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Thursday, March 03, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

WikiLeaks Soldier Left Naked in Cell, Lawyer Says A lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks, has complained that his client was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

DreamWorks lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book. Steven Spielberg looks set to oversee WikiLeaks: the Movie after securing the screen rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.

Thursday, February 24, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

US 'frustratingly slow' on Wikileaks (Australia). Australian officials say they were frustrated by how long it took the United States to brief them on the contents of diplomatic cables leaked to the WikiLeaks website.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Gaddafi family values As Libya spiraled further out of control today, WikiLeaks posted two new cables from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli detailing the family squabbles of strongman Muammar al-Gaddafi's family. Both are from March 2009, and both are signed by U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz, the United States' first ambassador in Libya since 1972, who lost his job last month following the release of the infamous "voluptuous blonde" cable (and/or other more serious dispatches) he had signed.

Thursday, February 17, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

WikiLeaks, free speech and Twitter come together in Va. court case Court documents reveal that the government has asked for personal Twitter information from Assange; Bradley Manning, the Army private who is suspected of supplying classified material to the Web site; Birgitta Jonsdottir, a former WikiLeaks activist who is also a member of Iceland's Parliament; and two computer programmers, Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch citizen, and Jacob Appelbaum, an American.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

WikiLeaks row intensifies as US makes 'privacy' move against Twitter Civil rights lawyers fight order to reveal Twitter accounts linked to WikiLeaks -- on the same day Hillary Clinton praises role of social networks in promoting freedom.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Cables show no evidence of Iran's hand in Bahrain unrest US sources dismissive of Bahraini allegation, and as early as 2008 noted tensions between its Shia majority and Sunni rulers

Alan Dershowitz Joins Team Wikileaks Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz has been brought on to help advise Assange's lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson QC, on the intricacies of the American legal system.

Monday, February 14, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

NATO unimpressed by Russia's military Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables claim NATO is not impressed by Russia's military capabilities because its forces rely on aging equipment, lack strategic transport and suffer from manpower shortages.

Peru newspaper receives 4,000 pages of U.S. embassy cables from Wikileaks The material consists of communications between the U.S. government and the U.S. embassy in Lima between 2006 and 2010. It reportedly contains information about the political and economic situations as well as the fight against drug trafficking.

Egyptian military head is 'old and resistant to change' US ambassador to Cairo gives his opinion on Muhammad Tantawi and number two general, Sami Enan.

Sunday, February 13, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Banned UK reporter Luke Harding back in Moscow A British journalist barred from Russia last week after reporting on Wikileaks cables containing criticism of Russia's leadership has been allowed to return.

Saturday, February 12, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Martin Varsavsky: Assange Is Not the Point, WikiLeaks Is It is becoming common for people to say they don't like WikiLeaks because they can't stand Assange. This is misleading. Few sympathize with Assange as a character. Most of us, myself included, have never met with him. But the issue here is not Assange, his hair or whether he does, or does not have, the ability to have sex with women while they are asleep. What is crucial instead, is the wealth of information that we have learned thanks to WikiLeaks.

A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available online, suggesting various ways companies can help undermine the whistle-blowing website as it prepares to release material that could prove damaging to Bank of America and other financial entities.

Palestinian negotiator Erakat quits due to leaks Erakat told AFP he was stepping down because of his responsibility for the disclosure of confidential documents on Al-Jazeera, shortly after his resignation was announced by senior PLO Yasser Abed Rabbo.

Friday, February 11, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

US diplomat calls African dictator a good guy A U.S. diplomat called Equatorial Guinea's dictator of 31 years one of "the good guys" in leaked diplomatic cables urging Washington to engage with its third largest oil supplier or risk endangering energy security.

Thursday, February 10, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Firm targeting WikiLeaks cuts ties with HBGary - apologizes to reporter Dr. Alex Karp, the Co-Founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, one of three data intelligence firms who worked to develop a systematic plan of attack against WikiLeaks and their supporters, has severed all ties with HBGary Federal and issued an apology to reporter Glenn Greenwald.

US not out to get Assange, ambassador says Jeffrey Bleich told a business dinner in Melbourne last night that the US bears full responsibility for the security breach, but he also argued some information was best kept confidential, and the actions of WikiLeaks was derailing diplomacy.

WikiLeaks Defector Defends Site's Crippling Introducing his new book Inside WikiLeaks, being released simultaneously today in 14 countries, WikiLeaks' most prominent defector confirmed that he and other disaffected volunteers had taken the site's software-based secure submission platform when they left the project, leaving the site technically unable to receive new material. The software was the intellectual property of one of the departing volunteers, he said.

