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The US Government Has Amassed Terabytes of Internal WikiLeaks Data (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Gizmodo report, written by national security reporter and transparency activist Emma Best: Late last year, the U.S. government accidentally revealed that a sealed complaint had been filed against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Shortly before this was made public, the FBI reconfirmed its investigation of WikiLeaks was ongoing, and the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice was optimistic that it would be able to extradite Assange. Soon after, portions of sealed transcripts leaked that implicate WikiLeaks and Assange in directing hackers to target governments and corporations. The charges against Assange have not been officially revealed, though it's plausible that the offenses are related to Russian hacking and the DNC emails. The alleged offenses in the complaint notwithstanding, the government has an abundance of data to work with: over a dozen WikiLeaks' computers, hard drives, and email accounts, including those of the organization's current and former editors-in-chief, along with messages exchanged with alleged Russian hackers about DNC emails. Through a series of search warrants, subpoenas, equipment seizures, and cooperating witnesses, the federal government has collected internal WikiLeaks data covering the majority of the organization's period of operations, from 2009 at least through 2017.
In some instances, the seized data has been returned and allegedly destroyed, such as in the case of David House, a technologist and friend of Chelsea Manning when she famously became a source for WikiLeaks. In others, the seized materials include communications between WikiLeaks and their sources. Some of these discussions show WikiLeaks discussing their other sources and specific identifying details about them. Other seizures gave authorities a deeper view of the internal workings of WikiLeaks, including one of the earliest known seizures of WikiLeaks-related data, executed on December 14, 2010, when the messages and user information of several WikiLeaks-linked Twitter accounts were ordered. This search-and-seizure order included direct messages associated with WikiLeaks and its founder, former Army private first class and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks editor Rop Gongrijp, former WikiLeaks associate Jacob Appelbaum, and former WikiLeaks associate and Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, between November 1, 2009, and the order's execution.
In some instances, the seized data has been returned and allegedly destroyed, such as in the case of David House, a technologist and friend of Chelsea Manning when she famously became a source for WikiLeaks. In others, the seized materials include communications between WikiLeaks and their sources. Some of these discussions show WikiLeaks discussing their other sources and specific identifying details about them. Other seizures gave authorities a deeper view of the internal workings of WikiLeaks, including one of the earliest known seizures of WikiLeaks-related data, executed on December 14, 2010, when the messages and user information of several WikiLeaks-linked Twitter accounts were ordered. This search-and-seizure order included direct messages associated with WikiLeaks and its founder, former Army private first class and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks editor Rop Gongrijp, former WikiLeaks associate Jacob Appelbaum, and former WikiLeaks associate and Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, between November 1, 2009, and the order's execution.
Bradley Manning committed a crime. The FBI investigates crimes.
So the guys having fun killing civilians (including a Reuters reporter) from an Apache helicopter committed no crime? Have you ever thought about adding a swastika as 51st star? Truth in labelling and all... ;-P
Shocking. What else is there to target?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Seriously... everything here is a shit-show of long since debunked conspiracy theories, political mudslinging and trolling. There was never any hope of rational conversation on this topic.
obviously not as illegal as you wish it was.
Unfortunately that's what the majority of the conservative "movement" has morphed into: belligerent, ignorant, treasonous, gullible, conspiracy theorists shouting their rage against everything and everyone who doesn't buy into their increasingly desperate sounding drivel.
How is this news? Anyone can collect data from Wikileaks as that is kind of the point. The fact that this would be considered news is honestly funny.
I wonder if this includes all the information deleted by Daniel Domscheit-Berg?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
News at 11.
Kiss-off ivan, that's the exact line we now know was being pushed by the Russians. I've had a secret clearance too and actually know something about that works and i know you're lying.
There's a perfect site to release these leaks!
they take a slight hold in the House, and what's the first thing they do? Immediately shut down the government.
You're a fucking retard or a shill, the reality is the govt was shut down before before the Democrats took any power.
I expect a hostile foreign power to try to destroy our country with lies. If you're an American: fuck you for doing the exact same thing.
These clowns are part of what your "secret services" do. They attempt to create fake masses echoing their catch phrases, while discouraging honest people to get into it (flooding with lotsa shit, etc.).
So, you completely missed Trump explicitly stating that it was his shutdown?
No matter whether any laws were technically broken (particularly given the absurd number, impossibility of perfect compliance, and impossibility and imorality of enforcement in a global environment) they are literally irrelevant from a moral perspective. With perfect compliance a free media does not exist nor does a true democracy.
Even if you don't like that the government routinely like daily works to attack people on petty and absurd basis where there are no victims. They undermine people based on politics and upsetting of the establishment and not based on there being actual victims. Mostly its just petty bureaucrats or law enforcement that have a stick up there ass because someone looked at them funny or didn't immediately comply with a demand. However its apparent from the numerous arrests and "investigations" that its all a setup and nothing the government does can be relied on to pass judgement. The FBI and US government is no better than the Chinese morally.
The FBI has attacked people repeatedly with accusations that have little or no foundation in reality. From Ian Freman of Free Talk Live to Jacob Appelbaum to Julian Assange. But those are just a few examples of the hundreds of well known figured attacked for political reasons. Many more thousands are attacked out of petty spite for essentially standing up to or not knowing there place in society. The government is very good and fabricating belief in the public that people did wrong even when there is no real evidence to back it up even. Frequently they will use sex and whip up the social justice warriors to ruin people. However it's not the only tactic and sometimes people do get jailed or are driven to commit suicide.
We need to severely reduce law enforcement and the bureaucracy/government if there is any hope of getting control over the situation, That does mean eliminating the vast majority of government. Think of say actually permanently and honestly shutting down government. Not just temporarily nor permitting 'essential' law enforcement to continue operating. Few of these 'essential' people are really needed outside of certain nuclear and dismantling operations.
The ones arresting people who were tangentially involved with members of the Trump campaign? Yawn.
Only the presidents Campaign Manager and his Personal Lawyer - barely involved at all really!
The Russians should have supported him, right?
Oh no, a Russian somewhere at some time might have used this argument, so it's invalid for the rest of time.
Lmao, you people are brainlets.
Who needs patient target practice to perfect their shooting accuracy when they've already got crass profanity and ALL CAPS?
Hey, Dr Evil, perhaps you should order your bullets by the billions, not the millions, based on the above.
Nope he's a ridiculous child as well
Someone has to take responsibility, and it seems as though he's the only adult in the room as it were. .
Man, that is rich.