Wikileaks Docs Show How the CIA Allegedly Infected Offline Computers
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/news/north-america/wikileaks-docs-show-cia-allegedly-infected-offline-computers/
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/news/north-america/wikileaks-docs-show-cia-allegedly-infected-offline-computers/
Friday, June 30, 2017
THIS RELATES TO THE RECENT WIKILEAKS DISCLOSURES
Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian Assange was going to be furious’ | Film | The Guardian
Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian Assange was going to be furious’
The Oscar-winning director made her name with the Edward Snowden revelations. In turn, that led to the opportunity to closely film Assange. But the more she filmed, the more critical she became
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/29/laura-poitras-wikileaks-film-risk-julian-assange
ALSO SEE
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/30/risk-review-julian-assange-wikileaks-laura-poitras
Risk review – serviceable portrait of Julian Assange's vanity
3 / 5 stars
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the WikiLeaks founder captures his creepy conceit and celebrity hauteur but leaves important questions unasked
"No one has gone from hero to zero quite as quickly or as embarrassingly as Julian Assange, and by embarrassingly I mean for those of us who once rather admired him. The man himself is unembarrassable"
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http://www.afr.com/leadership/julian-assanges-ghost-in-the-wikileaks-machine-20170626-gwz20z
Julian Assange's ghost writer opens up about the Wikileaks machine
Apart from stating claims which mostly ring true, Sarah Harrison went on record making the following partial statements:
PART A
""He's like threatened to fire me a few times," she said, "and always for crazy reasons. One of the times was literally because I had hugged another member of staff. Hugged him, like a friend hug. Julian was like 'that's so disrespectful to me' and went off on one. He said I'd said the guy smelled nice and that was humiliating. He did smell nice; he'd just had a bath. Julian was furious.
"And once he was like 'you're the new Domscheit-Berg' [Daniel Domscheit-Berg was a former colleague who Assange claimed was now writing from 'hatred'] and 'you could do some damage if you left'.
"He won't tell the others what my role is, so one time he's like 'you're my number two' but he won't say to the others. So, if I try to speak to Kristinn he's like 'who do you think you are?' because I've got no like official authority. Only Julian has that."
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PART B
"As the conversation went on you could see she was strung between loving him and being baffled. She said she knew that he was only loyal to her because they were "stuck in that house". As soon as he was free he would chase other girls.
"He openly chats girls up and has his hand on their arse," she said, "and goes nuts if I even talk to another guy." She said he couldn't stand her being away from him and didn't think she should see friends or go on holiday or "abandon" him at all.
I asked about the sex allegations. I said that in all my time with him he hadn't really clarified what happened. "It was weird," she said. "Like, why was he even staying with those girls? He didn't rape them but he was really f---ing stupid."
THIS CREDITS MY OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP. AND SARAH'S CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES. SEE MY PREVIOUS POST BELOW IN THIS WIKILEAKS COLLECTION
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
THE ABOVE NOTED POST WAS UPDATED ON 6-30-17 AS A RESULT OF THIS ARTICLE
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/20/laura-poitras-on-her-new-julian-assange-film-few-people-could-stand-the-pressure-he-is-under-
Laura Poitras on her new Julian Assange film: ‘Few people could stand the pressure he is under’
The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, is back with a fly-on-the wall view of Julian Assange’s bid to escape extradition
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/09/wikileaks-documentary-julian-assange-1m
WikiLeaks documentary: 'Julian Assange wanted $1m'
Alex Gibney's film We Steal Secrets is the first WikiLeaks documentary out of the gate – but it nearly didn't happen. The prolific film-maker talks Assange, Bradley Manning and paranoia
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/14/citizenfour-director-laura-poitras-sues-us-harassment-edward-snowden
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras sues US over 'Kafkaesque harassment'
Film-maker whose documentary about Edward Snowden won an Oscar says she has been held for hours at a time by airport officials, told she was on a no-fly list and threatened with handcuffs for taking notes
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/06/wikileaks-emails-hillary-clinton-campaign-john-podesta
WikiLeaks emails: what they revealed about the Clinton campaign's mechanics
Tens of thousands of emails hacked from campaign chairman John Podesta’s account have provided an unprecedented window into a presidential run
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/29/laura-poitras-wikileaks-film-risk-julian-assange
OutlawCountry: ‘CIA hacking tool’ targets Linux operating system (IMAGE)
OutlawCountry: ‘CIA hacking tool’ targets Linux operating system (IMAGE)
https://www.rt.com/viral/394631-cia-wikileaks-linux-surveillance/
WikiLeaks has published leaked documents purportedly from ‘OutlawCountry’, an alleged CIA program designed to overcome and alter firewalls on a Linux operating device.
An apparent user guide bearing the symbol of the US Central Intelligence Agency was published on the WikiLeaks website Thursday
READ MORE IN ARTICLE
ALSO SEE
https://www.rt.com/viral/394405-wikileaks-elsa-vault7-cia/
CIA can hack & track Windows devices via their wifi connections
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Elsa
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/44004-cia-has-a-tool-to-hack-linux
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cia-may-have-developed-linux/
https://www.rt.com/viral/394631-cia-wikileaks-linux-surveillance/
Thursday, June 29, 2017
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/petya-spreads-to-australia-how-it-works-and-how-to-protect-yourself/...
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/petya-spreads-to-australia-how-it-works-and-how-to-protect-yourself/news-story/a4bce6e080aa47b91bd1f3e5caea9145
Petya spreads to Australia: How it works and how to protect yourself
A NEW, “particularly nasty” cyber attack has made its way to Australia. This is the damage it can do to your computer - and how you can protect yourself.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/petya-spreads-to-australia-how-it-works-and-how-to-protect-yourself/news-story/a4bce6e080aa47b91bd1f3e5caea9145
Petya spreads to Australia: How it works and how to protect yourself
A NEW, “particularly nasty” cyber attack has made its way to Australia. This is the damage it can do to your computer - and how you can protect yourself.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/petya-spreads-to-australia-how-it-works-and-how-to-protect-yourself/news-story/a4bce6e080aa47b91bd1f3e5caea9145
WIKILEAKS DUMP REVEALS A CREEPY CIA LOCATION-TRACKING TRICK
WIKILEAKS DUMP REVEALS A CREEPY CIA LOCATION-TRACKING TRICK
https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-cia-wifi-location-tracking/
ALSO SEE
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vault-7-cia-malware-for-tracking-windows-devices-via-wifi-networks/
Vault 7: CIA Malware for Tracking Windows Devices via WiFi Networks
Today, WikiLeaks has published the documentation manual for an alleged CIA tool that can track users of WiFi-capable Windows devices based on the ESS (Extended Service Set) data of nearby WiFi networks.
According to the tool's 42-page manual, the tool's name is ELSA. The manual includes the following image to explain to CIA operatives how the tool works. A summary of an ELSA operation is included below the image.
READ MORE IN DETAILED GRAPHICAL ARTICLE
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http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/06/28/wikileaks-releases-cia-vault-7-elsa-geolocation-tracking-project/
WikiLeaks Releases CIA Vault 7 ‘ELSA’ Geolocation Tracking Project
https://www.rt.com/viral/394405-wikileaks-elsa-vault7-cia/
CIA can hack & track Windows devices via their wifi connections
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/wikileaks-vault-7-leak-cia-bugs-tracks-laptop-wifi-esla/
WikiLeaks Vault 7 Leak Claims CIA Tracks Laptops by Intercepting WiFi
https://sputniknews.com/world/201706281055049012-us-wikileaks-cia/
WikiLeaks Releases Files on CIA Spying Geo-Location Malware for WiFi Devices
https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-cia-wifi-location-tracking/
https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-cia-wifi-location-tracking/
ALSO SEE
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vault-7-cia-malware-for-tracking-windows-devices-via-wifi-networks/
Vault 7: CIA Malware for Tracking Windows Devices via WiFi Networks
Today, WikiLeaks has published the documentation manual for an alleged CIA tool that can track users of WiFi-capable Windows devices based on the ESS (Extended Service Set) data of nearby WiFi networks.
According to the tool's 42-page manual, the tool's name is ELSA. The manual includes the following image to explain to CIA operatives how the tool works. A summary of an ELSA operation is included below the image.
READ MORE IN DETAILED GRAPHICAL ARTICLE
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http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/06/28/wikileaks-releases-cia-vault-7-elsa-geolocation-tracking-project/
WikiLeaks Releases CIA Vault 7 ‘ELSA’ Geolocation Tracking Project
https://www.rt.com/viral/394405-wikileaks-elsa-vault7-cia/
CIA can hack & track Windows devices via their wifi connections
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/wikileaks-vault-7-leak-cia-bugs-tracks-laptop-wifi-esla/
WikiLeaks Vault 7 Leak Claims CIA Tracks Laptops by Intercepting WiFi
https://sputniknews.com/world/201706281055049012-us-wikileaks-cia/
WikiLeaks Releases Files on CIA Spying Geo-Location Malware for WiFi Devices
https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-cia-wifi-location-tracking/
Swedish Justice Minister: "The blame is on Assange, not Sweden" | Europe | DW | 28.06.2017
Swedish Justice Minister: "The blame is on Assange, not Sweden"
http://www.dw.com/en/swedish-justice-minister-the-blame-is-on-assange-not-sweden/a-39463741
After Sweden dropped its investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Justice Minister Morgan Johansson has blamed Assange for the lack of progress on DW’s Conflict Zone.
THIS CORRUPT PIG SAID WHAT ASSANGE DID LOOKS BAD BECAUSE HE DID NOT PROVIDE ACCESS TO HIMSELF.
Oh ..Really? How about all the unethical things and suspect procedural deviations that the Swedish prosecutors had been engaging in in order to avoid questioning Assange timely..? Stated differently, how about explaining the suspect intentional mishandling of Assange's rape case..?
For more information, on the above noted suspect mishandling of Assange's rape case, please read my commentary in a past post I had uoloaded. The link is below
https://plus.google.com/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/XsKobofL8qq
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AS I HAVE PREVIOUSLY NOTED, UPON DROPPINGTHR ASSANGE'S RAPE CHARGES IN 2017, THE SWEDISH PROSECUTORS HAD DECLARED, AT THE RECENT PRESS RELEASE, THAT INABILITY TO HAVE ACCESS TO ASSANGE PREVENTED THEM FROM MOVING FORWARD AND, AS SUCH, THEY DROPPED THE CHARGES.
THE NOTED PRESS RELEASE HAS BEEN POSTED
SEE THE PRESS RELEASE IN THE FIRST LINKS OF THIS RECENT POST
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/aH4u5y9CeWu
ASSANGE ALWAYS MADE HIMSELF AVAILABLE TO THEM AND THEY DID NOT COMPLY WITH HIS REQUESTS BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO GET HIM EXTRADITED TO SWEDEN AND SUBSEQUENTLY GET HIM EXTRADITED TO THE US FOR THE ESPIONAGE PROSECUTION.
AT THE END OF 2016, AND AFTER OCTOBER 2016, THE SWEDISH PROSECUTORS WENT TO ECUADOR, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS MIND YOU, TO INTERVIEW ASSANGE.
IF YOU LISTEN TO THE PRESS RELEASE THEY HELD AFTER THEY ANNOUNCED THE DROPPING OF THE RAPE CHARGES AGAINST ASSANGE, YOU WILL HEAR A REPORTER GRILLING THE SWEDISH PROSECUTORS ABOUT THEIR ODD FAILURE TO COME TO ECUADOR AND INTERVIEW ASSANGE AT AN EARLIER TIME AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CHARGES WERE LAUNCHED AGAINST HIM.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE REPORTER NOTED THAT THIS TYPE OF PROCEDURE, FLYING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO INTERVIEW SUSPECTS, IS COMMON PROCEDURE IN SWEDEN.
THIS ARTICLE BELOW INDICATES THE SUSPECT MISHANDLING OF THE RAPE CHARGES AS WELL AS THE AVAILABILITY OF COMMON PROCEDURES THAT WOULD HAVE PROVIDED EASY ACCESS TO ASSANGE, BE IT FOR INTERVIEW PURPOSES AND/OR FOR OTHER RELATED MATTERS.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-09/no-need-to-extradite-assange-court-told/1935174
THIS ARTICLE, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED BACK ON FEBRUARY 8, 2011, STATED, IN PART:
"Sven-Erik Alhem, a former Swedish prosecutor and now a legal commentator who appeared as a witness for Mr Assange, said Ms Ny could have questioned Mr Assange via videolink from Britain and there was no need to extradite him for interview.
"I don't really understand why you could not hear Julian Assange here in this country, if the British authorities allowed such a hearing to take place," he told the Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south-east London through an interpreter.
He also criticised the case on the grounds that Mr Assange was identified, as rape suspects in Sweden should not be; that rape suspects in general are kept without bail in Sweden; and that rape trials are held behind closed doors.
In the legal papers quoted by lawyers for the Swedish authorities, Ms Ny said she made repeated attempts in September and October to contact Mr Assange by phone and text message to set up an interview in Sweden but had no success.
She was quoted as saying that Mr Assange's Swedish lawyer offered a telephone interview but Ms Ny declined and warned him that she was going to issue a warrant.
"It must have been crystal clear to Julian Assange since the arrest warrant of September 27 that we were extremely anxious to interview him," Ms Ny said, according to evidence."
