Sunday, 12 August 2012

wikileaks all secrets reaveled

                                                    


                                                    WikiLeaks is an international, online, self-described not-for-profit organisation publishing submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sourcesnews leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under the Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director. Kristinn Hrafnsson, Joseph Farrell and Sarah Harrison are the only other publicly known and acknowledged associates of Julian Assange Hrafnsson is also a member of the company Sunshine Press Productions along with Assange, Ingi Ragnar Ingason and Gavin MacFadyenIn November 2010, WikiLeaks collaborated with major global media organisations to release U.S. State department diplomatic cables in redacted format. On 1 September 2011, it became public that an encrypted version of WikiLeaks' huge archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables had been available via Bittorrent for months, and that the decryption key (similar to a password) was available to those who knew where to look. WikiLeaks blamed the breach on its former partner, The Guardian, and that newspaper's journalist David Leigh, who revealed the key in a book published in February 2011; The Guardian argued that WikiLeaks was to blame since they gave the impression that the decryption key was temporary (something not possible for a file decryption key). Der Spiegel reported a more complex story involving errors on both sides. The incident
lead to widely expressed fears that the information released could endanger innocent lives 


The group has released a number of significant documents which have become front-page news items. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and corruption in Kenya. In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public. In October 2010, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations. This allowed the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force – Iraq, including around 15,000 that had not been previously published In April 2011, WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.



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WikiLeaks soldier claims orders for harsh prison treatment came from the top


                                                        A US Army private charged in a massive leak of government secrets claims his harsh pre-trial treatment during nine months in a military prison was directed from high up the chain of command and warrants dismissal of the entire case, according to documents his civilian lawyer has released.The 110-page motion alleges Private Bradley Manning developed a rash from being forced to sleep beneath a stiff, suicide-prevention blanket and suffered an anxiety attack due to harassment by guards. It repeats well-publicised claims that Manning was forced for several days to surrender all his clothing at night and stand naked in his cell for roll call.For several days in January 2011, he was forbidden to wear his glasses and forced to strip to his underwear during the day, the motion contends.Manning faces 22 charges for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and war logs to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. He could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of the most serious offence, aiding the enemy.
The Defence Department has said Manning's treatment properly conformed to the ''maximum custody'' or ''prevention of injury'' classifications in which he was held in Quantico, Virginia, from July 2010 to April 2011, when he was moved to medium security at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.Manning's lawyers claim there was no legal or medical justification for the harsh restrictions, and that his custody status contradicted the recommendations of multiple psychiatrists.The lawyers intend to have Manning testify about his Quantico experience during a hearing starting on October 1, according to the document released on Friday. Military prosecutors didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the motion posted by Manning's civilian lawyer, David Coombs, on his website.Mr Coombs wrote he recently became aware of emails revealing that the brig officer who ordered the restrictions was acting on orders from an unidentified three-star general.Mr Coombs wrote that in a January 2011 meeting, an unidentified senior officer ordered Manning be held in maximum custody or injury-prevention status indefinitely.When a psychiatrist voiced concern, the senior officer declared: ''We'll do whatever we want to do,'' Mr Coombs wrote.





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