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Assange: 'Will release poison pill of damaging secrets if killed or arrested"

The founder of WikiLeaks has warned that his supporters are primed to publish a 'deluge' of leaked government documents should his activities be curtailed by any country.

Julian Assange has distributed to fellow hackers an encrypted 'poison pill' of damaging secrets, thought to include details on BP and Guantanamo Bay.

He believes the file is his 'insurance' in case he is killed, arrested or the whistleblowing website is removed permanently from the internet.

Mr Assange - understood to be lying low in Britain - could be arrested by Scotland Yard officers as early as tomorrow.

A warrant for his arrest was issued last Thursday by Swedish prosecutors who want to quiz him over rape allegations.

The developments came as fresh revelations were published on the WikiLeaks website. They include:

•  A leading Chinese politician coordinated the hacking of Google - which forced it to quit the Communist country - after finding unflattering articles about him on the website.
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• UK firm Rolls Royce lost out on a £200million contract to supply helicopter engines to Spain after the U.S. lobbied Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero in Madrid. The deal was eventually signed by American company GE. 
• And European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told a U.S. ambassador that European troops were still in Afghanistan only 'out of deference' to America.
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Mr Assange, a reclusive Australian, has infuriated and embarrassed the U.S. in recent months by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

First, he published Army logs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that suggested soldiers were complicit in murder and torture.

And last week he published the first of around 250,000 diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies, many containing sensitive information and embarrassing verdicts on leaders including David Cameron.

High-profile politicians in the U.S. including Sarah Palin, a narrow loser in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, have suggested the computer programmer should be 'executed' for publishing leaked U.S. state secrets.

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• Chinese government 'ordered cyber attacks on Google', WikiLeaks reveals

Mr Assange's British lawyer, Mark Stephens, warned today that WikiLeaks was holding further secret material which he dubbed a 'thermo-nuclear device' to be released if the organisation needed to protect itself.

He said many of the papers being retained contained 'material of equal importance to news-gathering' as those already published.

He said: 'They [WikiLeaks] have been subject to cyber-attacks and censorship around the world and they need to protect themselves.

'This is what they believe to be a thermo-nuclear device in the information age.

'It's interesting to note people as high up the American tree as Sarah Palin have called for him to be hunted down by American special forces and assassinated.

'We've seen a number of suggestions that he should be assassinated, again from credible sources around the world.

'This is all about a man who is a journalist. He received, unbidden, an electronic brown envelope that journalists receive.

'This particular journalist has put it out. What they are doing is criminalising him, criminalising journalistic activity.'

The prime suspect in the hunt for the person who stole the files is Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst who is now in military custody.

The 'doomsday files' which have been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters are understood to include information on Guantanamo Bay, and aeriel video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, BP reports and Bank of America documents.

The files are encoded with a 256-digit key. Experts have said it is virtually unbreakable.

Mr Stephens told the BBC that legal moves to arrest Mr Assange, who is wanted for questioning over the rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion of two women during a visit to Sweden in August, appeared to be a 'political stunt'.

Originally the entire case was dropped by Sweden's chief prosecutor. 

Mr Stephens said that only 'after the intervention of a Swedish politician' that a new prosecutor in Gothenburg - not Stockholm, where his client and two women had been - began a new case.

He denies the allegations vehemently and has described them as a 'smear'.

Mr Stephens said that Sweden had allowed U.S. planes carrying terror suspects - the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition - to use its airfields.

He said: 'It doesn't escape me that Sweden was one of those lick-spittle states which used its resources and facilities for rendition flights.'

He also confirmed that the WikiLeaks site had come under siege from 'a huge number of cyber-attacks'.

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Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking of Wikileaks

Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the US diplomatic cables. The organization is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

Earlier this week, after the publishing several hundred of the 250.000 cables it says it has in its possession, WikiLeaks had to move its site from its servers in Sweden to servers in the United States controlled by online retailer Amazon. Amazon quickly came under pressure to stop hosting WikiLeaks from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and its chairman, Sen. Joe Lieberman, in particular.

After being ousted from Amazon, WikiLeaks found a refuge for part of its content with the French Internet company OVH. But French digital economy minister Eric Besson today said the French government was looking at ways to ban hosting of the site.