BASED ON THE FORGOING FACTS SURROUNDING THE MISHANDLING OF THE RAPE CHARGES AS WELL AS THE BASIS FOR DROPPING THE RAPE CHARGES, IT IS EASY TO CONCLUDE THAT THE SWEDISH PROSECUTORS INTENTIONALLY DEVIATED FROM THE ABOVE NOTED COMMON / STANDARD PROCEDURE AS WELL AS FROM OTHER PROCEDURES AVAILABLE TO THEM IN ORDER TO CAUSE ASSANGE TO BE EXTRADITED TO SWEDEN FOR THE INTERVIEW AND THEN BE EXTRADITED TO THE US FOR THE ESPIONAGE CHARGES PENDING AGAINST HIM... PERIOD...END OF STORY..!!
ASSANGE WAS INTENTIONALLY TREATED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE THE SWEDISH PROSECUTORS HAD THE NOTED ALTERNATIVE BAD PURPOSE IN MIND
IT IS ALSO EASY TO CONCLUDE THAT ACCESS TO ASSANGE WAS NOT THE REASON THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED AND THAT NOT HAVING A STRONG EVIDENTIARY CASE AGAINST HIM WAS THE REASON THEY DROPPED THE CHARGES. THIS IS THE REASON THAT THE SWEDISH PROSECUTORS DECLINED TO MAKE STATEMENTS AS TO THE GUILT OR INNOCENCE OF ASSANGE
PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT MR. Swedish Justice Minister:
OH ...AND DO INHALE...
THIS IS MY HUMBLE OPINION, AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CRITIC
ALSO SEE
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=17356&cid=451058
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=17864¬e=&title=New+Analysis+of+Swedish+Police+Report+Confirms+Julian+Assange%27s+Version+in+Sweden%27s+Case
New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange's Version in Sweden's Case
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https://justice4assange.com/Accurate-reporting-on-the-one.html
Accurate reporting on the one remaining allegation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/post_1435_b_797188.html
Sweden’s Serial Negligence in Prosecuting Rape Further Highlights the Politics Behind Julian Assange’s Arrest
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-09/no-need-to-extradite-assange-court-told/1935174
No need to extradite Assange, court told
http://www.dw.com/en/swedish-justice-minister-the-blame-is-on-assange-not-sweden/a-39463741
A note worthy opinion
A note worthy opinion
You are the key to keeping your computer safe
http://gantdaily.com/2017/06/28/you-are-the-key-to-keeping-your-computer-safe/
http://gantdaily.com/2017/06/28/you-are-the-key-to-keeping-your-computer-safe/
You are the key to keeping your computer safe
http://gantdaily.com/2017/06/28/you-are-the-key-to-keeping-your-computer-safe/
http://gantdaily.com/2017/06/28/you-are-the-key-to-keeping-your-computer-safe/
Crown Prince of UAE asked Americans to bomb Al Jazeera headquarters Wikileaks reveals
Crown Prince of UAE asked Americans to bomb Al Jazeera headquarters Wikileaks reveals
https://www.albawaba.com/news/wikileaks-cable-reveals-uae-crown-prince-asked-us-bomb-al-jazeera-2003-990976
ALSO SEE
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170628-crown-prince-of-uae-asked-americans-to-bomb-al-jazeera-headquarters-wikileaks-reveals/
https://www.albawaba.com/news/wikileaks-cable-reveals-uae-crown-prince-asked-us-bomb-al-jazeera-2003-990976
https://www.albawaba.com/news/wikileaks-cable-reveals-uae-crown-prince-asked-us-bomb-al-jazeera-2003-990976
ALSO SEE
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170628-crown-prince-of-uae-asked-americans-to-bomb-al-jazeera-headquarters-wikileaks-reveals/
https://www.albawaba.com/news/wikileaks-cable-reveals-uae-crown-prince-asked-us-bomb-al-jazeera-2003-990976
WikiLeaks Vault 7 Leak Claims CIA Tracks Laptops by Intercepting WiFi
WikiLeaks Vault 7 Leak Claims CIA Tracks Laptops by Intercepting WiFi
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/wikileaks-vault-7-leak-cia-bugs-tracks-laptop-wifi-esla/
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/wikileaks-vault-7-leak-cia-bugs-tracks-laptop-wifi-esla/
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
A NOTEWORTHY INDEPENDENT TAKE WHICH PREVIOUSLY GOT LOST IN THE LONG LIST OF REFERENCES
A NOTEWORTHY INDEPENDENT TAKE WHICH PREVIOUSLY GOT LOST IN THE LONG LIST OF REFERENCES
Julian Assange and the perils of making a documentary
Laura Poitras’s study of the WikiLeaks founder is revealing — and not just about its subject
https://www.ft.com/content/85d43242-5692-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
https://www.ft.com/content/85d43242-5692-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
Julian Assange and the perils of making a documentary
Laura Poitras’s study of the WikiLeaks founder is revealing — and not just about its subject
https://www.ft.com/content/85d43242-5692-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
https://www.ft.com/content/85d43242-5692-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
WikiLeaks: CIA can hack computers that are not connected to the internet
CIA can hack into computers that are not connected to the Internet, says WikiLeaks
We already knew this one too wikileaks
http://news.thewindowsclub.com/cia-can-hack-into-computers-that-are-not-connected-to-the-internet-90071/
http://news.thewindowsclub.com/cia-can-hack-into-computers-that-are-not-connected-to-the-internet-90071/
Monday, June 26, 2017
CIA Director Mike Pompeo: 'Worship' of Edward Snowden to Blame for Rise in Leaks
CIA Director Mike Pompeo: 'Worship' of Edward Snowden to Blame for Rise in Leaks
https://sputniknews.com/military/201706261054973892-mike-pompeo-snowden-worship/
CIA Director Mike Pompeo says leaking of confidential information is on rise and he has blamed the "worship" of Edward Snowden. He said more needed to be done to stem the leakage of state secrets by whistleblowers.
ALSO SEE
https://ynaija.com/cia-director-says-united-states-intelligence-leaks-accelerated/
CIA DIRECTOR SAYS UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE LEAKS HAVE “ACCELERATED”
https://sputniknews.com/military/201706261054973892-mike-pompeo-snowden-worship/
https://sputniknews.com/military/201706261054973892-mike-pompeo-snowden-worship/
CIA Director Mike Pompeo says leaking of confidential information is on rise and he has blamed the "worship" of Edward Snowden. He said more needed to be done to stem the leakage of state secrets by whistleblowers.
ALSO SEE
https://ynaija.com/cia-director-says-united-states-intelligence-leaks-accelerated/
CIA DIRECTOR SAYS UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE LEAKS HAVE “ACCELERATED”
https://sputniknews.com/military/201706261054973892-mike-pompeo-snowden-worship/
How the CIA hacks computers that aren’t even connected to the internet
How the CIA hacks computers that aren’t even connected to the internet
YAP..WE CAN KISS OUR ASS GOODBYE
http://bgr.com/2017/06/25/cia-malware-wikileaks-report/
ALSO SEE
http://www.bgr.in/news/cia-can-hack-computers-that-arent-even-connected-to-the-internet-wikileaks/
CIA can hack computers that aren’t even connected to the internet: WikiLeaks
CIA has reportedly developed tools named Brutal Kangaroo and Drifting Deadline to infect air-gapped computers.
https://ynaija.com/cia-director-says-united-states-intelligence-leaks-accelerated/
CIA DIRECTOR SAYS UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE LEAKS HAVE “ACCELERATED”
http://bgr.com/2017/06/25/cia-malware-wikileaks-report/
YAP..WE CAN KISS OUR ASS GOODBYE
http://bgr.com/2017/06/25/cia-malware-wikileaks-report/
ALSO SEE
http://www.bgr.in/news/cia-can-hack-computers-that-arent-even-connected-to-the-internet-wikileaks/
CIA can hack computers that aren’t even connected to the internet: WikiLeaks
CIA has reportedly developed tools named Brutal Kangaroo and Drifting Deadline to infect air-gapped computers.
https://ynaija.com/cia-director-says-united-states-intelligence-leaks-accelerated/
CIA DIRECTOR SAYS UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE LEAKS HAVE “ACCELERATED”
http://bgr.com/2017/06/25/cia-malware-wikileaks-report/
Sunday, June 25, 2017
MORE MEAN ATTACKS ON JULIAN ASSANGE...BUT WITH A BIT OF TRUTH IN THEM...
MORE MEAN ATTACKS ON JULIAN ASSANGE...BUT WITH A BIT OF TRUTH IN THEM...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-4629214/Craig-Brown-secret-life-Julian-Assange.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-4629214/Craig-Brown-secret-life-Julian-Assange.html
Ecuador Confirms Asylum Protection for Julian Assange to Continue
News > Latin America
Ecuador Confirms Asylum Protection for Julian Assange to Continue
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-Confirms-Asylum-Protection-for-Julian-Assange-to-Continue-20170625-0008.html
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-Confirms-Asylum-Protection-for-Julian-Assange-to-Continue-20170625-0008.html
Assange bashes Dems: The party ‘is doomed’
Assange bashes Dems: The party ‘is doomed’
ALSO SEE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/25/julian-assange-predicts-the-democratic-party-is-doomed-and-says-russia-hysteria-is-to-blame/
Julian Assange predicts the Democratic Party is ‘doomed’ to fail — and says Russia ‘hysteria’ is to blame
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/assange-democrats-doomed-russia/2017/06/24/id/798026/
Julian Assange: Democrats 'Doomed' Over Russia Issue
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-explains-why-the-democratic-party-is-doomed/article/2627004
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange explains why the Democratic Party is 'doomed'
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/cia-chief-intel-leaks-rise-cites-leaker-worship-48256037
CIA chief: Intel leaks on the rise, cites leaker 'worship'
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/339333-assange-bashes-dems-the-party-is-doomed
ALSO SEE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/25/julian-assange-predicts-the-democratic-party-is-doomed-and-says-russia-hysteria-is-to-blame/
Julian Assange predicts the Democratic Party is ‘doomed’ to fail — and says Russia ‘hysteria’ is to blame
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/assange-democrats-doomed-russia/2017/06/24/id/798026/
Julian Assange: Democrats 'Doomed' Over Russia Issue
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-explains-why-the-democratic-party-is-doomed/article/2627004
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange explains why the Democratic Party is 'doomed'
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/cia-chief-intel-leaks-rise-cites-leaker-worship-48256037
CIA chief: Intel leaks on the rise, cites leaker 'worship'
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/339333-assange-bashes-dems-the-party-is-doomed
Saturday, June 24, 2017
WikiLeaks Julian Assange Warns about the Creation of Digital Armies
WikiLeaks Julian Assange Warns about the Creation of Digital Armies
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=125897
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=125897
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=125897
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=125897
THE 5 FT 3 INCH SILICONE BIMBO IS UP TO HER GOOD OLD PUBLICITY TRICKS
THE 5 FT 3 INCH SILICONE BIMBO IS UP TO HER GOOD OLD PUBLICITY TRICKS
THIS DUDE LOOKS AS IF HE GOT PAID TO MAKE THESE APPEARANCES AND AS IF HE REALIZED THAT GETTING ANY KIND OF PUBLICITY IS A GOOD THING
BY THE WAY, IS THERE A BOW BETWEEN PAMELA ANDERSON'S LEGS, TOWARDS ONE OF HER LEGS, OR IS IT JUST ME WHO SEES THIS
A CLOSER LOOK AT HER FEET WHEN WEARING HEELS ALSO SHOW THIS
SEE MY OTHER POSTS TO SEE IT - SOME LINKS ARE POSTED BELOW AT THE END OF THIS POST
IN ANY EVENT, IT APPEARS THAT PUBLICITY SEEKING IS A FAVORITE BENEFICIAL GOAL AND PASS TIME ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4634100/Pamela-Anderson-Adil-Ramy-spend-day-beach-France.html
AFTER THIS, PAMELA WILL RUN BACK TO ASSANGE FOR MORE SEX AND ASSANGE WILL LOOK AS IF HE IS WINNING THE COMPETITION. THIS , OF COURSE, WILL BOOST HIS EGO AND HIS "GOD" COMPLEX
WE REPORT ON ASSANGE'S ROMANCES AND SEX LIFE BECAUSE IT MAKES GOOD ENTERTAINMENT AND NOT BECAUSE IT IS RELEVANT TO HIS IMPORTANCE AS A HEROIC PUBLISHER IN MATTERS OF IMPORTANT PUBLIC CONCERN THAT HAVE MADE THIS WORLD A BIT BETTER PLACE BY CHANGING JOURNALISM AND POLITICS AS WE KNOW THEM..
SEE LINKS TO OTHER RELATED POSTS
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/acV8GvsNNg1
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/7DZaWgCAvBq
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/Dd8Rr8GcBQx
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/Z5uiV3AbQqx
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/D3p7SweU4pX
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4634100/Pamela-Anderson-Adil-Ramy-spend-day-beach-France.html
THIS DUDE LOOKS AS IF HE GOT PAID TO MAKE THESE APPEARANCES AND AS IF HE REALIZED THAT GETTING ANY KIND OF PUBLICITY IS A GOOD THING
BY THE WAY, IS THERE A BOW BETWEEN PAMELA ANDERSON'S LEGS, TOWARDS ONE OF HER LEGS, OR IS IT JUST ME WHO SEES THIS
A CLOSER LOOK AT HER FEET WHEN WEARING HEELS ALSO SHOW THIS
SEE MY OTHER POSTS TO SEE IT - SOME LINKS ARE POSTED BELOW AT THE END OF THIS POST
IN ANY EVENT, IT APPEARS THAT PUBLICITY SEEKING IS A FAVORITE BENEFICIAL GOAL AND PASS TIME ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4634100/Pamela-Anderson-Adil-Ramy-spend-day-beach-France.html
AFTER THIS, PAMELA WILL RUN BACK TO ASSANGE FOR MORE SEX AND ASSANGE WILL LOOK AS IF HE IS WINNING THE COMPETITION. THIS , OF COURSE, WILL BOOST HIS EGO AND HIS "GOD" COMPLEX
WE REPORT ON ASSANGE'S ROMANCES AND SEX LIFE BECAUSE IT MAKES GOOD ENTERTAINMENT AND NOT BECAUSE IT IS RELEVANT TO HIS IMPORTANCE AS A HEROIC PUBLISHER IN MATTERS OF IMPORTANT PUBLIC CONCERN THAT HAVE MADE THIS WORLD A BIT BETTER PLACE BY CHANGING JOURNALISM AND POLITICS AS WE KNOW THEM..
