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Pentagon Returns Wikileaks Suspect To U.S.

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A military intelligence analyst suspected in the leak of more than 90,000 classified field reports from Afghanistan was returned to the United States from a base in Kuwait Thursday, an Army spokesman said

"U.S. Army officials transferred PFC Bradley Manning from the Theater Field Confinement Facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps Base Quantico Brig in Quantico, Virginia, on July 29," Major Bryan Woods, an Army spokesman, said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.

Preliminary charges were filed against Manning back on July 5 in connection with the leak of a classified video to Wikileaks depicting the killing of a Reuters photographer by U.S. forces. He was also charged with leaking more than 50 diplomatic cables and downloading more than 150,000 of them in violation of military rules. At least some of that material seems to have made it to Wikileaks, though the web site's founder Julian Assange has said it does not have the larger cache.

Military officials said this week that Manning is now a "person of interest" in the highly-publicized leak of the Afghanistan reports--a leak which top Pentagon officials have said could result in the deaths of U.S. soldiers or Afghans.

"Manning remains in pretrial confinement pending an Article 32 investigation into the charges preferred against him on July 5. Manning was transferred because of the potential for lengthy continued pretrial confinement given the complexity of the charges and ongoing investigation," Woods said.

Assange has called Manning a "political prisoner" and compared his detention outside the U.S. to the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

Gates Assails WikiLeaks Over Release of Reports

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

Published: July 29, 2010

 

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday denounced the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the Web site WikiLeaks, asserting that the security breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the United States government to protect their secrets

Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Mr. Gates portrayed the documents as “a mountain of raw data and individual impressions, most several years old” that offered little insight into current policies and events. Still, he said, the disclosures — which include some identifying information about Afghans who have helped the United States — have “potentially dramatic and grievously harmful consequences.”

“The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world,” he said. “Intelligence sources and methods, as well as military tactics, techniques and procedures, will become known to our adversaries.”

Mr. Gates said the documents’ disclosure had prompted a rethinking of a trend nearly two decades old, dating from the Persian Gulf war of 1991, of trying to make intelligence information more accessible to troops in combat situations so they can respond rapidly to developments.

“We endeavor to push access to sensitive battlefield information down to where it is most useful — on the front lines — where as a practical matter there are fewer restrictions and controls than at rear headquarters,” he said. “In the wake of this incident, it will be a real challenge to strike the right balance between security and providing our frontline troops the information they need.”

The military has charged an intelligence analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, with downloading large amounts of classified information from a computer at a base in Iraq and sending it to WikiLeaks, which operates from servers scattered across multiple countries and solicits “classified, censored or otherwise restricted material of political, diplomatic or ethical significance.”

Military officials have said that Army investigators also consider Private Manning a “person of interest” in the investigation into the Web site’s most recent disclosures. They said Thursday that he was being moved from Kuwait to Quantico, Va., where he would remain in military confinement as he awaits further judicial steps. WikiLeaks shared the documents with publications in Britain, Germany and the United States, including The New York Times, before posting them this week.

Julian Assange, an Australian computer specialist who founded WikiLeaks, has described the project as a form of journalism that seeks to protect whistle-blowers and enhance democracy by making public information that government officials would rather keep secret.

In a series of media appearances and interviews this week, he has defended the latest release as providing an unvarnished portrait of problems with the war in Afghanistan, while saying that his organization had held back about 15,000 documents for safety reasons.

But at Mr. Gates’s news conference on Thursday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, portrayed WikiLeaks as recklessly endangering people in order to satisfy its “need to make a point.”

“Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family,” Admiral Mullen said.

Mr. Gates said the military was taking steps to protect some Afghans identified in the documents, but he declined to specify them. He also declined to comment about the investigation beyond noting that he had enlisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist Army investigators, a move that is seen as a precursor to potentially charging people who are not uniformed service members.

A person familiar with the investigation has said that Justice Department lawyers are exploring whether Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks could be charged with inducing, or conspiring in, violations of the Espionage Act, a 1917 law that prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of national security information.

A version of this article appeared in print on July 30, 2010, on page A8 of the New York edition.

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Arizona's Immigration Law Slowly Drains Economy

Arizona's Immigration Law Slowly Drains Economy

A key part of Arizona's immigration law was temporarily blocked by a federal judge Wednesday. For now, police won't be able to question people about their immigration status. For many businesses, the damage from the controversy is already done. Reduced spending in restaurants, grocery and retail stores has triggered a domino effect among businesses in the metro Phoenix business community and throughout Arizona.

 Anecdotal evidence from business owners, real estate agents and community leaders indicates the mere specter of the bill has created a culture of fear among Hispanics in Arizona that's slowly paralyzing sectors of the economy. In addition, economic boycotts adopted by other states and cities have hit Arizona's meeting and convention business. Since groups nationwide began announcing boycotts of the state because of SB 1070, at least 40 meetings have been canceled, which resulted in the loss of $12 million in lodging alone, according to Kristen Jarnagin, spokeswoman for the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association.  Full Story

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Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Jairo Tellez's seafood distribution business is a family affair. In the industrial warehouse that houses J and V Mariscos on the west side of Phoenix, his wife, Vicki, and four of his seven children load trucks, take phone calls, enter data and help care for his infant grandson, who has a playpen in Tellez's office.

But with portions of Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law set to take effect Thursday, the business is in limbo.

"If people are not eating, we're not selling," said Wendy Cisneros, a family friend who works in the back office. "We've lost 60 percent of sales, and right now the future's uncertain. We don't know if we're going to stay in the state; we don't know if we're going to close the business. Everything's up in the air."

Most of their clients cater to the Latino community, which has effectively gone into hiding amid concerns that they may have to leave the state as soon as the bill becomes law, Cisneros said.

A key part of Arizona's immigration law was temporarily blocked by a judge Wednesday. This means police won't be required to ask people about their immigration status.

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But for the Tellez family business and others like it, the damage from the controversy already is done. Reduced spending in restaurants, grocery and retail stores has triggered a domino effect among businesses in the metro Phoenix business community and throughout Arizona.

To stay afloat even as their clients disappear or reduce inventory orders, the business has reduced employees' hours and cut back operations in the industrial warehouse, home to several large freezers and forklifts and an office sparsely decorated with posters of illustrated fish and cuts of meat.

Perhaps the toughest decision was to halt lines of credit to customers, even those with good history, she said.

"We can't really offer credit anymore because we don't know if next week they're going to close the business," Cisneros said. "But it's also a downside because some customers need that credit to operate."

Firm numbers illuminating the economic fallout of SB 1070 are hard to come by as the bill has yet to take effect. Also, summer tends to be slow for business and tourism in Arizona because it's so hot.

But anecdotal evidence from business owners, real estate agents and community leaders indicates the mere specter of the bill has created a culture of fear among Hispanics in Arizona that's slowly paralyzing sectors of the economy. Hispanics make up 30 percent of the state's population.

The state's unemployment rate in June rose for the third month in a row, to 9.7 percent. Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill in April.

Traditionally, community groups look to indicators such as the housing market, school enrollment and data from utility companies to track economic fluctuations within a certain group, said Edmundo Hidalgo, president and CEO of Chicanos Por La Causa, a community outreach program in Phoenix.

Based on feedback from clients and preliminary data, Hidalgo said his group estimates that rental vacancies in predominantly Latino neighborhoods will be 10 to 15 percent higher than the normal rate of 12 percent.

"People are scared, and they don't want to wait around to find out what's going to happen with SB 1070," said Hidalgo, whose group offers housing, economic and education services to low-income families and individuals, both undocumented and U.S.-born.

"Regardless of their status, people are frustrated with an environment that's not accepting and potentially threatening, and they're fed up with being targeted and singled out by law enforcement. It's driving them out of the state, and not necessarily to better situations."

Reactions to the Arizona immigration law injunction

The Arizona housing market, which was already suffering from one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, has also taken an extra hit since the passage of the law, according to real estate agents who spoke with CNN.

Some homeowners who purchased property in the past year are looking to unload, according to Saul Pua, a real estate agent who sells residential properties in neighborhoods in Phoenix's Latino communities.

"Most families usually have one person who doesn't have papers, and they don't want to risk being arrested and splitting up the family by staying in Arizona," said Pua, who is married to one of the daughters of Tellez, the owner of J and V Mariscos.

Even during the recession, Pua said business was good because property was cheap, and that in better times, he closed an average of five transactions a month. Since the beginning of the year, however, he has been lucky to sell two properties in a month, and in July, he hasn't closed a single deal.

"I had investors buying properties, but now's who gonna rent them?" he said.

Commercial real estate developer Michael Pollack was in the same situation leading up to Wednesday's ruling. Since April, clients in predominantly Latino neighborhoods across the state had been pulling out of properties or calling to relay concerns over whether they should stay if the law goes into effect.

Today, Pollack said he received several calls from clients expressing relief and letting him know they intended to stay.

"The ruling today has definitely been a move in the right direction for commercial tenants and their customers, who've been scared that Arizona wasn't going be friendly to Hispanic community," he said.

"This gives the federal government to get to work implementing an immigration policy that the American people will support unanimously and deals with the situation at the border, which is where the real problem is."

Phoenix's sprawling concrete landscape bears testimony to the abundance of vacant residential and commercial property.

"For sale" signs in English and Spanish adorn brown, sun-scorched lawns and dilapidated parking lots alike, from the heart of downtown Phoenix to as far as Chandler and Mesa -- the district of SB 1070's sponsor, Republican Sen. Russell Pearce. Boarded-up big-box stores loom large in their vast emptiness, and rows of abandoned strip mall storefronts outnumber those that are occupied in some parts.

Not only businesses targeting the Latino community are suffering. Economic boycotts adopted by other states and cities have hit Arizona's meeting and convention business.

Since groups nationwide began announcing boycotts of the state because of SB 1070, at least 40 meetings have been canceled. That's resulted in the loss of $12 million in lodging alone, according to Kristen Jarnagin, spokeswoman for the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association.

Summer is typically the low season, she noted, and pointed out that tourism was up 8 percent statewide in June 2010 compared with June 2009, which was one of the "worst summers ever" because of the recession.

Despite that slight uptick, more telling is the lack of inquiries for future bookings, she said.

"What we're hearing from meeting planners now is they won't and can't consider Arizona for 2011, 2012 meetings not necessarily because of their own stance on SB 1070 or the boycott but just because they want to avoid the controversy and don't want to risk losing attendance," she said.

The absence of meetings and conventions not only affects the hotel industry and its 200,000 employees, but also ancillary businesses such as restaurants, retailers and taxis, Jarnagin said.

It seems that not even fast-food joints are immune to the encroaching economic fallout of SB 1070.

