Welcome to a new age of whistle-blowing
Mr Assange says Wikileaks has information relating to almost all the countries in the world
They have been denounced as "a criminal act" and hailed as the future of investigative journalism in equal measure.
But the question is: how did the Wikileaks disclosure of US military documents come about?
More than 90,000 documents, dated between 2004 and 2009, on the war in Afghanistan, have been released, but the whistle-blowing website will not disclose the identity of any of its sources.
In the aftermath of one of the biggest leaks in US military history, the US government will surely not be the only one wondering how this happened.
'Mishandling information'After scrutiny by the Wikileaks website, the site gave access to the documents to three newspapers - the New York Times, Der Spiegel and the Guardian - ahead of public release.
As the media rushed to publish the story, the press were soon asking who might be behind such a huge leak - if, indeed, it was one person at all.
The Pentagon has already launched an investigation.
Wikileaks, which has a policy of protecting its sources, has not given any detail as to how many sources it received the documents from, or when it received them.
Media speculation has so far focused on 22-year-old Bradley Manning, an army intelligence analyst who is accused of mishandling and leaking classified information.
US Private Bradley Manning is being detained in Kuwait
Specialist Manning, reportedly known by his screen name bradass87, was charged on Monday with eight violations of US criminal law and four violations of army regulations.
These include the leaking of a 2007 video of a deadly American helicopter attack in Baghdad.
Spc Manning is currently being held in pre-trial detention in Kuwait after being arrested while working in Iraq.
He is alleged to have released files kept contained on the Department of Defence's Secret Internet Protocol System (SIPR).
But Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says that there was "no allegation, as far as we can determine, that this material is connected to Spc Manning."
In any case, did he alone leak the sheer volume of records that has been released? If not, then will it even be possible to find out who did?
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But it is not about who has done it, but how, that is most important here. The true perpetrator of aiding the disclosure of confidential files is technology itself.
Such an initiative would have been far harder if at all possible - and more dangerous - 20 years ago.
As the Wikileaks website says itself, "with technological advances - the internet, and cryptography - the risks of conveying important information can be lowered".
The site, born in December 2006, now boasts more than a million documents.
Described on one blog as the "first stateless news organisation", Wikileaks has servers in countries which include Sweden and Belgium, where it benefits from press secrecy laws.
The idea behind the site is the need for transparency, with the basis being that it allows anyone to upload content, which will then be looked at by a group of volunteers, all journalists, who decide what to publish.
On submission of a document, which is encrypted, Wikileaks promises to prevent it being "technically traceable to your PDF printing program, your word installation, scanner, printer" and to make the contributor anonymous from an early stage.
'Easier than ever'Wikileaks says it makes contributors anonymous from an early stage
The release underscores the significance of technology to the future of journalism and transparency - and signifies a considerable shift between authorities and whistle-blowing.
By teaming up with national papers, the documents were able to reach a wider audience.
Unsurprisingly, though, the site has drawn its detractors - including those who would prefer it did not exist.
On the website, a leaked document, purportedly by the US army counterintelligence centre, looks into the threat posed by Wikileaks to national security - and how to marginalise it.
"The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistle-blowers could potentially damage or destroy [the website's] center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site," the document reads.
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If anything, this only proves that Wikileaks is succeeding at causing waves.
James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says the disclosure on the Afghan war was reminiscent of the 1971 leak of Pentagon files about the Vietnam war.
But - as opposed to the so-called "Pentagon Papers" - which were handed in hard copy to a journalist, "now you can take even more documents and give them to the whole world", he told AFP.
There are always going to be those who want to leak information, he says, but now it is easier than ever.
Meanwhile, Mr Assange says he believes that "courage is contagious" and that Monday's leak would encourage other whistle-blowers to step forward.
In a news conference on Monday, he said the organisation had "files that concern every country in the world with a population of over one million people, including the United States... Thousands of databases and files".
How the US government will react to such a high-impact disclosure is not known, but it should take note of what can happen when so many people have access to confidential information in a digital age.
According to an investigation by the Washington Post earlier this month into the US intelligence sector, 854,000 US citizens have the highest level of security clearance.
That's a lot of potential leaks.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Wikileaks release of embassy cables reveals US concerns
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Hillary Clinton: 'It is an attack on the international community'
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has begun releasing extracts from secret cables sent by US embassies, giving an insight into current global concerns.