 

WikiLeaks was also recently dropped by its domain name provider EveryDNS. Meanwhile, several countries well known for for their disregard of freedom of expression and information, including Thailand and China, have blocked access tocablegate.wikileaks.org.

This is the first time we have seen an attempt at the international community level to censor a website dedicated to the principle of transparency. We are shocked to find countries such as France and the United States suddenly bringing their policies on freedom of expression into line with those of China. We point out that in France and the United States, it is up to the courts, not politicians, to decide whether or not a website should be closed.

Meanwhile, two Republican senators, John Ensign and Scott Brown, and an independent Lieberman, have introduced a bill that would make it illegal to publish the names of U.S. military and intelligence agency informants. This could facilitate future prosecutions against WikiLeaks and its founder. But a criminal investigation is already under way and many U.S. politicians are calling vociferously for Assange’s arrest.

Reporters Without Borders can only condemn this determination to hound Assange and reiterates its conviction that WikiLeaks has a right under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment to publish these documents and is even playing a useful role by making them available to journalists and the greater public.

We stress that any restriction on the freedom to disseminate this body of documents will affect the entire press, which has given detailed coverage to the information made available by WikiLeaks, with five leading international newspapers actively cooperating in preparing it for publication.

Reporters Without Borders would also like to stress that it has always defended online freedom and the principle of “Net neutrality,” according to which Internet Service Providers and hosting companies should play no role in choosing the content that is placed online.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Mass-mirroring Wikileaks

Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack.

In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help.

if you have a unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to give wikileaks some of your hosting resources, you can help!

Please follow the following instructions:

• Setup an account where we can upload files using RSYNC+SSH (preferred) or FTP
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• send the IP address of your server to us, and the path where we should upload the content. (just fill the form below)

We will take care of all the rest: Sending pages to your server, updating them each time data is released, maintaining a list of such mirrors. If your server is down or if the account don't work anymore, we will automatically remove your server from the list.

Our content is only html/css/javascript/png static files, so we don't require much resource to host it.

The complete website should not take more than a couple of GB at the moment (with base website and cablegate data)

To add your mirror to the list, please download the SSH key you will find below, then fill the following form to add your website to our mirror list Here: http://wikileaks.nl/mass-mirror.html

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Wikileaks asked to edit Afghan names from US files

 

Human rights groups are putting pressure on the website Wikileaks to remove the names of Afghan civilians from leaked US military reports.

The groups, which include Amnesty International, say Afghans identified as suppliers of information to the US military could face reprisals.

The Taliban has executed hundreds of Afghan civilians it accuses of collaborating with US-led forces.

The huge cache of classified papers is one of the biggest leaks in US history.

All are linked to the Afghan conflict and Wikileaks posted them last month under the title of the Afghan War Diary.

The human rights groups also include the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, the Open Society Institute and the International Crisis Group.

They say they have e-mailed their requests to Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website.

"There was no consideration about civilian lives," said Nader Nadery, of the commission.

"We said that in the future the names should be redacted and the ones that are already there need to be taken down. Even though it is late, it still worth doing."

He said he had not yet received any response to the requests.

The US condemned the Wikileaks disclosures as "irresponsible", saying their publication could threaten national security.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was "shocked" at the scale of the leaks, but believed that most of the material was not new.

Mr Assange said at the time that Wikileaks had tried hard to ensure that the leaked documents did not put innocent people in danger.

"All the material is over seven months old so is of no current operational consequence, even though it may be of very significant investigative consequence," he said.

The documents covered the Afghan conflict from January 2004 to December 2009 and include previously unreported details of killings of civilians.

The records also reveal Nato concerns that Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency was helping the Taliban in Afghanistan, an accusation Islamabad has denied. LINK

   

U.S. Caught Lying About Iran Supplying Weapons to Insurgents

See you just cant believe one thing these guys say ...... NO CREDIBILITY WHAT SO EVER!

Don't believe the lies people .... the world needs Wikileaks to expose these killers.




