Whistleblowers

Busting A Myth: Assange Has Published Damaging Material On Russia

September 25, 2019 By Patrick Lawrence, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Julian Assange, Russia, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Among the many myths fostered by critics of WikiLeaks is that the publication has repeatedly shown political bias in favor of nations the U.S. treats as enemies and suppresses documents damaging to them. High on this list were Russia and Syria. For instance, Hillary Clinton, in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Oct. 16, 2017, asked why WikiLeaks never publishes anything critical of Russia. “If he’s such a martyr of free speech, why doesn’t WikiLeaks ever publish anything coming out of Russia?

Chelsea Manning Imprisoned Without Charge For Six Months

September 24, 2019 Kevin Reed and James Cogan, Wsws.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Political Prisoner, Repression, Whistleblowers

The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia for more than six months. Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail on March 8, 2019 for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has indicted persecuted WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, who published the information she leaked exposing rampant US imperialist criminality.

Saying He Would Return To US For Fair Trial, Snowden Wants People To Know ‘Why I Did What I Did’

September 17, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

"Was it better for the United States? Did it benefit us? Or did it cause harm? They don't want the jury to be able to consider that at all." Edward Snowden said Monday that he would return to the United States if afforded a fair trail where the American public could hear why he leaked global surveillance documents to the press. The National Security Agency whistleblower, who was charged under the Espoinage Act and lives in exile in Russia, made the remarks in an interview with "CBS This Morning."

M.C. McGrath, Hiding In The Open

September 16, 2019 Staff, Exposingtheinvisible.org Create! Intelligence, Technology, Whistleblowers

M.C. McGrath is a hacker and an activist based in Berlin, Germany and is the creator of Transparency Toolkit. This Toolkit provides a set of tools to collect data from various open data sources and was the basis for M.C.'s next project, ICWATCH, a database of an estimated 27,000 LinkedIn resumes of people who work in the intelligence sector. He uses this database to find information about the intelligence community, surveillance programmes and other information that is very much private but that has been posted publicly via the professional networking platform, LinkedIn...

Justice Department To Force Imprisoned Hackivist Jeremy Hammond To Testify Against Wikileaks

September 7, 2019 Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof.com Educate! Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

FBI informant Hector Xavier Monsegur was instrumental in targeting and carrying out a cyberattack on the private intelligence firm, Stratfor, in 2011. The FBI allowed several individuals to submit stolen information from the firm to WikiLeaks, and it ultimately led to the prosecution of hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in 2013. Now, the Justice Department has transferred Hammond from the Federal Correctional Institution Milan in Michigan to the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia so they can force him to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.

Roger Waters And John Pilger Make Powerful Defence Of Julian Assange In London

September 4, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Julian Assange, Protests, Repression, Whistleblowers

Up to 1,000 people gathered last night in central London to hear internationally acclaimed musician Roger Waters deliver a musical tribute to imprisoned WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange. Performing outside the UK Home Office, just miles from Belmarsh Prison where Assange is being held as a Category A prisoner, Waters sang Pink Floyd’s iconic song “Wish You Were Here.” He was accompanied by guitarist Andrew Fairweather Low. Supporters filled the forecourt and pavement on both sides of Marsham Street, many carrying banners and placards demanding Assange’s freedom and the release of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

Executive Summary: Chelsea Manning’s “Grumbles” Motion

August 28, 2019 Kelly Wright, Aaronswartzday.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Repression, Whistleblowers

This brief digs into the distinction between a punitive sanction and one that is merely “coercive.” A person who is held in civil contempt may be confined (incarcerated) in order to coerce their compliance with the court’s order to testify before the grand jury, but they may not be “punished.” If there is no coercive effect to their confinement, either because the grand jury has ended, or because there is no possible way they will be convinced to comply with the order to testify, then the confinement must be deemed punitive, and must end.