They include reports of some Arab leaders - including Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah - urging the US to attack Iran and end its nuclear weapons programme.
Other concerns include the security of Pakistani nuclear material that could be used to make an atomic weapon.
The widespread use of computer hacking by China's government is also reported.
The US government condemned the release of the documents, which number in the hundreds of thousands, saying they put the lives of diplomats and others at risk.
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, countered by saying the US authorities were afraid of being held to account.
So far, Wikileaks has only posted some 200 of the 251,287 messages it says it has obtained. However, the entire bundle of cables has been made available to five publications, including the New York Times and the UK's Guardian newspaper.
The leaked US embassy cables also reportedly include accounts of:
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The fact that the Saudis, Jordanians and others are deeply suspicious about Iran's intentions is well known. What has not been known until now is how strongly they have been pressing for American military action.
The leaks do not tell the Iranians anything they did not suspect, or perhaps have already picked up themselves.
But they will sharpen the debate over Iran's nuclear plans, and about the chances of military action by the Americans - or the Israelis.
The leaks are deeply embarrassing for the Americans, and will infuriate Arab leaders whose remarks have been quoted.
- Iran attempting to adapt North Korean rockets for use as long-range missiles
- Corruption within the Afghan government, with concerns heightened when a senior official was found to be carrying more than $50m in cash on a foreign trip
- Bargaining to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison camp - including Slovenian diplomats being told to take in a freed prisoner if they wanted to secure a meeting with President Barack Obama
- Germany being warned in 2007 not to enforce arrest warrants for US Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in an operation in which an innocent German citizen with the same name as a suspected militant was abducted and held in Afghanistan
- US officials being instructed to spy on the UN's leadership by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- The very close relationship between Russian PM Vladimir Putin and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi
- Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime
- Yemen's president talking to then US Mid-East commander General David Petraeus about attacks on Yemeni al-Qaeda bases and saying: "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours"
- Faltering US attempts to prevent Syria from supplying arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon
The leaked embassy cables are both contemporary and historical, and include a 1989 note from a US diplomat in Panama City musing about the options open to Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and referring to him as "a master of survival" - the author apparently had no idea that US forces would invade a week later and arrest Noriega.
Continue reading the main storyWikileaks
- Whistle-blowing website with a reputation for publishing sensitive material
- Run by Julian Assange, a secretive Australian with a background in computer network hacking
- Released 90,000 secret US records of US military incidents about the war in Afghanistan and 400,000 similar documents on Iraq
- Also posted video showing US helicopter killing 12 people - including two journalists - in Baghdad in 2007
- Other controversial postings include screenshots of the e-mail inbox and address book of US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin
In a statement, the White House said: "Such disclosures put at risk our diplomats, intelligence professionals, and people around the world who come to the United States for assistance in promoting democracy and open government.
"President Obama supports responsible, accountable, and open government at home and around the world, but this reckless and dangerous action runs counter to that goal."
Earlier, Wikileaks said it had come under attack from a computer-hacking operation.
"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," it reported on its Twitter feed.
No-one has been charged with passing the diplomatic files to the website but suspicion has fallen on US Army private Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak of classified US documents to Mr Assange's organisation.
Wikileaks argues that the site's previous releases shed light on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Wikileaks publishes US embassy secrets
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published secret cables sent by US embassies back to the state department in Washington DC.
Some newspapers which had early access to the files have published some of the diplomatic memos, said to include criticisms of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
Kim Ghattas reports from Washington.
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Wikileaks: view of man behind Pentagon Papers leak
The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam war in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, has given his backing to Wikileaks.
Speaking to BBC World Service, Mr Ellsberg disagreed with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement that the latest leaks could endanger lives.
"That's a script that they role out every time there's a leak of any sort," he said.
It is not leaks, but "silences and lies" that put peoples' lives in danger, he believes.
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CIA, Mossad and Soros behind Wikileaks
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Suspicions abound that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations
WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad's own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks's editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland's financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites' actual "ownership."
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR's sources believe the Wikileaks "militancy" in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect." Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama's "information czar," Dr. Cass Sunstein.
In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr. Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions "hacker." His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, "Daniel Schmitt."
Wikileaks claims it is "a multi-jurisdictional organization to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing" [whose] primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of all nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."