As the four Tellez children stood with their parents in their office Wednesday, recounting tales of friends and relatives who have left town or seen families torn apart, daughter Nikki noted her surprise at seeing a shuttered Burger King.

"I was driving down Camelback with my dad and Burger King was closed, and I was like, when have you seen that? Like Burger King -- everybody goes to Burger King, and that was closed down."

 

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More Often Than Not Secrecy Is Not The Shield Of Security But The Incestuous Sister Of Corrupt Corrosive  Criminality.

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Wikileaks' release of classified field reports on Afghan war reveals not much
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WikiLeaks shrouded in its own secrecy
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Is Wikileaks the Pentagon Papers, Part 2? Parallels, and differences, exist.
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After WikiLeaks Release, White House Says There Is "No Blank Check" For Pakistan
CBS News
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Kerry statement on Wikileaks could raise alarm bells
Washington Post (blog)
... a signal Sunday night that the Wikileaks disclosure of 92000 classified documents on the Afghan war could have political consequences for the president. ...
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Congressmen talk WikiLeaks and the war
CNN (blog)
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Outrage over huge leak of Afghan war files
Turkish Press
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Leaked Afghan war logs 'potentially damaging'
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More than 90000 leaked US military records have been published on the website Wikileaks, reportedly revealing hidden details of the Afghanistan war. ...
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Wikileaks: Q&A with Jacob Appelbaum on "The Afghan War Diaries"
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Wiki-leaks not first time security compromised this year
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What is commonly viewed as one of the worst intelligence leaks in warfighting history, the blogger at Wikileaks.org, Julian Assange, received more than ...
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Times Builds 'Jargonator' to Help Readers Decipher Wikileaks Documents
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WikiLeaks case highlights digital security challenge
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Wikileaks Afghanistan: drones used to fight Taliban
Telegraph.co.uk
... one of the most lethal and effective weapons of the Afghan war can be found – the unmanned drones, according to the Wikileaks documents. ...
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Questions about civilian casualties
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he hoped the information in the files would be investigated and exposed as a deterrent to future human rights abuses. ...
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WikiLeaks and AfPak: What "Everyone" Knows
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AP News In Brief

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The legality of WikiLeaks
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Wikileaks' leak itself gains more attention than the contents
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Who is the 22-year-old Army analyst at center of WikiLeaks firestorm?
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Lamo said that during their chats, Manning confessed to turning over some 260000 classified State Department diplomatic cables over to WikiLeaks. ...
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Biggest Government Leak in History Attributed to the Internet, WikiLeaks
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Wikileaks - Afgan Classified Documents Revealed, Angers Secret Services And ...
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Wikileaks denies receiving classified State Dept. cables
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by Declan McCullagh Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange said at the TED Global conference in Oxford, England, last week that if the organization had ...

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WikiLeaks Creates Fresh Doubt About Afghan War, Secrets
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Mitchell Bard: Is WikiLeaks' Release of the War Logs Afghanistan's ...
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Data, diffusion, impact: Five big questions the Wikileaks story ...
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Wikileaks | Kiwiblog
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Isn't it great that NATO reports are placed on Wikileaks now, so the NZ Minister of Defence can get fuller details of what NZ Forces in Afghanistan have been.
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The Wikileaks Tet Offensive - Swampland - TIME.com
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Hot Air » Pentagon review: No troops endangered by Wikileaks documents
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WikiLeaks and The War Logs: An Overview
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WikiLeaks: Freedom of Speech or Security Breach?
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Wikileaks Afghan files: Is this US soldier behind leak of military secrets?
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Wikileaks Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden timeline
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WikiLeaks' notable hits
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April 2010 — WikiLeaks releases a video showing a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Iraq that killed two Reuters news agency employees and 10 other ...
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Wikileaks Afghanistan: corrupt police chief and drug baron spied for Iran
Telegraph.co.uk
By Heidi Blake The classified US documents, which were released through the Wikileaks website at the weekend, claim the wealthy drug baron was drafted into ...
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Wikileaks Afghanistan: IEDs are Taliban's deadliest weapon
Telegraph.co.uk
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Telegraph.co.uk

Government sets up Wikileaks taskforce
Herald Sun
Some 92000 Pentagon documents dating from 2004 to 2009 were released to various US, UK and German publications by the website WikiLeaks, which posted them ...
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Pentagon hunts Wikileaks source

BBC News
Wikileaks describes the documents as battlefield and intelligence reports compiled by a variety of military units between 2004 and 2009. ...
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Capt. Patrick Dowdell, who lost father on 9/11, unfazed by WikiLeaks docs as ...
New York Daily News
As WikiLeaks was releasing 92000 secret military documents, Army Capt. Patrick Dowdell of Queens was making final preparations for a combat tour in ...
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New York Daily News

Should Wikileaks' release of war logs be prosecuted under US laws?
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
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Afghanistan reports posted on WikiLeaks include details of LI Navy SEAL ...
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WikiLeaks wasn't wrong
Los Angeles Times
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Wikileaks on Afghanistan: Not a lot new here
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I've just spent the past couple of hours perusing the Wikileaks site in hopes of finding something really interesting. I'm still looking. ...

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Transcript: State Dept. probes Wikileaks source
CNET
by Declan McCullagh The US State Department on Monday said investigators were trying to uncover the source who provided Wikileaks with tens of thousands of ...
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CNET

European politicians fear public backlash over Wikileaks
National
On Tuesday, politicians and military chiefs in both countries were poring over details of the 92000 US military reports made public by WikiLeaks, ...

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Military documents posted on web...Storms take a toll in northeast
9&10 News
WASHINGTON (AP) — An online whistle-blower Wikileaks.com has posted leaked Afghan war documents including unreported incidents of civilian killings and ...
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90000 classified Afghanistan documents leaked on WikiLeaks (Democracy Now video)
Examiner.com
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Examiner.com

Wikileaks says no doubt about the reliability of documents "
New York News Today
scope if not in content, the flight of 91000 documents from the United States, ranked on the war in Afghanistan by the whistleblower website Wikileaks.org ...
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WikiLeaks Release of War Documents Draws White House Outrage
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By David Hamilton, July 26, 2010 According to the New York Times, WikiLeaks gave only a handful of news agencies access to some 92000 individual reports ...
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Corker mum on WikiLeaks release of docs
Knoxville News Sentinel (blog)
Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declined to comment earlier today when asked about WikiLeaks' release of tens of ...
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WikiLeaks Organization Sparks Controversy
Voice of America
Photo: AP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London, 26 Jul 2010. Assange said he believes there is evidence of war crimes ...
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WikiLeaks Draws Focus to Military Hit Lists
CBS News
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Defence investigation into Wikileaks documents
NEWS.com.au
A TASKFORCE has been established to examine the publication of tens of thousands of US military documents by Wikileaks, Julia Gillard says. ...
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The Big Story: Don't believe the hype? Digging into WikiLeaks docs
Dallas Morning News (blog)
The New York Times, one of the three Western media outlets that partnered with WikiLeaks on the Sunday night release, hired out its op-ed slot to Andrew ...

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Chairman Appalled by Wikileaks Release
Department of Defense
... July 27, 2010 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he is “appalled” by the breach of security represented by the Wikileaks case. ...
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US: WikiLeaks raises Pakistan concerns
UPI.com
Classified documents from the US military campaign released by the organization WikiLeakssuggest members of the Pakistani intelligence community were ...
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Did Wikileaks Cross the Line?
The Faster Times
That's the moral to the Wikileaks war log story: you never know what might be leaked. Of course, that itself is nothing new: Whenever we reveal information ...
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Kerry under microscope after WikiLeaks
WHDH-TV
The alarming leak of dozens of classified US documents is putting Massachusetts Senator John Kerry squarely under the microscope. ...
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Lawmakers Continue Assessing WikiLeaks Fallout
MyStateline.com
The Pentagon is searching for the person who handed the documents to WikiLeaks. The Pentagon says they are looking for someone with at least a "secret" ...
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Wikileaks: handle with care
Macleans.ca
Wikileaks refers to the data dump as a “diary”; but when we normally encounter this term, what's being referred to is a continuous narrative record kept by ...
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Getting Lost in the Fog of War
New York Times
Thus the White House is right to voice its displeasure with WikiLeaks. Yet most of the major revelations that have been trumpeted by WikiLeaks's founder, ...
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146 Votes Away from Afghanistan Exit
Huffington Post (blog)
The secret documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks provide 92000 additional reasons why Congress should stop the US war in Afghanistan. ...
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Legal Fund Established to Fight Imprisonment of Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower
Cryptome.org
The video, available at www.collateralmurder.com, was published by WikiLeaks on April 5, 2010. No charges have been filed against the soldiers in the video. ...
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Wikileaks' exploits may fuel web whistleblower trend
One News Page
nexustech Wikileaks' exploits may fuel web whistleblower trend: You could argue that a new era in online journalism has been... http://bit.ly/crdz5s 12 ...
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Another Senate-House spat: War funding
CNN
The White House, meanwhile, found itself on the defense Sunday after WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower website, published what it said are about 76000 US military ...
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Wikileaks' war logs and the true extent of our disempowerment
Though Cowards Flinch
The leaking of some 90000 military files, detailing US and coalition prosecution of the war in Afghanistan, presents a stark lesson in the extent to which ...
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Military Leaks: SIPRNet Under Scrutiny
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Nathan Hodge Military and intelligence experts who reviewed the leaked materials that showed up on WikiLeaks told The Wall Street Journal that the kind ...
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In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency ...
An online organization wants to combat “unethical behavior” by governments and corporations, but critics say it endangers the privacy of others for the sake ...
www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/26wiki.html

The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
What will be the consequences of the greatest government leak since the Pentagon Papers?
www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/.../wikileaks

Exclusive: After Revealing Afghan War Secrets, Wikileaks Prepares ...
While the world has begun picking through the 90000 classified reports on US military activity in Afghanistan obtained and released by freedom of ...
www.newsweek.com/.../exclusive-after-revealing-afghan-war-...

WikiLeaks: What the Documents Reveal - The Daily Beast
The extensive release of thousands of secret files shows basic and unsustainable contradictions in US policy, says Leslie H. Gelb—and underscores why the ...
www.thedailybeast.com/.../wikileaks-what-the-documents-reve...

Why WikiLeaks' 'War Logs' Are No Pentagon Papers - ProPublica
The historical importance the Pentagon Papers far outweighs the likely impact of the new Afghanistan documents.
www.propublica.org/.../why-wikileaks-war-logs-are-no-pentag...

