For Your Information: Beginning The Consideration Of The Manning Legal Issues. For Your Information: Beginning The Consideration Of The Manning Legal Issues. Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old army intelligence analyst who allegedly bragged of his involvement in the Wikileaks Collateral Murder video, has been charged with “four counts of violating Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for disobeying an order or regulation and eight counts of violating Article 134, a general charge for misconduct, which in this case involved breaking Federal laws against disclosing classified information,” reports The New York Times. According to The Guardian, Wikileaks has supplied Manning with three lawyers, all of whom it sounds as if he’ll need. However, Wikileaks has previously denied that Manning was the one who gave the site the classified information. That possible lack of affiliation has not prevented Wikileaks from taking up his cause on its Twitter feed. Relationships between supervisors and subordinates have a high risk of becoming unprofessional.
. § 793. Reflections on the Military/Industrial Complex. How To Plug A Wiki Leaks Wikileak. Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes This week I wrote a guest post over at RunToGold on state income tax strategies that you might find interesting as well. Freedom of speech is important, even if we don’t agree with the speech. Even if the speech is harmful, it is better to hold the speaker accountable for the harm later rather than prevent the speaker from speaking. Prior restraints on speech are a slippery slope. Even though I disagree with some of the information that has been released on Wiki Leaks, it serves an important function worth the potential harm. The Biggest Wikileak Yet Wiki leaks is an outlet for whistleblowers from around the world to make sure that evidence of fraud and corruption can be heard. Warning: This video contains some scenes of graphic wartime violence.
[flowplayer src= width=520, height=294, splash= Dangers To Wiki Leaks As a result, Mr. 1. 2. 3. 4. Andrew Napolitano On Wikileaks. The judge is all for Wikileaks: Generally, I agree with the judge, but he’s presenting an awfully one-sided view of the leak. Sure a lot of the data is embarrassing for the government. But a lot of that data released is going to harm those who have been helping our military in the middle east including those in Afghanistan who have been acting as informants against the Taliban, al Qaeda, etc. The Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen, who was on my radio show recently to talk about Wikileaks, pointed out that these informants have now been exposed and are being captured and executed right now in the middle east. Is it right that our government’s incompetence and corruption in the Iraq/Afghanistan wars was exposed?
Absolutely. Is it right that innocent Afghanis and Iraqis who have joined us in the fight for the freedom of their countries are now being killed thanks to Wikileaks? Frankly, I don’t know what the right position here is. The Real News Network. David Bromwich: One More War, Please. Will the summer of 2010 be remembered as the time when we turned into a nation of sleepwalkers? We have heard reports of the intrusion of the state into everyday life, and of miscarriages of American power abroad.
The reports made a stir, but as suddenly as they came they were gone. The last two weeks of July saw two such stories on almost successive days. First there was "Top Secret America," the three-part Washington Post report by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the hyperextension of private contracts, government buildings, and tax-funded expenditures in the secret surveillance economy. We seem to have entered a moral limbo where political judgment is suspended and public opinion cannot catch its breath. Thomas Jefferson in April 1820, hearing the arguments on "the Missouri question" and seeing the passions heated by a compromise over slavery, said the conduct of his country then, "like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. " Consider Afghanistan. Activists Rally to Free WikiLeaks Traitor Bradley Manning. Accused wikileaks hero bradley manning needs our help.
Today, August 8, people of peace and conscience will gather in Quantico, Virginia, standing in solidarity with Bradley Manning. The military town of Quantico tried to stop the rally, but the town's mayor and the ACLU successfully intervened. Manning, 22 years old, is the intelligence analyst accused of passing videos and documents to WikiLeaks, resulting in the now-famous "Collateral Murder" video, plus 260,000 pages of classified US documents about, among other things, an airstrike in Afghanistan that killed 97 civilians last year.
The military moved him from jail in Kuwait to Quantico, Virginia. Manning faces up to 50 years in prison. Complicating matters for some, Manning is gay, so homophobia abounds. There can be no doubt that Bradley Manning is a hero for peace and justice. Courage To Resist has information on how we can help Manning, and you can stay up to date by subscribing to the Bradley Manning Support Network. Bradley Manning3247 Elrod AvenueQuantico, VA 22134USA. The Valley of the Shadow of WikiLeaks by Thomas Knapp. Leave it to the U.S. Department of “Defense” to continue fighting a war it’s already irretrievably lost. On Friday, the Pentagon “asked” online whistleblowing facilitator WikiLeaks to “do the right thing” by erasing all classified U.S. government documents from its servers and handing over any copies. I put the “asked” in scare quotes because although that’s how CNN headlined it, the actual story used the far more accurate “demanded.”
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell hinted at a range of threats which might be deployed versus WikiLeaks should his demand be rejected. War Party mouthpiece Marc Thiessen hints in the Washington Post (“Sorry, Time, Assange Is a Criminal, Not a Journalist”) that WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange may be (may already have secretly been!) That practical consideration is important, but let’s not allow it to distract us from the moral context of the larger situation. Ixnay on that aimclay! They can’t say they didn’t expect this. The Era of Secret Government is over. Wikileaks Must be Protected and Respected.
Why US Can’t Drop Pakistan. The WikiLeaks files won’t destroy ties between the two. The US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has made sure of that. By Mustafa Qadri for The Diplomat August 09, 2010 Facebook0 Twitter0 Google+0 LinkedIn0 At first glance it appeared that the smoking gun had finally been found. But, as the dust has gradually settled, surprisingly little appears to have changed. Undoubtedly, tensions between Pakistan and its closest ally have risen, albeit in an unlikely fashion. With Cameron’s comments having come hot on the heels of his visit to the United States, there’s been speculation that he was merely delivering a message on behalf of Washington. So what do the WikiLeaks disclosures mean for the future of Pakistan’s engagement with the US, and, by extension, its role in Afghanistan?