In China, Wikileaks is suspected of having Mossad connections. It is pointed out that its first "leak" was from an Al Shabbab "insider" in Somalia. Al Shabbab is the Muslim insurgent group that the neocons have linked to "Al Qaeda."
Asian intelligence sources also point out that Assange's "PhD" is from Moffett University, an on-line diploma mill and that while he is said to hail from Nairobi, Kenya, he actually in from Australia where his exploits have included computer hacking and software piracy.
WMR has confirmed Young's contention that Wikileaks is a CIA front operation. Wikileaks is intimately involved in a $20 million CIA operation that U.S.-based Chinese dissidents that hack into computers in China. Some of the Chinese hackers route special hacking program through Chinese computers that then target U.S. government and military computer systems. After this hacking is accomplished, the U.S. government announces through friendly media outlets that U.S. computers have been subjected to a Chinese cyber-attack. The "threat" increases an already-bloated cyber-defense and offense budget and plays into the fears of the American public and businesses that heavily rely on information technology.
It is also pointed out that on Wikileaks advisory board is Ben Laurie, a one-time programmer and Internet security expert for Google, which recently signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and has been charged by China with being part of a U.S. cyber-espionage campaign against China. Other Wikileaks advisory members are leading Chinese dissidents, including Wan Dan, who won the 1998 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Democracy Award; Wang Youcai, founder of the Chinese Democracy Party; Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley, member of the advisory board of the International Campaign for Tibet, and commentator on the George Soros-affiliated Radio Free Asia; and Tibetan exile and activist Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang.
Our sources in Asia believe that Wikileaks ran afoul of their CIA paymasters after it was discovered that some of Wikileaks's "take" was being diverted to Mossad instead of to their benefactors at Langley. After a CIA cur-off in funding, "Daniel Schmitt" took over and moved the Wikileaks operation to Belgium and Sweden with hopes of making a more secure base in Iceland.
There are strong suspicions that Wikileaks is yet another Soros-funded "false flag" operation on the left side of the political spectrum. WMR has learned that after former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) decided to oppose Soros's choice of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's deputy Mark Malloch Brown as President of the World Bank, succedding the disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, Soros put the Wikileaks operation into high gear. "Daniel Schmitt" hacked into Coleman's supporters list, stealing credit card info, addresses, and publishing the "take" on Wikileaks. Democrat Al Franken, who was strongly backed by Soros, defeated Coleman in a legally-contested and very close election.
It is also believed by informed sources that Soros is behind the operation to move Wikileaks to Iceland. By becoming a power in Iceland, Soros can prevent Icelanders from paying back the British and Dutch investors in Icelandic online Ponzi scheme banking and continue his all-out war against British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has, in turn, targeted Soros for betting against pound sterling.
Iceland is classic prey for Soros. The Icelandic krona has been decimated as a currency and has no where to go but up in value, especially if the British pound and the euro depreciate. Soros is currently talking down the euro, planning its fall and shorting it, just like he did versus the pound in London in the 1980s. After the UK's and Europe's currencies are devalued, Soros will buy every euro note in sight, thus making trillions.
Soros and his Wikileaks friends have in Iceland a practically unregulated banking system desperate for an influx of capital -- money that will come from the exiled Russian tycoons in Israel, London and the United States. Israeli investors like Bank Leumi, and awash in siphoned-off Bernard Madoff cash, will do their bit for this smash-and-grab operation by Soros's Quantum-linked hedge funds.
With Wikileaks firmly ensconced in Iceland, the "brave" and much-heralded information leakers will run an international blackmail operation against Soros's foes and launch computer break-ins against Soros's business rivals and non-Quantum banks. Wikileaks will be used as the info-hitmen against President Obama's and Rahm Emanuel's enemies in the 2012 re-election campaign.
From Iceland, Soros will be well-positioned to gain control over the massive mineral resources under the melting ice sheet of Greenland. Under the ice are the only major rare-earth deposits outside of China and with such minerals at his disposal, Soros can control the world's electronics industries. This past week's volcanic activity in Iceland could, however, disrupt or destroy Soros's plans to establish and control a North American-European gateway in Iceland.