SEE LINKS TO OTHER RELATED POSTS
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/acV8GvsNNg1
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/7DZaWgCAvBq
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/Dd8Rr8GcBQx
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/Z5uiV3AbQqx
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/D3p7SweU4pX
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4634100/Pamela-Anderson-Adil-Ramy-spend-day-beach-France.html
The Secret Life by Andrew O’Hagan review – Assange and other internet outlaws
The Secret Life by Andrew O’Hagan review – Assange and other internet outlaws
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/24/the-secret-life-by-andrew-ohagan-review
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/24/the-secret-life-by-andrew-ohagan-review
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/24/the-secret-life-by-andrew-ohagan-review
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/24/the-secret-life-by-andrew-ohagan-review
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES HILLARY AND MUELLER'S PLANS WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT!
Originally shared by Government GangStalking and Electronic Harassment
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES HILLARY AND MUELLER'S PLANS WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwheMyhIJbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwheMyhIJbo
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES HILLARY AND MUELLER'S PLANS WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwheMyhIJbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwheMyhIJbo
Friday, June 23, 2017
Wikileaks: We are creating a powerful new media entity in the UK
Wikileaks: We are creating a powerful new media entity in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPScfXTnlE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPScfXTnlE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPScfXTnlE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPScfXTnlE
YOU GO QCUADOR..!!
YOU GO QCUADOR..!!
Ecuador Ratifies Protection of Cyber-activist Julian Assange
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=14629&SEO=ecuador-ratifies-protection-of-cyber-activist-julian-assange
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=14629&SEO=ecuador-ratifies-protection-of-cyber-activist-julian-assange
Ecuador Ratifies Protection of Cyber-activist Julian Assange
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=14629&SEO=ecuador-ratifies-protection-of-cyber-activist-julian-assange
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=14629&SEO=ecuador-ratifies-protection-of-cyber-activist-julian-assange
Some needed pushback on feds’ snooping
Some needed pushback on feds’ snooping
http://themercury.com/some-needed-pushback-on-feds-snooping/article_af89e381-a8ff-55a6-865a-b79c93d02db9.html
http://themercury.com/some-needed-pushback-on-feds-snooping/article_af89e381-a8ff-55a6-865a-b79c93d02db9.html
PAMELA IS DOING PUBLICITY TRICKS AGAIN..AND SO IS THE FOOTBALL PLAYER TOO..IT SEEMS...
PAMELA IS DOING PUBLICITY TRICKS AGAIN..AND SO IS THE FOOTBALL PLAYER TOO..IT SEEMS...
BEING PHOTOGRAPHED RUNNING BACK TO ASSANGE AFTER EACH AND EVERY TIME SHE GETS PHOTOGRAPHED WITH OTHER MEN, BOOSTS ASSANGE'S EGO EVEN MORE... EGOMANIAC ASSANGE WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN LOOKING LIKE THE MAN THAT PAMELA WOULD ALWAYS RUN TO EVEN AFTER SHE IS SEEN WITH OTHER MEN.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3867285/baywatch-pamela-anderson-adil-rami-dinner-nice/
SEE THE LINK BELOW FOR MY HUMBLE OPINION ON, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE ANDERSON - ASSANGE "AFFAIR"
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
ALSO SEE
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3867285/baywatch-pamela-anderson-adil-rami-dinner-nice/
PAMMY AND RAMI Baywatch legend Pamela Anderson goes on date with French football star Adil Rami in Nice – but what about Julian Assange?
Canadian-born pin-up icon has been out with the France international - who is nicknamed 'Shrek' - after rumours she is interested in WikiLeaks founder Assange
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4632044/Pamela-Anderson-heads-footballer-Adil-Rami.html
Sorry Julian! Pamela Anderson, 49, 'is dating 31-year-old French football star Adil Rami' - despite her 'romance' with Assange
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4632044/Pamela-Anderson-heads-footballer-Adil-Rami.html#ixzz4kqjuH2UT
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
https://stocknewsusa.com/2017/06/23/pamela-anderson-dating-30-year-old-french-football-player-adil-rami/
BEING PHOTOGRAPHED RUNNING BACK TO ASSANGE AFTER EACH AND EVERY TIME SHE GETS PHOTOGRAPHED WITH OTHER MEN, BOOSTS ASSANGE'S EGO EVEN MORE... EGOMANIAC ASSANGE WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN LOOKING LIKE THE MAN THAT PAMELA WOULD ALWAYS RUN TO EVEN AFTER SHE IS SEEN WITH OTHER MEN.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3867285/baywatch-pamela-anderson-adil-rami-dinner-nice/
SEE THE LINK BELOW FOR MY HUMBLE OPINION ON, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE ANDERSON - ASSANGE "AFFAIR"
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
ALSO SEE
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3867285/baywatch-pamela-anderson-adil-rami-dinner-nice/
PAMMY AND RAMI Baywatch legend Pamela Anderson goes on date with French football star Adil Rami in Nice – but what about Julian Assange?
Canadian-born pin-up icon has been out with the France international - who is nicknamed 'Shrek' - after rumours she is interested in WikiLeaks founder Assange
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4632044/Pamela-Anderson-heads-footballer-Adil-Rami.html
Sorry Julian! Pamela Anderson, 49, 'is dating 31-year-old French football star Adil Rami' - despite her 'romance' with Assange
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4632044/Pamela-Anderson-heads-footballer-Adil-Rami.html#ixzz4kqjuH2UT
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
https://stocknewsusa.com/2017/06/23/pamela-anderson-dating-30-year-old-french-football-player-adil-rami/
Ecuador, UK Seeking Solution to WikiLeaks Founder Assange’s Detention - Minister
Ecuador, UK Seeking Solution to WikiLeaks Founder Assange’s Detention - Minister
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706231054901986-ecuador-uk-assange-detention/
ALSO SEE
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/820411/julian-assange-free-ecuador-embassy-wikileaks
Freedom for Assange? UK ‘wants way out’ for Wikileaks founder after five years at embassy
JULIAN Assange moved one step closer to freedom with the UK now “looking for a way out” for the controversial Wikileaks founder.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-06-22/ecuador-foreign-minister-says-uk-wants-a-solution-to-assange-standoff
Ecuador Foreign Minister Says UK Wants a Solution to Assange Standoff
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/23/britain-wants-a-way-out-of-the-julian-assange-standoff-says-ecuador
Britain wants a 'way out' of the Julian Assange standoff, says Ecuador
Maria Fernanda Espinosa, foreign minister, says UK and Ecuador working on an ‘opening’
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-assange-idUSKBN19E057
Ecuador foreign minister says UK wants a solution to Assange standoff
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/36097674/assange-lawyer-says-uk-breaking-international-law/#page1
Assange lawyer says UK breaking international law
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/uk_and_ecuador_working_on_assange_escape_mechanism/
UK and Ecuador working on Assange escape mechanism
There's an opening and good will to use it, says Ecuadorian foreign minister
https://www.rt.com/uk/393742-assange-ecuador-embassy-standoff/
UK desperate to end Julian Assange embassy stand-off – Ecuadorian FM
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706231054901986-ecuador-uk-assange-detention/
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706231054901986-ecuador-uk-assange-detention/
ALSO SEE
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/820411/julian-assange-free-ecuador-embassy-wikileaks
Freedom for Assange? UK ‘wants way out’ for Wikileaks founder after five years at embassy
JULIAN Assange moved one step closer to freedom with the UK now “looking for a way out” for the controversial Wikileaks founder.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-06-22/ecuador-foreign-minister-says-uk-wants-a-solution-to-assange-standoff
Ecuador Foreign Minister Says UK Wants a Solution to Assange Standoff
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/23/britain-wants-a-way-out-of-the-julian-assange-standoff-says-ecuador
Britain wants a 'way out' of the Julian Assange standoff, says Ecuador
Maria Fernanda Espinosa, foreign minister, says UK and Ecuador working on an ‘opening’
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-assange-idUSKBN19E057
Ecuador foreign minister says UK wants a solution to Assange standoff
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/36097674/assange-lawyer-says-uk-breaking-international-law/#page1
Assange lawyer says UK breaking international law
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/uk_and_ecuador_working_on_assange_escape_mechanism/
UK and Ecuador working on Assange escape mechanism
There's an opening and good will to use it, says Ecuadorian foreign minister
https://www.rt.com/uk/393742-assange-ecuador-embassy-standoff/
UK desperate to end Julian Assange embassy stand-off – Ecuadorian FM
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706231054901986-ecuador-uk-assange-detention/
EXACTLY WHAT I BELIEVED WHEN I WATCHED ONLY THE TRAILER
EXACTLY WHAT I BELIEVED WHEN I WATCHED ONLY THE TRAILER
THE OPENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY, WITH SARACH HARISSON CALLING HILLARY CLINTON, ALONG WITH JULIAN ASSANGE'S FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND THE VERY PURPOSE OF THE CALL, IN IT OF ITSELF, GAVE A BAD APPEARANCE FOR ASSANGE AS WELL AS DIMINISHED THE JUDGMENT OF THE PERSON(S)) WHO DECIDED AND APPROVED FOR SUCH AN OPENING TO THIS TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY.
I COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM A BETTER OPINION ABOUT WHAT TO PUT IN ..WHAT TO LEAVE OUT..AND WHAT TO BEGIN WITH OR END WITH
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/43959-wikileaks-fights-to-suppress-documentary
Wikileaks fights to suppress documentary
SEE CONTENT OF ARTICLE BELOW
It has to be positive or we will not allow it
The so-called open government, whistleblowing site Wikileaks, is doing its level best to censor a documentary on the outfit because it fails to praise the outfit to the skies and put a positive spin on its leader Julian Assange.
The documentary is called Risk and the makers are complaining that the outfit is so obsessed with its image it is prepared to wield legal threats and lawyers in a way that is almost absurdly hypocritical.
The documentary makers, Brenda Coughlin, Yoni Golijov And Laura Poitras have told Newsweek that they were making a positive documentary film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and it unequivocally defend WikiLeaks’ journalistic right to publish true and newsworthy information.
However they were surprised when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks sent cease and desist letters to its distributors demanding they stop the release of Risk.
The filmmakers go into what lengths they went to work directly with Wikileaks and Assange on the film starting back in 2011. Assange himself gave consent to the film and even signed a licensing agreement to use Wikileaks footage for it.
Some people involved with Wikileaks requested not to be in the film, and the filmmakers complied. People from the site and their lawyers have been shown screenings of the film before every regional release, including as recently as April of this year. There is no claim made thus far that any of the content of the film is false.
But things turned sour in 2016. Assange and his lawyers insisted that the documentary remove scenes from the film where he speaks about the two women who made sexual assault allegations against him in 2010.
“WikiLeaks’ comments have consistently been about image management, including: demands to remove scenes from the film where Assange discusses sexual assault allegations against him; requests to remove images of alcohol bottles in the embassy because Ecuador is a Catholic country and it looks bad; requests to include mentions of WikiLeaks in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates; and, requests to add more scenes with attorney Amal Clooney because she makes WikiLeaks look good,” the documentary makers said.
The film maker’s statement says that all this seems to support the claims that Assange is an egomaniac.
“But that charge aside, what should be abundantly clear is that the ideals of the site appear to have fallen by the wayside when it comes to a simple documentary that has refused to cinematically stroke Wikileaks to the degree it wishes. That's not a good look for a site that survives on people's belief that it is committed to open and honest information,” the statement said.
================================
ALSO SEE
https://www.ft.com/content/85d43242-5692-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
Julian Assange and the perils of making a documentary
Laura Poitras’s study of the WikiLeaks founder is revealing — and not just about its subject
http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/risk-poitras-assange-screens-june-21-camden-opera-house/88074
‘Risk’ — Poitras on Assange — screens June 21, Camden Opera House
Posted: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 12:30pm
Event Date:
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 7:00pm
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/43959-wikileaks-fights-to-suppress-documentary
THE OPENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY, WITH SARACH HARISSON CALLING HILLARY CLINTON, ALONG WITH JULIAN ASSANGE'S FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND THE VERY PURPOSE OF THE CALL, IN IT OF ITSELF, GAVE A BAD APPEARANCE FOR ASSANGE AS WELL AS DIMINISHED THE JUDGMENT OF THE PERSON(S)) WHO DECIDED AND APPROVED FOR SUCH AN OPENING TO THIS TYPE OF DOCUMENTARY.
I COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM A BETTER OPINION ABOUT WHAT TO PUT IN ..WHAT TO LEAVE OUT..AND WHAT TO BEGIN WITH OR END WITH
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/43959-wikileaks-fights-to-suppress-documentary
Wikileaks fights to suppress documentary
SEE CONTENT OF ARTICLE BELOW
It has to be positive or we will not allow it
The so-called open government, whistleblowing site Wikileaks, is doing its level best to censor a documentary on the outfit because it fails to praise the outfit to the skies and put a positive spin on its leader Julian Assange.
