Hey all.
I would like to start part 4 with a request(tip to user charlesII):
We would like to get a group(4-10) of volunteers to read the Wikileaks cables and see what the NYTimes and the Guardian etc have not reported on. For instance the Honduran cables and the role the U.S. had in Honduras.
Please, I think this is what makes this site amazing. Turning our conversation into action. Let's do this!
I offer myself as volunteer #1.
Start with yesterday's livethread to get great links all around.
unofficial Wikileaks information resource A great resource to go to and play.
search tool for the cables
Wikileaks documentary Wikirebels is the name and it is really good.
The Nation liveblog Great blog that gives great info.
CBS News weekend updates
A great piece by Brad Friedman at the Bradblog This link also includes the video of Colbert's interview with Ellsberg.
Niemanlab Wikileaks week in review Now this link lies by saying that Wikileaks released 250,000 cables. SIGH. Come on folks. It ain't that hard to write down the truth.
Great rundown of journalists quotes about wikileaks at The Atlantic.
Wikileaks twitter page
Houston Press article about Dyncorp pimping boys to Afghan cops.
Ok. I will add more all day.
Please provide the links again. Thanks everyone. And those that can, please volunteer if you have the time.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde (a quote repeated by Julian Assange in the introduction to "Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier," a book he co-authored in 1997)
Assange was in the same cell that Oscar Wilde was in....
Near v. Minnesota
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press by roundly rejecting prior restraints on publication, a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of "malicious" or "scandalous" newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment). Legal scholar and columnist Anthony Lewis called Near the Court's "first great press case."[1]
It was later a key precedent in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), in which the Court ruled against the Nixon administration's attempt to enjoin publication of the Pentagon Papers.
New York Times Co. v. United States
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court per curiam decision. The ruling made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censure.
President Richard Nixon had claimed executive authority to force the Times to suspend publication of classified information in its possession. The question before the court was whether the constitutional freedom of the press under the First Amendment was subordinate to a claimed Executive need to maintain the secrecy of information. The Supreme Court ruled that First Amendment did protect the New York Times' right to print said materials.
From Crooks and Liars
WikiLeaks: Irish Pressure In Sex Abuse Probe 'Offended' Vatican
(AP) — Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereignty" by asking high-ranking churchmen to answer questions from an Irish commission probing decades of sex abuse of minors by clergy.
That the Holy See used its diplomatic-immunity status as a tiny city-state to try to thwart the Irish fact-finding probe has long been known. But the WikiLeaks cables, published by Britain's The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, contain delicate, behind-the-scenes diplomatic assessments of the highly charged situation.
Just putting this here for the 6:30pm part 5 on Monday:
Swiss bank investigated for freezing Wikileaks funds. You a Nazi? That is A-OK. Fight for truth? Oops. Your funds are frozen. Neat.
Another Part 5 entry:
But for Michael Mukasey, President George W. Bush's last attorney general, the matter is clear cut: The US should prosecute Assange because it's "easier" than prosecuting a major news outlet. lol
A tribute song to Asange and Manning:
Sovay by Andrew Bird
i was getting ready to be a threat
i was getting set for my accidental suicide
the kind where no one dies, no one looks too surprised
and then you, then you realize that you're riding on the para-success
of a heavy-handed metaphor
and a feeling like you've been here before
cause you've been here before, and you've been here before
then a word washed to shore
then a word washed to shore
then a word washed to shore
sovay, sovay, sovay
all along in the day
i was getting ready to consider my next plan of attack
i think i'm gonna sack the whole board of trustees
all those don quixotes in their b-17's
and i swear this time, yeah this time
they'll blow us back to the seventies
and this time
they're playin Ride of the Valkyries
with no semblance of grace or ease
and they're acting on vagaries, with their violent proclivities
and they're playing ride, playing ride
playing ride, ride, Ride of the Valkyries
sovay, sovay, sovay
all along the day
i was getting ready to threaten to be a threat
instead of thinking about my plan of attack, think about a sack
the whole board of trustees, all those don quixotes in their b-17's
and i swear this time it blows back to the 70's
and this time, they're playin Ride of the Valkyries
with no semblance of grace or ease
now they're acting on vagaries
with their violent proclivities
and they're playin ride
and they're playin ride
playin ride, playin ride, playin ride, playin ride
Ride of the Valkyries
sovay, sovay, sovay, sovay