The following are some of the emails Young revealed in his exposure of Wikileaks's CIA connections (as well as to the Russian "phishing" Mafia, an operation run by Russian-Israeli Jews using Israel as a base) [Note: in the second email, "JYA" is a reference to John Young Associates]:
To: John Young
From: Wikileaks
Subject: martha stuart pgp
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:20:25 -0500
http://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/2010/03/soros-co-back-wikileaks-kosher-mob...
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Using Wikileaks to enforce new internet laws
In addition to misleading people, Wikileaks serves a major purpose false flagging a security threat and obviously providing the government with a security driven excuse to cut off communication between internet users.
Where did Wikileaks get the funding to get started?
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Wikileaks and Alex Jones preparing you to accept future internet censorship
Wikileaks operates on two levels:
1) Continue supporting the War on Terror under pretence of continues threats from the Arab world and by discouraging readers from looking deeper into 9/11.
2) Provides the Department of Homeland Security with a fake security breach as an excuse to shut down the internet or limit internet capacity.
Alex Jones came out here:http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=578557873620&oid=6499393458&comments
and spoke about Prisonplanet.com and Infowars.com being banned from Google News and Youtube informing him that his channel would be taken down.
Both Alex Jones and Wikileaks are of course working for them wearing you down into accepting the arms of the law slapping anybody who doesn’t comply with the invisible guidelines the mainstream media follows.
Stay tuned for more on the subject matter in about an hour.
Mike Dammann
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An urgent call went out today to the public for protection from U.S. State Department/CIA aggressive treatment of targeted individuals, WkiLeaks staff of the whistleblower Internet site. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks' felt so threatened, he tweeted that "if anything happened to them," it would be due to their plan to leak a decrypted video depicting an air-strike on civilians and journalists.
Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS, reported that Assange said Thursday that he was followed by two CIA men who boarded his 2.15pm flight out of Reykjavik to Copenhagen and one WkiLeaks volunteer "was detained without explanation by Icelandic police for approximately 21 hours," Assange Tweeted,
Assange was traveling to speak at an investigative journalism conference in Norway and told SBS that "US sources told Icelandic state media that the US State Department was aggressively investigating a leak from the US Embassy in Reykjavik."
"The next day, during the course of interrogation, the volunteer was shown covert photos of Assange outside a Reykjavik restaurant, Assange said. A production meeting for a video WikiLeaks was working on - allegedly documenting civilian kills by US pilots - had been held in the back room of that restaurant that week," reported SBS, providing the full text of Julian Assange's email explanation. ( click here.)
A few hours later, SBS reported, "US Army spokesman Gary Tallman confirmed to AFP that the Department of Defence had compiled a report on WikiLeaks, after concerns were raised that the website posed a security threat to troops."
Following that, Norway's ABC s "confirmed WikiLeaks spying story" as Assange reported on Twitter (See: http://bit.ly/cD1ZE3) and Russia Today (RT) then reported on WikiLeak's recent events (See RT report below).
WikiLeaks vs Pentagon
The bold message from WikiLeaks was, "We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don't think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks."
Wikileaks' mission is bringing hidden information to light when it’s in the public interest, the way mainstream news used to be. Wikipedia outlines their greatest hits including Gauntanamo Bay procedure documents, scientology secrets, and net censorship lists.Whistleblowers with WikiLeaks have contributed some compelling information to some fractious global arguments.
Earlier, WikiLeaks Twitter feed had worrying content that is being circulated globally: "WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club@sunshinepress.org"
- WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation. Following/photographing/filming/detaining
- If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible.
- Two under State Dep diplomatic cover followed our editor from Iceland to http://skup.no on Thursday.
- One related person was detained for 22 hours. Computer’s seized.That’s http://www.skup.no
- We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being discussed at the highest levels of US command.
- We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike.
- We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don’t think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks.
All of those Tweets came out in a rush. Then the following Tweets hours later show internet interference as typically reported by targeted individuals: UPDATE: “To those worrying about us–we’re fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly.” 8.22am NZ time. Then, another "UPDATE: Just noticed that the first tweet quoted, “WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup” is gone from the feed. Now I wish I’d linked to all of them individually. Anyway, it was definitely there, and I think Linda is right that it is this previously-referred-to video;" and then, "UPDATE: commenter eru found the missing tweet. It isn’t visible in the ordinary feed for some reason."
