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

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

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