WikiLeaks Founder Unaware of Who Leaked Documents
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Jeanne Whalen WikiLeaks doesn't know the identity of any sources who leak it information, Julian Assange, the website's mercurial founder, ...
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Hacker on Why He Turned in Alleged Wikileaks Source
Newsweek
On July 25, Wikileaks released about 90000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan, which the Pentagon has so far concluded do not hurt national ...
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Obama on WikiLeaks: 'Documents Don't Reveal Any Issues that Haven't Already ...
ABC News (blog)
President Barack Obama spoke publicly about the WikiLeaks incident for the first time today, expressing concern about the disclosure of tens of thousands of ...
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Wikileaks reveal the obvious dangers of Afghanistan -- Opinion Focus with ...
Washington Post
Instead, we've got lots to talk about -- WikiLeaks and Afghanistan, race as a political issue, fervid maneuvering (especially on the Hill) in advance of the ...

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Pop Culture with Pop Culture with Paul Farhi: Wikileaks on Afghanistan; Mad ...
Washington Post
The big story: Wikileaks (and its media partners) and the docu-dump of almost 92000 reports, files and errata from military sources. ...
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Wiki points to Australian cover-up
Sydney Morning Herald
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange explains the significance of the secret documents that have been made public by www.wikileaks.org. ...
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WashPost on Wikileaks: Yawn
Huffington Post (blog)
By Monday afternoon, most of these experts had given up on searching through the huge WikiLeaksdatabase for new information.... By Glenn Kessler and Karen ...
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Recent Wikileaks Documents Reveal Nothing New
Obama News and Resources (blog)
Wikileaks has sparked major controversy over its release of more than 75000 US Army and Marine Corps documents which chronicles events spanning six years in ...
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Obama News and Resources (blog)

BREAKING: WikiLeaks Dumps Clinton Wedding Docs
ScappleFace (satire)
The disclosure of “sensitive information” comes just days after WikiLeaks made public 92000 secret US military documents related to the war in Afghanistan. ...
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WikiLeaks Data on Afghanistan Deaths Visualized
The Atlantic (blog)
WikiLeaks unleashed some 76000 military records this Sunday, but we have yet to see any independent visualizations of the data from outside the three ...
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Rep. King calls Wikileaks 'treason,' calls for prosecution
The Hill (blog)
Y.) told Don Imus on “Imus in the Morning” that the recent leak of more than 93000 sensitive documents on the site Wikileaks.org was “disgraceful. ...
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McCain: Wikileaks Is Anti-U.S.
InformationWeek
blasted Wikileaks' decision to post thousands of pages of classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan and called for criminal charges against ...
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What the WikiLeaks data reveal about civilian and enemy casualties of war. An ...
Slate Magazine
Nearly 77000 of the 92000 military documents unveiled by WikiLeaks this week are individual incident reports from the war in Afghanistan. ...
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WikiLeaks: Iran arming, working with with al Qaida, Taliban
Examiner.com
When partisan left-wing terror-apologist Julian Assange (who targeted Sarah Palin during Election 2008 and literally thinks the US should have responded to ...
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Examiner.com

Granger condemns Afghanistan leaks, calls for investigation
Dallas Morning News (blog)
The documents, released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, paint a bleak picture of American ally Pakistan aiding the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan ...
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Military says Wikileaks report wrong
CANOE
Retired general Rick Hillier, who was the chief of defence staff at the time, declined to comment on the overall WikiLeaks story, telling QMI Agency he ...
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Does Disputed NATO Attack in Afghanistan Underscore WikiLeaks Report?
AOL News
(July 27) -- A day after WikiLeaks' release of a trove of secret Afghan war reports renewed debate over the war itself, a disputed NATO rocket attack is ...
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What the WikiLeaks Docs Reveal to a Soldier
Daily Beast (blog)
by Anonymous A US soldier walks past Afghans on a three-wheeler vehicle during a patrol in Dand district of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan on July 24, ...
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Opinion: Pakistan Slowly Awakens to WikiLeaks Implications
AOL News
KARACHI, Pakistan (July 27) -- As soon as I heard about the WikiLeaks news story on Monday morning, I went online to see what people were saying about it. ...
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Citing Wikileaks Files, Greens Urge Congress to Pass the Kucinich-Paul Bill ...
Common Dreams (press release)
"The secret files published by Wikileaks show that the White House and Pentagon know the Afghanistan War is a disaster, with hundreds of civilians killed, ...
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Morning news: Tuesday
Cincinnati.com (blog)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to CNN's Larry King about the documents Monday night, and responded to accusations that making the documents public ...
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WikiLeaks War Diary Prompts Bored Media To Finally Admit ...

By The Huffington Post News Editors

At some point, one could have predicted that the WikiLeaks document dump story would turn into a critique of the WikiLeaks document dump itself. Objectively speaking, there's very little that can be called authentically new information ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/

Jeff Cohen: WikiLeaks: Time to Celebrate, Time to Mourn
By Jeff Cohen
Today, the "most dangerous man in the world" may be Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. But as a stateless and office-less news organization operating in cyberspace, WikiLeaks is almost untouchable.
Barack Obama on The Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/big-news/

Wikileaks Digested | Taylor Marsh – TaylorMarsh.com – News ...
By Taylor Marsh
This stash will be compared to the Pentagon Papers, and in some ways that's right—WikiLeaks, like Daniel Ellsberg, has been accused of ignoring the national interest. (An unfair charge, unless by “national interest” one means the ...
Taylor Marsh - http://www.taylormarsh.com/

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks 'Treason' — Fluently
By Donna Trussell
Like other Aussies we can think of, the muckraker behind WikiLeaks is a swashbuckling idealist -- only his weapon is keystrokes instead of a sword.
Politics Daily - http://www.politicsdaily.com/tag/lcangels.com

Talking Wikileaks in Afghanistan — Registan.net
By Joshua Foust
I managed to get out two pieces yesterday about the Wikileaks leak, as promised. The first is at my homestation, of sorts, at PBS Need to Know (which is a great show, if you don't watch it already!). There, I said the leak is both more ...
Registan.net - http://www.registan.net/

Hot Air » Obama on Wikileaks docs: This is old news
By Allahpundit
Two, Wikileaks is still sitting on 15000 documents so there may yet be a bombshell set to burst. In fact, I wonder if new media/liberal rock star Julian Assange purposely rolled out the weaker material to build buzz — for both himself ...
Hot Air » Top Picks - http://www.hotair.com/

"WikiLeaks Is Not One Person...We Are All the Threat" - Hacker ...
By mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
We speak to Emmanuel Goldstein, a well-known figure in the hacker community and the editor of the magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He is also the organizer of the HOPE conference. WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange had been slated to ...
Democracy Now! - http://www.democracynow.org/

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » WashPost on Wikileaks: *Yawn*
By Peter Hart
Though it may represent one of the most voluminous leaks of classified military information in U.S. history, the release by Wikileaks of 92000 reports on the war in Afghanistan hardly merits the hype offered by the website's founder. ...
FAIR Blog - http://www.fair.org/blog/

What the WikiLeaks Documents Say About Iran-al Qaeda | The Weekly ...
By Thomas Joscelyn
One of the more interesting aspects of the WikiLeaks document dump is the persistence of intelligence reports indicating collusion between al Qaeda, al Qaeda-affiliated parties, and Iran. By itself, this should not be surprising. ...
The Weekly Standard Blog - http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/

Pakistan decries WikiLeaks release of U.S. military documents on ...
Pakistan decries WikiLeaks release of US military documents on Afghan war.
Democratic Underground Latest... - http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Why you should be skeptical of the @Wikileaks data: (via @max_fisher)

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Loading... Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation |... War Diary · Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk · Secret files: Wikileaks exposes 'unseen war' - Channel 4 News ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://huffingtonpost.com/author/index.php?author=scott-mendelson-md

William Astore: What WikiLeaks Reveals: We're Playing the Fool in ...
By William Astore
Obama and his advisors are still looking at Afghanistan as a problem to be solved, or a high-stakes poker match, a deadly game of raises and bluffs. But what if Afghanistan is none of these? What if we're playing the fool?
Warwire on The Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/warwire

US investigators focused on Army intelligence analyst in WikiLeaks probe
Los Angeles Times
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon's press secretary, described Manning as a "person of interest" in the probe of the most recent WikiLeaks disclosures. ...
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Kerry changes tack on WikiLeaks documents
Washington Post (blog)
Sen. John Kerry, whose windsurfing came to symbolize what critics derided as his tendency to heed the politics of the moment, has trimmed his sails over the ...
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WikiLeaks report untrue: father of slain soldier
CTV.ca
(Department of National Defence) Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London Tuesday, ...

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Wikileaks Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden alive
Telegraph.co.uk
Osama bin Laden is alive and playing a key role in directing the war in Afghanistan, leaked US military files suggest. By John Bingham Osama bin Laden ...
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Joint Chiefs Chairman: Wikileaks.org put American lives in jeopardy
Examiner.com
Admiral Mullen believes the Wiki-leaks controversy puts these young men and women in added danger. "In the Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy, none of us have ...
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Examiner.com

Reaction to WikiLeaks 'vastly overdone'
CNN
(CNN) -- The tens of thousands of secret documents released this week by WikiLeaks.org don't provide major new insights into the Afghanistan war, ...
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The WikiLeaks Papers And Lady Gaga: The Connection
MTV.com
As it turns out, the soldier accused of leaking the documents to WikiLeaks, disillusioned Pvt. Bradley Manning, would carry in a CD-RW labeled "Lady Gaga" ...
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MTV.com

Congress's response to WikiLeaks: shoot the messenger
Christian Science Monitor
The 92000 documents about the Afghanistan war released by WikiLeaks Sunday generated more anger in Congress at WikiLeaks than at the war effort. ...
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Christian Science Monitor

AP source: DOJ supports DOD in WikiLeaks probe
Washington Post
By PETE YOST AP WASHINGTON -- A federal law enforcement official says the Justice Department is assisting in the Defense Department's military investigation ...
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Rep. Marshall: Obama Should Block Any More WikiLeaks Docs
CBS News
Marshall shared President Obama's sentiment that the 90000 pages of intelligence reports released on WikiLeaks Monday didn't reveal anything new. ...
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Barack Obama comments on Wikileaks documents
BBC News
Barack Obama has voiced his concern at the disclosure of 'sensitive information' on the war in Afghanistan which was posted online by Wikileaks, ...
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Pakistani Envoy Spars With ATC's Robert Siegel On WikiLeaks
NPR (blog)
by Frank James To get a sense of just how peeved the Pakistani government is at the renewed attention WikiLeaks has brought to lingering suspicions of ties ...
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Wikileaks Afghanistan: suggestions US tried to cover up civilian casualties
Telegraph.co.uk
Fresh evidence suggesting that US-led forces attempted to cover up civilian casualties in Afghanistan has emerged through leaked military documents. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk

Wikileaks Afghanistan: police chief doubled as Iranian spy
Telegraph.co.uk
A powerful Afghan police chief doubled as an Iranian spy and drugs lord, a leaked US report claims. By John Bingham The man, described as a “notorious ...
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WikiLeaks and the media
NECN
WikiLeaks handing mainstream media a goldmine of hard data from a war veering into the ditch ... and the same pundits who say they've just begun to read and ...
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Wikileaks owner: I'm a media insurgent
Times of India
Who is the man behind Wikileaks, the website that posted 'The War Logs' on the conflict in Afghanistan? Julian Paul Assange (39), whose name suggests ...
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Internet Makes It Impossible To Block Disclosures
Los Angeles Times
The WikiLeaks disclosure of classified war reports from Afghanistan has brought home to the nation's capital what Hollywood has seen of late with the raw ...
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WikiLeaks exposes web of deceit surrounding Afghan war
Examiner.com
In a press conference in London Monday July 26, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, defended revelations that Pakistan has trained and armed the Taliban ...
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Examiner.com

Internal military documents reveal infighting among Afghan forces
CNN
WikiLeaks this week published what it says are more than 75000 US military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this ...
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Maps of the Day: WikiLeaks Highlights Violence in Pashtunistan
The Atlantic (blog)
But the WikiLeaks documents pin-pointed exactly where attacks have occurred over the past few years. The first map below was produced by the Guardian and ...
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Noah Shachtman: What I Saw at Moba Khan
Wall Street Journal
The military reports highlighted by WikiLeaks don't provide a full picture of the war. By NOAH SHACHTMAN Echo company got into a gunfight last Aug. ...
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WikiLeaks Documents: Much Debate but Little Surprise
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Cassell Bryan-Low Peace campaigners in the UK jumped on WikiLeaks' frenzy of Afghan war documents, citing them as as evidence that the war is being lost. ...
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Weigel vs. WikiLeaks
Antiwar.com (blog)
The WikiLeaks Afghan dump is depressing. Very tired of our effort there being subjected to this kind of crap. I mean the disclosing in a way that hurts us. ...
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Tuesday Daybook: WikiLeaks Aftermath, Fun With Breitbart
The Nation. (blog)
On Sunday, WikiLeaks released more than 90000 documents raising new questions about the war in Afghanistan. Here's extensive analysis of the fallout. ...
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Obama dismisses Afghan report leak after Hill leader meeting
CNN International
The administration has been critical of the decision by WikiLeaks to publish what it said are about 76000 US military and diplomatic reports about ...
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WikiLeaks: For public, it confirms worst about Afghanistan
Christian Science Monitor
WikiLeaks documents in many respects paint a picture of a war going poorly. But they're unlikely to convince the public that the answer is to get out now. ...
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Christian Science Monitor

WikiLeaks highlights US hurdles in run-up to Afghanistan withdrawal
Xinhua
The leak, posted on a website known as Wikileaks, came at a time when the White House is facing pressure from an increasingly war-weary public to make sure ...
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Xinhua

WikiLeaks Secret Records Dump Stays in Legal Clear: Ann Woolner
Bloomberg
His online organization, WikiLeaks, devotes itself to government and corporate whistle-blowers and the documents they offer. It stands as a buffer between ...
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Army Officer charged in earlier leak had access to latest WikiLeak papers
Los Angeles Times
Bradley Manning, charged in the leak of a video of an army helicopter attack in Iraq, had access to the Afghan war reports WikiLeaks issued, ...
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Los Angeles Times

Wikileaks reinforces the claim that Pakistan supports the Taliban
Christian Science Monitor
The Wikileaks documents add credence to the widely-made charge that Pakistan underhandedly supports the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. ...
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Christian Science Monitor

AP source: DOJ supports DOD in WikiLeaks probe

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A federal law enforcement official says the Justice Department is assisting in the Defense Department's military investigation into the ...
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WikiLeaks Tech Challenges 'Top Secret' Security
Discovery News
WikiLeaks, the self-styled "multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials ...
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No telling what you'll find at WikiLeaks
Tampabay.com
By Ben Montgomery, Times Staff Writer Scrolling through WikiLeaks.org is like walking around that giant government warehouse at the end of Raiders of the ...
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WikiLeaks Files' 'Potential Threat' Continues to Rattle Washington
NewsHour
Fallout from the WikiLeaks publication of Afghan war documents continued to reverberate in Washington Tuesday with the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
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Woolsey,WikiLeaks and war spending
Santa Rosa Press Democrat (blog)
Lynn Woolsey says in a guest opinion we just posted that the WikiLeaks revelations “left me no other choice than to vote this week against the supplemental ...
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The Media Is Upset About Wikileaks Because They're No Longer The ...
By Susie Madrak
This reaction fascinates me. You would think having a country that's no longer at war would be some kind of terrible tragedy, a major blow to our self-esteem. Oh noes, who will we be without the war? The minions of the corporate media ...
Crooks and Liars - http://crooksandliars.com/

WikiLeaks Takes Aim At BP « The Biz Blog - Forbes.com
By Dirk Smillie
After rocking Washington with the release of secret military documents, site founder Julian Assange says documents on BP are coming soon.
The Biz Blog - http://blogs.forbes.com/bizblog/

Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Wikileaks and "Afghan War Diaries ...
By Xeni Jardin
Wikileaks is a big story. But the story is bigger than Wikileaks alone, and it has just begun. What happens next, whether there's a backlash and a doubling-down of attempts to exert control, is one of the next big questions. ...
Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/

Internet Evolution - Rob Salkowitz - Wikileaks: Facilitator, Not ...
The recent flood of classified Afghan war documents via Wikileaks points to poor government decision-making, but there's a warning here as well.
Internet Evolution: - http://www.internetevolution.com/?q=Save+Us+From+Berlusconi

Weigel vs. WikiLeaks « Antiwar.com Blog
By Matt Barganier
It neither substaniates nor dertacts from his opinion on the war and/or wikileaks etc. Matt Barganier July 27th, 2010 at 2:30 pm. I laid out his history of pro-war advocacy with links. You can skip over the rest, if you like, ...
Antiwar.com Blog - http://www.antiwar.com/blog/

Green Party Watch » Blog Archive » Citing Wikileaks files, Greens ...
By Dave Schwab
“The secret files published by Wikileaks show that the White House and Pentagon know the Afghanistan War is a disaster, with hundreds of civilians killed, illegal military operations, and fears that Pakistan and Iran are assisting the ...
Green Party Watch - http://www.greenpartywatch.org/

Wikileaks Sparks Political Angst, Military Investigation Over ...
By Mike LaSalle
At the same time, the admiral says the raw intelligence reports published by the Wikileaks website need to be put in context. He notes they are raw, unconfirmed reports from various sources. He said his staff is working through the more ...
Sex+Metropolis - http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/

One Free Korea » Wikileaks: North Korea sold missiles to Al Qaeda ...
By Joshua Stanton
A powerful Afghan insurgent leader and a man identified as Osama Bin Laden's financial adviser purchased ground-to-air missiles from North Korea in 2005, according to an uncorroborated U.S. intelligence report released by Wikileaks on ...
One Free Korea - http://www.freekorea.us/

WikiLeaks, journalism, data and truth - John McQuaid - Edge of ...
By John McQuaid
We live in a very data-rich era. And that means fantastic opportunities for journalism. But can journalism rise to the occasion? I refer to the WikiLeaks release of a trove of 92000 US documents detailing efforts of the US Army and ...
Edge of Chaos - http://trueslant.com/johnmcquaid/

Bad Attitudes: The Unbearable Awesomeness of Wikileaks
By Frumpzilla
Part of the genius of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange's release was his gambit to assure that mainstream media would not obstruct or trivialize the importance of the leak — by giving them the scoop. Wikileaks provided the roughly ...
Bad Attitudes - http://badattitudes.com/MT/

Law.com - Privileged Information in a 'WikiLeaks' World
The disclosure of 92000 classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan by WikiLeaksfollowed by related stories in The New York Times, ...
www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202463926368

Who the heck is WikiLeaks?
Los Angeles Times
All three organizations were given access to the documents a month ago by an online organization called WikiLeaks, which required that publication be ...

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US military combats Wikileaks via Twitter
The Guardian (blog)
How does the US military's public relations combat the release of 91000 gruesome war logs from Afghanistan through the Wikileaks website? ...
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War spending in the time of WikiLeaks
Washington Post
"The debate to remove us from Pakistan becomes urgent in light of the WikiLeaks expose," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said of the posting of tens of ...
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Why WikiLeaks Is The Pirate Bay of Political Intelligence
Mashable (blog)
WikiLeaks is currently in the news because its Afghan War logs comprise one of the largest and most controversial intelligence leaks to date. ...
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Mashable (blog)

WikiLeaks Documents Go Public: Where Should Journalists Draw the Line?
NewsHour
Some have questioned whether WikiLeaks and major news organizations publishing the secret documents compromised the safety of American lives. ...
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Gillard wants answers on WikiLeaks' Australian troop info
Crikey
... to establish an extraordinary election-period taskforce to examine the impact of the WikiLeaksAfghan War Diary on the Australian Defence Force (ADF). ...
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Walkom: WikiLeaks offer insight into Canada's detainee affair
Toronto Star
As the New York Times, one of the handful of newspapers first given the documents by the non-profit group WikiLeaks put it: “For years, ...
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On the Media: Let's put more public documents online
Los Angeles Times
Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now know more about the war in Afghanistan than about how much public officials are paid in Los Angeles County. ...
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Los Angeles Times

Obama Turns Down Rumors On Afghanistan, Blasts WikiLeaks

Obama News and Resources (blog)

WikiLeaks is a website claiming to have secret information, but according to Obama as well as anyone who has taken a look at the claims, there is very ...
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Before WikiLeaks Arab Media Documented Civilian Deaths
New America Media
The secret documents, revealed Sunday by WikiLeaks, are not news to Arab media, which over the past five years have broadcast reports documenting American ...
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WikiLeaks' Word War
Investor's Business Daily
If the document dump by WikiLeaks succeeds in demoralizing the US & our allies in our Afghan war efforts, then Assange has won the war. ...
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Air leaks from WikiLeaks balloon
Washington Post
By Howard Kurtz One day, the WikiLeaks uproar was sparking a once-in-a-generation debate about the disclosure of classified information, the audacious role ...
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WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data
The Associated Press
LONDON — WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the ...
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Kabul Urges West To Review Pakistan Policy After Wikileaks
RTT News
Kabul said information contained in documents released on WikiLeaks' website on Sunday backed its long-held position that the spy agency continued to ...
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Wikileaks war reports dossier show Osama bin Laden could be in Pakistan
Mirror.co.uk
Among the 90000 files published on the website Wikileaks is a US intelligence report placing him at a meeting in Quetta, just over the border in Pakistan, ...
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Mirror.co.uk