At 8:44, March 26, WikiLeaks issued the following Editorial: (emphases added)
Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my compound there in 2007 is still unattributed) to an unsuccessful mass attack by Chinese computers on our servers in Stockholm, after we published photos of murders in Tibet. In the West this has ranged from the overt, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, threatening to prosecute us unless we removed a report on CIA activity in Kosovo, to the covert, to an ambush by a "James Bond" character in a Luxembourg car park, an event that ended with a mere "we think it would be in your interest to...".
Developing world violence aside, we've become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest.
But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive. Some of the new interest is related to a film exposing a U.S. massacre we will release at the U.S. National Press Club on April 5.
The spying includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks' volunteer in Iceland on Monday night.
I, and others were in Iceland to advise Icelandic parliamentarians on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a new package of laws designed to protect investigative journalists and internet services from spying and censorship. As such, the spying has an extra poignancy.
The possible triggers:
- our ongoing work on a classified film revealing civilian casualties occurring under the command of the U.S, general, David Petraeus.
- our release of a classified 32 page US intelligence report on how to fatally marginalize WikiLeaks (expose our sources, destroy our reputation for integrity, hack us).
- our release of a classified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik reporting on contact between the U.S. and the U.K. over billions of euros in claimed loan guarantees.
- pending releases related to the collapse of the Icelandic banks and Icelandic "oligarchs".
We have discovered half a dozen attempts at covert surveillance in Reykjavik both by native English speakers and Icelanders. On the occasions where these individuals were approached, they ran away. One had marked police equipment and the license plates for another suspicious vehicle track back to the Icelandic private VIP bodyguard firm Terr. What does that mean? We don't know. But as you will see, other events are clear.
U.S. sources told Icelandic state media's deputy head of news, that the State Department was aggressively investigating a leak from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik. I was seen at a private U.S Embassy party at the Ambassador's residence, late last year and it is known I had contact with Embassy staff, after.
On Thursday March 18, 2010, I took the 2.15 PM flight out of Reykjavik to Copenhagen--on the way to speak at the SKUP investigative journalism conference in Norway. After receiving a tip, we obtained airline records for the flight concerned. Two individuals, recorded as brandishing diplomatic credentials checked in for my flight at 12:03 and 12:06 under the name of "US State Department". The two are not recorded as having any luggage.
Iceland doesn't have a separate security service. It folds its intelligence function into its police forces, leading to an uneasy overlap of policing and intelligence functions and values.
....Only a few years ago, Icelandic airspace was used for CIA rendition flights. Why did the CIA think that this was acceptable? In a classified U.S. profile on the former Icelandic Ambassador to the United States, obtained by WikiLeaks, the Ambassador is praised for helping to quell publicity of the CIA's activities.
Often when a bold new government arises, bureaucratic institutions remain loyal to the old regime and it can take time to change the guard. Former regime loyalists must be discovered, dissuaded and removed. But for the security services, that first vital step, discovery, is awry. Congenitally scared of the light, such services hide their activities; if it is not known what security services are doing, then it is surely impossible to know who they are doing it for.
Our plans to release the video on April 5 proceed.
We have asked relevant authorities in the Unites States and Iceland to explain. If these countries are to be treated as legitimate states, they need to start obeying the rule of law. Now.
— Julian Assange (editor@wikileaks.org)
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Recent information from The Intel Hub that further exposes Wikileaks as a CIA front is dismissed as unacceptable by many, including some well-educated professionals in the caring field. Seasoned investigators stand behind tell-tale signs that Wikileaks is conducting a major, well-orchestrated psychological operation to distract the public from even worse human rights abuses such as the Gulf genocide and crime against humanity plus to gain military support for more wars.
Two psychologists emailed the author after reading her article, Wikileaks Cointelpro Wizard of Oz or 'Whistleblower'? They called it "conspiracy theory mongering."
Another reader commented on Facebook where the article link was provided, "Are the leaks true? If so, who cares how they came to be exposed, or what the whistleblower's possible connections are?
"The world has a right to know about human rights crimes. This right supersedes any government's secrecy or 'national security' objections."
Others say, “Who cares? The end result is what matters and now the public knows the war crimes committed in Afghanistan.”
Others, however, say that the CIA/military psychological operation on the people is what matters, the right of people to think. Article of the Declaration of Human Rights states:
The Universal Declaration of Human Righs, Article 18 states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought..." Does Wikileaks' actions violate the right o think through a psychological operation (PSYOP) including Disinformation to control minds and therefore behaviors of the people?