 

Rights groups urge WikiLeaks to redact Afghan names

WASHINGTON — Human rights groups have urged WikiLeaks to redact names of Afghans helping American forces from thousands of leaked US military documents, leading to a charged retort from the website's founder, the Wall Street Journal said Tuesday.

"We have seen the negative, sometimes deadly ramifications for those Afghans identified as working for or sympathizing with international forces," said a letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, accoring to the Journal, citing a person close to the exchange.

"We strongly urge your volunteers and staff to analyze all documents to ensure that those containing identifying information are taken down or redacted," said the letter from Amnesty International, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, Open Society Institute, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and International Crisis Group.

The message prompted Assange to question what the groups were themselves doing to examine the 70,000 classified documents on Afghanistan, which were published by WikiLeaks in late July, and whether they would be willing to help with the redaction process, the daily said.

The files contained a string of damaging claims, and included the names of some Afghan informants, leading to claims that the leaks have endangered lives.

Amnesty suggested they may be able to provide some resources to analyze the documents and some 15,000 other files that WikiLeaks is planning to release, and that Assange and the rights groups discuss the issue on a conference call.

"I'm very busy and have no time to deal with people who prefer to do nothing but cover their asses," Assange was reported to have replied.

"If Amnesty does nothing I shall issue a press release highlighting its refusal," he said, according to the Journal.

On its Twitter page, Wikileaks posted the update on August 8: "Pentagon wants to bankrupt us by refusing to assist review. Media won't take responsibility. Amnesty won't. What to do?"

Assange, 39, an Australian former hacker and computer programmer, has said he believed the publication would help focus public debate on the war in Afghanistan and on possible atrocities by US-led forces.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, have however insisted the move endangered locals providing information to US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

WikiLeaks has never identified the source of the Afghan files, but suspicion has fallen on Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst under arrest for allegedly leaking video footage of a 2007 US Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad in which civilians died.

Manning is being held in a US military jail after being transferred from a US military base in Kuwait.

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Ex-DOJer helped expose alleged Wikileaks source

Adrian Lamo, who says U.S. Army intelligence specialist Bradley Manning was sending files to Wikileaks.

A former top U.S. Justice Department prosecutor helped to turn over an alleged Wikileaks source to the FBI and Army intelligence, CNET has learned. 

Mark Rasch, previously the head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit who is now in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area, said during a telephone interview that he identified investigators who would want to know that an U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Kuwait may have handed over sensitive documents to the world's most famous document-leaking Web site. 

Bradley Manning was charged last month with leaking sensitive information and illegally obtaining "more than 150,000 diplomatic cables" from the State Department. A Web site, bradleymanning.org, has been set up in his defense, and Wikileaks has helped to raise funds for his defense. 

"I didn't take him down," Rasch said. "I just put the people who wanted to report him in touch with the people they wanted to talk to." 

Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker now living in Carmichael, Calif., says Manning contacted him and confessed to turning over sensitive files to Wikileaks, including a controversial video showing troops firing on Reuters journalists. Lamo says he became worried that Manning's leaks were endangering the lives of American soldiers and decided to blow the whistle. 

Lamo contacted Chet Uber, a computer security specialist and the founder of a group called Project Vigilant. Uber then contacted Rasch. 

"I got a call from Chet saying Adrian has a guy he's been chatting with online who has access to classified cables," Rasch said. "So I found him people in the intelligence community and law enforcement community he could report it to." 

In an interview with CNET, Uber described how Lamo contacted him. "Adrian calls me in a panic, saying this guy Brad Manning is sending me e-mails, some of them are encrypted," Uber recalled. "He keeps talking about having access to classified data, (saying) 'I don't know what to do.'"

Uber said he told Lamo to take all the data related to those conversations and place it on a drive, then "give me about 10 minutes and I'm going to give you some numbers...I said, 'Adrian, people probably are dying.'" 

"What I can tell you is that (Manning) is committing treason," Uber said. "He's passing classified information during wartime to a non-U.S. entity, Julian Assange. That's treason." 

For his part, Lamo disputed Uber's characterization of the conversation, saying that time and memory likely distorted the details. He said that he was also in touch separately with a friend, Tim Webster, who is a former Army counterintelligence agent. 

