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

Bill Keller says things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html

"bollocks" in the NYT was the main surprise for me in that article

Ok, seriously... this is truly bizarre.

The records on Assange's alleged rape case have 'wiki'-leaked...

Xeroxed condoms? Police not being able to get a dna-sample from it? o_O

Saving the condoms seems suspect. I mean wasn't the original story that W and A only decided to go to the policy weeks/days later after comparing stories? Did they actually save the condoms for all that time?

kept 'em in their hope chests

interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/politics/12hackers.html?_r=2&hp

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/11/campaigns/index.html

Yeah I've been tracking that for the past few days. Shady as hell all around. Hoglund e-mails have been released now as well.

good links, hope this particular element of the story gets more play

We might see more tomorrow depending. This starting to break wider on a Friday afternoon wasn't good for arcs (plus, let's face it, Egypt was always going to get more attention).

A good summary of this nonsense here:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/the-ridiculous-plan-to-attack-wikileaks.ars

just ran into this attack story! shiiit

http://www.salon.com/about/inside_salon/2011/02/11/threats_against_glenn_greenwald_wikileaks/

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/14/palantir_wikileaks

wild stuff

Starting to get a little more attention:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406281.html

Big ol' updates:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars

byeeeeeee

ticket to guantanamo via stocholm pls

inevitable, really

fuck paypal too

huh?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/bradley-manning-paypal-suspended_n_827736.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYLHCvM-7s

He almost makes it sound like the C1A might have considered doing something like this before! Shocked, I tell you!

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/03/01/assange-goes-off-deep-end-blaming-jews-and-guardian-in-private-eye/

bit quiet here, no theories abt cia mind control drugs in julian's milkshake?

did stanm just googleproof cia?

loooool

Sometimes it takes nutty ppl to do incredible world-changing things.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/02/spielberg-assange-wikileaks-guardian

Mittens88

If they cast Charlie Sheen as Assange, I'd be the first in line to buy a ticket.

this thread fails my masculinity test

http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2011/03/pilger-assange-sweden

'julian assange is a modern-day tom paine'

lol Julian Assange is a fucking asshole
http://www.good.is/post/video-the-hilarious-true-story-of-julian-assange-horrible-houseguest/

relevant!

curious what you radical transparency guys think of the FOIA-Michegan situation going on

Michigan*

As I mentioned on the U.S. Politics thread, I'm a media adviser at a public university in Florida, which boasts one of the most liberal sunshine laws in the country. We routinely remind student reporters trying to get relevant information that university emails are part of the public record, and we can access them by FOIA if necessary. I know enough to keep private business off university email.

I know nothing about Alaska's public access laws, but it explains why Sarah Palin relied on her Yahoo account for her campaigning – she knows the score.

assange killin it on reykjavik dancefloor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNqd4hW98sQ

Fools. You think he is dancing. Clearly, these are highly coded movements he is using to signal a possible source of classified government intelligence, who I am assuming is signaling back with a glow stick.

psychicwhoosh 3 hours ago

curious what you radical transparency guys think of the FOIA-Michegan situation going on

― Mordy, Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:59 AM (Yesterday)

it's pretty stupid, tbh. the only reason they're possibly subject to FOIA, as i understand it, is because the correspondence in question took place on university (state) email rather than personal email. i do not think publicly-employed academics/university professors should be accountable to taxpayers the same way elected officials are; adademic freedom is at stake here it seems and hopefully a judge will block the request, though i'm not terribly familiar with the law as it applies to this case nor have i been following it that closely

On to Guantanamo.

Oh boy. Another trove!

Oh, I thought Assange had been put on a plane - xpost

The files were shared with the Guardian and US National Public Radio by the New York Times, which says it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.

ha i have one of these http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-casio-wristwatch-alqaida

Eep!

Al caekda!

o i c

But Assange objected to some articles the Guardian and the New York Times had written, notably those detailing the Swedish sex allegations over which he is currently fighting extradition. He decided to tear up the original deal. According to those close to him, he conceived a plan instead to distribute the Guantánamo material only to a range of rival papers, including the right-wing Daily Telegraph, the Washington Post and Al Jazeera, whilst preventing readers of the Guardian and the New York Times from having access to it.

The New York Times, however, obtained the file from its own sources. When other papers discovered the Guardian and New York Times joint publishing plans late last night, they hurried out their own versions of the Guantánamo files, in an attempt to catch up.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are actually tools for the U.S. intelligence community.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20059247-17.html

Julian Assange is a modern day Thomas Paine!

dunno what political threads would be like without gradski and his gossip updates

assange doesn't come off as crazy here, sorry

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are actually tools for the U.S. intelligence community.

yeah, in the same way a a garden hoe is a "tool" for gardening. like, it's useful for this purpose

"It's not a matter of serving a subpoena," he told RT. "They have an interface that they have developed for U.S. intelligence to use."

is this surprising? wasn't there just a big thing recently about how the government wanted cell phone companies to structure their databases and lines to be more easily intercepted? i don't think assange is exactly cooking up a conspiracy theory here

i dunno man, "having their own interface" is way different from serving a subpoena

also weird that he doesnt have any documents to back up what he's saying

also i was unaware i had a rep for dropping "gossip updates" on political threads-- when else have i done this?

well, just now for one obviously. um. that other time...

i linked to a summary of interview with Julian Assange just now.

What other time?

lol dude, i'm playing. i don't think you're a gossip.