WikiLeaks cables assess Cuba's recession survival As an economic crisis began gripping Cuba in early 2009, U.S. diplomats in Havana reported the island was better equipped to withstand the blow than when its Soviet subsidies collapsed in 1989.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Hosni Mubarak told US not to topple Saddam Hussein Hosni Mubarak told Dick Cheney, the former US vice-president, "three or four times" not to depose Saddam Hussein, according to leaked cables.

3 in WikiLeaks case fight Twitter disclosure order Three people associated with the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks are asking a federal judge in Alexandria not to force the social-networking site Twitter to turn over data about whom they communicate with online.

WikiLeaks May Have Just Confirmed That Peak Oil is Imminent. It's getting more and more difficult to deny that an oil supply crunch is just a few years down the road, especially now that WikiLeaks has released cables revealing that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves have been exaggerated by as much as 40%, or 300 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter.

Govts fear WikiLeaks truths, rally told. Attacks on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are looking more and more like "shoot the messenger" responses by governments who do not believe in the principles of an open society, a rally in Brisbane has been told.

Tuesday, February 08, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show.

WikiLeaks Cables on Egypt During a 2009 visit from Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak offered an analysis of Iraq that reflected both his fear of Iran and his doubts about democracy, according to a previously unpublished cable.

WikiLeaks reveals anti-counterfeiting back channel talks. Details of the complicated secret negotiations over the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) have emerged from the diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks and posted on the Internet.

Greg Mitchell Explains Why The Mainstream Press Is So Threatened By WikiLeaks So their role as gatekeeper is extremely threatened by this. WikiLeaks was able to go from different paper to different paper and release documents, so even small papers in Norway or Lebanon or wherever are breaking stories because WikiLeaks can send cables to them that are extremely relevant or blockbuster, which these news outlets can then use, and it totally is not controlled by the major mainstream outlets.

Monday, February 07, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man tipped to replace Mubarak The new vice-president of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, is a long-standing favourite of Israel's who spoke daily to the Tel Aviv government via a secret "hotline" to Cairo, leaked documents disclose.

US sceptical of Egypt VP's peace efforts The ability of Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, to act as an honest broker in Middle Eastern peace talks has been questioned, with the release of more WikiLeaks cables.

Saturday, February 05, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Rape case against the WikiLeaks chief 'weak' Details in a police file of the rape case against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, reveal a series of apparent contradictions and inconsistencies in the evidence against him.

Clues to a failed US policy (Bangkok Post) No wonder, as the WikiLeaks cables show, the US government has been carefully watching the succession issue in Egypt for many years now.

Friday, February 04, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Assange's Swedish sex crimes file is leaked online. Leaked Swedish police documents on the Julian Assange sex cases raise key questions for both sides about the allegations.

US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain's nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Assange makes Facebook fundraising plea Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have set up a Facebook page asking for donations to his legal defense fund.

Thursday, February 03, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

MI6 warns of new suicide bomb wave MI6 has warned that Britain faces a "unique" threat from a generation of home-grown terrorists who are not on the intelligence services' "radar", secret documents have disclosed.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Snorre Valen: Why I have nominated Wikileaks for the Nobel Peace Prize It is always easier to support freedom of speech when the one who speaks agree with you politically. This is one of the "tests" on liberal and democratic values that governments tend to fail.

Saturday, January 29, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Wikileaks Cables Shed Light on Egypt's New VP Three cables from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to the State Department, published by Wikileaks, shed some light on Egypt's new Vice President Omar Suleiman.

Thursday, January 27, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

F.B.I. Warrants Into Hacking by WikiLeaks Supporters The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had executed more than 40 search warrants in the United States on Thursday as part of an investigation into an international group of computer hackers who attacked corporate Web sites last year in a show of support for WikiLeaks.

FBI issues Bay Area search warrants in probe of WikiLeaks reprisals The Chronicle spoke to one Bay Area man who claims that federal agents showed up at his home at 6:00 a.m., searched his home and left with all of his computers.

The Background Story Of The NY Times' Relationship With Julian Assange Keller's final suggestion that Wikileaks' impact has been "overblown" is belied somewhat by the fact that Keller just spilled so much ink on the background of the paper's association (and subsequent blacklisting) with the organization. There are other points that could be nitpicked, but it's not surprising that Keller seeks to position the NY Times in the best possible light, and perhaps minimize the contributions of Wikileaks itself.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

NYT Pondering WikiLeaks-Esque Submission System. pcmag.com

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

WikiLeaks Cables Help Uncover What Made Tunisians Revolt A set of 10 diplomatic cables released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks offers some insight into the recent upheaval in Tunisia and starts to answer the question of why so many Tunisians took to the streets to topple their leader.

