whistleblower

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers, speaks during a rally in support of Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, outside the gates of Fort Meade, Md, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
In October 1969, a national security official named Daniel Ellsberg began secretly photocopying 7,000 classified Vietnam War documents. He had become increasingly frustrated with the systematic deception of top U.S. leaders who sought to publicly escalate a war that, privately, they knew was unwinnable.

A still image from the ABC News interview with Chelsea Manning, her first since being released from prison. (Photo: ABC News screenshot)
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Whether in an imperfect or hostile setting, Chelsea Manning’s persevering spirit and humanity never fails to shine. That was certainly the case in her exclusive interview for “Nightline” on ABC.

Tom Secker and Robbie Martin join me for a very wide ranging discussion on everything from Reality Winner to Dennis Rodman. Tom and I start off the conversation by talking about the Wikileaks Twitter account tweeting about our issue on The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. We talk about the obvious divide right now between Assange and Wikileaks not just in terms of Twitter, but in terms of their media strategy. The three of us then dive into the bizarre case of NSA leaker Reality Winner. We theorize as to whether she is a true leaker, or a truly disgruntled employee.

NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner, has been charged by the Justice Department for sending classified material to The Intercept. (Photo: Instagram)
A day after her arrest was announced publicly by the U.S. Justice Department, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old alleged source of a leaked National Security Agency document detailing Russian hacking efforts, has found a vocal ally in the world’s best known whistleblower of the contemporary era: Edward Snowden.

The United States Army whistleblower’s release marks the culmination of a major victory for a grassroots effort led by committed activists.
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Chelsea Manning exited the walls of Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas this morning.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks onto the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy to addresses waiting supporters and media in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. (AP/Frank Augstein)
Julian Assange’s attorney filed a new request Wednesday in Stockholm for Sweden to scrap the arrest warrant against the WikiLeaks founder, arguing that the order should be torn up and Assange allowed to live out his asylum in Ecuador in the face of Washington’s desire to arrest the whistleblower.

Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Having blasted the Trump administration for their hypocritical flip-flop from “loving WikiLeaks” to “arrest Assange,” Ron Paul made his feelings very clear on what this signals:
“If we allow this president to declare war on those who tell the truth, we have only ourselves to blame.”
Today he sits down with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a live interview…

The CIA tool purportedly relies on Microsoft Office to track leaked documents and the whistle-blowers that release them. (Photo: Nigel Treblin/AP)
As the latest installment of it’s ‘Vault 7’ series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ (a.k.a. the “Snowden Stopper”), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.”

(ANTIMEDIA) March has been a quite the month for mass surveillance and the intelligence community.

(ANTIMEDIA) The CIA’s chickens have come home to roost as distrust of the agency swells amid recent revelations from Wikileaks regarding the agency’s extensive spying and hacking practices.