WikiLeaks reveals little
Deseret News
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, compared the documents to the release of the archives of the East German secret police after the Cold War. ...
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Afghanistan dispatches released by WikiLeaks include capture of 'Lady Al Qaeda ...
New York Daily News
The capture of so-called Lady Al Qaeda was among the thousands of military and intelligence dispatches from Afghanistan released by WikiLeaks. ...
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New York Daily News

House Approves Money for Wars, but Rift Deepens
New York Times
In April, WikiLeaks posted the video, an explosive tape of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the ...
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Assange may have committed offence: ADA
Sydney Morning Herald
Wikileaks founder Australian Julian Assange could have committed a serious criminal offence in helping an enemy of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), ...
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Harder to suppress leaks in Internet age
Los Angeles Times
Washington gets a taste of the digital age as the government is left almost powerless to stop entities such as WikiLeaks, which operates mostly from abroad, ...
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Los Angeles Times

WikiLeaks, WMDs, And Iran
The Atlantic (blog)
This use of the WikiLeaks documents brings back some old memories, of a long time ago (March 2006) in a galaxy far far away when the Pentagon posted a ...
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Wikileaks: a new journal of the disasters in Afghanistan
The Guardian
Nothing beats raw material for its capacity to home in on truth. These logs are unvarnished and brutal, and it will take some time to digest in full their ...
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The Guardian

WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data
One News Page
It's a big win for Internet-based indy media that WikiLeaks.org posted its...Also reported by •guardian.co.uk That WikiLeaks went to the press with the ...
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Military Probe Again Targets Manning
Wall Street Journal
In a speech in London Tuesday night, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, said he doesn't know the identities of sources who provide him documents. ...
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Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder fears he could be arrested
Telegraph.co.uk
Julian Assange, the Australian founder of Wikileaks, has said he has been warned by "inside sources in the White House" not to return to the US as he could ...
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Telegraph.co.uk

Wikileaks Documents: A Look at the Statistics
The Epoch Times
By Joshua Philipp A screen shot from the Wikileaks website shows the July 25 posting of a collection of leaked classified US documents pertaining to the war ...
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Jon Stewart Mocks Media For WikiLeaks Reaction (VIDEO)
Huffington Post (blog) (satire)
... about by highly efficient, almost ninja-like informants who used stealth tactics to obtain the information and leak it to the site WikiLeaks.org. ...
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US lawmakers back Afghan funding, despite WikiLeaks revelations
RFI
Josef Blotz, Nato's International Security Assistance Force spokesperson talking to journalists aboutWikileaks, Kabul, 28 July By RFI The US House of ...
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Wikileaks: North Korea Sold Missiles to Al Qaeda, Which Used Them to Kill ...
The New Ledger
[WaPo] [A]bout 18 months later, according a previously undisclosed after-action military report obtained by Wikileaks, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was downed ...
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Pirate Party Offers Servers and Hosting To Wikileaks
TorrentFreak (blog)
This week Wikileaks released more than 90000 government documents related to the war in Afghanistan. When added to the perceived damage caused by its ...
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Undiplomatic language on Central Asia from Wikileaks
EurasiaNet
The massive Wikileaks document trove on the war in Afghanistan may have changed the course of the war, or not, but what does it have to say about Central ...
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Wikileaks Afghanistan revelations will make journalism better
CIO UK
By Patrick Thibodeau | Published: 02:59 GMT, 28 July 10 | Computerworld US The release byWikileaks of more than 90000 documents about military operations ...
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Leak 'appallingly irresponsible'
Straits Times
... head of the US Central Command, said the more than 90000 military files posted by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks contained 'no big revelations. ...
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Hot Air » Wikileaks exposed hundreds of Afghan informants
By Ed Morrissey
If the information on the progress of the war from the much-ballyhooed Wikileaks publication of 92000 documents didn't come as a big surprise to Americans who have paid attention to the Af-Pak theater, it apparently will come as a big ...Hot Air » Top Picks - http://www.hotair.com/

Virginia M. Moncrieff: Wikileaks - After The Gold Rush, What Then?
By Virginia M. Moncrieff
The wikileaks papers have created a frenzy that cannot be sustained once the initial thrill and mystery of the leak has been solved. The story now seems to be who did the leaking, and if it is indeed 22 year old Bradley Manning - who is ...

The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/OpEdNews - Article: WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries"
A powerful indictment of an illegal war and daily crimes of war and against humanity, mostly against civilians.

OpEdNews - http://www.opednews.com/author/author50299.html

Can WikiLeaks End the War? | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Can the recent release of classified documents actually make American people hate the war more?
VF Daily - http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/

WikiLeaks documents: What we've learned so far – This Just In ...
By Mallory Simon
Thousands of leaked classified documents published by WikiLeaks.org have given a rare glimpse into some operations on the ground in the Afghanistan war.
This Just In - http://news.blogs.cnn.com/

WikiLeaks exposure endangers Afghan lives: Times | Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
The leak by the WikiLeaks website of 90000 secret documents on the war in Afghanistan has put hundreds of Afghan lives at risk because the files identify informants working with NATO forces, the Times reported Wednesday. ...
Raw Story - http://rawstory.com/2009/

Wikileaks documents add to the mounting evidence against Afghan ...
By Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Cailf.)
The documents released to the news media this past weekend by Wikileaks add to the mounting evidence that the war in Afghanistan remains fiscally unsustainable and morally unjustifiable. The New York Times puts it bluntly: “The ...
Congress Blog - http://www.hillnews.com/blogs/congress-blog

Osama recruited bombers in Pakistan: Wikileaks - World News - IBNLive
US military reports leaked by Wikileaks show instances in which US forces saw signs of the al-Qaeda chief in Pakistan.
IBN Top Headlines - http://ibnlive.in.com/

Intel Experts See Danger in Wikileaks | FrumForum
By FrumForum News
Lawmakers and former intelligence officials are concerned that WikiLeaks' online posting of nearly 80000 classified field reports from combat zones in Afghanistan could have serious ramifications — not just for the war but for ...
FrumForum - http://www.frumforum.com/

Wikileaks Afghanistan: powerful police chief was Iranian spy ...
By Robert
The WikiLeaks documents were U.S. Army documents, so presumably every single thing that was contained in them were "known" by at least some faction of the Army, probably field commanders and possibly also the U.S. Ambassador and his ...
Jihad Watch - http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Wikileaks: Enemies of the State | NewsBusters.org
By Greg Gutfeld
The head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange would argue that their role is to shine a “light on the everyday brutality …of war.” But of course, he's sympathetic only to those we are fighting against. He says he wants to help “people who are ...
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal... - http://newsbusters.org/

WikiLeaks: We Don't Know Source Of Leaked Documents

By The Huffington Post News Editors

LONDON — WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the Web site was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

WikiLeaks' Crusade Against the U.S. Military
FOXNews
By Greg Gutfeld So, WikiLeaks has posted a pile of secret reports about the Afghan war, including covert operations against the Taliban. ...
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Holder: DOJ probing Wikileaks Afghan leak
Politico (blog)
The Justice Department is taking part in the investigation into how online journalism site Wikileaksobtained more than 90000 combat reports from the US ...
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WikiLeaks controversy hovers, but House passes war funding bill
Christian Science Monitor
WikiLeaks documents barely made a dent in Congress's decision to continue funding a surge of US forces into Afghanistan. The House passed the measure 308 to ...
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Christian Science Monitor

WikiLeaks: The 7 strangest revelations
The Week Magazine
The WikiLeaks gems keep rolling in... Reporters, bloggers, and other interested individuals are still combing through the more than 90000 Afghanistan War ...
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Cohen Discusses WikiLeaks' Publication of Afghan Secrets: Video
Washington Post
July 28 (Bloomberg) -- William Cohen, chief executive officer of the Cohen Group and a former US defense secretary, discusses WikiLeaks.org's publication of ...
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Washington Post

Wikileaks confirmed? A plan to kill American geologist with poison beer
Christian Science Monitor
The Wikileaks documents contain a claim that Pakistan and Afghanistan insurgents were working to poison alcoholic drinks in Afghanistan. ...
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Christian Science Monitor

Afghan casualties
The Guardian
WikiLeaks' Afghan documents bear out Amnesty's long-standing concerns that neither Nato nor the US have coherent, consistent systems for accounting for the ...
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WikiLeaks Tests Feasibility Of Government Data Security
InformationWeek
By Mathew J. Schwartz In the wake of the release by WikiLeaks on Sunday of more than 90000 documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan, will government ...
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FBI chief says agents assisting DOD on WikiLeaks
The Associated Press
Mueller made the comment on Capitol Hill as the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks claimed that his organization, which released the material, doesn't know who ...
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WikiLeaks not to affect China, Pakistan ties
Times of India
BEIJING: The WikiLeaks expose showing Pakistani military as secret supporter of the Taliban has not caused much concern among Chinese officials, ...
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'Hannity': McCain Weighs In on Opposition to SB 1070, WikiLeaks Debacle
FOXNews
HANNITY: And joining me now from Washington with the very latest on the Arizona immigration law and the WikiLeaks situation is Arizona senator John McCain. ...
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First Amendment Guru Floyd Abrams on the WikiLeaks Situation
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Ashby Jones On Monday morning, we did some looking into the legal issues surroundingWikiLeaks' decision to unveil some 92000 previously classified ...
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WikiLeaks document release endangers Afghan lives: US
AFP
WASHINGTON — Informants whose names appear in the documents posted on the whistleblower site WikiLeaks have reason to fear for their lives, ...
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AFP

Wikileaks impact on India-Pakistan talks?
NDTV.com
New Delhi: Devastation at the Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008 in which 58 people died in the suicide bombing, which days later was blamed on the ...
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NDTV.com

Graham: Prosecute Wikileaks
The Hill (blog)
C.) called on Wednesday for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks, the website that published classified military documents this week. ...
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WikiLeaks: US knew of contractor bribes to Taliban
Salon
By Justin Elliott Here's another piece of information from the WikiLeaks war logs that, while not strictly "new," underscores an under-discussed and ...
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PM Politics Links: Oil spill bills, food safety, WikiLeaks on a mission
Plain Dealer
WikiLeaks is a bare-bones organization on a mission to root out the secrets of the high and mighty. (Raphael G. Satter, toptechnews.com) Last week, ...
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Plain Dealer

Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us
Wired News
By Spencer Ackerman There's been a lot of talk about the danger posed by WikiLeaks's disclosure of tens of thousands of military documents from Afghanistan. ...
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Intel experts: Leaks might be lethal
Politico
AP Lawmakers and former intelligence officials are concerned that WikiLeaks' online posting of nearly 80000 classified field reports from combat zones in ...
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WikiLeaks' Afghanistan Bombshell | Mother Jones
WikiLeaks comes out of its rabbit hole for another coup—could it be the next Pentagon Papers?
motherjones.com/.../wikileaks-afghanistan-bombshell-war-logs

WikiLeaks will get you WikiMurdered | RedState
By Amy Miller (Profile)
Julian Assange is at it again: Wiki-Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of.
RedState - http://www.redstate.com/tags/

M. Salahuddin Khan: Wikileaks Reveal Cover-Ups and Under-Reported ...
By M. Salahuddin Khan
If a stray Hellfire missile were to knock out a subdivision in Michigan while in pursuit of the very same terrorists that we appear to be after in Afghanistan, where would we draw the line of necessity?
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/

The WikiLeaks Fallout | FrumForum
By Peter Worthington
It's always titillating when confidential documents are leaked. But as embarrassing as the recentWikileaks revelations may be, there is little news that is damaging.
FrumForum - http://www.frumforum.com/

WikiLeaks in Perspective « The Enterprise Blog
By Gary Schmitt
The WikiLeaks release of nearly 100000 classified documents generated two sets of headline stories. The first set concerned the supposed complicity of Pakistani intelligence in assisting and supporting the Afghan Taliban. ...
The Enterprise Blog - http://blog.american.com/

Daily Show does Wikileaks - Boing Boing
By Xeni Jardin
Xeni Jardin at 12:15 PM Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010. Predictably, Jon Stewart's Daily Show take on theWikileaks/Manning/Assange/Lamo/AfghanMegaDump telenovela is spot-on, revelatory, and required internet viewing. ...
Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/

WikiLeaks, wiki-this, wiki-that. What does “wiki” mean, & what ...
By Hot Word
WikiLeaks has been in the news lately because it released a document that encompasses over 91000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks is a site that obtains and publishes sensitive material and is designed to protect ...
The Hot Word Blog - http://hotword.dictionary.com/

BLACKFIVE: WikiLeaks Aiding Collateral Murder
By blackfive@gmail.com (Pundit Review Radio)
Perhaps there has been too little disgust launched at reprehensible Julian Assange and andWikiLeaks. Initial looks at the huge pile of classified documents seemed to show that no major security breaches had been made. ...
BLACKFIVE - http://www.blackfive.net/main/

Wikileaks files shine a light on life in Afghanistan - World ...
By Philippe Gohier
How much does the Taliban pay for opium? How many insurgents are in jail?
Macleans.ca - http://www2.macleans.ca/

WikiLeaks in World War II » HistoryNet
By Robert M. Citino
What if WikiLeaks had existed in World War II? The "incident reports" would have been shocking.
HistoryNet - From the World's... - http://www.historynet.com/

Cassy Fiano » Wikileaks outs hundreds of Afghan informants ...
By Cas
A few days ago, I discussed the Wikileaks document drop, which exposed 90000 pages of classified documents showing that we were paying Pakistan to aid our enemies. It was unsurprising news, information that anyone with an ounce of ...
Cassy Fiano - http://www.cassyfiano.com/

aangirfan: WIKILEAKS WORKS FOR THE CIA AND MOSSAD?
By Anon
Asian intelligence sources reportedly state that: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself." (soros & co backwikileaks / kosher mob & oval office) ...
aangirfan - http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/

Why Wikileaks Is as Scary as It Is Sexy - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
But there's still a great deal to worry about as Wikileaks reaches increasing levels of power and prominence in the business of gathering and distributing news. Wikileaks is scary, and not for the simple reason that it publishes state ...
mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY - http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/?c=rss

A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world?
The Associated Press
Despite the WikiLeaks episode, she said she would still push for "more information sharing in the intelligence community, not less. ...
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WikiLeaks reveal Osama shadow over Afghanistan
Hindustan Times
According to the WikiLeaks documents analysed and posted online by the Guardian newspaper, bin Laden, US intelligence on the ground in Afghanistan felt, ...
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WikiLeaks, Diablo Cody's Baby And The 'Scott Pilgrim' Premiere In Today's ...
MTV.com (blog)
Check out what they thought and what Rainn Wilson had to say about his experience withWikiLeaks after the jump. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is Twitter-Wood ...
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Analysis of Civilian Casualties in WikiLeaks Afghan File Reveals Media Bias
Huffington Post (blog)
The release of 91000 classified military documents relating to Afghanistan by the organization known as WikiLeaks offers the opportunity for a controlled ...
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Afghans Accuse NATO Of Deliberate Attack On Civilians
Huffington Post (blog)
Spanta's statement came after WikiLeaks released documents which indicated US officials believed Pakistani officials were aiding the Taliban. ...
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Woolner Discusses WikiLeaks' Release of War Documents: Video
Washington Post
July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg columnist Ann Woolner talks with Mark Crumpton about WikiLeaks' release of 92000 leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan ...
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Washington Post

Experts say leak will leave impact on White House and troops
National
NEW YORK // The 92000 secret US military files on the Afghan war leaked to WikiLeaks may have been short of startling revelations but the reverberations ...
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Wikileaks, Watergate, and Why We Must Banish the Baby Boomers
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Not to be outdone, the New York Times, the chosen recipient of 90000 Wikileaks documents (no investigative journalism here), behaved as if it had another ...
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US Commander In Afghanistan Reiterates No New News In WikiLeaks
AHN | All Headline News
... for Regional Command East in Afghanistan on Wednesday echoed the assessment of his Commander-in-Chief, President Barack Obama about WikiLeaks documents. ...
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AP Top News at 3:15 am EDT
The Associated Press
As the Obama administration scrambles to repair any political damage to the war effort in Congress and among the American public by the WikiLeaks ...
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WikiLeaks & the End of Secrecy
Internet Evolution
Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks organization are incredibly dangerous, subversive, and bad for the status quo. And they should be widely copied around the ...
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Wikileaks Raises Questions About Source/Reporter Relationship
Chicago Public Radio
The revelations from new documents and a candid interview with General McChrystal on fighting in Afghanistan raise questions about how much journalists are ...
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Peace activists praise US Rep. Dan Maffei and Wikileaks
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
Maffei's vote came days after WikiLeaks, a not for profit website, posted 90000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan. The peace activists hope ...
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WikiLeaks founder's NR connection
Daily Examiner
Wanted by US authorities, and described as the “internet's freedom fighter” by mainstream media, Mr Assange founded WikiLeaks – an “uncensorable system for ...
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Shoulder-fired missiles a threat to US troops in Afghanistan
CNN
By Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Pentagon Producer Washington (CNN) -- Among the 90000 secret US military documents posted on the internet this week by WikiLeaks ...
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A Presidential Purpose on The View
Huffington Post (blog)
The Wikileaks controversy which has caused the most recent fervor will also call for the President to explain the need for the continued fighting in ...
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Holbrooke tries to ease lawmakers' Afghan war fears
Reuters
The hearing came just days after whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks made public more than 75000 classified US military reports covering a range of incidents ...
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WikiLeaks 'Bastards'
Wall Street Journal
Julian Assange, the editor of the WikiLeaks website that on Monday released some 92000 classified military documents, has told the German newsweekly Der ...
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Wikileaks papers reveal Pentagon kill squad in Afghanistan
World War 4 Report
Amid the thousands of pages of classified US military documents released July 25 by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks are details of nearly 200 incidents ...
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WikiLeaks.org founder answers Post reader questions
Washington Post
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org, speaks with The Washington Post's Rocci Fisch and answers reader questions on just released secret Afghan war ...
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Washington Post

Sherrod and WikiLeaks: Journalism confronts media frenzy
MiamiHerald.com
In contrast, speed wasn'ta concern when the WikiLeaks website provided three newspapers with 92000 classified US military documents on the Afghanistan war, ...
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Explosive Details From WikiLeaks About The War In Afghanistan
Heavy.com (blog)
Everyone is all in an uproar because a whistleblower website called WikiLeaks thought it would be cool to release an assload (technical term) of classified ...
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Heavy.com (blog)

Ambassador: Pakistan, US Closer Now Than Era Covered by WikiLeaks Files
NewsHour
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, let me turn now to the leaks, the WikiLeaks story this week, US military secrets that document, among other things, information that ...
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The Sandwich Tasted Great Until Wikileaks Published the Calorie Count
Gawker
[President Obama placing his lunch order at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, NJ today before heading to New York City. Tonight he'll have a slightly more ...
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Shoulder-fired missiles a threat to US troops in Afghanistan

CNN (blog)
Among the 90000 secret US military documents posted on the internet this week by WikiLeaks are more than a dozen reports of possible attacks on Afghanistan ...
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When Washington stood shoulder-to-shoulder with WikiLeaks
Foreign Policy
It neglected to mention that when it comes to the release of sensitive UN documents, Washington and WikiLeaks have been allies. ...
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Foreign Policy

Pakistan's Worst Air Disaster Shifts Attention From WIkiLeaks Tension
NewsHour
The WikiLeaks controversy has reopened charges that elements of the Pakistani military and intelligence services are playing both sides of the fight in ...
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Valor Thieves: Should Faking Military Honors Be Illegal?
TIME
And as the brass is learning the hard way, when information really wants to be free, there's a guy atWikiLeaks who can help.
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Wikileaks busts myth about the irrelevance of mainstream media
Washington Post
I understand it somewhat better now, however, because the New York Times helpfully explains on its Web site that this excerpt from one of the WikiLeaks ...
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Congress extends war funding for Afghanistan, rejects exiting Pakistan despite ...
Examiner.com
The passage of the two measures comes amid the breaking WikiLeaks scandal in which 91000 exposed classified documents point to US efforts to hide civilian ...
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US Military Scrutinizes Leaks for Risks to Afghans
New York Times
A search by The New York Times through a sampling of the documents released by the organizationWikiLeaks found reports that gave the names of dozens of ...
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WikiLeaks clueless on origin of data
GulfNews
London: The editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks claims his organisation doesn't know who sent it some 91000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that ...
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GulfNews

No rest for the WikiLeaks
The Sun
By GARY TAYLOR Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been lambasted for leaking 92000 classified files about the allied forces in Afghanistan, which puts all ...
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The Sun

WikiLeaks Memos Say Ex-ISI Chief Plotted Karzai Assassination
Worldmeets.us
Founder, spokesperson and editor in chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange: His group's release of 90000 classified documents pertaining to Afghanistan has ...
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Worldmeets.us

