Manning: Before Wikileaks, Leaked Docs Offered to NYT, WaPo
In what The Guardian‘s correspondent Ed Pilkington describes as a “bombshell” revelation, Bradley Manning on Thursday revealed that prior to reaching out to Wikileaks with a trove of government and military documents, the whistleblower first contacted more established media outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, but was brushed off by editors. As [...]
WikiLeaks: US ‘to call bin Laden raid Navy Seal to testify against Bradley Manning’
February 27, 2013 No Comment
Prosecutors trying Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old soldier accused of engineering the largest intelligence leak in US history, are seeking to prove that al-Qaeda directly benefitted from access to the classified files. They claim that when bin Laden requested information about US defence policy a subordinate emailed him with data taken from the trove of documents [...]
#WikiLeaks to release over 1 Million new secret documents that would affect “every country in the world”
December 21, 2012 No Comment
WikiLeaks planned to release over one million new secret documents that would affect “every country in the world’’, its founder Julian Assange announced in a defiant speech from the balcony of Ecuadorian embassy here as his supporters shouted, “We love you Julian’’ and sang Christmas carols. It was his second “balcony’’ address since he sought [...]
Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of causing the biggest security breach in American history, finally broke his silence yesterday as he gave evidence at a pre-trial hearing, saying he felt like a doomed, caged animal after he was arrested for allegedly divulging secretes to the WikiLeaks website. Speaking in court after 917 days in military [...]
A freelance photographer for The New York Times was arrested on Saturday night while on assignment with two reporters who were conducting street interviews in the Bronx. The photographer, Robert Stolarik, 43, who has worked regularly for The Times for more than a decade, was charged with obstructing government administration and with resisting arrest. He [...]
FORT MEADE, Maryland — President Barack Obama’s comments about the soldier accused of the biggest intelligence leak in US history may have damaged the prospects of a fair trial, a defense lawyer argued Tuesday. Other leading members of the government, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the former head of the US military, Admiral [...]
London (CNN) — WikiLeaks said Thursday it has begun publishing some 2.4 million e-mails from Syrian politicians, government ministries and companies dating back to 2006. The e-mails, which are in a range of languages including Arabic and Russian, come from the ministries of presidential affairs, finance, information and foreign affairs, among others. According to WikiLeaks, [...]
(Reuters) – The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor, which [...]
By Steven Swinford – Telegraph According to leaked diplomatic cables, the head of the Egyptian state security and investigative service (SSIS) thanked the US for “training opportunities” at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. The SSIS has been repeatedly accused of using violence and brutality to help prop up the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. [...]
By Wojciech Moskwa (Reuters) – Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired. The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepts nominations for what many consider as the world’s top accolade until February 1, although the five [...]
By Michael Calderone Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, told The Cutline yesterday that the paper is considering creating its own WikiLeaks-style, in-house submission system for potential leakers. That’s probably a good idea, since it’s unlikely WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange will fork over any secret documents followingKeller’s harsh critique in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. [...]
Israel rejected Palestinian offer of almost all Jerusalem: leaked documents
January 24, 2011 No CommentBy Daniel Tencer Documents to show ‘intimate level of covert co-operation’ between Israel, Palestinian Authority “Desperate” Palestinian negotiators offered Israel almost all of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal, only to see the offer rejected as inadequate, leaked official Palestinian documents show.
By Eric W. Dolan The international human rights group Amnesty International has sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Robert Gates calling for the “inhumane” conditions of US army private Bradley Manning to be reviewed. Twenty-three year old Manning, who is accused of leaking information to WikiLeaks, has been held in a solitary cell for 23 [...]
Banker who handed WikiLeaks Swiss bank account details of celebrity ‘tax evaders’ arrested
January 20, 2011 No Comment
By Daily Mail Reporter A banker who claims to have handed details of rich tax cheats to WikiLeaks has been arrested, Swiss police revealed today. Rudolf Elmer is being held after handing Julian Assange two CDs in London reputedly containing the details of up to 2,000 well known tax evaders. The list includes 40 politicians [...]
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press LONDON – A former Swiss banker on Monday supplied documents to WikiLeaks that he alleges detail attempts by wealthy business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments. Rudolf Elmer, an ex-employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, said there were 2,000 account holders named in the documents, but refused to [...]
