The U.S. searches for war criminals - Glenn Greenwald. 24. War Crimes of General Stanley McChrystal. A little more than a year before he was fired on June 23, 2010, for making potentially insubordinate remarks in a Rolling Stone profile, General Stanley McChrystal was appointed by President Barack Obama as commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan.
He had been formerly in charge of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) headed by former Vice President Dick Cheney. Most of what General McChrystal has done over a thirty-three-year career remains classified, including service between 2003 and 2008 as commander of the JSOC, a special black operations commando unit of the Navy Seals and Delta Force so clandestine that the Pentagon for years refused to acknowledge its existence.
Student Researcher: Cristina Risso (Sonoma State University) Faculty Evaluator: Elaine Wellin (Sonoma State University) JSOC was also involved in war crimes, including the torture of prisoners in secret “ghost” detention sites. Update Sources: Australia could charge WikiLeaks over US document release. Julian Assange Australia's Attorney-General has flagged charging WikiLeaks members for their involvement in releasing confidential US military documents.
Speaking at the launch of an international cyber security exercise earlier this week, Attorney-General Robert McClelland expressed his disapproval of WikiLeaks's July release of tens of thousands of secret US documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. He said the release of the documents, 77,000 in total, had put lives at risk and he criticised WikiLeaks for making such a decision ''from the comfort of an office.'' ''Anything that puts those people - who are serving their country and protecting our security - at risk is entirely reprehensible, whether it's done for notoriety, or whether it's done for commercial interests,'' he said. ''It's not the sort of thing that I would comment on, but … we do co-operate in respect to a number of matters internationally,'' he said.
Advertisement. Wikileaks Doc: Corporate Media’s Spin of Wikileaks Digital Documents by Design – Alex Jones Tv. Wikileaks founder could face prosecution over US military document release - 9/30/2010. Thursday 30 September 2010 17:34 Wikileaks founder and Australian citizen, Julian Assange, may face prosecution from Australia if further US military documents released by the whistleblower site threaten serving forces' safety, claims a report.
Speaking at an international cyber security exercise launch, Australia's Attorney-General Robert McClelland, said, "Anything that puts those people who are serving their country and protecting our security at risk is entirely reprehensible, whether it's done for notoriety, whether it's done for commercial interests. If these acts amount to an offence, the people involved will most certainly be prosecuted," reported Australian newspaper, The Age. Run from Sweden, Wikileaks previously published 77,000 US military documents on the war in Afghanistan and is expected to release almost 400,000 new documents in the coming weeks, said The Age. Email Alerts Register now to receive ComputerWeekly.com IT-related news, guides and more, delivered to your inbox.
Wikileaks Chief Retaliates Against Media. By Sonya BryskineEpoch Times Staff Created: October 1, 2010 Last Updated: October 1, 2010 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
(Bertil Ericson/AFP/Getty Images) The embattled founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, faced tough questions on Thursday over his organisation's release of sensitive US intelligence documents last month. At a London university debate, Assange defended his decision to publicise the data, which he says is part of his mission to reveal the secrecies of this world. Assange has published over 90,000 Afghan-war related documents on his website, angering the Pentagon and attracting harsh criticism from mainstream media. The Australian-born whistle-blower retaliated, saying the media have tried to discredit WikiLeaks. The Wall Street Journal reported it had obtained a series of email exchanges between Assange and human rights groups, expressing concern for the lives of informants named in the Afghanistan intelligence reports.
Various wikileaks volunteers chicken out, so what « Niqnaq. I have omitted all the verbatim dirty linen.
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The infamous whistleblower website is under attack by the co-founder of the collaborative encyclopedia with which it shares its prefix. Jimmy Wales criticized WikiLeaks, which released thousands of classified military documents earlier this year, for using "wiki" in its name even though the site is anything but a "wiki. " "I wish they wouldn't use the name, they are not a Wiki," he said at a business conference in Kuala Lumpur, according to AFP. By definition, a "wiki" is a user-generated database of information. In addition to the encyclopedic Wikipedia, there are wiki's dedicated to an array of subjects, such as web programming languages, wine and Star Trek. "A big way they got famous in the first place was by using the word Wiki, which was unfortunate in my view," he said.
WikiLeaks said to be in disarray.