's computer turned up evidence that he had downloaded the war logs. It was not clear what exactly that evidence consisted of, and the defense source was not named. But the newspaper said officials are still going through Manning's computer files in an attempt to determine what else might be there. Manning, 22, was ...
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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The Rise and Fall of Bradley Manning: A WikiLeaker's Timeline
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsBradley Manning, a 22-year-old U.S. Army soldier accused of leaking classified documents and videos to the website WikiLeaks, has been charged with 12 counts in total, the military announced today. Pfc. Manning is being held in Kuwait and will face an Article 32 investigation, or military grand jury. Surge Desk has compiled a timeline detailing the series of events leading up to the charges against him today, including the WikiLeaks video "Collateral Murder" and the involvement and betrayal of hacker Adrian Lamo. November 2009: Manning contacts Assange for the first time. When Manning first ...
The Death of JournoList: Does Privacy End at the Edge of Your Thoughts?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe life and death of a 3-year-old members-only online liberal bulletin board is a story that normally would offer all the searing drama of a public television pledge drive. But the sudden collapse of JournoList Friday afternoon -- after the private e-mails of Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel were maliciously leaked -- offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of candor in an age when everybody (and not just Big Brother) is watching. Founded in early 2007 by the youthful Ezra Klein, now a columnist for The Washington Post, JournoList was a private bull session which brought together ...
Leaked Report Reveals Dozens of House Members Under Ethics Investigation
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA staffer inadvertently placed a confidential report on a public computer network, revealing that more than 30 members of the House of Representatives are under ethics investigation, the Washington Post reported Friday. The probe, by the secretive House Ethics Committee, also includes congressional aides and focuses on issues like defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling. Such investigations are routine and usually result in a private letter of either reprimand or exoneration.The document revealed that the ethics panel interviewed Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) about a trip he took with ...
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