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Wikileaks

Wikileaks. By matthew dann. What Is Wikileaks ?. Wikileaks is a ‘whistle-blowing’ website, which, using a global network of activists and volunteers, leaks government and corporate secrets via raw documents and information and footage provided by these volunteers .

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Wikileaks

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  1. Wikileaks By matthewdann

  2. What Is Wikileaks? • Wikileaks is a ‘whistle-blowing’ website, which, using a global network of activists and volunteers, leaks government and corporate secrets via raw documents and information and footage provided by these volunteers. it also has an editorial council of 9 members, including Julian Assange. • In August 2007, The Guardian published a story about corruption by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel ArapMoi,based on information provided via WikiLeaks. • Wikileaks got worldwide fame after leaking a top secret apache helicopter video from 2007 where it shows a cameraman and civilians and children under fire. • July 2010, 90,000 american intelligence logs, about 77,000 were published to wikileaks about the afghan war, revealing hundreds of afghan civilians were killed in public over the years so far. • The leaks were wrong and gave a large distaste towards Wikileaks as they had not deleted some of the Informants names which could cause large problems for the informants(court-martialling, discharging from the army etc.)

  3. Who is Julian Assange? • Julian Assange is the founder of wikileaks/editor-in-chief and an austrailian publisher, journalist and computer programmer and Internet activist. • Assange voluntarily went into UK police custody on 7 December 2010, when a European Arrest Warrant was issued in response to a Swedish police request for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation. • Assange appealed a February 2011 decision by English courts to extradite him to Sveden, claiming the allegations of wrongdoing were "without basis". • Computer hacker in his youth • He has lived in several countries and has made public appearances in many parts of the world to speak about press freedom, censorship, and investigative journalism.

  4. Top 10 Cable Crisis Wikileaks Leaks • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/wikileaks-us-embassy-cable-iran-nuclear?INTCMP=SRCHThe United STATES was advised to adopt a policy of "covert sabotage" of Iran's clandestine nuclear facilities, including computer hacking and "unexplained explosions", by an influential German thinktank. • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/06/wikileaks-cables-arms-eastern-europeUS officials are shown attempting to intervene in more than a dozen international arms deals which involved countries including Ukraine, Bulgaria, Armenia and China selling weapons to customers in Iran, Iraq, Yemen and south Sudan. • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-russian-mafia-gasGas supplies to Ukraine and EU states are linked to the Russian mafia, according to the US ambassador in Kiev • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/china-iran-north-korea-nuclearThe US insisted that China act "urgently" to halt a transshipment of ballistic missile components from North Korea to Iran via Beijing and complained that at least 10 similar missile-related deliveries had been allowed to proceed unhindered. • http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-us-manipulated-climate-accordWikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord. Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord. • http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/21/haiti-wikileaksWikiLeaks points to US meddling in Haiti. US embassy cables reveal how anxious the US was to enlist Brazil to keep the deposed Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/147040Paraguay harbours Iranian agents and Islamist terrorists • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-eritrea-president-asaias-afwerkiEritrean poverty and patriotism under 'unhinged dictator • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/09/wikileaks-cables-burma-nuclear-weaponsWitnesses in Burma claim to have seen evidence of secret nuclear and missile sites being built in remote jungle, according to secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, heightening concerns that the military regime is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-saudis-iranSaudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme

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