The New York Times’ recently hired media columnist Ben Smith, who spent the previous nine years as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News as it grew into a media behemoth, did something Sunday night that very few other U.S. journalists would be willing to do: He published an unflinching and sometimes scathing critique of former-MSNBC-daytime-host-turned-widely-beloved-New-Yorker-star-investigative-reporter Ronan Farrow…
Chelsea Manning Unsuccessfully Fights Subpoena to Testify Before Grand Jury Probing Julian Assange…
WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning appeared in a federal courtroom on Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, where the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst unsuccessfully challenged a subpoena requiring her to testify before a grand jury that is investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Outside the courthouse, the former Bradley Edward Manning (who is now 31) told reporters that her efforts […]
FLASHBACK: Assange Prosecution Will Focus on Chelsea Manning Era Releases, Not DNC Emails…
WikiLeaks Veteran: I ‘Cooperated’ With Feds ‘in Exchange for Immunity’…
Chelsea Manning isn’t alone. Late Thursday, Manning revealed that she’s fighting a subpoena to testify before a grand jury that’s been investigating Julian Assange for nearly nine years. But Manning isn’t the only one being dragged into the aging probe of WikiLeaks’ first big haul. A former WikiLeaks volunteer who was also personal friends with […]
Assange’s Lawyer Weighs In…
By Suing WikiLeaks, DNC Could Endanger Principles of Press Freedom…
In 1993, WILK radio host Frederick Vopper broadcast a conversation intercepted by an illegal wiretap and sent anonymously to the Pennsylvania radio station, in which two teachers union officials discussed violent negotiating tactics. The officials sued Vopper, arguing that he should be liable for the illegal wiretap that captured their comments. But the Supreme Court […]
The Purge, the Benghazi Report, and Trump’s Claim Obama Created ISIS by Marcy Wheeler…
When I learned yesterday that, in addition to “purging” Mike Rogers, Trump had added Devin Nunes and Crazy Pete Hoekstra to his transition team (thus replacing Rogers with both his predecessor and successor as House Intelligence Chair), I wondered whether the Benghazi report…
Obama Administrations Report on Drones Demonstrates Previous Claims Were False…
International human rights organization Reprieve has released a report demonstrating how the Administration’s previous statements on the issue have proved to be false…
Happy Flag-Waving Drone Document Dump…
The overview is that the US intelligence community is reporting (more on that in a second) far, far fewer drone deaths than credible outside researchers do…
Shaping Internet Traffic and Spying on Americans…
The Intercept posted a number of documents that should have been posted long, long ago, covering how the NSA “shapes” Internet traffic and how it identifies those using…