Although the documents actually held few surprises, the extent to which they confirmed so many existing suspicions about the troubled war in Afghanistan was indeed a defining moment. The Blade ~ Toledo Ohio. THE WikiLeaks Web site made headlines by posting thousands of confidential documents about the war in Afghanistan. But what the documents revealed was known to most Afghan experts and political observers. Even the news that Pakistan's spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, has been in cahoots with the Taliban was no surprise. Pakistan's India-centric foreign policy favors a Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, so India-friendly Afghan President Hamid Karzai is not in the long-term strategic interests of Pakistan. Thus the so-called duplicity. Afghanistan has an intricately complex society that has been the subject of scholarly work (Ahmed Rashid's 2000 book Taliban) and fictional treatment (James Michener's 1962 novel Caravans).
To put the current dilemma in perspective, one has to see Afghanistan through the prism of history in general and religion and culture in particular. Afghanistan is not a homogenous society; it is a patchwork of ethnic tribes linked by a common religion. Dr. WikiLeaks Soldier: A Complicated Kid | ATTACKERMAN. So here’s the Monday morning story you’re all going to be talking about: The New York Times goes deep on the background of Private Bradley Manning, the Baghdad-based Army intelligence specialist suspected of passing all that data to WikiLeaks. It’s an emotional, fascinating read. But the story doesn’t answer the one question that a lot of military people — and yours truly — really want answered. Crispin Burke, editor of the outstanding blog Wings Over Iraq, tweets the question thusly: “Tons of money spent on Top-Secret clearance investigations, and they’re granted to emotional train wrecks?”
He’s got a point. Now, in recent years, one of the biggest problems in the US’s clandestine and sensitive-data services has been the terrible homogeneity — the whitebreadiness — of its personnel. None of this is to say that Manning’s background was “flawed” or he was any less of a fully-functioning American kid because of his tough family upbringing and sexual orientation. Middle East Online. The release of the Afghan War Diaries on Wikileaks, with stories published in The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel by agreement with Wikileaks, has made news around the world. Le Monde Diplomatique, in conjunction with Owni and Slate.fr, have also made the documents available online via a dedicated website. The security implications of the leaked material will be discussed for years to come. Meanwhile the release of over 90,000 documents has generated debate on the rising power of digital journalism and social media.
Many of the discussions are rooted in what I call internet or digital myths -- myths which are rooted in romantic, deterministic notions of technology. Myth 1: The power of social media Media experts and commentators are commonly asked what the Wikileaks case tells us about the power of social media in contemporary society, particularly in the coverage of war. Myth 2: The nation-state is dying Myth 3: Journalism is dead (or almost) POLITICAL EYE: Wikileaks revelations irritate Ensign.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., is angry about the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org posting 90,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan last month, and he made sure the Obama administration knew about it. Ensign blocked the confirmation of Luis Arreaga to become the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, and relented only after Arreaga met with him Thursday. Why Iceland? Turns out the Nordic nation is a haven for Wikileaks and its director, Julian Assange. Time magazine has said Wikileaks "could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.
" Ensign argued the Afghanistan leaks, which Wikileaks shared first with the New York Times, the Guardian newspaper in London and Der Spiegel in Germany, have damaged U.S. and NATO prosecution of the war. "We need Iceland's cooperation," Ensign said. Defense Department officials say the leaked documents contain names of Afghan collaborators whose lives now are in danger.
"We will have less cooperation with the Afghanis," Ensign said. Wikileaks does not intend to stop release of secret Afghan war files. Spokesmen from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks say they will publish more classified documents despite orders from the American authorities not to. Wikileaks has been the centre of a great deal of media attention since it published secret American military documents about the war in Afghanistan.
“I can assure you that we will continue to publish the documents – that is what we do,” says Daniel Schmitt, one of the site’s spokespeople. Wikileaks recently released some 76,000 secret documents which suggest the war in Afghanistan is not progressing as hoped for. Not everybody was pleased about the leak, Pressan.is reports. “Knowledge of big current affairs like the war in Afghanistan helps us to create something along the lines of security. Hopefully with this understanding, pressure from the public will force governments to govern better,” Schmitt said. Help press do its job for public: Editorial | news-press.com | The News-Press. Whistleblowers Protection Bill | Cabinet Clears | CVC Powers | Imprisonment & Fine.
New Delhi, Aug 9: Amid the global debate over whistleblowers' website, WikiLeaks, the Indian cabinet on Monday, Aug 9, cleared the redrafted Public Interest Disclosure (Protection of Informers) Bill, 2010 to protect whistleblowers. The bills helps those who make public interest disclosures and ensures that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has the power it needs to protect whistleblowers from any disciplinary action for exposing corruption in a government department.
The bill proposes three years imprisonment and fine of up to Rs 50,000 against the revelation of the identity of a whistleblower. The bill took birth from the brutal murder of NHAI engineer Satyendra Dubey, who complained against corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project. The bill also gains significance in the backdrop of the storm raised by WikiLeaks after it posted classified information on Afghanistan war on its website leading to questions being raised on how many heads would roll due to this. OneIndia News. Publication of the Afghan War Documents is with Purpose – Wikileaks.