Over-prosecution Of Whistleblowers, Makes Overclassification Of Secrets, A Bigger Problem

August 27, 2019 Adelia Henderson and Gabe Rottman, Rcfp.org Educate! Repression, Whistleblowers

Earlier this month, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press created a visualization of the uptick over the last decade in news media “leak” prosecutions — that is, criminal cases against journalistic sources for the unauthorized disclosure of government secrets to the press. The visualization builds on research by the Technology and Press Freedom Project at the Reporters Committee over the last year to catalogue all cases involving either formal leak investigations or prosecutions throughout history.

The Latest Victim In The Crucifixion Of Julian Assange

August 25, 2019 Robert Scheer, Truthdig Educate! Ecuador, Julian Assange, Whistleblowers

The case of Ola Bini, a Swedish data privacy activist and associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has been shrouded in mystery since his arrest in Quito, Ecuador, on April 11. He was detained on the same day Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in the United Kingdom, inevitably raising questions about whether Bini was being held because of his connection with Assange and whether the United States was involved in the case in some form. Bini, who initially wasn’t charged with a crime, was accused of being involved in a leak of documents that revealed that Ecuador’s right-wing president, Lenin Moreno, had several offshore bank accounts.

The Coming Show Trial Of Julian Assange

June 18, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed, slipped on heavy, dark-frame glasses at the start of the proceedings. He listened intently as Ben Brandon, the prosecutor, seated at a narrow wooden table, listed the crimes he allegedly had committed and called for his extradition to the United States to face charges that could result in a sentence of 175 years.

Assange To Face 5-Day Extradition Hearing In February 2020

June 17, 2019 By Joe Lauria, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Decision on Assange’s fate will not come for at least another eight months. A decision on whether Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States to face charges under the Espionage Act will not come until the end of February 2020 at the earliest, the Westminster Magistrate’s Court ruled on Friday. Tristan Kirk, the London Evening Standard‘s courts reporter, tweeted...

US Issues Formal Request For Assange’s Extradition

June 13, 2019 Oscar Grenfell, Wsws.org Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

The Washington Post reported today that officials from the US Justice Department issued a formal request to British authorities last Thursday for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The document has not been made public. The US government had 60 days from Assange’s arrest by British police on April 11 to deliver a complete extradition application to the UK. The first substantive hearing over the US extradition bid is due to be held in London on June 14. The newspaper report confirms that the US administration of President Donald Trump is pressing ahead with its attempts to prosecute Assange on 18 charges...

Freeing Julian Assange: Part One

June 12, 2019 Staff, Contraspin.co.nz Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

The first port of call for those defending the world’s most at-risk publishing organisation and its staff has been tackling the individual narratives of its oppressors. Focusing on Sweden, or Ecuador, or the US Department Of Justice, the Grand Juries or the United Kingdom and debunking their spin seems a necessary task. But we have to face the reality: Years of arguing til we’re blue in the face about the intricacies of all the various aspects of the aforementioned – plenty of which I’ve engaged in myself – hasn’t achieved victory.

First VIDEO Of Julian Assange In Belmarsh Prison

June 10, 2019 Staff, Rt.com Educate! Julian Assange, Prisons, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikieaks

The timestamp on the video says “2017/07/07” but Ruptly said it believes this discrepancy was due to a faulty setting on the recording device and that the video was indeed shot inside Belmarsh prison, where Assange was taken in April. The camera then shows a small shabby cell, with books and papers strewn around the floor. While RT can’t independently verify if it was Assange’s own cell, the journalist and publisher is seen walking in the room at the beginning of the video. The gloomy video comes a day after a conservative US news outlet the Gateway Pundit published pictures of Assange in prison.

What Could Happen With The Julian Assange Extradition

June 10, 2019 Staff, Angelof-truth.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

The only way we can stop this is to unite as a movement and tell the U.K. judicial system that we demand he not be extradited. We must put our differences aside and join hands to save Assange and our free speech rights as well as press freedom. If we do not, we sacrifice future generations’ freedom. If you could have stopped Hitler when he began to take over Germany by demanding he stop attacking the press and free speech, would have you? Would you have risked your life to expose NAZis?

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