In "Wikileaks: Surprise: We're Spies!" John Paul Leonard of Progressive Press asserts that "it's a classic disinformation operation. They pretend to make a big deal about civilian casualties -- but those are less than a fraction of a percent of what we've seen in Iraq. Meanwhile the 'leaks' file is bursting with wild allegations that Pakistan, Iran, China and Russia are behind the insurgency.
"The bottom Wikiline, contrary as advertised, is: Look how few civilians were killed, but how many nasty enemies we are holding at bay. Maybe it's time to take the battle to them!
"On their Wikileaks summary page, the Guardian points to a whole library of pretexts for war against Pakistan:
"But they don't tell you that the ISI is a daughter company of the CIA," states Leonard.
"Psychological operations (PSYOPs) are "planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals." (Wikipedia) Now that the whole world is a U.S. battleground for military's aim, Full Spectrum Dominance, PSYOPS are applied not only on foreign audiences, but also domestic "audiences," just as military is no longer deployed for active duty only on foreign land but is also on U.S. soil for urban warfare.
Webster Tarpley explains in an Alex Jones interview that Wikileaks' performance is a Modified Limited Hangout, a PSYOP, as the national human rights Examiner reported April 11 after discovery of the 30-minute gap in Collateral Damage was reported:
"The 30-minute gap leaves ‘a hole right-wingers can drive a propaganda truck through. This gap seems to put Wikileaks back into the category of Pentagon media manipulation tool,’ wrote a commenter, Xymphora on Kenny's Sideshow.
A Los Angeles private investigator had told Dupré shortly after Wikileaks' first video, that when mainstream media puts out information such as the 'leaked' video, "Collateral Damage," "it's usually a Modified Limited Hangout." A limited hangout is spy jargon described by Wikipedia as:
[A] form of deception, misdirection, or coverup often associated with intelligence agencies involving a release or "mea culpa" type of confession of only part of a set of previously hidden sensitive information, that establishes credibility for the one releasing the information who by the very act of confession appears to be "coming clean" and acting with integrity; but in actuality by withholding key facts is protecting a deeper crime and those who could be exposed if the whole truth came out. In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones.
A limited hangout typically is a response to lower the pressure felt from inquisitive investigators pursuing clues that threaten to expose everything, and the disclosure is often combined with red herrings or propaganda elements that lead to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation; thus allowing covert or criminal elements to continue in their improper activities."
In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones."
Greater ones? Consider only two of many:
1) The 2001 911 mass murder to justify the war on terror, "conspiracy theory" that angers Julian Assange despite government's 911 Commission Report authors concurring the report was “almost completely untrue; (See: Dupre, D. 911 Commission rejects its report Almost entirely untrue, Examiner, September 26, 2009) and Truth vs Nazi-type terror: Bush admin demanded a fake 911 report, March 10, 2010)
2) The 2010 genocide and crime against humanity that the petrochemical-military industrial complex is committing right now on US soil along the Gulf Coast, spreading into the world's waterways, air and food-web - the greatest crime and catastrophe in U.S. history. (See: Dupre, D. Censored Gulf health news: Call it what it is: Genocide. Crime Against Humanity, Examiner, July 27, 2010)
"A limited hangout typically is a response to lower the pressure felt from inquisitive investigators pursuing clues that threaten to expose everything, and the disclosure is often combined with red herrings or propaganda elements that lead to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation; thus allowing covert or criminal elements to continue in their improper activities." (Wikipedia)
Human suffering from poisons in the Gulf of Mexico region intensifies. The petrochemical-military-industrial complex's "no oil found" is in the Gulf waters and marshes as far as the eye can see. It is even bubbling up out of the ground in Louisiana. Citizen reporters are photographing and filming oil in four tates. For example, Denise Rednour has filmed Mississippi beach and water each day for three months, posting them on her website, True Testament to the Gulf Oil Spill.
The photo and 2 short videos below tha Rednour shot August 7 and 8 depict typical Gulf coast oiled waters - covered up, the catastrophe "all over now" so that peace and justice groups spend their discussions and resources directly on what Wikileaks wants.