The documentary is called Risk and the makers are complaining that the outfit is so obsessed with its image it is prepared to wield legal threats and lawyers in a way that is almost absurdly hypocritical.
The documentary makers, Brenda Coughlin, Yoni Golijov And Laura Poitras have told Newsweek that they were making a positive documentary film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and it unequivocally defend WikiLeaks’ journalistic right to publish true and newsworthy information.
However they were surprised when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks sent cease and desist letters to its distributors demanding they stop the release of Risk.
The filmmakers go into what lengths they went to work directly with Wikileaks and Assange on the film starting back in 2011. Assange himself gave consent to the film and even signed a licensing agreement to use Wikileaks footage for it.
Some people involved with Wikileaks requested not to be in the film, and the filmmakers complied. People from the site and their lawyers have been shown screenings of the film before every regional release, including as recently as April of this year. There is no claim made thus far that any of the content of the film is false.
But things turned sour in 2016. Assange and his lawyers insisted that the documentary remove scenes from the film where he speaks about the two women who made sexual assault allegations against him in 2010.
“WikiLeaks’ comments have consistently been about image management, including: demands to remove scenes from the film where Assange discusses sexual assault allegations against him; requests to remove images of alcohol bottles in the embassy because Ecuador is a Catholic country and it looks bad; requests to include mentions of WikiLeaks in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates; and, requests to add more scenes with attorney Amal Clooney because she makes WikiLeaks look good,” the documentary makers said.
The film maker’s statement says that all this seems to support the claims that Assange is an egomaniac.
“But that charge aside, what should be abundantly clear is that the ideals of the site appear to have fallen by the wayside when it comes to a simple documentary that has refused to cinematically stroke Wikileaks to the degree it wishes. That's not a good look for a site that survives on people's belief that it is committed to open and honest information,” the statement said.
================================
ALSO SEE
https://www.ft.com/content/85d43242-5692-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
Julian Assange and the perils of making a documentary
Laura Poitras’s study of the WikiLeaks founder is revealing — and not just about its subject
http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/risk-poitras-assange-screens-june-21-camden-opera-house/88074
‘Risk’ — Poitras on Assange — screens June 21, Camden Opera House
Posted: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 12:30pm
Event Date:
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 7:00pm
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/43959-wikileaks-fights-to-suppress-documentary
Thursday, June 22, 2017
THEY JUST WON'T LEAVE HIM ALONE WILL THEY...
THEY JUST WON'T LEAVE HIM ALONE WILL THEY...
SHAME ON YOU ENGLAND
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/its-time-the-uk-forced-assange-out-of-hiding/news-story/2962879e9769cee8ac2f730a59b137cd
It’s time the UK forced Assange out of hiding
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/its-time-the-uk-forced-assange-out-of-hiding/news-story/2962879e9769cee8ac2f730a59b137cd
SHAME ON YOU ENGLAND
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/its-time-the-uk-forced-assange-out-of-hiding/news-story/2962879e9769cee8ac2f730a59b137cd
It’s time the UK forced Assange out of hiding
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/its-time-the-uk-forced-assange-out-of-hiding/news-story/2962879e9769cee8ac2f730a59b137cd
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/entertainment/pamela-anderson-restaurant-julian-assange/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/entertainment/pamela-anderson-restaurant-julian-assange/index.html
Pamela Anderson is using food to help Julian Assange
MORE LIKE PAMELA ANDERSON IS USING JULIAN ASSANGE TO PROMOTE A FOOD PROJECT IN ORDER TO HELP HER POCKETS FILL WITH MONEY .. AFTER ALL SHE DOES GET PAID EVEN FOR HER ANIMAL ACTIVISM RELATED ACTIVITIES AND HOLLYWOOD DID NOT KNOCK ON HER DOOR FOR MANY YEARS
SEE MY HUMBLE OPINION ON ASSANGE'S LOVE INTERESTS IN THIS POST:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
ALSO SEE
http://people.com/food/pamela-anderson-vegan-pop-up-restaurant/
Pamela Anderson Is Opening a Pop-Up Vegan Restaurant
Starting on July 4, the former Baywatch star and longtime animal rights activist will be hosting an all-vegan pop-up restaurant in Ramatuelle in the South of France for 50 nights only.
Anderson announced the news about the restaurant, Le Table du Marcheé by Pamela, on her foundation’s website on Monday, and says the concept is “festive, glamorous and vegan.”
The menu, which she developed with chef Christophe Leroy, will feature a champagne bar and a variety of plant-based dishes, including a traditional tomato tartare with Goji berries, traditional Provençal “petits farcis” (stuffed vegetables), an asparagus risotto and a vegan burger.
Opening the restaurant is also an effort to release her rumored love interest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is being held inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“I am reaching out to Emmanuel Macron, and to his wife Brigitte Trogneux,” she writes in a tribute to Assange. “As a resident of France, my adopted home, I would like to meet with you and discuss Julian’s situation. I am opening a new vegan restaurant in France in July, and I would like to extend my invitation to the new President and his First Lady. Join me on the day I open the doors, and we will sit and eat good food and discuss what can be done for Julian. France could display its strength, and so could you, if you give Julian asylum.”
The restaurant will be open every night starting at 6 p.m. and reservations can be made on their website.
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https://www.eater.com/2017/6/19/15832874/pam-anderson-vegan-restaurant
Pam Anderson Is Opening a Vegan Restaurant in the South of France
The actress/activist reveals her plans in a tribute to boyfriend Julian Assange
Longtime animal rights activist Pamela Anderson is taking her dedication to vegan living one step further by opening a restaurant in France, her new home, that will not serve any meat or daily products. The announcement is buried in a tribute to her boyfriend, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is trapped inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Anderson wants to convince political leaders around the world to help Assange become a free citizen once again. The Barbed Wire actress writes:
I am reaching out to Emmanuel Macron, and to his wife Brigitte Trogneux. As a resident of France, my adopted home, I would like to meet with you and discuss Julian's situation. I am opening a new vegan restaurant in France in July, and I would like to extend my invitation to the new President and his First Lady. Join me on the day I open the doors, and we will sit and eat good food and discuss what can be done for Julian. France could display its strength, and so could you, if you give Julian asylum.
And in a new update on her homepage, the former Baywatch star explains that she’s partnering with chef Christophe Leroy on this new temporary restaurant in the southwestern commune of Ramatuelle. The restaurant, dubbed La Table du Marché, is part of the country inn called Les Moulins de Ramatuelle, which is owned and operated by Leroy. According to Pam’s website, La Table du Marché will open on July 4 for 50 nights only. The announcement is accompanied by a series of photos of Anderson posing in the French countryside with a golden retriever.
No word yet on whether the President of France and his wife will take Pam Anderson up on the offer to dine at her seasonal vegan restaurant and wine bar in the south of France, but he’d be a fool not to at least seriously consider this invitation.
• Why My Heart Stands With Julian [Pamela Anderson]
• La Table du Marché by Pamela [Pamela Anderson]
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http://people.com/food/pamela-anderson-vegan-pop-up-restaurant/
Pamela Anderson Is Opening a Pop-Up Vegan Restaurant
Starting on July 4, the former Baywatch star and longtime animal rights activist will be hosting an all-vegan pop-up restaurant in Ramatuelle in the South of France for 50 nights only.
Anderson announced the news about the restaurant, Le Table du Marcheé by Pamela, on her foundation’s website on Monday, and says the concept is “festive, glamorous and vegan.”
The menu, which she developed with chef Christophe Leroy, will feature a champagne bar and a variety of plant-based dishes, including a traditional tomato tartare with Goji berries, traditional Provençal “petits farcis” (stuffed vegetables), an asparagus risotto and a vegan burger.
Opening the restaurant is also an effort to release her rumored love interest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is being held inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“I am reaching out to Emmanuel Macron, and to his wife Brigitte Trogneux,” she writes in a tribute to Assange. “As a resident of France, my adopted home, I would like to meet with you and discuss Julian’s situation. I am opening a new vegan restaurant in France in July, and I would like to extend my invitation to the new President and his First Lady. Join me on the day I open the doors, and we will sit and eat good food and discuss what can be done for Julian. France could display its strength, and so could you, if you give Julian asylum.”
The restaurant will be open every night starting at 6 p.m. and reservations can be made on their website.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/entertainment/pamela-anderson-restaurant-julian-assange/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2017/jun/22/bravery-courage-strength-why-pamela-anderson-thinks-julian-assange-sexy-wikileaks
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/entertainment/pamela-anderson-restaurant-julian-assange/index.html
Pamela Anderson is using food to help Julian Assange
MORE LIKE PAMELA ANDERSON IS USING JULIAN ASSANGE TO PROMOTE A FOOD PROJECT IN ORDER TO HELP HER POCKETS FILL WITH MONEY .. AFTER ALL SHE DOES GET PAID EVEN FOR HER ANIMAL ACTIVISM RELATED ACTIVITIES AND HOLLYWOOD DID NOT KNOCK ON HER DOOR FOR MANY YEARS
SEE MY HUMBLE OPINION ON ASSANGE'S LOVE INTERESTS IN THIS POST:
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http://people.com/food/pamela-anderson-vegan-pop-up-restaurant/
Pamela Anderson Is Opening a Pop-Up Vegan Restaurant
Starting on July 4, the former Baywatch star and longtime animal rights activist will be hosting an all-vegan pop-up restaurant in Ramatuelle in the South of France for 50 nights only.
Anderson announced the news about the restaurant, Le Table du Marcheé by Pamela, on her foundation’s website on Monday, and says the concept is “festive, glamorous and vegan.”
The menu, which she developed with chef Christophe Leroy, will feature a champagne bar and a variety of plant-based dishes, including a traditional tomato tartare with Goji berries, traditional Provençal “petits farcis” (stuffed vegetables), an asparagus risotto and a vegan burger.
Opening the restaurant is also an effort to release her rumored love interest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is being held inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“I am reaching out to Emmanuel Macron, and to his wife Brigitte Trogneux,” she writes in a tribute to Assange. “As a resident of France, my adopted home, I would like to meet with you and discuss Julian’s situation. I am opening a new vegan restaurant in France in July, and I would like to extend my invitation to the new President and his First Lady. Join me on the day I open the doors, and we will sit and eat good food and discuss what can be done for Julian. France could display its strength, and so could you, if you give Julian asylum.”
The restaurant will be open every night starting at 6 p.m. and reservations can be made on their website.
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https://www.eater.com/2017/6/19/15832874/pam-anderson-vegan-restaurant
Pam Anderson Is Opening a Vegan Restaurant in the South of France
The actress/activist reveals her plans in a tribute to boyfriend Julian Assange
Longtime animal rights activist Pamela Anderson is taking her dedication to vegan living one step further by opening a restaurant in France, her new home, that will not serve any meat or daily products. The announcement is buried in a tribute to her boyfriend, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is trapped inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Anderson wants to convince political leaders around the world to help Assange become a free citizen once again. The Barbed Wire actress writes:
I am reaching out to Emmanuel Macron, and to his wife Brigitte Trogneux. As a resident of France, my adopted home, I would like to meet with you and discuss Julian's situation. I am opening a new vegan restaurant in France in July, and I would like to extend my invitation to the new President and his First Lady. Join me on the day I open the doors, and we will sit and eat good food and discuss what can be done for Julian. France could display its strength, and so could you, if you give Julian asylum.
And in a new update on her homepage, the former Baywatch star explains that she’s partnering with chef Christophe Leroy on this new temporary restaurant in the southwestern commune of Ramatuelle. The restaurant, dubbed La Table du Marché, is part of the country inn called Les Moulins de Ramatuelle, which is owned and operated by Leroy. According to Pam’s website, La Table du Marché will open on July 4 for 50 nights only. The announcement is accompanied by a series of photos of Anderson posing in the French countryside with a golden retriever.
No word yet on whether the President of France and his wife will take Pam Anderson up on the offer to dine at her seasonal vegan restaurant and wine bar in the south of France, but he’d be a fool not to at least seriously consider this invitation.
• Why My Heart Stands With Julian [Pamela Anderson]
• La Table du Marché by Pamela [Pamela Anderson]
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http://people.com/food/pamela-anderson-vegan-pop-up-restaurant/
Pamela Anderson Is Opening a Pop-Up Vegan Restaurant
Starting on July 4, the former Baywatch star and longtime animal rights activist will be hosting an all-vegan pop-up restaurant in Ramatuelle in the South of France for 50 nights only.
Anderson announced the news about the restaurant, Le Table du Marcheé by Pamela, on her foundation’s website on Monday, and says the concept is “festive, glamorous and vegan.”
The menu, which she developed with chef Christophe Leroy, will feature a champagne bar and a variety of plant-based dishes, including a traditional tomato tartare with Goji berries, traditional Provençal “petits farcis” (stuffed vegetables), an asparagus risotto and a vegan burger.
Opening the restaurant is also an effort to release her rumored love interest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is being held inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“I am reaching out to Emmanuel Macron, and to his wife Brigitte Trogneux,” she writes in a tribute to Assange. “As a resident of France, my adopted home, I would like to meet with you and discuss Julian’s situation. I am opening a new vegan restaurant in France in July, and I would like to extend my invitation to the new President and his First Lady. Join me on the day I open the doors, and we will sit and eat good food and discuss what can be done for Julian. France could display its strength, and so could you, if you give Julian asylum.”
The restaurant will be open every night starting at 6 p.m. and reservations can be made on their website.
