A new article by the Guardian’s James Ball fleshes out David Leigh’s allegation that Wikileaks is to blame for the arrest of Bradley Manning. Last week’s release of the unredacted Lamo-Manning chat logs contained more information on the means by which Bradley Manning is alleged to have leaked information to Wikileaks. For a year now,… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
WIRED’s publication of the full Lamo-Manning chat logs brings a year-long controversy to a close. But questions remain over WIRED’s reticence. 1. The History of the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs 2. The Unredacted Chat Logs. 3. WL Central’s Annotated Chat Log The History of the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs On June 10, 2010, Kevin Poulsen and Kim… [Read more…]
November 28, 2010
The end of last week saw a huge escalation in the amount of activity anticipating Wikileaks’ next release. On Tuesday, Wikileaks released two tweets. In a post on it, “Redefining Global History: Wikileaks’ Enigmatic Tweets,” I reviewed baffled and somewhat inadequate coverage in the mainstream media in the hours following the tweets, outlining the most… [Read more…]
November 27, 2010
I’ve been reading GeorgieBC‘s wonderful post on The Military Mafia. In it, Georgie mentioned J.F.K., and it reminded me of a piece by Borges I read some years ago. That, in turn, got me thinking about the U.S. media figures openly calling for action against Julian Assange, and the countless murderous commenters who seem to… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
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