“PLEASE, don't be fooled by mainstream media and politicians who are telling people it's over, it's safe to swim, and the seafood is harmless," pleads Rednour.
The "truths" focus right now to progressives, however, is that Bradley Manning is unjustly persecuted; he and Julian Assange are heroes for exposing war crimes many others have exposed but not gained the American media fanfare; and whistleblowers: Be even more fearful, especially with the untimely death of Matt Simmons, a genuine whistleblower, one who opposed the petrochemical-military industrial complex Gulf oil 20101 propaganda.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans along the Gulf Coast have been gassed, thousands suffering lesions and an untold number internally bleeding that Hugh Kaufman said Corexit is suppose to do and as Simmons had alluded in his analysis that 20 million Gulf coast residents needed to relocate, stating, "This story is 80 times worse than I thought."
"In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this [Modified Limited Hangout] confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones."(Wikipedia)
In other words, a Modified Limited Hangout is yet another form of mind/behavior control, “all designed to keep you preoccupied and bewildered from the steady enslavement and erosion of constitutionally guaranteed liberties that taking place daily,” states Ken Adachi, Editor of Educate Yourself.
If Wikileaks videos and document disclosure operation is a CIA/military Modified Limited Hangout, what other greater offenses does is hide?
That list could be long in terms of US human rights abuses. To not labor over the CIA/military secret kidnapping, torture, drug running so supplies continue on US streets, targeting individuals in their homes and communities – to cut to the chase, how about looking at a brand new crime against humanity, the next one, the one it plans? That’s what Tarpely does in the following explanation of Wikileaks Modified Limited Hangout.
While the above "evidence" of Wikileaks being an operative organization is not conclusive, adequate information exists pointing to the need for learning about CIA/military psychological operations.
Peace and justice groups can choose to learn and spread the word about psychological war weapons the petrochemical-industrial complex is applying to We the People to further its destructive agenda. Alternatively, such groups can deny psychological war weapon applications on the American public, and in so doing, risk unwittingly supporting the opposite of peace and justice.
Lasting benefits to humanity await psychologists of integrity leading by empowering the public with tools to: recognize professionally applied PSYOPs; understand related implications of human rights abuses; plus counter these psychological weapons by changing public policy including those related to issues involving psychologists and medical field professionals employed to further such psychological operations against best interest of the public – on U.S. soil.
Copyright Deborah Dupre. August 9, 2010. All rights reserved. Without permission, text of this article cannot be copied, posted or distributed.
Deborah Dupré, with post-graduate science and education degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, has been a human and environmental right advocate for over 25 years in the U.S., Vanuatu and Australia. Support her work by subscribing to her articles (free). For a more just and peaceful world, see Dupré's Vaccine Liberty or Death book plus her Compassion Film Project DVDs.
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Deborah Dupre’Recent information from The Intel Hub that further exposes Wikileaks as a CIA front is dismissed as unacceptable by many, including some well-educated professionals in the caring field. Seasoned investigators stand behind tell-tale signs that Wikileaks is conducting a major, well-orchestrated psychological operation to distract the public from even worse human rights abuses such as the Gulf genocide and crime against humanity plus to gain military support for more wars.
Two psychologists emailed the author after reading her article, Wikileaks Cointelpro Wizard of Oz or ‘Whistleblower’? They called it “conspiracy theory mongering.”
Another reader commented on Facebook where the article link was provided, “Are the leaks true? If so, who cares how they came to be exposed, or what the whistleblower’s possible connections are?
“The world has a right to know about human rights crimes. This right supersedes any government’s secrecy or ‘national security’ objections.”
Others say, “Who cares? The end result is what matters and now the public knows the war crimes committed in Afghanistan.”
Others, however, say that the CIA/military psychological operation on the people is what matters, the right of people to think. Article of the Declaration of Human Rights states:
The Universal Declaration of Human Righs, Article 18 states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought…” Does Wikileaks’ actions violate the right o think through a psychological operation (PSYOP) including Disinformation to control minds and therefore behaviors of the people?
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Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That | Threat Level | Wired.com
Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That
- By Kevin Poulsen
- August 13, 2010 |
- 7:25 pm |
- Categories: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks
View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger mapShould the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks?
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the Afghan war logs, despite a demand from the Pentagon that WikiLeaks “return” its entire cache of published and unpublished classified U.S. documents.