WikiLeaks seeks more media partners WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organizations from around the world in a bid to help speed the publication of its massive trove of secret U.S. diplomatic memos, the site's founder said Tuesday.

Juan Cole: US Case Against Wikileaks' Julian Assange Collapses The US government, according to NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, now admits that it cannot tie Pfc. Bradley Manning to Wikileaks leader Julian Assange.

Monday, January 24, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

News Desk: A WikiLeaks Arms Race? Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit -- he network's in-house version of WikiLeaks. When the unit first went online, there was not much coverage about it in English, but that changed over the weekend when Al Jazeera announced that it had gained access to a large tranche of confidential documents, now being called the "Palestine Papers."

Friday, January 21, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Facebook Fights U.S. Pressure Over WikiLeaks Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told InfoWorld that the social network is "required to regularly push back against over-broad requests for user records. ... in most cases we are able to convince the party issuing legal process to withdraw the overbroad request, but if they do not we fight the matter in court" and have a history of success in those cases.

Assange biopic in works Josephson Entertainment and Michelle Krumm Prods. have jointly optioned feature rights to Australian reporter Andrew Fowler's upcoming biography "The Most Dangerous Man in the World."

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Rackspace CEO On The Future Of Cloud, WikiLeaks Mr. Napier addresses the issue of security in the cloud -- but not the normal worry about protecting your data from hackers, but rather the fear, as Amazon's treatment of Wikileaks demonstrated, that putting your data onto a cloud provider's service means you no longer control your own data.

Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks To say that the Obama administration's campaign against WikiLeaks has been based on wildly exaggerated and even false claims is to understate the case.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

US officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited "We were told (the impact of WikiLeaks revelations) was embarrassing but not damaging," said the official, who attended a briefing given in late 2010 by State Department officials.

Wikileaks To Shame Cheating 'Pillars of Society' The former banker, Rudolf Elmer, was once head of the Cayman Islands office of Swiss bank Julius Baer and says he grew disgruntled at how it and other banks laundered money for the rich, including around 40 "pillars of society" and politicians. He said he went publicly to Wikileaks with the data because "his offers to provide the data to universities and governments were spurned and, in his opinion, the Swiss media failed to cover the substance of his allegations," writes the New York Times.

Sunday, January 16, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

'Pained' Libyan Dictator Blames Wikileaks for Tunisia Uprising As chaos reigns in neighboring Tunisia, Libya's "Brother Leader" Muammar Qaddafi went on television to say he is "very pained" to see another strongman fall. He's probably also upset over reports of riots breaking out in Libya.

Saturday, January 15, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Tunisia: That 'WikiLeaks Revolution' meme The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia is being driven by flesh and blood and conditions on the ground, not because WikiLeaks 'revealed' to Tunisians the real face of a government they'd lived with their whole lives.

Nepal feared US 'tactics' could turn it into Burma: Wikileaks US tactics pressing Nepal's last king to take "right steps" on multi-party democracy could turn the country into another Burma, Nepal's foreign minister felt at the height of civil war

Indian journalist defends WikiLeaks at British parliament "It matters little to me whether my exposes embarrass Washington, London or New Delhi, as long as I am dealing with the truth."

Friday, January 14, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Iceland asked for $1 billion bailout from US Documents released by WikiLeaks reveal that cash-hungry Iceland asked for a $1 billion loan from the United States in 2008 to stop its economic collapse.

U.S. Treasury: We Can't Blacklist WikiLeak King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, asked the U.S. Treasury Department to add WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange to its economic blacklist, or sanctions list. Doing so would have given WikiLeaks the same designation as terrorist groups.

Tunisia's President Flees After Riots Fanned by WikiLeaks Tunisia's president has stepped down, fleeing the country he ruled for 23 years after a citizens' revolt fanned by WikiLeaks disclosures about his regime's corruption and economic mismanagement.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was hooked to computer as a boy New details of the WikiLeaks founder's early life have emerged with the release to The Weekend Australian yesterday of never-before-seen court documents from Mr Assange's 1996 sentencing for 24 computer-hacking-related offences.

Thursday, January 13, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Bradley Manning, Held in WikiLeaks Case, Gains Backers The young soldier accused of leaking the secret documents that brought WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange to fame and notoriety is locked in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia. The soldier, Pfc. Bradley Manning, who turned 23 last month in the military prison, is accused of the biggest leak of classified documents in American history. He awaits trial on charges that could put him in prison for 52 years, according to the Army.

