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Wikileaks. Julian Assange and Bradley Manning http://wikileaks.org/. Who is Julian Assange ?. Julian Paul Assange (Born 3 July 1971)

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Wikileaks

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  1. Wikileaks Julian Assange and Bradley Manning http://wikileaks.org/

  2. Who is Julian Assange? • Julian Paul Assange (Born 3 July 1971) • An Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of Wiki Leaks (2006), which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous news sourcesand whistle blowers.

  3. Quotes from/about Assange • Assange says that WikiLeaks has released more classified documents than the rest of the world press combined: “….that shows you the parlous state of the rest of the media. • "He advocates a "transparent" and "scientific" approach to journalism. • The Age has called him "internet's freedom fighter

  4. http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/29/exclusive_julian_assange_on_wikileaks_bradleyhttp://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/29/exclusive_julian_assange_on_wikileaks_bradley

  5. Who is Bradley Manning? • Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the whistle blower website WikiLeaks. He was charged with a number of offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy, a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.[

  6. What did Manning do? • The material included videos of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan; 250,000 United States diplomatic cables; and 500,000 army reports that came to be known as the Iraq War logs and Afghan War logs. It was the largest set of restricted documents ever leaked to the public. Much of it was published by WikiLeaks or its media partners between April and November 2010. • http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/11/30/bradley-manning-takes-the-stand-the-beginning-of-confinement-at-quantico/

  7. More than just the U.S.? • WikiLeaks posted its first document in December 2006, a decision to assassinate government officials signed by Sheikh Hassan DahirAweys. • In February 2008, WikiLeaks released allegations of illegal activities at the Cayman Islands branch of the Swiss Bank Julius Baer. • In January 2009, WikiLeaks released 86 telephone intercept recordings of Peruvian politicians and businessmen involved in the 2008 Peru oil scandal. • In October 2009, WikiLeaks[announced that a super-injunction was being used to gag The Guardianfrom reporting on a leaked internal document regarding a toxic dumping incident in Côte d'Ivoire.

  8. Consequences • In late November 2010, Kintto Lucas, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ecuador, spoke about giving Assange residency with "no conditions... so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the Internet but in a variety of public forums".

  9. Assange the terrorist • Assange has been equated to a ‘high tech terrorist’ by Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, and Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. • 29 Nov 2010, Rep. Peter T. King, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) asked that Assange should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917, and that he should be declared a terrorist. • The same day, King also wrote to the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, requesting that she designate Wikileaks as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

  10. Threats to Assange’s Life • On 30 Nov 2010 Sarah Palin called for Assange to be pursued "with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders". • On 30 Nov 2010, Tom Flanagan, a former aide to the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, called for Assange's assassination. • On 1 Dec 2010, Republican Mike Huckabee called for those behind the leak of the cables to be executed. • On 6 Dec 2010, Fox News political commentator and analyst Bob Beckel stated: "A dead man can't leak stuff.”

  11. Consequences (2) • On 20 Aug 2010, Swedish police to investigate two sexual complaints against Assange. • In Dec 2010, Assange, then in Britain, learned that the Swedish authorities had issued a European Arrest Warrant to extradite him to Sweden for questioning. • On 16 Aug, Ricardo Patiño, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, stated in a press conference that the Ecuadorian government was granting Assange political asylum. • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20563871

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