Last month, WikiLeaks released 77,000 documents out of 92,000, temporarily holding back 15,000 records at the urging of newspapers that had been provided an advance copy of the entire database. On Thursday, Assange said his organization has now gone through about half of the remaining records, redacting the names of Afghan informants. That suggests the final release could still be weeks away.
Pundits, though, are clamoring for preemptive action. “The United States has the cyber capabilities to prevent WikiLeaks from disseminating those materials,” wrote Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen on Friday. “Will President Obama order the military to deploy those capabilities? … If Assange remains free and the documents he possesses are released, Obama will have no one to blame but himself.”
But a previous U.S.-based effort to wipe WikiLeaks off the internet did not go well. In 2008, federal judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco ordered the WikiLeaks.org domain name seized as part of a lawsuit filed by Julius Baer Bank and Trust, a Swiss bank that suffered a leak of some of its internal documents. Two weeks later the judge admitted he’d acted hastily, and he had the site restored. “There are serious questions of prior restraint, possible violations of the First Amendment,” he said.
Even while the order was in effect, WikiLeaks lived on: supporters and free speech advocates distributed the internet IP address of the site, so it could be reached directly. Mirrors of the site were unaffected by the court order, and a copy of the entire WikiLeaks archive of leaked documents circulated freely on the Pirate Bay.
The U.S. government has other, less legal, options, of course — the “cyber” capabilities Thiessen alludes to. The Pentagon probably has the ability to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against WikiLeaks’ public-facing servers. If it doesn’t, the Army could rent a formidable botnet from Russian hackers for less than the cost of a Humvee.
But that wouldn’t do much good either. WikiLeaks wrote its own insurance policy two weeks ago, when it posted a 1.4 GB file called insurance.aes256.
The file’s contents are encrypted, so there’s no way to know what’s in it. But, as we’ve previously reported, it’s more than 19 times the size of the Afghan war log — large enough to contain the entire Afghan database, as well as the other, larger classified databases said to be in WikiLeaks’ possession. Accused Army leaker Bradley Manning claimed to have provided WikiLeaks with a log of events in the Iraq war containing 500,000 entries from 2004 through 2009, as well as a database of 260,000 State Department cables to and from diplomatic posts around the globe.
Whatever the insurance file contains, Assange — appearing via Skype on a panel at the Frontline Club — reminded everyone Thursday that he could make it public at any time. “All we have to do is release the password to that material and it’s instantly available,” he said.
WikiLeaks is encouraging supporters to download the insurance file through the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay. “Keep it safe,” reads a message greeting visitors to the WikiLeaks chat room. After two weeks, the insurance file is doubtless in the hands of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of netizens already.
We dipped into the torrent Friday to get a sense of WikiLeaks’ support in that effort. In a few minutes of downloading, we pulled bits and piece of insurance.aes256 from 61 seeders around the world. We ran the IP addresses through a geolocation service and turned it into a KML file to produce the Google Map at the top of this page. The seeders are everywhere, from the U.S., to Iceland, Australia, Canada and Europe. They had all already grabbed the entire file, and are now just donating bandwidth to help WikiLeaks survive.*
Since the Afghan war logs were posted, it’s emerged the 77,000 records already published contain the names of hundreds of Afghan informants, who now face potentially deadly reprisal from the Taliban. WikiLeaks’ publication of those records has drawn criticism from human rights organizations and the international free press group Reporters Without Borders.
Those organizations are just urging WikiLeaks to be more careful with its releases. But the Pentagon has hinted it actually has some recourse against the site. “If doing the right thing isn’t good enough for them, we will figure out what alternatives we have to compel them to do the right thing,” Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said last week. It’s hard to see what that recourse might be, when Julian Assange, or someone in his inner circle, can spill 1.4 gigabytes of material with a single well-crafted tweet.
(*No, Wired.com has not posted a targeting map for Pentagon cruise missiles. IP geolocation is not precise.)
See also
- WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
- WikiLeaks Suspect’s YouTube Videos Raised ‘Red Flag’ in 2008
- WikiLeaks Releases Stunning Afghan War Logs — Is Iraq Next?
- Suspected WikiLeaks Source Described Crisis of Conscience Leading to Leaks
- U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in WikiLeaks Video Probe
- Cayman Islands Bank Gets WikiLeaks Taken Offline in U.S.
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