New details about death of two California soldiers in WikiLeaks documents
McClatchy Washington Bureau
The documents — 91000 pages in all — were posted to WikiLeaks, a Web site that aims to publish internal documents from governments around the world. ...
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WikiLeaks fallout: Tighter access to US secrets?
The Associated Press
After the massive Afghan war data spill by WikiLeaks, some veteran intelligence officers and experts are calling for a tightening of access to information ...
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Karzai slams WikiLeaks' release of informants' names
AFP
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible and shocking" the release of informants' names by whistleblower site ...
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AFP

WikiLeaks Story Exposes Bad Intel From the Field and on Bin Laden
Huffington Post (blog)
Indeed, if there is any takeaway from the WikiLeaks embarrassment, it is that we need more boots and gumshoes on the ground and fewer blue suits on ...
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Hypnotic illusions at the Wikileaks Show
Register
By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author Analysis There's a theatrical quality to the publication of the Wikileaks Afghan logs that's quite at odds ...
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WikiLeaks soldier grew up in Wales
WalesOnline
A SOLDIER suspected of leaking top secret documents to WikiLeaks grew up in Wales and was schooled in Pembrokeshire, according to a report today. ...
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Forget WikiLeaks -- #Wookieleaks Reveals Classified 'Star Wars' Documents
AOL News
With the Pentagon still reeling after the website WikiLeaks released thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, the Death Star has ...
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AOL News

Pakistan's non-reaction to Wikileaks
Foreign Policy
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Press release: Legal Fund Established to Fight Imprisonment of Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower

Mike Gogulski on July 27th, 2010

Bradley Manning Support Network
www.bradleymanning.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact

Jeff Paterson, Media Relations
press@bradleymanning.org
+1 (202) 640-4388

Legal Fund Established to Fight Imprisonment of Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower

Washington D.C., July 27, 2010 – At 4PM EST on July 27, the Bradley Manning Support Network (www.bradleymanning.org) will begin accepting online donations for the legal defense of Private First Class Bradley Manning.

The Network, a grassroots initiative formed to defend and support accused whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning, has partnered with Courage to Resist, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting military objectors.

Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, stands accused of disclosing a classified video depicting American troops shooting civilians from an Apache helicopter in 2007. Eleven adults are killed in the video, including two Reuters employees, and two children critically injured. The video, available atwww.collateralmurder.com, was published by WikiLeaks on April 5, 2010. No charges have been filed against the soldiers in the video.

Bradley Manning faces up to 52 years in prison if convicted of the charges against him.

While news sources have speculated about Manning’s involvement in a new leak of over 90,000 secret documents (collectively known as the Afghanistan “war logs”) made public by WikiLeaks on Sunday, no charges regarding this recent breach have been filed.

As of this writing, Manning has not yet chosen a civilian attorney to defend him in the expected trial. While several news sources had previously indicated that funding for Manning’s legal counsel was already arranged, the Bradley Manning Support Network states that there is an immediate need for donations to his legal defense.

Legal defense in this case will be particularly expensive because any legal team will most likely need a background in military law and the flexibility to travel overseas for the trial as well as secret security clearance.

“We have heard from the family and the military lawyers assigned to Bradley that the cost of his defense will be significant,” said Mike Gogulski, an online activist and founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. “We are also concerned that Bradley may choose his legal counsel based on his available funds. If he fears his family will absorb the cost of the trial, he might choose a less experienced, less expensive attorney. We’re very concerned about the ramifications of such a decision.”

The Bradley Manning Support Network passed a resolution on July 12, 2010 to begin fundraising for Manning’s legal defense. At this time, the Network estimates between $50,000 and $200,000 in legal fees and expenses will be needed to mount a vigorous defense on behalf of Manning. They have also indicated that WikiLeaks, who published and promoted the Collateral Murder video, has promised a significant donation to Manning’s defense.

“If Manning is the source of the video, then he did what he had to do to expose a possible war crime. So regardless, he’s wrongly imprisoned and we want to do everything possible to support him,” said Jeff Paterson, Project Director of Courage to Resist. “I know from past experience working with military objectors that public support and the right civilian defense team can be the difference between an administrative separation and years in the stockade.”

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The Significance of the ‘Support Bradley Manning’ Campaign

Katharine Dawn on July 24th, 2010

July 24, 2010

Editorial by Katharine Dawn

Background

Bradley Manning is the young man charged with leaking classified US military information – including the video of a US Army helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians and Reuters journalists in Iraq in 2007 that was released to the world via the whistleblower website WikiLeaks as “Collateral Murder”. Bradley is now held in isolation from the outside world, in military detention in Kuwait.  Bradley, who reportedly felt un-supported in life, faces – for his alleged actions – up to 52 years imprisonment.

Could the fate of one young man have any bearing upon the fate of the world?

Standing back from the tremendous onrush of these pivotal times, is it possible to realistically gauge the significance of the Support Bradley Manning campaign to the future outcome of the world? That is the objective of this article, exploring divergent scenarios ; I’ll let my esteemed readers and the course of history be the judge. So,

What if the world abandons Bradley Manning and the cause of open, informed public debate he stands for?

• After putting his life on the line to provide the public with information he felt they deserved, the fate of Bradley Manning – who is said to have felt unsupported in life anyway – would be left in the dirty hands of the US military prison system for a substantial portion of his life.

• The wave of public outrage following upon WikiLeaks’ release of “Collateral Murder” would subside… and US war crimes would continue unchecked, unabated and largely unknown.

• Even WikiLeaks may fade into the background noise of a world where secrecy, deception and\ corruption are rife and crimes against humanity, the earth and the future proceed in hellish haste.

But…

What if the world Supports Bradley Manning and the cause of open, informed public debate?

• Global civil society would defend the actions for which Bradley Manning is charged [ie, the leaking of classified documents]; uphold the public’s right to know and demand the release of Bradley Manning and the dismissal of all charges against him: Bradley Manning would walk forth as a free man.

• The “greatest leak in 40 years” [according to Daniel Ellsberg, the man who in 1971 leaked the “Pentagon Papers”, thereby fuelling public outrage over the Vietnam War] would not fade into nothingness as mute testimony to humanity’s apathy and disempowerment, but rather would open wide the floor of public debate and awareness regarding issues of war and peace.

• Bradley’s iconic example and growing public awareness of the professional and secure service of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, would open the floodgate for a deluge of whistle-blowing – as individuals everywhere, motivated by the public’s right to know, leak secret documents and classified material exposing corruption, deception and crimes against humanity – and lead to public outcry for real change.

Clearly, I’m hoping and working for the latter future scenario. And you?

Noting how when there’s “one man in chains, none are free”, a friend comments: “Bradley represents the truth-sayer in us all – if we leave him there, we abandon our own inner calling for truth”.

Katharine Dawn may be contacted through www.ec2012.org ,http://www.livingtogethernetwork.net. Her former article on this issue was “World History Before Our Eyes”.

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Online, A Huge Movement Has Sprung Up Demanding Bradley’s Release.

Mike Gogulski on July 22nd, 2010

From the Western Telegraph, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK:

Ex-Tasker Milward pupil in Wikileaks US security scandal

One pupil in Bradley’s year, who asked not to be named, said: “He was really into computers and politics, he was always online, on MSN or myspace. I think everyone I know who has been talking about it can’t actually believe they know him. I can remember he boasted about his computer skills and stuff, but you just don’t expect someone you know to be arrested for something like this.”

[...] Online, a huge movement has sprung up demanding Bradley’s release.

[...] Within days of Bradley being charged, 20,000 people visited the bradleymanning.org site. A petition started last month has already attracted more than 1,400 signatures.

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Wikileaks’ Jacob Appelbaum Mentions Bradley Manning, This Site At Hacker Conference

Mike Gogulski on July 18th, 2010

Jacob Appelbaum filled in Saturday for Julian Assange by making a keynote address on behalf of Wikileaks at the Next Hope hacker conference in New York City.

Appelbaum’s inspiring talk includes discussion of how Wikileaks works, the successes it’s had in the past and its plans for the immediate future. Among other topics, he discussed how Wikileaks’ publication of documentation of the causes of Iceland’s banking crisis led to the creation of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, which promises to make the country a haven for journalism and transparency in the internet age.

You can listen to Jacob’s hour-plus presentation online at http://drop.io/thenexthope_wikileaks/asset/ioerror-hope-wikileaks-20100717-mp3. Starting around 36:40 in the recording, he begins to address the case of Collateral Murder, Bradley Manning and the “journalist” who betrayed him — and who, according to the enthusiastic audience, shall henceforward have no name in their community. He also mentions bradleymanning.org, and has praise for the work in Manning’s support coming together here. Worth a listen, if you have the time.

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A Letter To Newspaper Editors

Mike Gogulski on July 16th, 2010

Florida attorney and Bradley Manning supporter James Cerveny wrote the letter below and sent it to the editors of a number of newspapers in Florida.

Let’s hope it gets published. Letters such as these do not change public opinion or government policy overnight, but sustained campaigns have long used them as one tool in the kit that’s both cheap and potentially powerful.

Why not send a letter to the editors of papers in your area? You can find a substantial directory of their email addresses here: http://www.mapinc.org/perl/directory.pr

Bradley Manning, currently held in a military gulag by the US government, is an American hero. His “crime” was to release to WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website, a suppressed videotape of a blatant war crime in which US soldiers chortle with glee as they gun down unarmed civilians, including children.  Manning has also allegedly released numerous diplomatic cables exposing massive corruption involving US officials as well as those of the puppet government we have installed in Iraq.

The government, and Manning’s detractors, claim that the release of the video jeopardizes “national security.”  This rings false, as the video is over three years old.  Rather, the government is charging him under draconian laws, including a statute typically used in espionage cases, to make an example of him for embarrassing our ruling class and for breaking through the tight censorship that has been increasingly successful in shielding the American people from exposure to the harsh realities of our illegal wars of aggression.

In case it hasn’t sunk in, the man was charged with espionage for revealing information to the American people that they should be entitled to have.  This is what our “republic” has come to.

Two “journalists” from Wired magazine (both convicted felons), using grossly unethical methods of selection and omission in writing their article, conspired with each other as well as the government to silence Manning and to smear him as a “traitor.”  Not surprisingly, the substance of this Orwellian hit piece has been parroted unquestioningly by our sycophantic mainstream media. Readers desiring a balanced approach to the Manning story should read the excellent article by Glen Greenwald in Salon.com.

The actions of the US government in prosecuting Manning, instead of the moral cretins in the helicopter and their superiors, are those of a tyrannical state.  The actions of our media in their “reporting” of the story are like those of their counterparts in North Korea.

God help this nation.