===========================
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/entertainment/pamela-anderson-restaurant-julian-assange/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2017/jun/22/bravery-courage-strength-why-pamela-anderson-thinks-julian-assange-sexy-wikileaks
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/entertainment/pamela-anderson-restaurant-julian-assange/index.html
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/?printpage=true
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/?printpage=true
The Nihilism of Julian Assange
Sue Halpern JULY 13, 2017 ISSUE
Risk
a documentary film directed by Laura Poitras
Praxis Films
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Laura Poitras’s documentary film Risk
About forty minutes into Risk, Laura Poitras’s messy documentary portrait of Julian Assange, the filmmaker addresses the viewer from off-camera. “This is not the film I thought I was making,” she says. “I thought I could ignore the contradictions. I thought they were not part of the story. I was so wrong. They are becoming the story.”
By the time she makes this confession, Poitras has been filming Assange, on and off, for six years. He has gone from a bit player on the international stage to one of its dramatic leads. His gleeful interference in the 2016 American presidential election—first with the release of e-mails poached from the Democratic National Committee, timed to coincide with, undermine, and possibly derail Hillary Clinton’s nomination at the Democratic Convention, and then with the publication of the private e-mail correspondence of Clinton’s adviser John Podesta, which was leaked, drip by drip, in the days leading up to the election to maximize the damage it might inflict on Clinton—elevated Assange’s profile and his influence.
And then this spring, it emerged that Nigel Farage, the Trump adviser and former head of the nationalist and anti-immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP) who is now a person of interest in the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, was meeting with Assange. To those who once saw him as a crusader for truth and accountability, Assange suddenly looked more like a Svengali and a willing tool of Vladimir Putin, and certainly a man with no particular affection for liberal democracy. Yet those tendencies were present all along.
In 2010, when Poitras began work on her film, Assange’s four-year-old website, WikiLeaks, had just become the conduit for hundreds of thousands of classified American documents revealing how we prosecuted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including a graphic video of American soldiers in an Apache helicopter mowing down a group of unarmed Iraqis, as well as for some 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables. All had been uploaded to the WikiLeaks site by an army private named Bradley—now Chelsea—Manning.
The genius of the WikiLeaks platform was that documents could be leaked anonymously, with all identifiers removed; WikiLeaks itself didn’t know who its sources were unless leakers chose to reveal themselves. This would prevent anyone at WikiLeaks from inadvertently, or under pressure, disclosing a source’s identity. Assange’s goal was to hold power—state power, corporate power, and powerful individuals—accountable by offering a secure and easy way to expose their secrets. He called this “radical transparency.” Manning’s bad luck was to tell a friend about the hack, and the friend then went to the FBI. For a long time, though, Assange pretended not to know who provided the documents, even when there was evidence that he and Manning had been e-mailing before the leaks.
Though the contradictions were not immediately obvious to Poitras as she trained her lens on Assange, they were becoming so to others in his orbit. WikiLeaks’s young spokesperson in those early days, James Ball, has recounted how Assange tried to force him to sign a nondisclosure statement that would result in a £12 million penalty if it were breached. “[I was] woken very early by Assange, sitting on my bed, prodding me in the face with a stuffed giraffe, immediately once again pressuring me to sign,” Ball wrote. Assange continued to pester him like this for two hours. Assange’s “impulse towards free speech,” according to Andrew O’Hagan, the erstwhile ghostwriter of Assange’s failed autobiography, “is only permissible if it adheres to his message. His pursuit of governments and corporations was a ghostly reverse of his own fears for himself. That was the big secret with him: he wanted to cover up everything about himself except his fame.”
Meanwhile, some of the company he was keeping while Poitras was filming also might have given her pause. His association with Farage had already begun in 2011 when Farage was head of UKIP. Assange’s own WikiLeaks Party of Australia was aligned with the white nationalist Australia First Party, itself headed by an avowed neo-Nazi, until political pressure forced it to claim that association to be an “administrative error.”
Most egregious, perhaps, was Assange’s collaboration with Israel Shamir, an unapologetic anti-Semite and Putin ally to whom Assange handed over all State Department diplomatic cables from the Manning leak relating to Belarus (as well as to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Israel). Shamir then shared these documents with members of the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who appeared to use them to imprison and torture members of the opposition. This prompted the human rights group Index on Censorship to ask WikiLeaks to explain its relationship to Shamir, and to look into reports that Shamir’s “access to the WikiLeaks’ US diplomatic cables [aided in] the prosecution of civil society activists within Belarus.” WikiLeaks called these claims rumors and responded that it would not be investigating them. “Most people with principled stances don’t survive for long,” Assange tells Poitras at the beginning of the film. It’s not clear if he’s talking about himself or others.
Then there is the matter of redaction. After the Manning cache came in, WikiLeaks partnered with a number of “legacy” newspapers, including The New York Times and The Guardian, to bring the material out into the world. While initially going along with those publications’ policies of removing identifying information that could put innocent people in harm’s way and excluding material that could not be verified, Assange soon balked. According to the Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding in WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, their 2011 postmortem of their contentious collaboration with Assange on the so-called Afghan war logs—the portion of the Manning leaks concerning the conflict in Afghanistan—the WikiLeaks founder was unmoved by entreaties to scrub the files of anything that could point to Afghan villagers who might have had any contact with American troops. He considered such editorial intervention to “contaminate the evidence.”
“Well they’re informants. So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it,” Leigh and Harding report Assange saying to a group of international journalists. And while Assange has denied making these comments, WikiLeaks released troves of material in which the names of Afghan civilians had not been redacted, an action that led Amnesty International, the Open Society Institute, the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission to issue a joint rebuke. The group Reporters Without Borders also criticized WikiLeaks for its “incredible irresponsibility” in not removing the names. This was in 2010, not long after Poitras approached Assange about making a film.
Lack of redaction—or of any real effort to separate disclosures of public importance from those that might simply put private citizens at risk—continued to be a flashpoint for WikiLeaks, its supporters, and its critics. In July 2016, presumably when Poitras was still working on Risk, WikiLeaks dumped nearly 300,000 e-mails it claimed were from Turkey’s ruling AKP party. Those files, it turned out, were not from AKP heavyweights but, rather, from ordinary people writing to the party, often with their personal information included.
Worse, WikiLeaks also posted links to a set of huge voter databases, including one with the names, addresses, and other contact information for nearly every woman in Turkey. It also apparently published the files of psychiatric patients, gay men, and rape victims in Saudi Arabia. Soon after that, WikiLeaks began leaking bundles of hacked Democratic National Committee e-mails, also full of personal information, including cell phone and credit card numbers, leading Wired magazine to declare that “WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground.”
Poitras doesn’t say, but perhaps this is when she, too, began to take account of the contradictions that eventually turned her film away from hagiography toward something more nuanced. Though she intermittently interjects herself into the film—to relate a dream she’s had about Assange; to say that he is brave; to say that she thinks he doesn’t like her; to say that she doesn’t trust him—this is primarily a film of scenes, episodic and nearly picaresque save for the unappealing vanity of its hero. (There is very little in the film about the work of WikiLeaks itself.)
Here is Julian, holed up in a supporter’s estate in the English countryside while under house arrest, getting his hair cut by a gaggle of supporters while watching a video of Japanese women in bikinis dancing. Here is Julian in a car with that other famous leaker, Daniel Ellsberg. Here is Julian instructing Sarah Harrison, his WikiLeaks colleague, to call Secretary Clinton at the State Department and tell her she needs to talk to Julian Assange. Here is Julian walking in the woods with one of his lawyers, certain that a bird in a nearby tree is actually a man with a camera. Here is Julian being interviewed, for no apparent reason, by the singer Lady Gaga:
Lady Gaga: What’s your favorite food?
Assange: Let’s not pretend I’m a normal person. I am obsessed with political struggle. I’m not a normal person.
Lady Gaga: Tell me how you feel?
Assange: Why does it matter how I feel? Who gives a damn? I don’t care how I feel.
Lady Gaga: Do you ever feel like just fucking crying?
Assange: No.
And here is Julian, in conversation with Harrison, who is also his girlfriend:
Assange: My profile didn’t take off till the sex case. [It was] very high in media circles and intelligence circles, but it didn’t really take off, as if I was a globally recognized household name, it wasn’t till the sex case. So I was joking to one of our people, sex scandal every six months.
Harrison: That was me you were joking to. And I died a little bit inside.
Assange: Come on. It’s a platform.
The sex case to which Assange is referring is the one that began in the summer of 2010 on a trip to Sweden. While there, Assange had sex with two young supporters a few days apart, both of whom said that what started out as consensual ended up as assault. Eventually, after numerous back-and-forths, the Swedish court issued an international arrest warrant for Assange, who was living in England, to compel him to return to Sweden for questioning. Assange refused, declaring that this was a “honey pot” trap orchestrated by the CIA to extradite him to the United States for publishing the Manning leaks.
After a short stay in a British jail, subsequent house arrest, and many appeals, Assange was ordered by the UK Supreme Court, in May 2012, to be returned to Sweden to answer the rape and assault charges. Assange, however, claiming that there was a secret warrant for his arrest in the United States (though the extradition treaty between Sweden and the US prohibits extradition for a political offense), had made other arrangements: he had applied for, and was granted, political asylum in Ecuador. Because the British government refused “safe passage” there, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Poitras was with Assange in an undisclosed location in London as the British high court in Parliament Square was issuing its final ruling. The camera was rolling and no one was speaking—it was all sealed lips and pantomime—as Assange dyed his hair red and dressed in biker’s leather in order to make a mad dash on a motorcycle across town to the embassy. (There’s a sorrowful moment when his mother, who, inexplicably, is in the room, too, writes “I love you, honey,” on a piece of notebook paper and hands it and a pen to her son and he waves her off.)
This past January, five years into Assange’s self-imposed exile, he promised to finally leave the embassy and turn himself over to the Americans if President Obama were to grant clemency to Chelsea Manning, who had been sentenced to thirty-five years in prison for giving documents to WikiLeaks. Obama did; Assange didn’t. In May, the same month Manning left prison, Sweden dropped all charges against Assange. He remains in the embassy.
The “sex case,” as Assange called it, figures prominently in Risk. It serves to reveal his casual and sometimes noxious misogyny, and it is a foil for him to conflate the personal with the political, using the political to get out of answering to the personal, and the personal to claim that he’s the victim here. “Who is after you, Mr. Assange?” Lady Gaga asks. “Formally there are more than twelve United States intelligence organizations,” Assange tells her, reeling off a list of acronyms. “So basically a whole fucking bunch of people in America,” she says, and then he mentions that the Australians, the British, and the Swedes are also pursuing him.
Whether this is true or not has long been a matter of dispute. The Swedes definitely wanted him to return to their country, and the British were eager for him to abide by the Swedish warrant, and he made no friends in the Obama administration. Following the Manning leaks in 2010, the attorney general, Eric Holder, made it clear that the Department of Justice, along with the Department of Defense, was investigating whether Assange could be charged under the 1917 Espionage Act, though no warrant was ever issued publicly. Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state, said that WikiLeaks’s release of the diplomatic cables was “an attack on the international community [and] we are taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information.” Still, Assange’s self-exile in the embassy, which the United Nations condemned as an “arbitrary detention,” was predicated on his belief that the Americans were lying in wait, ready at any moment to haul him to the US, where his actions might land him in prison for a very long time, or even lead to his execution.
All this was well before Assange was accused of using WikiLeaks as a front for Russian agents working to undermine American democracy during the 2016 presidential election. And it was before candidate Trump declared his love for the website and then watched as Assange released a huge arsenal of CIA hacking tools into the public domain less than two months into Trump’s presidency. This, in turn, prompted the new CIA director, Mike Pompeo, who appeared to have no problem with WikiLeaks when it was sharing information detrimental to the Democrats, to declare WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service,” and the new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to prepare a warrant for Assange’s arrest. If the Justice Department wasn’t going after Assange before, it appears to be ready to do so now.
Despite Assange’s vocal disdain for his former collaborators at The New York Times and The Guardian, his association with those journalists and their newspapers is probably what so far has kept him from being indicted and prosecuted in the United States. As Glenn Greenwald told the journalist Amy Goodman recently, Eric Holder’s Justice Department could not come up with a rationale to prosecute WikiLeaks that would not also implicate the news organizations with which it had worked; to do so, Greenwald said, would have been “too much of a threat to press freedom, even for the Obama administration.” The same cannot be said with confidence about the Trump White House, which perceives the Times, and national news organizations more generally, as adversaries. Yet if the Sessions Justice Department goes after Assange, it likely will be on the grounds that WikiLeaks is not “real” journalism.
This charge has dogged WikiLeaks from the start. For one thing, it doesn’t employ reporters or have subscribers. For another, it publishes irregularly and, because it does not actively chase secrets but aggregates those that others supply, often has long gaps when it publishes nothing at all. Perhaps most confusing to some observers, WikiLeaks’s rudimentary website doesn’t look anything like a New York Times or a Washington Post, even in those papers’ more recent digital incarnations.
Nonetheless, there is no doubt that WikiLeaks publishes the information it receives much like those traditional news outlets. When it burst on the scene in 2010, it was embraced as a new kind of journalism, one capable not only of speaking truth to power, but of outsmarting power and its institutional gatekeepers. And the fact is, there is no consensus on what constitutes “real” journalism. As Adam Penenberg points out, “The best we have comes from laws and proposed legislation which protect reporters from being forced to divulge confidential sources in court. In crafting those shield laws, legislators have had to grapple with the nebulousness of the profession.”