The truth hurts: Wikileaks stains Clinton reputation Hypocritical Hillary has a bead on this "stealing of secrets" game. Let's see if I have it straight: It's commendable to commit a crime but condemnable to report it? After all, such hijacked personal information couldn't possibly be used for nefarious purposes, could it?

Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.

Customs' Hamfisted Attempts To Intimidate Wikileaks Volunteers Computer security expert (and US citizen) Jacob Appelbaum, who is well known for his work on Tor, had been having some issues lately concerning his involvement as a volunteer with Wikileaks.

Wikileaks Founder: Our Enemy is China Wikileaks may have targeted the US with its ongoing releases of sensitive State Department documents, but China is its real "technological enemy," according to founder Julian Assange.

Treasury Urged To Take Action Against WikiLeaks "The U.S. government simply cannot continue its ineffective piecemeal approach of responding in the aftermath of WikiLeaks' damage," King wrote. "The administration must act to disrupt the WikiLeaks enterprise. The U.S. government should be making every effort to strangle the viability of Assange's organization."

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Has 'Insurance Files' On Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. "If something happens to me or to WikiLeaks, 'insurance' files will be released," Assange told Pilger. He said that the contents of the files "speak more of the same truth to power...there are 504 US embassy cables on one broadcasting organisation and there are cables on Murdoch and News Corp."

Wikileaks Twitter dispute reaches European Parliament An influential group of European politicians is protesting the US government's attempt to pry Wikileaks-related information out of Twitter, saying that EU privacy rules may have been violated.

Netanyahu: WikiLeaks showed three top issues in Mideast are Iran, Iran, Iran Netanyahu told foreign journalists Tuesday that the American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that Iran and its nuclear program were the primary concern for leaders in the Middle East.

Sweden 'buying US time' in Assange case Attorney Mark Stephens told German newspaper Die Zeit that he believed Swedish officials were cooperating with US authorities with an eye to extraditing Assange as soon as the Americans have built a criminal case against him.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

How low can Wikileaks go? Julian Assange's sick attempt to exploit the Arizona shootings In a press release late last night, Wikileaks made a sick attempt to link in the public mind the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to widespread outrage in America over its recent leaking of hundreds of thousands of US government documents.

Lawyers for WikiLeaks' Assange outline defense for extradition hearing in London WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could eventually face a term in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay or even execution by U.S. authorities if he is extradited to Sweden, his attorneys said Tuesday, while Assange vowed after a brief court hearing to continue his work "unabated."

The Press Association: Crowds turn out for WikiLeaks circus The large courtroom has previously been occupied by the airline bomb plotters, Securitas robbers and London Glasgow bomber. Predictions that the relatively isolated court would lead to a smaller media turn-out proved wrong. The event has been a sell-out, with all 100 tickets for seats in the courtroom and media annexe taken.

WikiLeaks Founder Said to Fear 'Illegal Rendition' to U.S. Lawyers acting for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, said on Tuesday they would argue against a demand for his extradition to Sweden on the grounds that he might subsequently face "illegal rendition" to the United States, risking imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, or even the death penalty.

Wikileaks may close down - Assange "We are losing up to 500,000 euro each week," said Assange,

WikiLeaks causes Singapore Officials to be Cautious with U.S Diplomats Last month, there were several released documents from WikiLeaks, which showed Singapore Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew and other Singapore diplomats giving unflattering remarks on countries including Myanmar, North Korea, Malaysia and India.

WikiLeaks' Assange appears in court over extradition case Assange is currently required by the courts to stay at the mansion of a supporter outside of London every night. He'll be allowed to stay at the Frontline Club, a journalists' club in central London, on February 6 and 7 if the people who put up bail for him agree.

Monday, January 10, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard Twitter and other companies, notably Google, have a policy of notifying a user before responding to a subpoena, or a similar request for records. That gives the user a fair chance to go to court and try and quash the subpoena.

Ambassador Speaks of Gazprom's Woes in WikiLeaks Leaked diplomatic cables from U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Beyrle portray the company as a confused and corrupt behemoth still behaving like its predecessor, the Soviet Ministry of Gas.

U.S. Twitter Subpoena on WikiLeaks Is `Harassment,' Lawyer Says U.S. prosecutors' demand that the microblogging service Twitter Inc. hand over data about users with ties to WikiLeaks amounts to harassment, said a lawyer for Julian Assange, the website's founder.