Lamo said his general attitude toward turning in Manning was: "Aw, f*ck. Why'd you have to make me do this?" 

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India Passes Whistleblower Protection Bill

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. LINK

Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Carter G Woodson Honor Book (Awards))

American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us

A War Based on CIA Lies

An amazing speech by Mike Prysner, reminding us of the horrors of war inflicted on innocent people through the false intelligence of the CIA and their henchmen. When they're not downloading child porn or instigating new methods to manipulate people they're killing innocent children through this unjust occupation.

Wikileaks is a beacon of truth in a world brainwashed through mass media & government lies , do not believe the shit that comes out of your television do your own research.

WikiLeaks Driving Them GAGA!

Is Julian Assange, the Australian former computer hacker running the website WikiLeaks, a journalist or a criminal? The debate is running hot in the US. Who is Assange to set himself up as the judge of what should be kept secret and what should be exposed, the Pentagon chiefs are asking.

''By the standards of US law - including under the Supreme Court decision in the Pentagon Papers case - he should be considered a criminal,'' wrote the conservative columnist Marc Thiessen on the Washington Post website PostPartisan. ''He is in unlawful possession of classified information. He has released tens of thousands of documents, which the Taliban are using at this moment to target and execute Afghans who co-operated with US and NATO forces. And he is threatening to release many thousands more, which could put more American, Afghan and allied lives at risk. His actions are a clear violation of US law. He should face justice for these crimes.''

Over at Time magazine, another commentator went for the journalism description. Michael Scherer wrote that Assange was doing exactly what ''respectable and responsible reporters working for top-flight news organisations" try to do. He is a Seymour Hersh of the digital age, in other words.

But the three news organisations that Assange allowed to look through his initial trove of 76,000 US Army documents on Afghanistan and other subjects - The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel - are rushing to disavow his description of them as ''partners'' of WikiLeaks. To them, they insist, WikiLeaks is just a source.

The issue is getting tense. The Obama administration is weighing up whether it can prosecute Assange under espionage laws - one problem being he is not spying for anyone but the US and other publics, though he is certainly in possession of secrets. The Pentagon is meanwhile pleading with Assange to return the 15,000 other secret papers he is withholding.

Upping the ante, WikiLeaks has uploaded a massive (1.4 gigabyte) file titled ''Insurance'' encrypted with a cipher so complex that it is virtually unbreakable unless Assange has left some weakness in its mathematics or accidentally divulges a password.

The file is even bigger than the 76,000 documents released last month. The speculation is that it contains the 260,000 diplomatic documents from the State Department - containing details of ''almost criminal black dealings'' - mentioned by the US Army private Bradley Manning, 22, now under arrest on suspicion of leaking the horrifying video of a US Army helicopter shooting up what turned out to be a group of journalists and other civilians in Baghdad.

The irony widely noticed about this torrent of opened-up secrets is that so far it tells us what we already know, at least in the bigger picture, about the war in Afghanistan, and is unlikely to be a game-changer except perhaps in adding to public disillusionment about the prospects of success. This isn't anything like the 1948 disclosure by Moscow's spies of the successful US-British decryption of KGB messages, which resulted in the intelligence window being closed.

The most irresponsible aspect of the WikiLeaks exercise would be the failure to black out the identities of Afghans working with the Western forces. Assange admits he has not been through all the documents in detail. There appear to be several scores of names and villages mentioned. To the extent that this collaboration is not already known locally, the leaks put the identified Afghans at risk of assassination.

Yet it won't be WikiLeaks that loses this war for the US. Let's look at another disclosure which came out about the same time: the three-part report in The Washington Post about ''Top Secret America''. Compiled from open sources, it revealed an archipelago of highly secret buildings across the country, focused on Washington, where an intelligence industry employs no fewer than 854,000 people with ''top secret'' security clearances, almost four times the number of troops deployed on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq in the supposed war on terrorism.

Some 1271 government organisations and 1931 companies are involved in work at top secret level. There has been such a ''gusher'' of funding (the word of the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates) since the September 11, 2001, attacks that anyone with a top secret clearance is wooed with bonuses, enormous salaries and company BMWs by firms anxious to cash in. The core intelligence agencies are getting left with younger, inexperienced analysts with sketchy knowledge of the cultures and languages of target countries.