The danger of carving off WikiLeaks from the rest of journalism, as the attorney general may attempt to do, is that ultimately it leaves all publications vulnerable to prosecution. Once an exception is made, a rule will be too, and the rule in this case will be that the government can determine what constitutes real journalism and what does not, and which publications, films, writers, editors, and filmmakers are protected under the First Amendment, and which are not.
This is where censorship begins. No matter what one thinks of Julian Assange personally, or of WikiLeaks’s reckless publication practices, like it or not, they have become the litmus test of our commitment to free speech. If the government successfully prosecutes WikiLeaks for publishing classified information, why not, then, “the failed New York Times,” as the president likes to call it, or any news organization or journalist? It’s a slippery slope leading to a sheer cliff. That is the real risk being presented here, though Poitras doesn’t directly address it.
Near the end of Risk, after Poitras has shown Assange a rough cut of the film, he tells her that he views it as “a severe threat to my freedom and I must act accordingly.” He doesn’t say what he will do, but when the film was released this spring, Poitras was loudly criticized by Assange’s supporters for changing it from the hero’s journey she debuted last year at Cannes to something more critical, complicated, and at best ambivalent about the man. Yet ambivalence is the most honest thing about the film. It is the emotion Assange often stirs up in those who support the WikiLeaks mission but are disturbed by its chief missionary.
This ambivalence, too, is what makes Risk such a different film from Citizen Four (2014), Poitras’s intense, resolute, Oscar-winning documentary about Edward Snowden. While Snowden and Assange are often twinned in the press and in the public imagination, these films demonstrate how false that equivalence is. Snowden leaked classified NSA documents that he said showed rampant unconstitutional intrusions by the government into the private lives of innocent citizens, doing so through a careful process of vetting and selective publication by a circle of hand-picked journalists. He identified himself as the leaker and said he wanted to provoke a public debate about government spying and the right of privacy. Assange, by contrast, appears to have no interest in anyone’s privacy but his own and his sources’. Private communications, personal information, intimate conversations are all fair game to him. He calls this nihilism “freedom,” and in so doing elevates it to a principle that gives him license to act without regard to consequences.
The mission Assange originally set out to accomplish, though—providing a safe way for whistleblowers to hold power accountable—has, in the past few years, eclipsed WikiLeaks itself. Almost every major newspaper, magazine, and website now has a way for leakers to upload secret information, most through an anonymous, online, open-source drop box called Secure Drop. Based on coding work done by the free speech advocate Aaron Swartz before his death and championed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation—on whose board both Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden sit, and which is a conduit for donations to WikiLeaks among other organizations—Secure Drop gives leakers the option of choosing where to upload their material. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Forbes, and The Intercept, to name just a few, all have a way for people to pass secrets along to journalists.
It is not yet known why a National Security Agency contractor named Reality Leigh Winner didn’t use a digital drop box when she leaked a classified NSA document to The Intercept in May outlining how Russian cyber spies hacked into American election software. Unlike Edward Snowden, who carefully covered his tracks before leaking his NSA cache to Glenn Greenwald (before Greenwald started The Intercept) and Laura Poitras (who filmed Snowden’s statement of purpose, in which he identified himself as the leaker), Winner used a printer at work to copy the document, which she then mailed to The Intercept. What she and those at The Intercept who dealt with the document did not know, apparently, is that this government printer, like many printers, embeds all documents with small dots that reveal the serial number of the machine and the time the document was printed. After The Intercept contacted the NSA to verify the document, the FBI needed only a few days to find Winner and arrest her.
We will soon get to witness what the Trump administration does to those who leak classified information, and to those who publish it. WikiLeaks, apparently, will be providing the government with an assist. It is offering a $10,000 reward for “the public exposure” of the reporter whose ignorance or carelessness led the FBI to Reality Winner’s door. Such are the vagaries of radical transparency.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/?printpage=true
The Nihilism of Julian Assange
Sue Halpern JULY 13, 2017 ISSUE
Risk
a documentary film directed by Laura Poitras
Praxis Films
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Laura Poitras’s documentary film Risk
About forty minutes into Risk, Laura Poitras’s messy documentary portrait of Julian Assange, the filmmaker addresses the viewer from off-camera. “This is not the film I thought I was making,” she says. “I thought I could ignore the contradictions. I thought they were not part of the story. I was so wrong. They are becoming the story.”
By the time she makes this confession, Poitras has been filming Assange, on and off, for six years. He has gone from a bit player on the international stage to one of its dramatic leads. His gleeful interference in the 2016 American presidential election—first with the release of e-mails poached from the Democratic National Committee, timed to coincide with, undermine, and possibly derail Hillary Clinton’s nomination at the Democratic Convention, and then with the publication of the private e-mail correspondence of Clinton’s adviser John Podesta, which was leaked, drip by drip, in the days leading up to the election to maximize the damage it might inflict on Clinton—elevated Assange’s profile and his influence.
And then this spring, it emerged that Nigel Farage, the Trump adviser and former head of the nationalist and anti-immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP) who is now a person of interest in the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, was meeting with Assange. To those who once saw him as a crusader for truth and accountability, Assange suddenly looked more like a Svengali and a willing tool of Vladimir Putin, and certainly a man with no particular affection for liberal democracy. Yet those tendencies were present all along.
In 2010, when Poitras began work on her film, Assange’s four-year-old website, WikiLeaks, had just become the conduit for hundreds of thousands of classified American documents revealing how we prosecuted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including a graphic video of American soldiers in an Apache helicopter mowing down a group of unarmed Iraqis, as well as for some 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables. All had been uploaded to the WikiLeaks site by an army private named Bradley—now Chelsea—Manning.
The genius of the WikiLeaks platform was that documents could be leaked anonymously, with all identifiers removed; WikiLeaks itself didn’t know who its sources were unless leakers chose to reveal themselves. This would prevent anyone at WikiLeaks from inadvertently, or under pressure, disclosing a source’s identity. Assange’s goal was to hold power—state power, corporate power, and powerful individuals—accountable by offering a secure and easy way to expose their secrets. He called this “radical transparency.” Manning’s bad luck was to tell a friend about the hack, and the friend then went to the FBI. For a long time, though, Assange pretended not to know who provided the documents, even when there was evidence that he and Manning had been e-mailing before the leaks.
Though the contradictions were not immediately obvious to Poitras as she trained her lens on Assange, they were becoming so to others in his orbit. WikiLeaks’s young spokesperson in those early days, James Ball, has recounted how Assange tried to force him to sign a nondisclosure statement that would result in a £12 million penalty if it were breached. “[I was] woken very early by Assange, sitting on my bed, prodding me in the face with a stuffed giraffe, immediately once again pressuring me to sign,” Ball wrote. Assange continued to pester him like this for two hours. Assange’s “impulse towards free speech,” according to Andrew O’Hagan, the erstwhile ghostwriter of Assange’s failed autobiography, “is only permissible if it adheres to his message. His pursuit of governments and corporations was a ghostly reverse of his own fears for himself. That was the big secret with him: he wanted to cover up everything about himself except his fame.”
Meanwhile, some of the company he was keeping while Poitras was filming also might have given her pause. His association with Farage had already begun in 2011 when Farage was head of UKIP. Assange’s own WikiLeaks Party of Australia was aligned with the white nationalist Australia First Party, itself headed by an avowed neo-Nazi, until political pressure forced it to claim that association to be an “administrative error.”
Most egregious, perhaps, was Assange’s collaboration with Israel Shamir, an unapologetic anti-Semite and Putin ally to whom Assange handed over all State Department diplomatic cables from the Manning leak relating to Belarus (as well as to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Israel). Shamir then shared these documents with members of the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who appeared to use them to imprison and torture members of the opposition. This prompted the human rights group Index on Censorship to ask WikiLeaks to explain its relationship to Shamir, and to look into reports that Shamir’s “access to the WikiLeaks’ US diplomatic cables [aided in] the prosecution of civil society activists within Belarus.” WikiLeaks called these claims rumors and responded that it would not be investigating them. “Most people with principled stances don’t survive for long,” Assange tells Poitras at the beginning of the film. It’s not clear if he’s talking about himself or others.
Then there is the matter of redaction. After the Manning cache came in, WikiLeaks partnered with a number of “legacy” newspapers, including The New York Times and The Guardian, to bring the material out into the world. While initially going along with those publications’ policies of removing identifying information that could put innocent people in harm’s way and excluding material that could not be verified, Assange soon balked. According to the Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding in WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, their 2011 postmortem of their contentious collaboration with Assange on the so-called Afghan war logs—the portion of the Manning leaks concerning the conflict in Afghanistan—the WikiLeaks founder was unmoved by entreaties to scrub the files of anything that could point to Afghan villagers who might have had any contact with American troops. He considered such editorial intervention to “contaminate the evidence.”
“Well they’re informants. So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it,” Leigh and Harding report Assange saying to a group of international journalists. And while Assange has denied making these comments, WikiLeaks released troves of material in which the names of Afghan civilians had not been redacted, an action that led Amnesty International, the Open Society Institute, the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission to issue a joint rebuke. The group Reporters Without Borders also criticized WikiLeaks for its “incredible irresponsibility” in not removing the names. This was in 2010, not long after Poitras approached Assange about making a film.
Lack of redaction—or of any real effort to separate disclosures of public importance from those that might simply put private citizens at risk—continued to be a flashpoint for WikiLeaks, its supporters, and its critics. In July 2016, presumably when Poitras was still working on Risk, WikiLeaks dumped nearly 300,000 e-mails it claimed were from Turkey’s ruling AKP party. Those files, it turned out, were not from AKP heavyweights but, rather, from ordinary people writing to the party, often with their personal information included.
Worse, WikiLeaks also posted links to a set of huge voter databases, including one with the names, addresses, and other contact information for nearly every woman in Turkey. It also apparently published the files of psychiatric patients, gay men, and rape victims in Saudi Arabia. Soon after that, WikiLeaks began leaking bundles of hacked Democratic National Committee e-mails, also full of personal information, including cell phone and credit card numbers, leading Wired magazine to declare that “WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground.”
Poitras doesn’t say, but perhaps this is when she, too, began to take account of the contradictions that eventually turned her film away from hagiography toward something more nuanced. Though she intermittently interjects herself into the film—to relate a dream she’s had about Assange; to say that he is brave; to say that she thinks he doesn’t like her; to say that she doesn’t trust him—this is primarily a film of scenes, episodic and nearly picaresque save for the unappealing vanity of its hero. (There is very little in the film about the work of WikiLeaks itself.)
Here is Julian, holed up in a supporter’s estate in the English countryside while under house arrest, getting his hair cut by a gaggle of supporters while watching a video of Japanese women in bikinis dancing. Here is Julian in a car with that other famous leaker, Daniel Ellsberg. Here is Julian instructing Sarah Harrison, his WikiLeaks colleague, to call Secretary Clinton at the State Department and tell her she needs to talk to Julian Assange. Here is Julian walking in the woods with one of his lawyers, certain that a bird in a nearby tree is actually a man with a camera. Here is Julian being interviewed, for no apparent reason, by the singer Lady Gaga:
Lady Gaga: What’s your favorite food?
Assange: Let’s not pretend I’m a normal person. I am obsessed with political struggle. I’m not a normal person.
Lady Gaga: Tell me how you feel?
Assange: Why does it matter how I feel? Who gives a damn? I don’t care how I feel.
Lady Gaga: Do you ever feel like just fucking crying?
Assange: No.
And here is Julian, in conversation with Harrison, who is also his girlfriend:
Assange: My profile didn’t take off till the sex case. [It was] very high in media circles and intelligence circles, but it didn’t really take off, as if I was a globally recognized household name, it wasn’t till the sex case. So I was joking to one of our people, sex scandal every six months.
Harrison: That was me you were joking to. And I died a little bit inside.
Assange: Come on. It’s a platform.
The sex case to which Assange is referring is the one that began in the summer of 2010 on a trip to Sweden. While there, Assange had sex with two young supporters a few days apart, both of whom said that what started out as consensual ended up as assault. Eventually, after numerous back-and-forths, the Swedish court issued an international arrest warrant for Assange, who was living in England, to compel him to return to Sweden for questioning. Assange refused, declaring that this was a “honey pot” trap orchestrated by the CIA to extradite him to the United States for publishing the Manning leaks.
After a short stay in a British jail, subsequent house arrest, and many appeals, Assange was ordered by the UK Supreme Court, in May 2012, to be returned to Sweden to answer the rape and assault charges. Assange, however, claiming that there was a secret warrant for his arrest in the United States (though the extradition treaty between Sweden and the US prohibits extradition for a political offense), had made other arrangements: he had applied for, and was granted, political asylum in Ecuador. Because the British government refused “safe passage” there, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Poitras was with Assange in an undisclosed location in London as the British high court in Parliament Square was issuing its final ruling. The camera was rolling and no one was speaking—it was all sealed lips and pantomime—as Assange dyed his hair red and dressed in biker’s leather in order to make a mad dash on a motorcycle across town to the embassy. (There’s a sorrowful moment when his mother, who, inexplicably, is in the room, too, writes “I love you, honey,” on a piece of notebook paper and hands it and a pen to her son and he waves her off.)
This past January, five years into Assange’s self-imposed exile, he promised to finally leave the embassy and turn himself over to the Americans if President Obama were to grant clemency to Chelsea Manning, who had been sentenced to thirty-five years in prison for giving documents to WikiLeaks. Obama did; Assange didn’t. In May, the same month Manning left prison, Sweden dropped all charges against Assange. He remains in the embassy.
