A Closer Lens On WikiLeaks—Informative Stories From Around The Web
I keep a close eye on the Wikileaks project on the web and Twitter, for one reason: “For no more than the truth being told to the public.” This blog post as the title aptly puts is an informative article in defense of the wikileaks, with facts from around the web by very credible news and blog sites.
As you may know by now more than 250,000 State Department cables acquired by WikiLeaks have gradually been made public, you may check the archives here at the Telegraph News for a history of leaked cables in the news. Other
What’s immediately surprising, you might be asking, is how 250,000 cables get leaked by just low-level intelligence analysts. This is a question I asked before writing this blog post, so here is the answer. Simply this is how it started says Hilary Clinton on Foreign Policy:
The decision was made in the Bush administration to add the diplomatic cables to the Defense Department’s special network that was created for that purpose.
She goes on to say:
The process was undertaken in order to do a better job of what’s called ‘connecting the dots,’ because after 9/11, one of the principle criticisms of the government was that the information was stovepiped, that the Defense Department knew things that the State Department didn’t know, that the White House didn’t know.
The individual responsible for the leaks Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst with the 10th Mountain division in Iraq has been charged with transferring classified information to an unauthorized source. He was apprehended in May 2010 and anyone else that participated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Congressman Ron Paul on a recent status update tweets this about the WikiLeaks Project:
A good tweet of what I feel about the Wikileaks project, I respect Ron Paul for his honesty. Even though Wikileaks is not a trending topic on Twitter (it should very well be) one can still give Twitter some credit for keeping the @WikiLeaks account active. @Facebook has the same strategy as they feel the content in their stream doesn’t break any of their social media rules.
Assange, 39, turned himself in to police Tuesday morning, hours after Britain received a formal warrant for his arrest from Swedish authorities. Surprisingly he wasn’t arrested for the leaks, but was ordered to remain in custody until a hearing next week on his possible extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women.
Assange, who is Australian, is eager to avoid extradition for fear that it could set the stage for him to be sent to the U.S. if prosecutors there charge him with offenses relating to the WikiLeaks disclosures of State Department diplomatic cables and classified Pentagon files related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Link: Wikileaks May Not Be Trending on Twitter, but ‘Assange Arrested’ Is, says the Atlantic today
For me personally I feel information should be free just as the web is free and always has been. The cables deemed as secret (not top secret) communications between diplomats and State, will not change the sphere of geopolitics, just spread the truth about what governments are really thinking—and the public has a right to know. Most of us noted that the majority of 9/11 bombers came from America’s big friend Saudi Arabia, China is hacking into and sabotaging computers owned by the US government and American businesses, I mean tell us something we don’t know already. The only thing we didn’t know was that the Saudi’s were egging the Americans to bomb Iran.
Before formulating your own opinions view the video below from TED where Assange explains why the world needs Wikileaks.
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Stories from around the Web
Net freedom ‘at stake’ on WikiLeaks
Whether you support or revile WikiLeaks, these latest developments have serious implications for Internet freedom.First, there is the fact that the Web is privately held, despite how we may see it; every time we publish to Twitter or Facebook, we risk violating proprietary terms of service that may or may not be in accordance with the principles of free speech.
‘The United States Is Behind This Deliberate Leak’
Iran has its own special take on the diplomatic cables recently published by WikiLeaks. Presidential Advisor Esfandiar Rahim Mashai assumes that the United States government leaked the documents itself. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he says that Washington’s goal is to play off the governments in the Middle East against one other.
You’re either with us, or you’re with WikiLeaks
Assange Set Up By CIA Operative?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest over the dubious rape and molestation claims of two Swedish women is likely a political stunt, after it was revealed that one of the women has connections to the CIA and is a militant feminist who published a guide on how to get revenge on men and make them “suffer”
Information wants to be free
The phrase information wants to be free is one of the most important observations of the information age. Dating to Stewart Brand in 1984, the statement is often misunderstood and sure to piss people off.
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