Press Archive
WL Central began its coverage of WikiLeaks in mid-November 2010. This leaves four years of WikiLeaks history, in the news and on the web, prior to the inception of WL Central. The WikiLeaks Press Archive is intended to serve as a compendium of important, interesting, or historical WikiLeaks coverage in other publications since 2006.
Coverage is listed on a by-month basis. Because WikiLeaks became subject to intense media scrutiny in April 2010, the Press Archive contains more entries in the months following this date.
Note
Some of the coverage here is on controversial pieces by traditional transparency advocates, and their criticism of WikiLeaks. The collection is to serve as a portal, through which readers can familiarise with the debate about WikiLeaks as it emerged daily. This archive cannot substitute an in-depth reading. Much can be learned from reading the comments on these articles, and following the links there. In many ways, the history of WikiLeaks is written in comment streams and on Twitter, and emblazoned across the web. A comprehensive reconstruction is impossible. Readers are therefore encouraged to construct their own narrative, and to arrive at their own informed conclusion.
Archive - April 2009
- 2009-04-02: Wikileaks: Kenyan assassinations: slain human rights lawyer Oscar Kamau Kingara letter to the International Criminal Court, 1 Jan 2009 A Wikileaks release
- 2009-04-03: Wikileaks: Stroud District Council Gloucestershire invested 3M pounds in failed Icelandic Bank Glitnir, Internal Audit Report, Nov 2008A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-03: Wikileaks: Militares de Colombia: FARC Operacion HELIO, SECRETO, 13 Oct 2006A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-04: Wikileaks: Canadian Foreign Affairs and Trade ACTA Consultation Report, 2008 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-06: Sydney Morning Herald: Defence contractor suspended over neo-Nazi linkAsher Moses reports on Australian Wikileaks story.
- 2009-04-08: Wikileaks: US TSA Security Directive establishing a new aviation ID card scheme, 1542-04-08F, 10 Dec 2008A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-08: Wikileaks: ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody, 14 Feb 2007A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-09: Wikileaks: NATO summit policing guide, Mar 2009A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-10: Wikileaks: US State Department Passport Acceptance Guide, Jan 2002A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-10: Wikileaks: NSW WorkCover private insurer contracts, 2005-2009 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-10: Wikileaks: 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, Mar 2009 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-10: Wikileaks: Germany deletes WikiLeaks.de domain after raid A Wikileaks Press Release
- 2010:04-11: Wikileaks: Wikileaks German Domain Mass Effort to Circumvent Censorship Wikileaks supporters in Germany donate subdomains to Wikileaks, to compensate for deletion of Wikileaks.de
- 2009-04-11: Wikileaks: Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-16: Wikileaks: US DHS: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, 7 Apr 2009 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-15: Gulli.com: Wikileaks: Theodor Reppe interview (English version) An interview with the owner of the Wikileaks.de domain name, whose house was raided
- 2009-04-17: Wikileaks: US Justice torture memo for CIA: Application of US Obligations Under Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture to Certain Techniques that May Be Used in the Interrogation of High Value al Qaeda Detainees, 30 May 2005 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-18: Wikileaks: University of St. Thomas faculty email war 13 Apr 2009 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-19: Mother Jones: The MoJo vs. WikiLeaks Smackdown Continues Mother Jones' coverage continues to get personal.
- 2009-04-20: Wikileaks: Afghanistan Order of Battle, 2007A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-20: Wikileaks: US Army: Tactics in Counterinsurgency, FMI 3-24.2, Mar 2009 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-20: Wikileaks: Correction of DPA Article in respect of Wikileaks and Steve Jobs HIV test story Press Release
- 2009-04-22: Wikileaks: A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-22: BBC News: Battle over global anti-counterfeit treatyInternet law professor Michael Geist on the battle over a controversial global anti-counterfeiting treaty.
- 2009-04-22: Wikileaks: Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody, 20 Nov 2008 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-22: Wikileaks: US Space and Naval Warfare Pacific Missile Range Facility base security analysis and plans, 8 Aug 2008 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-23: Wikileaks: New York Homeland Security: Hamas' US Network, 1 Feb 2006 A Wikileaks Relase
- 2009-04-23: BerlinOnline.de: Wie die Internetplattform Wikileaks für Informationsfreiheit kämpft Investigation of Wikileaks
- 2009-04-23: Wikileaks: US $547M Ghana grant contract, Sep 2007 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-23: Wikileaks: US Antiterrorism manual, JP 3-07.2, Apr 2006 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-24: Wikileaks: British National Party Language and Concepts Discipline Manual, July 2005 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-30: Wikileaks: US Marine Corps Intelligence Exploitation of Enemy Material, 2006 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-30: Wikileaks: Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) Student Leader handbook, 2008 A Wikileaks Release
- 2009-04-30: Wikileaks: East Timorese go begging as foreign advisers rake it in: World Bank file on Ines Almeida, 2008 A Wikileaks Release
Archive - January 2010
Coverage in January 2010:
Archive - February 2010
Archive - March 2010
Coverage in March:
Archive - April 2010
Coverage in April:
- 2010-04-05: Reuters: Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers Reuters breaking news on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-05: The New York Times: Video Shows U.S. Killing of Reuters Employees The New York Times breaks news on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-05: Russia Today: WikiLeaks Documents Murder in Iraq The Aloyna Show Special on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-05: The Christian Science Monitor: Wikileaks releases video depicting US forces killing of two Reuters journalists in IraqThe Christian Science Monitor breaks news on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-06: Democracy Now: Massacre Caught on Tape: US Military Confirms Authenticity of Their Own Chilling Video Showing Killing of JournalistsIn depth coverage and transcript concerning Collateral Murder, by Democracy Now
- 2010-04-06: BBC News: WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq BBC breaking news on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-06: The New York Times: Airstrike video brings notice to a web site The New York Times covers the Collateral Murder video, dismissively.