Swiss banker who used WikiLeaks faces trial Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, has been ordered to appear before a Zurich regional court Jan 19 to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws. If convicted he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison and a fine.

Wikileaks cables: Israel exposed through Norwegian newspaper A June 2006 diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks last Thursday by the Aftenposten daily newspaper in Norway said that American companies told U.S. officials that large bribes were demanded in order to get goods into the blockaded Gaza Strip at an important cargo crossing.

U.S. attempted to leverage Twitter in war on WikiLeaks Twitter has been caught in the crossfire as the U.S. government moves forward with their investigation into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. However, Twitter fought back, and as a result the world can follow along as the U.S. Department of Justice goes fishing.

'Anonymous' hackers deface Fine Gael website A new website set up by Ireland's leading opposition party has been targeted by hackers linked to the whistle blowing website WikiLeaks.

Sunday, January 09, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Facebook and Google under pressure over WikiLeaks Pressure was growing for Facebook and Google to state whether they have been asked to submit data on prominent figures linked to WikiLeaks, as fresh signs emerged that a secret jury investigation will lead to an attempt to lay criminal charges against the whistleblowing website's founder.

In Persian Gulf, Clinton says damage from WikiLeaks deep Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Middle East for meetings with Persian Gulf leaders, acknowledged Sunday that it would take years to undo the damage caused by the WikiLeaks revelations, likening her recent travels to an extended "apology tour" to reassure allies who suffered embarrassment or worse because of the disclosures.

U.S. team helping sources exposed by Wikileaks The U.S. State Department said on Friday that it has set up a team to help the sources in the U.S. diplomat cables exposed by Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website.

In WikiLeaks fight, U.S. journalists take the Fifth "Bob Woodward has probably become one of the richest journalists in history by publishing classified documents in book after book. And yet no one would suggest that Bob Woodward be prosecuted because Woodward is accepted in the halls of Washington," said Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer and media critic who writes for the online journal Salon.com. "There is no way of prosecuting Julian Assange without harming investigative journalism."

The Associated Press: Probe examines possible link to anti-gov't group The anti-government organization American Renaissance is connected to the white supremacist New Century Foundation, according to an analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based group that tracks hate crimes.

US subpoenas Twitter, seeking information on WikiLeaks' 635,561 followers The subpoena requests all records and other information relating to Twitter accounts associated with WikiLeaks and a few of its current and former supporters, "including non-content information associated with the contents of any communication or file stored by or for the account(s)."

Protesters march for Wikileaks founder Assange (Santa Cruz, CA) Hoping to publicize their disdain for the prosecution of the two men responsible for the disclosure of U.S. classified information, protest organizer Steven Argue of Santa Cruz and the Coalition to Free Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, distributed 3,000 fliers and gathered for the second time in two weeks.

AP: Iceland summons US envoy over WikiLeaks probe "(It is) very serious that a foreign state, the United States, demands such personal information of an Icelandic person, an elected official," Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson told Icelandic broadcaster RUV.

Saturday, January 08, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

DOJ subpoeans Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009 through the present.

Friday, January 07, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Streit um Internet-Nutzung: Komfort schlagt Freiheit Zorn und Krach zwischen Netz-Veteranen: Ur-Blogger Dave Winer wirft den Meinungsfuhrern im Silicon Valley Verrat am offenen Web vor.

Wednesday, January 05, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

zunguzungu: Wikileaks in Zimbabwe, and in the Media The argument that (A) because the cable hurts Tsvangirai and helps Mugabe, (B) Wikileaks is therefore bad for democracy, and therefore (C) bad for Zimbabweans, is a set of propositions linked together by a lot of un-argued claims.

WikiLeaks Document Reportedly Shows Israel Wants Gaza to Function at 'Lowest Level' A leaked WikiLeaks cable allegedly shows Israel telling U.S. officials that it wanted Gaza's economy "functioning at the lowest level possible" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to Reuters.

Tuesday, January 04, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Obama Should Read WikiLeaks Docs Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can better understand the futility of his Afghan War strategy.

Monday, January 03, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Mary Bottari: Full Catastrophe Banking in 2011 With a $4.7 trillion bailout under their belts and no harm done to their billion-dollar bonuses, don't expect Wall Street bankers to be chastened by the 2008 financial crisis. Below we list eight things to watch out for in 2011 that threaten to rock the financial system and undermine any recovery.

Sunday, January 02, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

In Boeing-Airbus Rivalry, Hidden Hand of Government To a greater degree than previously known, diplomats are a big part of the sales force, according to hundreds of cables released by WikiLeaks, which describe politicking and cajoling at the highest levels.