The “sex case,” as Assange called it, figures prominently in Risk. It serves to reveal his casual and sometimes noxious misogyny, and it is a foil for him to conflate the personal with the political, using the political to get out of answering to the personal, and the personal to claim that he’s the victim here. “Who is after you, Mr. Assange?” Lady Gaga asks. “Formally there are more than twelve United States intelligence organizations,” Assange tells her, reeling off a list of acronyms. “So basically a whole fucking bunch of people in America,” she says, and then he mentions that the Australians, the British, and the Swedes are also pursuing him.
Whether this is true or not has long been a matter of dispute. The Swedes definitely wanted him to return to their country, and the British were eager for him to abide by the Swedish warrant, and he made no friends in the Obama administration. Following the Manning leaks in 2010, the attorney general, Eric Holder, made it clear that the Department of Justice, along with the Department of Defense, was investigating whether Assange could be charged under the 1917 Espionage Act, though no warrant was ever issued publicly. Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state, said that WikiLeaks’s release of the diplomatic cables was “an attack on the international community [and] we are taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information.” Still, Assange’s self-exile in the embassy, which the United Nations condemned as an “arbitrary detention,” was predicated on his belief that the Americans were lying in wait, ready at any moment to haul him to the US, where his actions might land him in prison for a very long time, or even lead to his execution.
All this was well before Assange was accused of using WikiLeaks as a front for Russian agents working to undermine American democracy during the 2016 presidential election. And it was before candidate Trump declared his love for the website and then watched as Assange released a huge arsenal of CIA hacking tools into the public domain less than two months into Trump’s presidency. This, in turn, prompted the new CIA director, Mike Pompeo, who appeared to have no problem with WikiLeaks when it was sharing information detrimental to the Democrats, to declare WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service,” and the new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to prepare a warrant for Assange’s arrest. If the Justice Department wasn’t going after Assange before, it appears to be ready to do so now.
Despite Assange’s vocal disdain for his former collaborators at The New York Times and The Guardian, his association with those journalists and their newspapers is probably what so far has kept him from being indicted and prosecuted in the United States. As Glenn Greenwald told the journalist Amy Goodman recently, Eric Holder’s Justice Department could not come up with a rationale to prosecute WikiLeaks that would not also implicate the news organizations with which it had worked; to do so, Greenwald said, would have been “too much of a threat to press freedom, even for the Obama administration.” The same cannot be said with confidence about the Trump White House, which perceives the Times, and national news organizations more generally, as adversaries. Yet if the Sessions Justice Department goes after Assange, it likely will be on the grounds that WikiLeaks is not “real” journalism.
This charge has dogged WikiLeaks from the start. For one thing, it doesn’t employ reporters or have subscribers. For another, it publishes irregularly and, because it does not actively chase secrets but aggregates those that others supply, often has long gaps when it publishes nothing at all. Perhaps most confusing to some observers, WikiLeaks’s rudimentary website doesn’t look anything like a New York Times or a Washington Post, even in those papers’ more recent digital incarnations.
Nonetheless, there is no doubt that WikiLeaks publishes the information it receives much like those traditional news outlets. When it burst on the scene in 2010, it was embraced as a new kind of journalism, one capable not only of speaking truth to power, but of outsmarting power and its institutional gatekeepers. And the fact is, there is no consensus on what constitutes “real” journalism. As Adam Penenberg points out, “The best we have comes from laws and proposed legislation which protect reporters from being forced to divulge confidential sources in court. In crafting those shield laws, legislators have had to grapple with the nebulousness of the profession.”
The danger of carving off WikiLeaks from the rest of journalism, as the attorney general may attempt to do, is that ultimately it leaves all publications vulnerable to prosecution. Once an exception is made, a rule will be too, and the rule in this case will be that the government can determine what constitutes real journalism and what does not, and which publications, films, writers, editors, and filmmakers are protected under the First Amendment, and which are not.
This is where censorship begins. No matter what one thinks of Julian Assange personally, or of WikiLeaks’s reckless publication practices, like it or not, they have become the litmus test of our commitment to free speech. If the government successfully prosecutes WikiLeaks for publishing classified information, why not, then, “the failed New York Times,” as the president likes to call it, or any news organization or journalist? It’s a slippery slope leading to a sheer cliff. That is the real risk being presented here, though Poitras doesn’t directly address it.
Near the end of Risk, after Poitras has shown Assange a rough cut of the film, he tells her that he views it as “a severe threat to my freedom and I must act accordingly.” He doesn’t say what he will do, but when the film was released this spring, Poitras was loudly criticized by Assange’s supporters for changing it from the hero’s journey she debuted last year at Cannes to something more critical, complicated, and at best ambivalent about the man. Yet ambivalence is the most honest thing about the film. It is the emotion Assange often stirs up in those who support the WikiLeaks mission but are disturbed by its chief missionary.
This ambivalence, too, is what makes Risk such a different film from Citizen Four (2014), Poitras’s intense, resolute, Oscar-winning documentary about Edward Snowden. While Snowden and Assange are often twinned in the press and in the public imagination, these films demonstrate how false that equivalence is. Snowden leaked classified NSA documents that he said showed rampant unconstitutional intrusions by the government into the private lives of innocent citizens, doing so through a careful process of vetting and selective publication by a circle of hand-picked journalists. He identified himself as the leaker and said he wanted to provoke a public debate about government spying and the right of privacy. Assange, by contrast, appears to have no interest in anyone’s privacy but his own and his sources’. Private communications, personal information, intimate conversations are all fair game to him. He calls this nihilism “freedom,” and in so doing elevates it to a principle that gives him license to act without regard to consequences.
The mission Assange originally set out to accomplish, though—providing a safe way for whistleblowers to hold power accountable—has, in the past few years, eclipsed WikiLeaks itself. Almost every major newspaper, magazine, and website now has a way for leakers to upload secret information, most through an anonymous, online, open-source drop box called Secure Drop. Based on coding work done by the free speech advocate Aaron Swartz before his death and championed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation—on whose board both Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden sit, and which is a conduit for donations to WikiLeaks among other organizations—Secure Drop gives leakers the option of choosing where to upload their material. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Forbes, and The Intercept, to name just a few, all have a way for people to pass secrets along to journalists.
It is not yet known why a National Security Agency contractor named Reality Leigh Winner didn’t use a digital drop box when she leaked a classified NSA document to The Intercept in May outlining how Russian cyber spies hacked into American election software. Unlike Edward Snowden, who carefully covered his tracks before leaking his NSA cache to Glenn Greenwald (before Greenwald started The Intercept) and Laura Poitras (who filmed Snowden’s statement of purpose, in which he identified himself as the leaker), Winner used a printer at work to copy the document, which she then mailed to The Intercept. What she and those at The Intercept who dealt with the document did not know, apparently, is that this government printer, like many printers, embeds all documents with small dots that reveal the serial number of the machine and the time the document was printed. After The Intercept contacted the NSA to verify the document, the FBI needed only a few days to find Winner and arrest her.
We will soon get to witness what the Trump administration does to those who leak classified information, and to those who publish it. WikiLeaks, apparently, will be providing the government with an assist. It is offering a $10,000 reward for “the public exposure” of the reporter whose ignorance or carelessness led the FBI to Reality Winner’s door. Such are the vagaries of radical transparency.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/?printpage=true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTO9UMuYag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTO9UMuYag
John McAfee: "CIA Compromised Every WiFi Router In America" & ALL Connected Devices.
http://yournewswire.com/john-mcafee-cia-router/
http://yournewswire.com/john-mcafee-cia-router/
John McAfee: "CIA Compromised Every WiFi Router In America" & ALL Connected Devices.
http://yournewswire.com/john-mcafee-cia-router/
http://yournewswire.com/john-mcafee-cia-router/
https://newsline.com/wikileaks-disclosures-on-iraq-afghanistan-did-not-damage-us-report/
https://newsline.com/wikileaks-disclosures-on-iraq-afghanistan-did-not-damage-us-report/
WikiLeaks disclosures on Iraq, Afghanistan did not damage US – report
Leaked US military files provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning did not significantly harm national security, according to a recently released Department of Defense secret report published by BuzzFeed.
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, providing access to classified intelligence, military and diplomatic documents, has been making headlines since its creation. The US government was hunting and prosecuting whistleblowers, saying the leaks pose a huge threat to national security. But it turns out that the leaked data, specifically on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was not so sensitive, a secret 107-page document obtained by the BuzzFeed News revealed.
A task force of more than 20 US agencies, including NSA, CIA and FBI, carried out a “line-by-line review” of more than 740,000 records of “known or believed compromised” WikiLeaks data available as for 2011. The document was provided to BuzzFeed under a Freedom of Information Act, in response to a request filed in 2015. However, it was not fully disclosed, with only 35 pages available.
Following the comprehensive analysis, the report concludes that WikiLeaks disclosures on operation in Afghanistan has no “significant strategic impact,” while it is still potentially damaging for “intelligence sources, informants, and the Afghan population” as well as for the US and NATO “collection methods and capabilities.”
The leaks on the war in Iraq “have no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership Iraq,” as the reports references to it are not damaging in any way, according to the Information Review Task Force (IRTF) assessments.
The review also has chapters on leaked Guantanamo records, as well as separate parts on Baghdad and Gerani airstrikes, carried out by the US Air Force during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan correspondingly. The attacks received worldwide coverage and condemnation following the WikiLeaks posting the video of the airstrikes. However, the provided pages of the document do not include any assessment whether those leaked videos were harmful.
READ MORE: ‘A testimony of evil’: How Manning’s ‘Collateral Murder’ revelation changed history
US Army private and whistleblower Chelsea Manning provided 700,000 military documents on Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks in 2010. For leaking classified information Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. She had served seven years behind bars before being pardoned by then-President Barack Obama and released in May.
The IRTF report also mentions another whistleblower and WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, saying “with moderate confidence” that his “insurance file” does not have anything “beyond that which the IRTF has already reviewed.” The task force related to Assange’s password-protected file, purportedly having additional leaks, in case anything happened to him.
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https://sputniknews.com/military/201706211054820664-cheslea-manning-wikileaks-no-threat/
Chelsea Manning’s WikiLeaks Release Didn’t Damage US Interests, Pentagon Admits
The Pentagon’s assessment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s leak of 700,000 classified documents indicates "there is not any significant 'strategic impact' to the release of this information" for military operations in Afghanistan.
The “Final Report” on Manning compiled by the Department of Defense Information Review Task Force was sent to policymakers on June 15, 2011. Thanks to Jason Leopold, a Freedom of Information Act warrior, the documents have been unsealed for public view.
The report does stress that the leak created “risks to intelligence sources, informants, and the Afghan population” and caused “serious damage” to SIGINT, or signals intelligence, collection. SIGINT is gathered via satellites, radars, and communications and weapons systems, according to the NSA’s website.
Likewise, in the Iraqi theater, the DoD’s task force asserted “with high confidence” that the release of information relating to active operations “will have no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership in Iraq."
Manning’s leak of thousands of documents and videos from intelligence databases included the “Collateral Murder” footage, which showed a US helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed civilians and Western journalists.
In January, Manning’s sentence was commuted by outgoing President Barack Obama, and she was released in May. Nevertheless, her leak of to WikiLeaks led to seven years behind bars, in conditions the UN denounced as torturous. Manning originally faced a 35-year sentence and attempted suicide on a number of occasions. READ MORE IN ARTICLE
https://newsline.com/wikileaks-disclosures-on-iraq-afghanistan-did-not-damage-us-report/
WikiLeaks disclosures on Iraq, Afghanistan did not damage US – report
Leaked US military files provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning did not significantly harm national security, according to a recently released Department of Defense secret report published by BuzzFeed.
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, providing access to classified intelligence, military and diplomatic documents, has been making headlines since its creation. The US government was hunting and prosecuting whistleblowers, saying the leaks pose a huge threat to national security. But it turns out that the leaked data, specifically on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was not so sensitive, a secret 107-page document obtained by the BuzzFeed News revealed.
A task force of more than 20 US agencies, including NSA, CIA and FBI, carried out a “line-by-line review” of more than 740,000 records of “known or believed compromised” WikiLeaks data available as for 2011. The document was provided to BuzzFeed under a Freedom of Information Act, in response to a request filed in 2015. However, it was not fully disclosed, with only 35 pages available.
Following the comprehensive analysis, the report concludes that WikiLeaks disclosures on operation in Afghanistan has no “significant strategic impact,” while it is still potentially damaging for “intelligence sources, informants, and the Afghan population” as well as for the US and NATO “collection methods and capabilities.”
The leaks on the war in Iraq “have no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership Iraq,” as the reports references to it are not damaging in any way, according to the Information Review Task Force (IRTF) assessments.
The review also has chapters on leaked Guantanamo records, as well as separate parts on Baghdad and Gerani airstrikes, carried out by the US Air Force during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan correspondingly. The attacks received worldwide coverage and condemnation following the WikiLeaks posting the video of the airstrikes. However, the provided pages of the document do not include any assessment whether those leaked videos were harmful.
READ MORE: ‘A testimony of evil’: How Manning’s ‘Collateral Murder’ revelation changed history
US Army private and whistleblower Chelsea Manning provided 700,000 military documents on Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks in 2010. For leaking classified information Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. She had served seven years behind bars before being pardoned by then-President Barack Obama and released in May.
The IRTF report also mentions another whistleblower and WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, saying “with moderate confidence” that his “insurance file” does not have anything “beyond that which the IRTF has already reviewed.” The task force related to Assange’s password-protected file, purportedly having additional leaks, in case anything happened to him.
