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03-27-2010, 12:14 AM | #1 |
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Wiki leaks to reveal pentagon murder of journalists - wikileaks editir detained
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Wikileaks has a mission of bringing hidden information to light, when it’s in the public interest. Wikipedia outlines their greatest hits, including Gauntanamo Bay procedure documents, scientology secrets, and net censorship lists. They come under fire sometimes for hosting material that probably isn’t much in the public interest, but overall they have contributed some compelling information to some fractious global arguments. In the last 24 hours, their Twitter feed has contained some worrying content. * WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club@sunshinepress.org * WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation. Following/photographing/filming/detaining * If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible. * Two under State Dep diplomatic cover followed our editor from Iceland to http://skup.no on Thursday. * One related person was detained for 22 hours. Computer’s seized.That’s http://www.skup.no * We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being discussed at the highest levels of US command. * We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike. * We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don’t think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks. All those came out in a rush, then silence for hours. Might just be a timezone thing, with people sleeping, or maybe there’s been no news, or maybe everyone with access to the Twitter feed has been detained. I await more information. UPDATE: “To those worrying about us–we’re fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly.” 8.22am NZ time. UPDATE: Just noticed that the first tweet quoted, “WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup” is gone from the feed. Now I wish I’d linked to all of them individually. Anyway, it was definitely there, and I think Linda is right that it is this previously-referred-to video UPDATE: commenter eru found the missing tweet. It isn’t visible in the ordinary feed for some reason. FROM HERE: CLICK THIS LINK TO READ THE LINKS WITHIN THE ARTICLE ABOVE: http://morgue.isprettyawesome.com/?p=1361 MORE HERE: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...Detains-Editor AND HERE ON HOW WIKILEAKS STAFF ARE BEING HARASSED AND SPIES ON FOR GETTING TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH. http://www.wikileaks.com/#spying Fri Mar 26 08:44:46 UTC 2010 Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my compound there in 2007 is still unattributed) to an unsuccessful mass attack by Chinese computers on our servers in Stockholm, after we published photos of murders in Tibet. In the West this has ranged from the overt, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, threatening to prosecute us unless we removed a report on CIA activity in Kosovo, to the covert, to an ambush by a "James Bond" character in a Luxembourg car park, an event that ended with a mere "we think it would be in your interest to...". Developing world violence aside, we've become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest. But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive. Some of the new interest is related to a film exposing a U.S. massacre we will release at the U.S. National Press Club on April 5. The spying includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks' volunteer in Iceland on Monday night. I, and others were in Iceland to advise Icelandic parliamentarians on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a new package of laws designed to protect investigative journalists and internet services from spying and censorship. As such, the spying has an extra poignancy. The possible triggers: * our ongoing work on a classified film revealing civilian casualties occurring under the command of the U.S, general, David Petraeus. * our release of a classified 32 page US intelligence report on how to fatally marginalize WikiLeaks (expose our sources, destroy our reputation for integrity, hack us). * our release of a classified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik reporting on contact between the U.S. and the U.K. over billions of euros in claimed loan guarantees. * pending releases related to the collapse of the Icelandic banks and Icelandic "oligarchs". We have discovered half a dozen attempts at covert surveillance in Reykjavik both by native English speakers and Icelanders. On the occasions where these individuals were approached, they ran away. One had marked police equipment and the license plates for another suspicious vehicle track back to the Icelandic private VIP bodyguard firm Terr. What does that mean? We don't know. But as you will see, other events are clear. U.S. sources told Icelandic state media's deputy head of news, that the State Department was aggressively investigating a leak from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik. I was seen at a private U.S Embassy party at the Ambassador's residence, late last year and it is known I had contact with Embassy staff, after. On Thursday March 18, 2010, I took the 2.15 PM flight out of Reykjavik to Copenhagen--on the way to speak at the SKUP investigative journalism conference in Norway. After receiving a tip, we obtained airline records for the flight concerned. Two individuals, recorded as brandishing diplomatic credentials checked in for my flight at 12:03 and 12:06 under the name of "US State Department". The two are not recorded as having any luggage. Iceland doesn't have a separate security service. It folds its intelligence function into its police forces, leading to an uneasy overlap of policing and intelligence functions and values. On Monday 22, March, at approximately 8.30pm, a WikiLeaks volunteer, a minor, was detained by Icelandic police on a wholly insignificant matter. Police then took the opportunity to hold the youth over night, without charge--a highly unusual act in Iceland. The next day, during the course of interrogation, the volunteer was shown covert photos of me outside the Reykjavik restaurant "Icelandic Fish & Chips", where a WikiLeaks production meeting took place on Wednesday March 17--the day before individuals operating under the name of the U.S. State Department boarded my flight to Copenhagen. Our production meeting used a discreet, closed, backroom, because we were working on the analysis of a classified U.S. military video showing civilian kills by U.S. pilots. During the interrogation, a specific reference was made by police to the video---which could not have been understood from that day's exterior surveillance alone. Another specific reference was made to "important", but unnamed Icelandic figures. References were also made to the names of two senior journalists at the production meeting. Who are the Icelandic security services loyal to in their values? The new government of April 2009, the old pro-Iraq war government of the Independence party, or perhaps to their personal relationships with peers from another country who have them on a permanent intelligence information drip? Only a few years ago, Icelandic airspace was used for CIA rendition flights. Why did the CIA think that this was acceptable? In a classified U.S. profile on the former Icelandic Ambassador to the United States, obtained by WikiLeaks, the Ambassador is praised for helping to quell publicity of the CIA's activities. Often when a bold new government arises, bureaucratic institutions remain loyal to the old regime and it can take time to change the guard. Former regime loyalists must be discovered, dissuaded and removed. But for the security services, that first vital step, discovery, is awry. Congenitally scared of the light, such services hide their activities; if it is not known what security services are doing, then it is surely impossible to know who they are doing it for. Our plans to release the video on April 5 proceed. We have asked relevant authorities in the Unites States and Iceland to explain. If these countries are to be treated as legitimate states, they need to start obeying the rule of law. Now. —Julian Assange (editor@wikileaks.org) |
03-27-2010, 12:31 AM | #2 |
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Re: Wiki leaks to reveal pentagon murder of journalists - wikileaks editir detained
This is truly amazing and I hope to hell they get it done
Its about time |
03-27-2010, 03:17 AM | #3 |
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Re: Wiki leaks to reveal pentagon murder of journalists - wikileaks editir detained
Secrecy, corruption, violence, and intrigue continue to trouble me deeply. The fact that these things frequently seem to occur in connection with persons and organizations supposedly devoted to law and order...is highly disturbing.
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03-27-2010, 03:27 AM | #4 |
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Re: Wiki leaks to reveal pentagon murder of journalists - wikileaks editir detained
all my willpower is behind you wikileaks crew
i gave my $10 when I could, now all I can give is this |
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