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 […]
Chelsea Manning Freed from Ft. Leavenworth…
Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, was freed from a Kansas military prison early Wednesday morning after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence. “After another anxious four months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. I am looking forward to so much! Whatever is ahead of […]
Soon to Be Released, Chelsea Manning Thanked Obama and Supporters for Keeping Her Alive…
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier imprisoned for publishing classified military information, released her first statement on Tuesday since being granted clemency by former President Barack Obama in the waning days of his presidency, according to the Associated Press. In the statement, Manning said she hopes to use the lessons she’s learned to help others improve […]
U.S. Prepares Charges to Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange…
US authorities have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN. The Justice Department investigation of Assange and WikiLeaks dates to at least 2010, when the site first gained wide attention for posting thousands of files stolen by the former US Army intelligence analyst […]
CIA Chief Knocks Assange, But Deems WikiLeaks a ‘non-state intelligence agency’ (VIDEO)…
CIA Director Mike Pompeo tore into Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website Wikileaks, while simultaneously calling the project aimed at government transparency one of a few “non-state intelligence agencies.” Without specifying what other agencies the director was referring to, Pompeo made it clear that he regards Assange as dangerous to the US as any […]
Assange Responds to CIA Director That “Produced al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iraq, Iran & Pinochet”…
After being blasted by new CIA Director Mike Pompeo yesterday as a “hostile non-state intelligence service,” Julian Assange has decided to respond by trolling the CIA, the “state non-intelligence agency,” over its own roles in producing “al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iraq, Iran and Pinochet”…
Assange: WikiLeaks Has the Same Mission as The Post and the Times…
Almost Every Word Of John McCain’s Response To Chelsea Manning’s Sentence Commutation Is Flat Out Wrong…
It’s hardly a surprise that a bunch of people who have been fed a load of bullshit about what Chelsea Manning did years ago are now quite angry over President Obama’s decision to commute Manning’s sentence. But I don’t think any are quite as painstakingly wrong as Senator John McCain. Someone should call up the […]
Obama: Justice Served on Manning Commutation…
“It has been my view given that she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to […]