Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

not all that surprising

Manning given 35 years for leaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QWU6tVxzO1I#t=225

From about the 3:45 mark to about the 5:45 mark. What say you people?!

(As a one-time lurker, and now finally registered, I truly do hope the people on ILX/ILE/ILM at least get a few chuckles from the video.)

FWIW: Here I'll add that while I find this video segment somewhat amusing, I also think it's rather bizarre. It's like one of those things that's oddly amusing, that kind of thing.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is on the jury of this year's Raindance Film Festival, which celebrates independent film from around the world

so this movie

Judging by the ad that used Owen Gleiberman's entire EW review, "centrist" Democrats who hate Assange & WL will love it.

I couldn't tell if it was a crass, premature hagiography or not. either way it seems kind of gross that it got made at all at this particular point in time.

well the studios are currently bidding on GG's as-yet-unpublished Snowden book...

Gleiberman:

His backstory explains everything, in a biopic-Freudian way: As a boy, Julian watched his mother move in with a member of a reactionary Aussie cult, and everything he’s now doing — his primal loathing of authority — emerges from that upbringing. He’s trying to take down that abusive fake father. Reductive? Perhaps, but in my experience, the lefties who want to attack everything above them have some pretty basic issues, and Assange is a fire-breather who doesn’t know when to stop....

o i c

so it might be because I'm reading 'the disaster artist' but Assange is coming across like Tommy Wiseau in this piece:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282597908/first-listen-calle-13-multi_viral

Fans and detractors alike will surely take note of the collaboration with Julian Assange (in the song "Multi_Viral," he has a spoken-word bit) and an introduction by writer Eduardo Galeano. Yet in this album, the duo shines brightest when Joglar and Cabra appear alone with their vulnerabilities.

Update.

Hard not to read the collected correspondence of Aaron Sorkin.

Not Wikileaks, but a major document dump:

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers

Yeah where did these ones come from? I assumed Snowden when I started the article but he refers to "the source"and doesnt say.

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 12m12 minutes ago
ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly.

hmm....

This doesn't really belong here, but is there a thread for discussing Anonymous? Cuz, uh, they just accused the gay democrat modern-art-loving mayor of Lexington, KY of being in the KKK. Good sleuthing guys.

a few mentions on the general US politics thread

Also the first female mayor of Knoxville who was an organizer for Cesar Chavez in the 1970s.

Assange on the coming Clinton disaster etc:

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/22/detained_whistle_blower_julian_assange_remains_hopeful_hell_be_able_to_leave_embassy_warns_a_clinton_presidency_would_bring_disaster/

well now we know who the fsb supports

via gawker

the site published 19,252 emails from top US Democratic National Committee members, many of which included personal information about innocent donors including credit card, social security numbers, and passport numbers.

If you visit the WikiLeaks DNC emails website, you can browse the emails using a simple boolean search. Typing a word like “contribution” will actually turn up hundreds of results. The emails include unencrypted, plain-text listings of donor emails addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, passport numbers, and credit card information. WikiLeaks proudly announced the data dump in a single tweet.

WikiLeaks ✔ @wikileaks
RELEASE: 19,252 emails from the US Democratic National Committee https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/ #Hillary2016 #FeelTheBern

cool guys for sure

DemNow interview w/ Assange

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/25/exclusive_wikileaks_julian_assange_on_releasing

This is indefensible:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zeynep-tufekci/wikileaks-erdogan-emails_b_11158792.html

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/wikileaks-accused-of-anti-semitism-for-using-echoes-in-tweet-insulting-critics/

Yeah wikileaks are aligning themselves with white supremacists so if their leader being on the run from sexual assault charges weren't bad enough can we stop glamorizing them now

What a weird tweet. Is that a failed attempt at irony? It's hard for me to believe they'd go that obvious. "Tribalist" too.

Weird in that DemNow interview that they say Assange is afraid of being extradited to US for treason charges, when he's running from rape charges in Sweden.

that is the standard pro-Assange line.

dude is such a wormy piece of shit

maybe; he also got one fired

yeah I remember that time DWS had all those sexual assault allegations levied against her so she had to go scrambling for asylum in a local embassy

ah ok Your Honor. i rest.

Assange admitted a month ago that he was trying to hurt Hillary and would prefer Trump: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/assange-timed-wikileaks-release-of-democratic-emails-to-harm-hillary-clinton.html

he's such a puuuutz

Mr. Assange replied that what Mr. Trump would do as president was “completely unpredictable.” By contrast, he thought it was predictable that Mrs. Clinton would wield power in two ways he found problematic.

real smart guy.

"who knows, maybe trump as president would liberate all slaves, guarantee a national wage, and invent a really cool new synthesizer patch. it could happen!"

that particular J.A. quote has no mistakes in it.

but u guys get back to admiring statist thugs

hey morbs, why don't you devote some time to learning how to literally fellate yourself instead of just doing it rhetorically every 30 seconds on this discussion board? i imagine the sense of accomplishment will far exceed the minor jolts of ego satisfaction you get from posting here.

and fwiw yes assange is literally correct in that statement; it's the conclusion he draws from it that is deeply stupid.

the two of you get a room

god help us

“I used to defend WikiLeaks all the time on the grounds that they were not indiscriminate dumpers of information,” Greenwald told Slate. “They were carefully protecting people’s reputations. And they have changed their view on that—and no longer believe, as Julian says, in redacting any information of any kind for any reason—and I definitely do not agree with that approach and think that they can be harmful to innocent people or other individuals in ways that I don’t think is acceptable.”

wow, that's kind of big

I feel really bad that I keep mixing up WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden in my mind. Snowden seems like such a better dude than Assange.

ha yeah not even close

the lrb piece that kinder posted above is p much the most thorough dismantling of assange imaginable, a really ridiculous pos:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

Snowden did what he did to show how little control we have over our private data. Assange leaks everyones private data left and right for no good reason. They're kinda pretty much diametrically opposed at this point.

Also, Assange is a rapist. So there's that.

snowden pointedly gave the info he compiled to journalists who he trusted to sift through it all and reveal only the most pertinent stuff

he did the right thing