9&10 News - Iran fuels reactor...No rape charge for WikiLeaks founder...Missile strike in Pakistan. Wikileaks Founder Rape Charges Dropped. Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding ‘Evidence’ of WikiLeaks’ Crime—Part II of II. Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges. Civilians to Take U.S. Lead as Military Leaves Iraq. Blackwater Reaches $42 Million Settlement With U.S. Blackwater/Xe mercs to pay $42mn fine. Blackwater/Xe mercs to pay $42mn fine Xe, the private security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, has agreed to pay a multi-million dollar fine for hundreds of US export violations.
The company will pay $42 million for violations that include illegal weapons export to Afghanistan and making unauthorized proposals to train troops in southern Sudan, The New York Times reported on Friday. The company, now known as Xe Services, struck a deal with the US state department to pay the fine in order to avoid criminal charges. This will also allow it to continue to obtain government contracts. Rev. William E. Alberts: Camouflage on the Home Front. By Rev.
WILLIAM E. ALBERTS The great threat to America’s security is United States’ foreign policy. Why? There are still idiots out there saying wikileaks is a govt ploy « Niqnaq. Shadows Behind Assange’s ConspiracyJames Gundun, Hadalzone, Aug 21 2010 The question is unavoidable: who holds the end of the string for rape accusations and a 12 hour arrest warrant on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange?
Two Swedish newspapers reported that the allegations were made by two women who had worked with WikiLeaks in Sweden. That Assange knew both women seems to be established, and the two women independently verified stories before going to the police last Friday. WikiLeaks (wikileaks) WikiLeaks strikes at DoD on Twitter. A little-noted tweet from the Pentagon sent WikiLeaks back into defense mode Thursday as the controversy continued over what the group promises is a forthcoming release of 15,000 more secret war documents.
WikiLeaks, which maintains an aggressive Twitter presence, has used its feed consistently since late July to publicize its conflict with the Defense Department. Wikileaks. WikiLeaks. 2. Act normal If you are a high-risk source, avoid saying anything or doing anything after submitting which might promote suspicion. Wikileaks Mirrors. Wiki 'Leaks' New Pentagon Papers, Reveals CIA Plans to Destroy Wikileaks. Wikileaks Lawyer Says Pentagon Given Access to Unpublished Secret Documents. Thousands of Soldiers Unfit for War Duty.
More than 13,000 active-duty Army soldiers -- the equivalent of four combat brigades -- are sidelined as unfit for war because of injury, illness or mental stress. In an unmistakable sign that the Army is struggling with exhaustion after nine years of fighting, combat commanders whose units are headed to Afghanistan increasingly choose to leave behind soldiers who can no longer perform, putting additional strain on those who still can. The growing pool of "non-deployable'' soldiers make up roughly 10 percent of the 116,423 active-duty soldiers currently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands more Army reservists and National Guard soldiers are also considered unfit to deploy, a growing burden on an Army that has sworn to care for them as long as needed.
"These 13,000 soldiers, that number's not going to go away," said Brig. Gen. "This is an Army at war.'' Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? - Glenn Greenwald. (updated below – Update II – Update III) When the controversy first arose over the lack of redactions in the war documents released by WikiLeaks, the website insisted that, using the New York Times as an intermediary, it had asked the Obama administration for help in removing names of Afghans before releasing the documents, a claim the Pentagon vehemently denied.
The New York Times, needless to say, sided with the Government — that’s what the NYT does — but they did so by simultaneously confirming the truth of WikiLeaks’ version of events. From the Associated Press article, July 31, on that controversy: Also on Saturday, a New York Times reporter who has been the newspaper’s liaison with Assange, dismissed Assange’s claim that WikiLeaks had offered to let U.S. government officials go through leaked documents to ensure that no innocent people were identified. Wikileaks Data: US War Crimes Policy, Command Failure Under VP Cheney. Wikileaks Lawyer Says Pentagon Given Access To Unpublished Secret Documents. Newsweek: A U.S. lawyer representing the whistleblowing web site Wikileaks says U.S. government officials have been given codes and passwords granting them online access to official U.S. government documents that Wikileaks so far has not published.
Timothy Matusheski, a lawyer from Hattiesburg, Miss., who says he represents whistleblowers and has been in touch with both Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and at least one government official involved in investigations of Wikileaks, said Wikileaks had set up a "secure channel" through which authorized users could access the unpublished material. The Kelly Affair: Anatomy of a conspiracy theory - Home News, UK. Swedish Justice: Assange Charged With Rape, Then Charges Dropped. Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks was charged by Swedish authorities with sexual assault, only to have the charges dropped later, Al Jazeera reports ;< ...as international media outlets were beginning to pick up the story, Eva Finne, Sweden's chief prosecutor, announced that Assange was no longer wanted.
The Wikileaks Tet Offensive - Swampland - TIME.com. In early 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a major offensive across South Vietnam.
The U.S. embassy in Saigon was breached. The imperial capital of Hue was overrun. Eventually, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces defeated the attacks–in military terms, the Tet Offensive was a rout. But the military terms hardly mattered: Tet demonstrated the long-term futility of the U.S. mission in Vietnam. Walter Cronkite, the most respected newscaster in America, turned against the war. Google Translate. Ray McGovern on WikiLeaks, War Crimes, MSM and Iran, interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds. By Peter B.
Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post 21 August, 2010 Ray McGovern (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in.
Wikileaks Founder Accused of Sexual Harassment (Updated) WikiLeaks: Exposing War Crimes Shouldn’t Be A Crime In A Democracy. A growing number of peace activists are speaking out and demonstrating against the arrest of Private Bradley Manning, who is accused of giving classified documents to whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks. Some politicians and commentators have gone as far as calling Manning a “traitor” while anti-war activists are embracing his allege role in the documents disclosure as patriotic.
Several demonstrations organized by anti-war groups; World Can’t Wait, Code Pink, Veterans For Peace, and Iraq Veterans Against The War took place recently in New-York, Oklahoma City and Virginia to protest the May arrest of 23-year old Manning. Private Manning was charged with leaking over 75,000 classified reports on the war in Afghanistan. If convicted, Manning faces up to 52 years in prison. Manning is currently represented by military appointed attorneys who have refused to comment on the charges.
Wikileaks controversy highlights debate over shield law. Until just a few weeks ago, news organizations thought they were cruising toward a long-cherished goal: Congressional passage of a federal shield law to protect journalists from being forced to reveal confidential sources.
Then came Wikileaks. The notoriety surrounding Wikileaks.org's release of nearly 76,000 secret military documents last month has complicated, and possibly imperiled, enactment of shield legislation pending in the Senate, proponents and opponents of the measure both say. Wikileaks apparently obtained the documents, describing the U.S. military's conduct of the war in Afghanistan, from a military source and posted them on the Internet. Filmmaker Moore gives to fund for Wikileaks accused. 21 August 2010Last updated at 04:17 Mr Moore is the creator of the films "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has donated $5,000 (£3,900) to help defend Army Spc Bradley Manning, the man suspected of giving classified documents to the website Wikileaks.
Mr Moore told the AP news agency he hopes to make the public understand Spc Manning allegedly exposed "war crimes". Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled. 21 August 2010Last updated at 12:02 ET Julian Assange had been cited as saying the release of the allegations was "deeply disturbing" Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges. WikiLeaks Founder No Longer Rape Suspect. WikiLeaks Founder No Longer Rape Suspect.