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Seymour Hersh is right. For various reasons, which I will explain in this thread, Wikileaks did more to keep the US safe than those failed institutions of the CIA, FBI, and the corporate media.
If there had been a #Wikileaks in the 1980s and 1990s, there may never have been 9/11
If there had been a #Wikileaks in the 1980s and 1990s, there may never have been 9/11
As @StateDept knows, the US will eventual fail if it’s reputation around the world as corrupt and duplicitous reaches a critical mass. Powerful as they are, the US needs allies and markets to survive. Like ‘fossil fuels’, they are vulnerable to popular and progressive opinion.
In this regard the US at times needs protection from its own worst self: rapacious and unchecked nationalism and capitalism. In the 1960s & 70s this check came from mainstream journalism. Today it comes from independent journos with info from insider sources. like #Wikileaks
Update on the @Wikileaks #CableGate #TPLFTruth project, which is launching today.
The initial focus of work will by US @StateDept cables related to Getachew Asefa/Assefa, long time TPLF spy chief. search.wikileaks.org/?query=Getache…
The initial focus of work will by US @StateDept cables related to Getachew Asefa/Assefa, long time TPLF spy chief. search.wikileaks.org/?query=Getache…
There are 10 Cables in the #CableGate File and I have started on the most famous of these here >> docs.google.com/document/d/1fJ…
. @FCC & @fema wikileaks.org/Sri-Lanka.html
Press Release: Secret US Embassy Cables
28th November 2010, #66BUENOSAIRES2481 #cablegate
@cableleaks @cablegateleaks @CableGate_Fan @cablegatewiki @Cablegate_es @cablegatebo @CableGateMirror @wikileaks_q8 @ESPAN @fangatehq @cablemonitor
Press Release: Secret US Embassy Cables
28th November 2010, #66BUENOSAIRES2481 #cablegate
@cableleaks @cablegateleaks @CableGate_Fan @cablegatewiki @Cablegate_es @cablegatebo @CableGateMirror @wikileaks_q8 @ESPAN @fangatehq @cablemonitor
cablegatesearch.net/cable-gate-sea…
@HouseGOP @SenateGOP @GOPLeader @GOPChairwoman @SenToddYoung Even the fund managers are making sure that the small companies get benefits even if there are no legislations implemented by the Republicans in Congress. @SenatorBraun ?
@HouseGOP @SenateGOP @GOPLeader @GOPChairwoman @SenToddYoung Even the fund managers are making sure that the small companies get benefits even if there are no legislations implemented by the Republicans in Congress. @SenatorBraun ?
David Leigh and the @guardian have subsequently and repeatedly violated @wikileaks security conditions
@iankatz admitted in December 2010 meeting that this condition was not being followed by the Guardian.
@iankatz admitted in December 2010 meeting that this condition was not being followed by the Guardian.
Good article by @JoshuaNevett for @BBCWorld. What he's missing is Ellsberg's potential prosecution is as publisher, not as leaker, due to time factor. Publication is the new crime. The #Assange precedent, the first ever prosecution of a publisher under the Act, set that precedent
In fact, the #Assange precedent means @joshuanevett is also prosecutable under the Espionage Act. Just like with the diplomatic cables, where @WikiLeaks was not first to publish, republication is a crime. US says WikiLeaks great global reach justifies prosecution. Like @bbcworld
And then we have the fact that @JoshuaNevett, I assume, is not a US citizen. So we have the original publisher, US citizen Ellsberg, who published classified info from USA, and the republisher, a foreign journalist publishing legally from the UK without breaking UK law. (contd)
Mr. Smith, American lawyer expert in secret detention, rendition, and litigation surrounding conduct within conflicts with Afghanistan and Iraq is being interviewed by the defence.
#AssangeCase
#AssangeCase
Mr. Smith says that he is very familiar with the content of the WikiLeaks content. He says that he has used cables regarding drone programs in Pakistan in court concerning. They have helped to successfully change the programme through litigation.
#AssangeCase
#AssangeCase
The cables also helped in investigations concerning rendition and torture. They also highlighted the US assassination programme that included around 669 men. The documents show that the targets also include journalists.
#AssangeCase
#AssangeCase
.@prashantrao and I spoke to more than a dozen current and former diplomats about the changing nature of their work. The picture that emerges is of a systemic decline in trust, sparked by #cablegate and then fuelled by a series of other breaches leading up to the Darroch affair
"This breakdown in trust has potentially severe implications for diplomacy, but also for foreign services and the formation of overseas policy more generally if ambassadors feel unable to report the reality on the ground as they see it for fear of political upset at home."
"In the longer term, this shift may have even more profound implications than creating drier, more circumspect cables, as diplomats pursue new and riskier routes or face-to-face briefings outside official channels to protect themselves."
De regering-Obama onderzocht ook of ze Assange kon vervolgen op basis van de Espionage Act. Uiteindelijk zag de toenmalige minister van Justitie Eric Holder daarvan af. Dit heeft te maken met een eerdere uitspraak van het Hooggerechtshof over de zogeheten 'Pentagon Papers'. (1)
De Pentagon Papers waren geheime staatsdocumenten van het ministerie van Defensie over het verloop van de oorlog in Vietnam. Opeenvolgende Amerikaanse regeringen schetsten lange tijd een rooskleurig beeld over de oorlog. (2)
Maar ze misleidden het Amerikaanse publiek. Uit de Pentagon Papers bleek dat de overheid keer op keer loog over de motieven en omvang van de militaire operatie in Vietnam. Klokkenluider Daniel Ellsberg speelde de documenten door aan de New York Times. (3)
1. buongiorno! per ora, continuiamo a smascherare le falsità dell'informazione italiana sul caso Julian #Assange, poi vi spiegherò perché in Italia l'offensiva contro Julian #Assange è particolarmente intensa
2. "Eh, ma Julian #Assange ha messo tanta gente a rischio", ci dicono i nostri Pulitzer. Per "fortuna" abbiamo la certezza che nessuno è stato ucciso o danneggiato. Come lo sappiamo? lo sappiamo "grazie" al processo a Chelsea #Manning davanti alla corte marziale.
3. il giudice chiamò a testimoniare il capo della Task Force creata dal #Pentagono x stabilire rigorosamente se la pubblicazione di TUTTI i files segreti del governo USA leakati da #Manning (#CollateralMurder,#AfghanWarLogs,#IraqWarLogs,#Cablegate,#GitmoFiles)avesse causato danni
Draadje! De rechtszaak tegen Julian Assange wordt het belangrijkste juridische gevecht in tijden. Flashback: onder Obama wilde het ministerie van Justitie aanvankelijk Assange vervolgen voor de publicatie van de #Cablegate documenten. (1)
Obama zag daarvan af omdat hij inzag dat het in strijd was met het Eerste Amendement van de grondwet, dat de persvrijheid waarborgt. De regering Obama noemde dit het “New York Times probleem”. theintercept.com/2018/11/16/as-…
Obama’s regering beschouwde Wikileaks als een media-organisatie. De redenering was: als je Wikileaks vervolgt dan zou je ook andere media moeten vervolgen die publiceerden over #Cablegate documenten, zoals de New York Times. (3)