 

If Assange cannot look through his 92,000 leaked documents, the ''super users'' at the top of the analytical pyramid have no hope of digesting even the 50,000 intelligence reports published for internal government use each year. Many go unread.

Every day, the National Security Agency intercepts and stores 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other data transmissions, before using keyword or voice recognition software to filter out suspicious messages. Clues are buried in such a volume of material that often it has only been after a terrorism event that they are found. Military commanders have complained they get little intelligence of operational use out of this industry, the Post reported.

It is not surprising that many outsiders regard this secret industry with suspicion. It consumes huge sums - $US75 billion ($82 billion) at the official count, which the Post said did not include all private-sector activity - and invades a lot of privacy, for indifferent results, making it fair game for WikiLeaks.

It would not be surprising if some of the brilliant and creative recruited into ''Top Secret America'' also get disillusioned with their work and what they see, and get tempted to disclose mistakes, waste or wrongdoing.

Leaking is as easy as loading files on to a CD and slipping it into a Lady Gaga cover, as Manning apparently did.

There is a clash of cultures here, and anyone who knows young people will know who will ultimately win.

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WIKILEAKS Must not reveal any more war logs

PROPAGANDA ALERT : DAILY NEWS ATTACK

 The Pentagon has asked Julian Assange to "do the right thing" and give back 15,000 secret U.S. Afghan war records that his Wikileaks website is set to release.

Assange has no concept of what "the right thing" means. Look at what happened after his first document dump. When Assange released those 70,000 classified files last month, he couldn't have been more dismissive of claims he was endangering lives. "There's no tactically significant information in this material. We have looked at it," he said.

But - oopsie! - there were names of Afghans who had supported U.S. troops. Then a Taliban spokesman announced how they'd treat the just-discovered traitors: "If they are U.S. spies, then we know how to punish them."

Suffering a brief bout of doubt, Assange brought the next batch of secrets, the 15,000 files in question, to the Pentagon - for help in redacting sensitive information.

After a review, the Pentagon said there's no way to release the files without jeopardizing more lives.

Now, Wikileaks says it plans to release the documents anyway.

Assange's conscience was the first thing he killed.

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Activists rally to 'Free Bradley Manning' in WikiLeaks case

Quantico, Virginia (CNN) -- Activists rallied outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, Sunday to applaud the man military officials suspect leaked scores of military documents to the WikiLeaks website -- a 22-year-old Army private named Bradley Manning.

"We are here to say that if he, indeed, was the whistle-blower, then we are proud of him," said Medea Benjamin, founder of anti-war group Code Pink. "In the United States that I know and love, transparency is a positive thing."

Manning, who served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, is the military's focus in the investigation into the largest-ever intelligence leak in American history, to WikiLeaks.org.

He is being detained at Quantico pending a military investigation in a separate case, in which he's charged with eight violations of the U.S. Criminal Code, including for allegedly leaking a secret military video from the Iraq war to WikiLeaks.

Outside the Quantico gates, about 80 protesters chanted "Bradley Manning told their tale, war criminals off to jail" and held signs calling on the military to "Free Bradley Manning."

Many wore pink and seemed out-of-place in a small community where people sported military haircuts and displayed Marine bumper stickers on their cars.

Ray McGovern, who said he was formerly a CIA analyst, lauded Manning for allegedly releasing information about America's "war of aggression".

"What Bradley Manning has done is to give us as Americans the opportunity to realize what's really going on there," McGovern said.

"If Americans can't realize now that they have the ground truth, literally the ground truth from these Army reports, if they can't realize and move to end these kinds of wars, then there's very little hope for our children or our grandchildren."

About 300 yards away, a handful of counter-protesters wearing the military's trademark olive green held a poster that showed Manning with bloody hands. They called the leak treasonous.

"If Bradley Manning is the one that leaked these documents, he has already put his fellow soldiers at risk," said Jim Hanson, who writes for the pro-military website BlackFive.

"I think the military and the government have some things that should be kept secret. The public knows that ... There is no 'right to know' secret information."

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