Reining in freedom on the Web Facebook can sometimes be arbitrary. Sensitive pages - such as those created by a support group for Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of having passed military secrets on the war in Iraq to WikiLeaks - occasionally are suspended, then reinstated a few days later, without any explanation.

AFP: US attorney general lax on WikiLeaks: Republican Republican Representative Darrell Issa, who takes over as the chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform committee, said that "the world is laughing at this paper tiger we've become."

Saturday, January 01, 2011 Link to this date in the archive.

Report: FBI seizes server in probe of WikiLeaks attacks The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks launched in December against PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and others, according to a report.

Friday, December 31, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

America's Tiananmen and BOTY 2010 Let's tell the people who take us to war and destroy countries and kill hundreds of thousands, for profit -- no more secrets. We're not just going to suspect you're doing it, we're going to know. And maybe, if they know we'll know, they won't do it.

CBS: How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010 Thanks to founder Julian Assange's legal situation in Sweden (and potentially the United States) as well as his media grandstanding, it is easy to forget how important and interesting some of WikiLeaks' revelations have been.

Thursday, December 30, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

NPR Apologizes for WikiLeaks Mistake Thanks to one persistent listener, NPR published a correction admitting that it has mistakenly -- and more than once -- inflated the number of State Department diplomatic cables released recently by WikiLeaks.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Floyd Abrams whizzes on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Abrams seems suffocated by a narrow idea of what constitutes an act of journalism, criticizing Assange because WikiLeaks "offers no articles of its own, no context of any of the materials it discloses, and no analysis of them other than assertions in press releases or their equivalent."

Al Akhbar, a Lebanese Paper, Aims at Provoking Readers Earlier this month Al Akhbar became the only Arab newspaper to obtain its own substantial batch of WikiLeaks cables and gleefully cataloged various embarrassments to the region's kings, princes and politicians. Soon afterward, the paper's popular Web site came under a cyberattack that became a story in its own right, and provided more free publicity.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Wired: Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs This is a two-part article, in which Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond separately to criticisms of the site's Wikileaks coverage.

US govt a big user of Amazon web services I think it's fairly obvious why Amazon cut them off. It's the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

Glenn Greenwald: The merger of journalists and government officials What an astounding feat to train a nation's journalist class to despise above all else those who shine a light on what the most powerful factions do in the dark and who expose their corruption and deceit, and to have journalists -- of all people -- lead the way in calling for the head of anyone who exposes the secrets of the powerful.

Monday, December 27, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Glenn Greenwald: The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.

Sunday, December 26, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Guatemala captures 22 drug traffickers in sweep | Reuters Guatemala captured nearly two dozen suspected drug traffickers, automatic weapons and small planes in a country-wide sweep to crack down on Mexican cartels smuggling drugs through Central America.

Saturday, December 25, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

NYT editorial: Banks and WikiLeaks The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down.

Zeynep Tufekci: Wikileaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy During these past weeks I saw the crumbling of the facade of a flat, equal, open Internet and the revelation of an Internet which has corporate power occupying its key crossroads, ever-so-sensitive to any whiff of displeasure by the state. I saw an Internet in danger of becoming merely an interactive version of the television in terms of effective freedom of speech.

Friday, December 24, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Steve Jobs kicks WikiLeaks out of the iTunes App Store [Video Animation] After returning to the App Store, Jobs is greeted merrily by a contingent of companies who have had their run-ins with WikiLeaks, including Visa, PayPal, Amazon, and Bank of America. Flash forward to Assange, now on the outside looking in, whipping out an Android phone and firing up WikiLeaks on his device.

Glenn Greenwald: What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 It's unsurprising that political leaders want to convince people that the true criminals are those who expose acts of high-level political corruption and criminality, rather than those who perpetrate them. Every political leader would love for that self-serving piety to take hold. But what's startling is how many citizens and, especially, "journalists" now vehemently believe that as well.

Thursday, December 23, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Zunguzungu's latest WikiLinks The Internet is not a true public sphere; it is a public sphere erected on private property, where the property owners can sideline and constrain dissent.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Wikileaks' Leaks Leaked: Norwegian Paper Has All the Cables and None of the Restrictions Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, claims to have access to all 250,000 of Wikileaks' diplomatic cables. Until this point, no news organization had more than a sample sent by the whistle-blower organization.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to become member of Australian journalists' union "WikiLeaks is simply performing the same function as media organisations have for centuries in facilitating the release of information in the public interest. Mr Assange's rights should be respected just the same as other journalists."