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https://sputniknews.com/military/201706211054820664-cheslea-manning-wikileaks-no-threat/
Chelsea Manning’s WikiLeaks Release Didn’t Damage US Interests, Pentagon Admits
The Pentagon’s assessment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s leak of 700,000 classified documents indicates "there is not any significant 'strategic impact' to the release of this information" for military operations in Afghanistan.
The “Final Report” on Manning compiled by the Department of Defense Information Review Task Force was sent to policymakers on June 15, 2011. Thanks to Jason Leopold, a Freedom of Information Act warrior, the documents have been unsealed for public view.
The report does stress that the leak created “risks to intelligence sources, informants, and the Afghan population” and caused “serious damage” to SIGINT, or signals intelligence, collection. SIGINT is gathered via satellites, radars, and communications and weapons systems, according to the NSA’s website.
Likewise, in the Iraqi theater, the DoD’s task force asserted “with high confidence” that the release of information relating to active operations “will have no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership in Iraq."
Manning’s leak of thousands of documents and videos from intelligence databases included the “Collateral Murder” footage, which showed a US helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed civilians and Western journalists.
In January, Manning’s sentence was commuted by outgoing President Barack Obama, and she was released in May. Nevertheless, her leak of to WikiLeaks led to seven years behind bars, in conditions the UN denounced as torturous. Manning originally faced a 35-year sentence and attempted suicide on a number of occasions. READ MORE IN ARTICLE
https://newsline.com/wikileaks-disclosures-on-iraq-afghanistan-did-not-damage-us-report/
http://lawnewz.com/opinion/shocking-federal-prosecutors-apparently-lied-about-wikileaks-and-chelsea-manning/
http://lawnewz.com/opinion/shocking-federal-prosecutors-apparently-lied-about-wikileaks-and-chelsea-manning/
Shocking! Federal Prosecutors Apparently Lied About Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning
http://lawnewz.com/opinion/shocking-federal-prosecutors-apparently-lied-about-wikileaks-and-chelsea-manning/
Shocking! Federal Prosecutors Apparently Lied About Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning
http://lawnewz.com/opinion/shocking-federal-prosecutors-apparently-lied-about-wikileaks-and-chelsea-manning/
#Vault7: CIA’s secret cyberweapon can infiltrate world’s most secure networks
Brutal Kangaroo, a tool suite for Microsoft Windows, targets closed air gapped networks by using thumb drives, according to WikiLeaks.
https://www.rt.com/viral/393556-vault7-cia-brutal-kangaroo/
#Vault7: CIA’s secret cyberweapon can infiltrate world’s most secure networks
Published time: 22 Jun, 2017
WikiLeaks’ latest release in its Vault7 series details how the CIA’s alleged ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ program is being used to penetrate the most secure networks in the world.
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SEE WIKILEAKS LINK
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Brutal Kangaroo
Air gapping is a security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks.
https://www.rt.com/viral/393556-vault7-cia-brutal-kangaroo/
WikiLeaks-publishes-information-about-CIA?s-covert-program-?Brutal-Kangaroo?
Brutal Kangaroo' programme, which allows it to remotely and covertly gain access to closed computer networks or a single air-gapped device.
http://www.dnaindia.com/technology/report-wikileaks-publishes-information-about-cias-covert-program-brutal-kangaroo-2480627
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwejmSTaPok
London's The Times hit piece on Julian Assange & Vault7 Brutal Kangaroo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cqDPYUxn9E
WIKILEAKS JUST RELEASED VAULT 7 BRUTAL KANGAROO: CIA USB Malware
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/22/wikileaks-reveals-cia-stuxnet-style-attack-on-microsoft-windows-to-jump-air-gap-with-thumb-drive/#7b8e2b185e67
Wikileaks: CIA Stuxnet-Like Attacks Hacked Unconnected PCs Via USB
https://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/3012496/wikileaks-dumps-info-on-brutal-kangeroo-the-cias-malware-toolkit-for-hacking-air-gapped-networks
Wikileaks dumps info on 'Brutal Kangeroo', the CIA's malware toolkit for hacking 'air-gapped' networks
CIA's Brutal Kangeroo malware suite likened to Stuxnet
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/wikileaks-publishes-information-about-cia-s-covert-program-brutal-kangaroo-117062200933_1.html
WikiLeaks publishes information about CIA's covert program 'Brutal Kangaroo'
http://www.trunews.com/article/wikileaks-cia-brutal-kangaroo-weapon-similar-to-stuxnet
WikiLeaks: CIA “Brutal Kangaroo” Weapon Similar to Stuxnet
https://sputniknews.com/us/201706221054875614-wikileaks-cia-brutal-kangaroo-project/
WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Tools Targeting Air-Gapped Devices, Closed Networks
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/06/22/news/wikileaks_rivela_brutal_kangaroo_il_malware_per_compromettere_le_reti_piu_protette_al_mondo-168791257/
Wikileaks rivela Brutal Kangaroo: il malware Cia per compromettere le reti più protette al mondo
http://www.dnaindia.com/technology/report-wikileaks-publishes-information-about-cias-covert-program-brutal-kangaroo-2480627
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
New Vault 7 Leak Targets Your Internet Router - Liberty Nation
NEW VAULT 7 LEAK TARGETS YOUR INTERNET ROUTER
http://libertynation.com/new-vault-7-leak-targets-internet-router/
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Vault 7: WikiLeaks dumps reveal CIA's use of home router exploits
http://libertynation.com/new-vault-7-leak-targets-internet-router/
Apple Mac users are being warned of a new ransomware and spyware program
Apple Mac users are being warned of a new ransomware and spyware program
These malware programs have been put up to access for free.
http://www.bgr.in/news/apple-mac-users-are-being-warned-of-a-new-ransomware-and-spyware-program/
These malware programs have been put up to access for free.
http://www.bgr.in/news/apple-mac-users-are-being-warned-of-a-new-ransomware-and-spyware-program/
WikiLeaks reveals list of home Wi-Fi routers that may be vulnerable to CIA hacking tools
WikiLeaks reveals list of home Wi-Fi routers that may be vulnerable to CIA hacking tools
Is your home Wi-Fi router on the list?
http://www.bgr.in/news/wikileaks-reveals-list-of-home-wi-fi-routers-that-may-be-vulnerable-to-cia-hacking-tools/
http://www.bgr.in/news/wikileaks-reveals-list-of-home-wi-fi-routers-that-may-be-vulnerable-to-cia-hacking-tools/
WikiLeaks: CIA Spying on Home Wi-Fi Routers
WikiLeaks: CIA Spying on Home Wi-Fi Routers
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wikileaks-CIA-spying-home/2017/06/19/id/796877/
Home Wi-Fi routers made by Linksys, DLink, Belkin and other top tech firms have been used by the CIA to monitor the flow of internet traffic, documents revealed by WikiLeaks show.
The infected routers spy on the internet-connected devices' activities without the user knowing, turning them into "covert listening points," the Daily Mail reports.
A 175-page CIA user manual for setting up the spying activity dubbed "Cherry Blossom," reads in part:
"The Cherry Blossom (CB) system provides a means of monitoring the internet activity of and performing software exploits on targets of interest. In particular, CB is focused on compromising wireless networking devices, such as wireless (802.11) routers and access points (APs), to achieve these goals.
It also explains how a maneuver called "tomato'' can steal the routers' passwords if a default feature known as a universal plug and play is left on.
The manual, according to the Daily Mail, is about 10-years-old.
ALSO SEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WoRsBsyIc
Wikileaks releases CherryBlossom #wikileaks #Vault7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4q1OtrLYDI
John McAfee On WikiLeaks Dump: CIA Operation "Cherry Blossom" Hacking Residential Routers
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wikileaks-CIA-spying-home/2017/06/19/id/796877/
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wikileaks-CIA-spying-home/2017/06/19/id/796877/
Home Wi-Fi routers made by Linksys, DLink, Belkin and other top tech firms have been used by the CIA to monitor the flow of internet traffic, documents revealed by WikiLeaks show.
The infected routers spy on the internet-connected devices' activities without the user knowing, turning them into "covert listening points," the Daily Mail reports.
A 175-page CIA user manual for setting up the spying activity dubbed "Cherry Blossom," reads in part:
"The Cherry Blossom (CB) system provides a means of monitoring the internet activity of and performing software exploits on targets of interest. In particular, CB is focused on compromising wireless networking devices, such as wireless (802.11) routers and access points (APs), to achieve these goals.
It also explains how a maneuver called "tomato'' can steal the routers' passwords if a default feature known as a universal plug and play is left on.
The manual, according to the Daily Mail, is about 10-years-old.
ALSO SEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WoRsBsyIc
Wikileaks releases CherryBlossom #wikileaks #Vault7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4q1OtrLYDI
John McAfee On WikiLeaks Dump: CIA Operation "Cherry Blossom" Hacking Residential Routers
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wikileaks-CIA-spying-home/2017/06/19/id/796877/
How WikiLeaks Has Survived While Julian Assange Has Been Holed Up in London
How WikiLeaks Has Survived While Julian Assange Has Been Holed Up in London
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http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2017/06/18/julian-assange-hopes-case-can-be-resolved-as-embassy-stay-nears/
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706191054769442-wikileaks-survival-julian-assange/
ALSO SEE
http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2017/06/18/julian-assange-hopes-case-can-be-resolved-as-embassy-stay-nears/
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706191054769442-wikileaks-survival-julian-assange/
New 'Vault 7' WikiLeaks doc reveals how the CIA can hack into your Wi-Fi router The document also implies that the...
New 'Vault 7' WikiLeaks doc reveals how the CIA can hack into your Wi-Fi router The document also implies that the CIA may have been using the program to spy on people for years without anyone ever knowing it
WikiLeaks, the non-profit organization that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media, has recently been unloading a good number of top-secret documents in its ongoing “#Vault 7” series. The latest one, which was published Thursday, reveals a new tool that the #CIA has allegedly used to hack into people's routers and essentially turn them into spy tools that can track all incoming and outgoing traffic.
A powerful hacking tool
International Business Times wrote how the CIA program, called “CherryBlossom,” was outlined in the recently leaked document, which also detailed just how powerful and potentially dangerous it could be in the wrong hands.
The program itself actually replaces a router’s built-in software and then injects a reprogrammed firmware version built by the CIA called the “FlyTrap.” The document also specifically mentioned that physical access to the router isn’t necessary and that the program can be injected remotely.
Potential applications
After injecting the CIA-modified firmware, users of the program can then track and monitor all of the activities within the target’s local network. All incoming and outgoing Internet traffic can also be intercepted. Additionally, the firmware may also be used to inject different malicious codes into the target’s computers that are connected to the router.
This includes the injection of keylogging software to track keystrokes and collect passwords. A control software may also be injected, which will allow the user to take over a target computer’s camera and microphone.
This basically allows the program’s users to fully take over a target’s computer and remotely execute different commands and intercept any data from it
READ MORE IN ARTICLE
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ALSO SEE
http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/06/new-vault-7-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-the-cia-can-hack-into-your-wi-fi-router-001781225.html
WikiLeaks, the non-profit organization that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media, has recently been unloading a good number of top-secret documents in its ongoing “#Vault 7” series. The latest one, which was published Thursday, reveals a new tool that the #CIA has allegedly used to hack into people's routers and essentially turn them into spy tools that can track all incoming and outgoing traffic.
A powerful hacking tool
International Business Times wrote how the CIA program, called “CherryBlossom,” was outlined in the recently leaked document, which also detailed just how powerful and potentially dangerous it could be in the wrong hands.
The program itself actually replaces a router’s built-in software and then injects a reprogrammed firmware version built by the CIA called the “FlyTrap.” The document also specifically mentioned that physical access to the router isn’t necessary and that the program can be injected remotely.
Potential applications
After injecting the CIA-modified firmware, users of the program can then track and monitor all of the activities within the target’s local network. All incoming and outgoing Internet traffic can also be intercepted. Additionally, the firmware may also be used to inject different malicious codes into the target’s computers that are connected to the router.
This includes the injection of keylogging software to track keystrokes and collect passwords. A control software may also be injected, which will allow the user to take over a target computer’s camera and microphone.
This basically allows the program’s users to fully take over a target’s computer and remotely execute different commands and intercept any data from it
READ MORE IN ARTICLE
=========================================================
ALSO SEE
http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/06/new-vault-7-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-the-cia-can-hack-into-your-wi-fi-router-001781225.html
Monday, June 19, 2017
MR TRUMP, IF YOU MONITOR THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE, ...PLEASE DO PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN
Originally shared by Government GangStalking and Electronic Harassment
MR TRUMP, IF YOU MONITOR THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE, ...PLEASE DO PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN
Will Trump Pardon Assange/Snowden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS2TXJ5N8eQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS2TXJ5N8eQ
MR TRUMP, IF YOU MONITOR THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE, ...PLEASE DO PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN
Will Trump Pardon Assange/Snowden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS2TXJ5N8eQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS2TXJ5N8eQ
YOU GO ASSANGE...!!
YOU GO ASSANGE...!!
ASSANGE APPROVES OF TRUMP'S EXIT FROM THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xdTQ0EBFU
ALSO SEE MY PREVIOUS DETAILED POST STATING THE SAME AND URGING VIEWERS TO SUPPORT TRUMP'S DECISION TO EXIT THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/38UbMMFBNra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xdTQ0EBFU
ASSANGE APPROVES OF TRUMP'S EXIT FROM THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xdTQ0EBFU
ALSO SEE MY PREVIOUS DETAILED POST STATING THE SAME AND URGING VIEWERS TO SUPPORT TRUMP'S DECISION TO EXIT THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/38UbMMFBNra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xdTQ0EBFU
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