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"Julian and WikiLeaks, the very ideals of WikiLeaks, are not one in the same"
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2013-05-19 23:08
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney doesn't shy away from controversy. In fact, he may gravitate towards it. His previous works cover the fall of Enron (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), the Elliot Spitzer saga (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer), and torture during the war in Afghanistan (Taxi to the Dark Side).
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We Steal Secrets: the rise and fall of WikiLeaks in classic Hollywood terms
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2013-05-19 22:59
All movies have heroes and villains and Alex Gibney's documentary, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, felt like vintage silver screen. Two-thirds of the way through, the film established clear roles. Our protagonist is Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and underdog hacker hero. His evil nemesis is actually information-silencing bureaucracy but the US government largely plays this role (voiced often by Michael Hayden, former director of both the NSA and CIA). It's a classic conflict: a battle waged over censorship and the public's right to know.
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Swedish judge says US extradition unlikely if Assange shows
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-04-04 05:30
A senior judge from Sweden’s supreme court, Justice Stefan Lindskog, has told an Australian audience that Julian Assange’s argument he cannot stand trial in Sweden without being extradited to the USA is not as black and white as the wikileaker would have us believe.
Lindskog yesterday told an audience at the University of Adelaide that unless Assange is charged with a crime that directly correlates to a law on the books of both Sweden and the USA, the Scandinavian nation won’t be able to hand him over.
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Assange: Google, Facebook run 'side projects' for US spooks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-12-04 09:35
WikiMartyr in waiting Julian Assange has emitted another screed in which he shares his belief that democracy is being dangerously undermined by government monitoring of the internet, and that Facebook and Google are helping those efforts.
Chatting with RT, Assange has outlined his belief that nations now conduct surveillance on a massive scale, because “it is cheaper to intercept every individual rather that it is to pick particular people to spy upon.”
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Bradley Manning finally fesses up over WikiLeaks...
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-11-08 09:24
Bradley Manning, the US Army Private First Class accused of leaking classified documents from his post in Iraq to WikiLeaks, has made a formal offer of responsibility in his pre-trial hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland.
To be clear, Manning has not pled guilty or not guilty in the case, where he has been accused of espionage, computer fraud, and “aiding the enemy," among other charges. But this marks the first time Manning has offered to accept formal responsibility for leaking government documents to WikiLeaks. If found guilty in the case, Manning could face the death penalty.
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