Bruce Sterling: The Blast Shack Bradley had to leak all over the third rail. Through historical circumstance, he's become a miserable symbolic point-man for a global war on terror. He doesn't much deserve that role. He's got about as much to do with the political aspects of his war as Monica Lewinsky did with the lasting sexual mania that afflicts the American Republic.

Wikiriver: One Stop Shop For All Wikileaks Coverage The Wikileaks story has just begun, with just over one half of one percent of all the diplomatic cables in the organization's possession having been posted online. Already, a steady flow of scandal and questionable secrets has been unveiled - but it's quickly become too overwhelming for most of us to follow.

How Wikileaks killed Spain's anti-P2P law Spain last night killed a controversial anti-P2P bill that would have made it easier to shut down websites that link to infringing content. The move was a blow to the ruling Socialist government, but it may be of even bigger concern to the US, which pushed, threatened, and cajoled Spain to clamp down on downloading. And Wikileaks can take a share of the credit for the defeat.

Scripting News: Assange's rape charges (grabbing the third rail) Let's be smart. What do you think the chances are that the charges against Assange, coming in the middle of a political shitstorm, from a country whose Prime Minister is closely tied to the US government, are exactly what they seem to be? Suppose it were men making charges against a woman, in similar circumstances? Would your bullshit detector be a little more alarmed? It shouldn't be, if you're not being sexist.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Why Julian Assange is a journalist Julian Assange may not be Time's Man of the Year, but he almost certainly is a journalist -- at least as far as the First Amendment is concerned.

Why Apple Removed WikiLeaks App From Its Store Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said the company had removed the app "because it violated our developer guidelines." Ms. Muller added: "Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm's way."

WikiLeaks' Assange fires back at The Guardian to competitor Assange's "war" with The Guardian landed on the front page of Tuesday's Times of London (shown above), a Rupert Murdoch-owned paper that, so far, hasn't been on the receiving end of any of WikiLeaks' trove of classified documents. (The Times of London article is behind a paywall, but many of the details have already leaked out.)

The NYT spills key military secrets on its front page Does Dianne Feinstein believe that Mazzetti, Filkins and their editors should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act? Do Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell believe these two reporters are "high-tech terrorists?" Is Eric Holder going to boast about the aggressive actions his DOJ is taking to criminally investigate the NYT for these disclosures?

Monday, December 20, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators It seems the prospect of gigabytes of e-mail and other documents from financial institutions can be viewed one of two ways: as a treasure trove for regulators to scrutinize -- or as an embarrassment for the United States government, which has spent millions of dollars investigating Wall Street in the last two years without a scalp to show for it.

Why Julian Assange is a journalist And why WikiLeaks is entitled to the same First Amendment protections as The New York Times

Spawn of WikiLeaks Julian Assange's brainchild has given birth to a raft of global imitators and would-be whistleblowers.

Sunday, December 19, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is not welcome to attend WEF Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not welcome to attend this year's World Economic Forum (Wef) in Davos, the group's president said on Sunday.

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee on WikiLeaks Vs. Open Government Sir Tim Berners-Lee avoids discussing if Wikileaks is good or bad for Open Government but does touch upon a critical question, that of anonymity on the web. We must, as a collective, determine how to preserve the anonymity of whistle-blowers while stripping away the anonymity of those that simply slander for personal gain.

Michael Moore: Sicko Was Not Banned in Cuba The Cubans embraced the film so much so it became one of those rare American movies that received a theatrical distribution in Cuba. I personally ensured that a 35mm print got to the Film Institute in Havana. Screenings of 'Sicko' were set up in towns all across the country. In Havana, 'Sicko' screened at the famed Yara Theater.

Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs because the government and establishment media are jointly manufacturing and disseminating an endless stream of fear-mongering falsehoods designed to depict them as scary villains threatening the security of The American People and who must therefore be stopped at any cost.

Friday, December 17, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

Granting Anonymity WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is "We open governments," relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services -- a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

Thursday, December 16, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

The Creepy, Lovesick Emails of Julian Assange Julian Assange, the founder of the world's most notorious secret-sharing operation, has some embarrassing documents in his own past. We've obtained a series of emails detailing his stalkery courtship of a teenager in his pre-Wikileaks days.

NY Times Editor: WikiLeaks Is 'Not My Kind of News Organization Asked point-blank whether that definition should be so expansive as to include Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' recently-released-on-bail frontman, however, Keller hedged."I don't regard Julian Assange as a kindred spirit," he said. "If he's a journalist, he's not the kind of journalist that I am."

Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon With Net thinkers James Der Derian at Brown and Ron Deibert at the Univesity of Toronto, we're looking for a new lede on the Wikileaks story. Julian Assange, poor devil, is the least of it -- even if Bill O'Reilly wants to rip him apart with his bare hands and Vladimir Putin would give him the Nobel Peace Prize. What's interesting, in this conversation anyway, is the glimpse of an arms race in cyberspace, and the cautionary lesson in the geopolitics of the Internet.

Congress Hears WikiLeaks Is 'Fundamentally Different' From Media The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, should it decide to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act, a former federal prosecutor told lawmakers Thursday.

Julian Assange's Love Emails to 19-Year-Old Reveal Important Lessons in Dating Gawker has obtained a series of emails supposedly from Julian Assange to a 19-year-old girl he met in a bar in Melbourne back in 2004, when he was 33.

OnPoint podcast: Infowar, Wikileaks and Payback Cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow debates bigfoot diplomat John Negroponte on Wikileaks. We're also joined by Fred Cate, director at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University.

wikiriver.org is flowing nicely I found it hard to get a handle on all the news about Wikileaks, so I attempted to do something about it.

Diplomacy Will Survive WikiLeaks The WikiLeaks drama is only the latest in over a century of new technologies heralding the demise of professional diplomacy -- yet such rumors always prove to be greatly exaggerated.

Quora query What article, or writer, has most impacted your thinking about WikiLeaks and the issues it's raised?

Attn online news tech people Do you have a WikiLeaks-specific news feed? If so, it should be in the http://wikiriver.org/index.opml subscription list. Please post a comment with a link to your feed on the story linked to from this item. Thanks!!

Time editor defends Zuckerberg choice over Assange Time managing editor Richard Stengel believes that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg -- who was named "Person of the Year" on Wednesday -- is not only the best choice best choice for 2010, but for years to come.

All cables with tags All 251,286 US Embassy cable, listed with date, location and tags -- in a web-based Google browser. Everything except the text. Unfortunately. (Thanks to the Guardian.)

The WikiLeaks clone wars Our specific focus on wikileaks and its most famous human face is a temporary luxury for those who want to focus on the peripheral in this story. Pretty soon, both Julian Assange and wikileaks will be but one fish in the sea. When that time comes, the debate will change.

WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down The WikiLeaks embassy cables release has produced a lot of stories but does it produce any useful data? We explain what it includes and how it breaks down - plus you can download the key data for every cable.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts with an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the information.

First part of a four-part documentary on WikiLeaks Eye-opening.

Julian Assange in Berkeley "Our initial idea was that, look at all those people editing Wikipedia. Look at all the junk that they're working on. Surely, if you give them a fresh classified document about the human rights atrocities in Falluja, that the rest of the world has not seen before, that, you know, that's a secret document, surely all those people that are busy working on articles about history and mathematics and so on, and all those bloggers that are busy pontificating about the abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan and other countries and other human rights disasters, who are complaining that they can only respond to the NY Times, because they don't have sources of their own, surely those people will step forward, given fresh source material and do something."

China launches 'Red Twitter' It's identical to the US micro-blogging website, except that its messages are designed to promote revolutionary spirit.

MPAA Shuts Down 29 BitTorrent and NZB Sites "This year we have made over 600 of these sites inaccessible. Some seek refuge in a foreign or hosting provider. These 29 apparently thought that in America they could go undisturbed. That is incorrect," Kuik said in a statement.

Why Christian ethics demand we treat prisoners as we would the Lord Christianity is a religion founded by men in deep trouble with the law, men familiar with the inside of prisons, whose message was "the last shall be first, and the first last.

Berkeley City Council tables WikiLeaks resolution The Berkeley City Council voted last night to table a controversial resolution calling for the release of alleged military whistle blower Private Bradley Manning from military prison and to honor him as a hero if he did leak sensitive information to WikiLeaks.

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture.

Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu's legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least they should. In reviewing what the first chapter of that work teaches about the five factors a battling faction must consider when endeavoring to battle, you have to scratch your head and wonder if the United States government might need a refresher course.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Link to this date in the archive.

US Army wants to equip all soldiers with an Apple iPhone or Android phone The idea is to make it easier for soldiers to access data and receive updates on the go, no matter where they are

Amazon's WikiLeaks Response Threatens Cloud Computing Amazon's removal of WikiLeaks from its servers threatens the future of cloud computing and jeopardizes the huge potential growth of its adoption, according to a leading industry figure.

Julian Assange bail hearing makes legal history with Twitter ruling The district judge hearing the bail application from Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, made an unusual form of legal history allowing live updates to be sent from his court on the website Twitter.