Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of the new documentary “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” joined the ACLU’s Ben Wizner to talk whistleblowers, accountability, and government efforts to plug leaks. Privacy statement.Show More Summary
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of passing U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, continues on Wednesday, when his immediate superiors are...
By now half the Internet has read the New York Times piece Julian Assange wrote on Google. In theory, it's sort of an analysis of "The New Digital Age," a book by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former State Department official Jared Cohen, which got a lukewarm review in the Times a month ago. Show More Summary
On Tuesday, Hollywood celebrities released a teaser video defending alleged traitorous soldier Private Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking classified documents to Julian Assange of Wikileaks. “I am Bradley Manning,” the celebrities proclaim. Show More Summary
Phil Donahue, Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Wallace Shawn, Tom Morello and Moby are among the celebrities appearing in a new video in support of Wikileaks soldier Bradley Manning, whose trial began this week. "When you join...
Adrian Lamo’s decision to finger Bradley Manning as one of WikiLeaks’ most prolific sources of secrets may have led to the young Army private’s arrest three years ago. But on Tuesday, Lamo provided courtroom testimony that could draw an important legal distinction in Manning’s motives: that Manning leaked his troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks [...]
A new teaser video released this afternoon shows a slew of celebrities and activists rallying in support of military whistleblower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, whose trial for leaking 700,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks began today. "I am Bradley Manning" is the tagline of the PSA created by the eponymous group and featuring supportive celebrities like...
Catching up on the trial of the infamous Wikileaks whistleblower.
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, accused of the biggest breach of classified information in U.S. history, focused Tuesday on his motivations for giving secrets to the WikiLeaks website in 2010 and pros...
THE I am Bradley Manning campaign released the video above. The thing that haunts me about this case is the reported treatment of the Manning, as well as the delay of his trial. I’ve provided the statement of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange below, part of the Bradley Manning campaign, which isn’t an endorsement of Assange, [...]Show More Summary
A 2008 report produced by the Army Counterintelligence Center highlighted how WikiLeaks had cited two thousand pages of "leaked US Army documents with information on the Tables of Equipment (TOEs) for US and Coalition forces in IraqShow More Summary
"I'm untouchable now in this country." After making headlines around the world, Julian Assange and his controversial, government secret spewing website WikiLeaks is now at the center of a new documentary from director Alex Gibney called We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. Show More Summary
In Bradley Manning's first day of trial, the defense and the prosecution clashed over how to characterize the 25-year-old Wikileaks source. To the prosecution, Manning is a reckless and arrogant enemy of the state. To the defense, he...Show More Summary
The "Wikileaks court-martial" of Bradley Manning began yesterday -- as predicted, it opened "with dueling portrayals of a traitor who endangered the lives of his fellow soldiers [the government's characterization] and of a principled...Show More Summary
Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, says that Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of aiding the enemy by leaking military secrets, is “the most prominent political prisoner in modern U.S. history” whose alleged crime is "telling the t …
Over the past month, Freedom of the Press Foundation (I'm on the board) has been crowdfunding money to hire a professional stenographer to provide daily transcripts of the court martial of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. Show More Summary
The following statement by Julian Assange was first posted on the WikiLeaks website. In addition to this, please see the Bradley Manning Trial FAQ, the “Opening statements on Bradley Manning’s intentions: trial report, day 1” on the Bradley Manning support Network website, and “Bradley Manning’s personal statement to court martial: full text.” Assange Statement on the […]
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FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of a soldier charged with using the WikiLeaks website for the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history heads into a second day on Tuesday, with a cyber crime investigator the day's lead-o...