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

if only tunisia was still under corrupt dictatorial rule

it is a beautiful day and I am about to go on a bike ride but his actual statement is incredibly fascinating

http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wikileaks/bradley_manning/pfc_bradley_e_manning_providence_hearing_statement.html

The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that should become public. I once read a and used a quote on open diplomacy written after the First World War and how the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other.

I thought these cables were a prime example of a need for a more open diplomacy. Given all of the Department of State cables that I read, the fact that most of the cables were unclassified, and that all the cables have a SIPDIS caption.

sources pleez

mordy can i be your friend on the fb

and hopefully get stoned w/ u one day.

co-sign

Big article on Manning in recent Rolling Stone, the one with Green Day dude cover I think. Seeing surveillance of US troops doing Iraq gov dirty work on nonviolent civilian whistleblowers was a crucial turning point, Manning says.

So...Kissinger cables!

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/wikileaks-suspect-wont-be-san-francisco-pride-parade-marshal/

fuck em

Pride's statement is heinous.

weak as water. daniel ellsberg is a great man but it's a slap in the face to nominate him instead, since he is 1. not gay and 2. saw a fair trial with no prison time.

sad to realize that if nixon hadn't been such a bumbling idiot (along with being a corrupt bastard) that ellsberg would probably still be in jail.

xp I got the impression that Ellsberg was participating for Manning before the backpedal but maybe I misunderstood.

oh. wouldn't be surprised if that was the case thinking about it, i know he's a big advocate of wikileaks/manning

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney on Assange, Manning, and his imminent film We Steal Secrets:

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/18/alex_gibney_julian_assange_has_become_like_those_he_despises/

WL rebuts and spars with Gibney:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/wikileaks-goes-to-war-with-alex-gibney-over-we-steal-secrets

A fantastically lucid Daniel Ellsberg takes the MSNBC youngsters to school. Was Touré always a sycophant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1N24Oilp6o

"he chose to join the military, which is a...very special area of society"

why is he dressed like Denzel Washington in "St. Elsewhere"?

anyone seen the movie yet?

looks like it's ending in NYC, so tonight for me

Film is good 'nuff, but too much of Assange, Manning psychohistories and not enough political/policy meat.

... but I expect that may be even more the case with the narrative-fiction film due in the fall.

also, I was not expecting the Wrath of Khan clips here.

war crimes, war crimes, war crimes

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/as-bradley-manning-trial-begins-press-predictably-misses-the-point-20130605

and more Ellsberg:

Bradley Manning's case might seem to have no relevance to some of these other civilian disclosures because it's a military court-martial. But the charge they're using against him, the specific one of aid and comfort to the enemy, is one that puts virtually all dissent in this country for government policies at risk. Not only leaks in general, like WikiLeaks, or the New York Times for that matter, but people who aren't in journalism at all. He's charged with giving aid and comfort to the enemy, a charge that has no element of intention or motive, simply by putting out information that the enemy might be happy to read.

I think they're going to put into the trial for example, indications that Osama bin Laden downloaded the New York Times, as anyone in the world could do. No doubt Osama was happy to have the world realize that his enemies were committing atrocities that they weren't admitting and that they weren't investigating. It was no intention of WikiLeaks or Bradley Manning to give comfort to Osama bin Laden. That was an inadvertent effect of informing the American public of that, which definitely did need to know it.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/370-wikileaks/17827-focus-daniel-ellsberg-obama-would-have-sought-a-life-sentence-in-my-case

saw the film tonight and basically liked it. it did feel a bit like they expected you to know all about the actual content of WL's leaks already, apart from the helicopter video they didn't delve too deeply into any of it. i kind of feel like they should have waited another year or so before finishing it -- first two-thirds of the film run smoothly enough but the ending felt a little slapped-together.

http://rt.com/usa/assange-ron-rand-paul-584/

lol

heh

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