James Cerveny
Gainesville FL

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Meeting report – 12 July 2010

Mike Gogulski on July 14th, 2010

A report from the first IRC/teleconference meeting of Bradley Manning supporters coming together via this website and the mailing list. Interested parties, please note the next meeting, tomorrow (Thursday).

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Rumi  wrote:

Dear Supporters,

Today we had our first official (and extremely successful) meeting of the Save Bradley Manning Campaign.  I’m glad to report we have an talented group of dedicated activists working on this issue, and they bring together a whole array of experiences and skills.

This call was very productive and incredibly inspiring.  However, there is still much to be done.  Please join us for our NEXT CONFERENCE CALL ON THIS THURSDAY AT 8:30 PM EASTERN/5:30 PM PACIFIC.  The conference call number is +1 (661) 673-8600, Participant Access Code: 974507#.  **Please be sure to check your email prior to the call in case the call-in instructions change. **

Here are some of the initiatives we will be beginning.  Please review this list and think about which particular initiatives you would most like to contribute to.

1.                   Initiate Contact Team (Manuel) – Our organization has been unable to make contact with Bradley Manning.  Manuel is spearheading the effort to contact Manning, make him aware of our efforts and find out if he needs anything.

2.                  Tech Team (Nadim)– We are very lucky to have a skilled group of tech geeks (I use the term lovingly) from around the world who will be ensuring that we have a secure, accessible site to exchange information and involve as many volunteers as possible on this campaign.

3.                  Activist Outreach Team (Manuel, others) – There are several peace groups and activists groups whose values are in alignment with our own. We will be reaching out to them in the coming week and asking for their support. Current groups include Amnesty International, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace.  **If you would like to suggest another group, please let us know. Please especially let the group know if you represent an organization that would like to support Manning.**

4.                  International Outreach Team (Charlotte, others) – We will be reaching out to peace groups and activist organizations internationally.

5.                  Social Networking Outreach Team (Rainey, Mike, others) We are coordinating a group of individuals to increase our social media presence and begin online events to support Manning.

6.                 Mailing List Moderation Captains (Several) – While the free exchange of ideas on the mailing list has been fun, it’s getting excessive.   We’ll be putting 3 moderators in charge of the mailing list. There will be no spam or cyber bullying.  We will divvy up the mailing list according to participation levels.  End result: fewer complaints about too many emails. Please be patient with the mailing list for the next couple days while we get this ironed out.

7.                  Trust Fund – one of the most functions of our organization will be ensuring that Manning has support when we he is freed.  We are very grateful to have one lawyer willing to volunteer on this issue. **If you are a lawyer or feel you can assist in this, please let us know.**

8.                 Media Upload - We are establishing a secure mechanism for uploading media contact information so we can pool our resources prior to our first official press release. We’ll let you know when this is ready and where to securely upload your media contacts.

9.                  Writers Group and Editorial Board - We will be establishing a working group of writers to publish to our blog and press release.  If you have been considering working on a story, please get started on it (or at least on a proposal) now and we’ll hammer out the editorial board to ensure quality and consistency at the next meeting.

10.   Wikileaks Team – We have organizers who are going to interface with Wikileaks as needed. Wikileaks is not behind our organization; we are only concerned individuals who want to speak out.

Next Steps

Our next call is in 3 days.  It will be THIS THURSDAY (7/15) AT 8:30 PM EASTERN/5:30 PM PACIFIC.  The conference call number is +1  (661) 673-8600, Participant Access Code: 974507#.  **Please be sure to check your email prior to the call in case the call in instructions change. **  If you cannot attend, don’t worry and just try to make the next one.

I will send around an agenda prior to the call. If you have items you would like added to the agenda, please let me know.

Remember- time is of the essence. If you have been waiting to do something for Bradley Manning, then please use this as your call to action to get started.   Our time is short so please don’t wait to get involved. Three things you should do today before you go to bed:

1.       Send Bradley Manning a letter and mail it to

Inmate: Bradley Manning
TFCF (Theater Field Confinement Facility)
APO AE 09366
USA

2.       Start working on a blog post for our website or a Letter to the Editor for your largest local paper.

3.       Tell 3 friends about Bradley Manning and urge them to sign the petition and fan our Facebook page.

I am very proud to be working with this group.  Please brainstorm about ways you can help spread the message.

Best,

Rainey

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July

World History Before Our Eyes

Katharine Dawn on July 12th, 2010

Two men of very divergent walks of life have been irrevocably connected on the stage of world history.

One is 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. (formerly SPC) Bradley Manning who allegedly leaked a secret video and classified military information to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, was arrested by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command in May 2010 and is currently held in US military detention in Kuwait facing numerous charges.

The other is Julian Assange, the daring co-founder and prominent spokesperson for WikiLeaks. Dubbed by some as “the most dangerous man in the world” and by others as a super-hero of the truth movement, Julian Assange remains highly active despite having to step up his personal security measures since the Manning arrest so as to elude “prosecution or worse”.

The leaked video, published by WikiLeaks in April 2010 under the title “Collateral Murder“, shows an American attack helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians and a Reuters camera crew in Baghdad in 2007.

Like a large stone thrown into a great pool, this significant leak is creating numerous and wide-ranging ripples.

Ripple One: It has caused a wave of public outrage, internationally but particularly within the United States, over US militarism, demonstrating the power of leaked classified material to fuel civil activism for a more just and peaceful world.

Ripple Two: A “Supporters of Bradley Manning” group has been started, bringing together a high power international team with skills and networks from independent media, law, IT and peace activism, furthering what were reportedly Manning’s hopes that the release of the videos and documents would lead to “worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms”.

Ripple Three: Significant mainstream media attention on the combat video leak brought its publisher, WikiLeaks, into the limelight. As a result, the word is out. That there exists an international public service called WikiLeaks, run by a collective of journalists and activists, that web-publishes leaked secret documents and media. That WikiLeaks protects its sources (using the most sophisticated encryption technology and basing their operations in countries such as Sweden and Belgium which have strong source protection laws). That WikiLeaks invites anyone with access to classified or confidential material that rightfully belongs in the public domain to contact them.

The Bradley Manning Support Group can be joined at www.bradleymanning.org

Will we be seeing many, many more coming forward int the manner of Attorney at Law James Ceverney, who wrote in the open email communications of the Support Group: “For a long time I have felt sickened about what is happening in this country, and I have felt guilty that my activism has been minimal. This case, however, touched a nerve in me. For me, this was the last straw. I’m ready to get off my butt and do something, anything I can, to stop this monstrous compounding of injustice upon injustice.”

References for this article include

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

http://indymedia.org.au/keywords/bradley-manning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Bradley_Manning

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2920598.htm

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/wanted-by-the-us-wikileaks-founder-keeps-his-head-down-20100613-y652.html

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July

Supporters Mailing List

Mike Gogulski on July 7th, 2010

Friends,

I’ve set up an email list for supports of Bradley Manning who want to get active in making a real campaign happen.

Visit http://lists.bradleymanning.org/listinfo.cgi/supporters-bradleymanning.org  and add yourself today!

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THE CHARGES – A QUICK ANALYSIS

Mike Gogulski on July 6th, 2010

A quick analysis of the present charges against Bradley Manning. I’m not a lawyer, but I can read statutes. Mentions here of WikiLeaks and the identification of the video as “Collateral Murder” are my own interpolations.

Count	Law	Description	Possible penalty
Charge I, Specifica- tion 1	UCMJ 92 (10 USC §892)	Violation of lawful general regulation (copying “Collateral Murder” video to PC)	2 years + forfeiture of all pay and allowances
Charge I, Specifica- tion 2	UCMJ 92 (10 USC §892)	Violation of lawful general regulation (copying more than 50 US Dept. of State cables to PC)	2 years + forfeiture of all pay and allowances
Charge I, Specifica- tion 3	UCMJ 92 (10 USC §892)	Violation of lawful general regulation (copying PowerPoint presentation to PC)	2 years + forfeiture of all pay and allowances
Charge I, Specifica- tion 4	UCMJ 92 (10 USC §892)	Violation of lawful general regulation (adding unauthorized software toSIPRNet computer)	2 years + forfeiture of all pay and allowances
Charge II, Specifica- tion 1	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §793(e)	Possessed “Collateral Murder” video without authorization and transmitted it (to WikiLeaks)	up to 10 years + up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 2	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(1)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining and transmitting “Collateral Murder” video (to WikiLeaks)	up to 10 years + up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 3	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(1)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining and transmitting “Reykjavik 13″ cable (to WikiLeaks)	up to 10 years + up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 4	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(1)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining and transmitting more than 50 classified US Dept. of State cables (to WikiLeaks)	up to 10 years + up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 5	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(2)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining “Collateral Murder” video without authorization	up to 5 years1+ up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 6	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(2)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining “Reykjavik 13″ cables without authorization	up to 5 years + up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 7	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(2)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining more than 150,000 diplomatic cables without authorization	up to 5 years + up to $250,000 fine
Charge II, Specifica- tion 8	UCMJ 134 (10 USC §934), 18 USC §1030(a)(2)	Misused SIPRNet PC in obtaining PowerPoint presentation without authorization	up to 5 years + up to $250,000 fine

¹ Depending on the application of 18 USC §1030(c)(2)(B)(ii-iii), each of these charges might carry a penalty of up to 1 year instead.

In addition to the statues linked above, some information taken from the Military Judges’ Benchbook (PDF), Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-9.

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Charge sheet (HTML)

Mike Gogulski on July 6th, 2010

CHARGE I: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 92

SPECIFICATION 1: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-6(k), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully introducing a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system.

SPECIFICATION 2: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-6(k), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully introducing more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system.

SPECIFICATION 3: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-6(k), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully introducing a classified Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system.

SPECIFICATION 4: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 3 April 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-5(a)(3), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully adding unauthorized software to a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer.

CHARGE II: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 134

SPECFICATION 1: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010, have unauthorized possession of photographs relating to the national defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the video, or cause the video to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 793(e), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 2: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010, knowingly exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive Order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the video, or cause the video to be communicated, delivered and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 3: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 13 January 2010 and on or about 19 February 2010, knowingly exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive Order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of foreign relations, to wit: a classified United States Department of State cable titled “Reykjavik 13,” and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the cable, or cause the cable to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 4: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 24 May 2010, knowingly exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive Order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of foreign relations, to wit: more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables, and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the cables, or cause the cables to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive them, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 5: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from the United States Department of Defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 6: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 13 January 2010 and on or about 19 February 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from the United States Department of State, to wit: a classified cable titled “Reykjavik 13,” in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 7: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, on divers occasions, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from an the United States Department of State, to wit: more than 150,000 diplomatic cables, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

SPECIFICATION 8: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, on divers occasions, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from the United States Department of Defense, to wit: a classified Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.