- 2010-04-06: The Register: Wikileaks video shows US gunfire on Reuters staff The Register covers Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-06: Mother Jones: Inside Wikleaks' Leak Factory Mother Jones piece on Wikileaks, with many arguments as to its veracity in the comments. "Julian Assange" commented, and there was some controversy over possible manipulation of the comment recommendation system. Updated Version from June
- 2010-04-07: FoxNews: Military Raises Questions About Credibility of Leaked Iraq Shooting VideoFoxNews gives free reign to the military public relations on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-08: BBC News: US 'reviewing' Iraq killing video posted on WikiLeaksBBC Coverage of Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-09: Herald Sun: Digital Economy Bill could see Google blocked, Wikileaks shut down Herald Sun covers the Digital Economy bill, and its possible implications for internet freedoms
- 2010-04-11: The Telegraph (UK): Wikileaks 'to release video of US strike on Afghan civilians'Report on 'imminent' release of a second "Collateral Murder" video. The video did not surface in the time frame proposed.
- 2010-04-13: The Marc Steiner Show: The Marc Steiner Show interviews Ethan McCord about Collateral Murder Two members of the company in the Wikileaks video speak out.
- 2010-04-13: Reuters: Gates assails Internet group over attack video Report on criticism of Collateral Murder by Defense Secretary Robert Gates
- 2010-04-13: Mother Jones: What the WikiLeaks Media Blitz Has Revealed About WikiLeaks Mother Jones follow up piece, in which defenses are offered to accusations of bias. Assange again comments. Comment stream informative.
- 2010-04-14: Scoop.co.nz: WikiLeaks cracks video of second US massacreScoop.co.nz reports on another US military massacre video, slated to be released soon after Collateral Murder, but not as yet released.
- 2010-04-16: The Guardian: WikiLeaks to release video of deadly US Afghan attack The Guardian reports on Wikileaks' Afghan version of Collateral Murder, in the wake of Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-16: The Sunday Times (UK): Profile: Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks
They seek him here, they seek him there, but the founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks is as elusive as a modern-day pimpernel - Mostly a reworking of David Kushner's MoJo article.
- 2010-04-28: WSWS: US soldier in WikiLeaks massacre video: “I relive this every day” World Socialist Web Site Interview with Ethan McCord on Collateral Murder
- 2010-04-20: Wired: U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw WIRED's Kim Zetter interviews Ethan cCord, one of the men in the company in Collateral Murder
Archive - May 2010
Coverage and web record in May:
Archive - June 2010
Coverage in June:
- 2010-06-02: Mother Jones: Click and Dagger: Inside WikiLeaks' Leak Factory Update of David Kushner's April character piece on Julian Assange.
- 2010-06-06: WIRED.COM: Threat Level: Kevin Poulsen: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe Wired breaks news about the arrest of alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning.
- 2010-06-06: Twitter: Wikileaks: Statement: Washington Post had Collateral murder video for over a year but DID NOT RELEASE IT it to the public. In a twitter comment, Wikileaks made an allegation that the WaPo would respond to 24 hours later.
- 2010-06-07: The New Yorker: No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency. Raffi Khatchadourian's in-depth profile of Julian Assange.
- 2010-06-07: Columbia Journalism Review: WaPo denies allegation it sat on WikiLeaks video Clint Hedler seeks a statement, and investigates the claims of the Washington Post that it never had footage of the Collateral Murder incident.
- 2010-06-07: Twitter: Wikileaks: Did Wired break journalism's sacred oath? Lamo&Poulson call themselves journalists.Echoes of Olshansky shopping Diaz? Wikileaks posts criticism of Adrian Lamo and Kevin Poulsen's disclosure and portrayal of alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning, to which Manning would later respond.
- 2010-06-09: Yahoo: Informant in WikiLeaks case explains how it came to light Adrian Lamo courts press attention after disclosing his sources to the US government.
- 2010-06-10: WIRED.COM: Threat Level: Poulsen and Zetter: ‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The Wikileaks Chats Release of Lamo-Manning chat logs by Wired.
- 2010-06-10: WIRED.COM: Threat Level: Poulsen & Zetter: Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Conscience Leading to Leaks
- 2010-06-10: The Daily Beast: Philip Shenon: Pentagon Manhunt Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange.
- 2010-06-11: The New York Times: Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press The NYT examines Obama's record on whistleblower prosecutions.
- 2010-06-11: ITnews: Lamo speaks: Why I exposed the U.S. Army's leaky tap Adrian Lamo courts Australian media attention.
- 2010-06-11: Newsweek: Classified-Info Crackdown Newsweek examines Obama's record on whistleblower prosecutions.
- 2010-06-11: WIRED.COM: Threat Level: Poulsen & Zetter: Wikileaks Commissions Lawyers to Defend Alleged Army Source
- 2010-06-11: The Daily Beast: Samuel P. Jacobs: 'Assange Is in Some Danger' As feds hunt for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange in hopes of preventing him from publishing diplomatic secrets, Samuel P. Jacobs talks with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he should stay out of America—and why some things should be kept secret.
- 2010-06-12: iNewsWire: Adrian Lamo to Wikileaks: Alleged Spy is an Alleged Spy Adrian Lamo responds to criticisms for turning alleged whistleblower over to the US government.
- 2010-06-13: The Sacramento Bee: Famous Hacker finds himself infamous, in some quarters Adrian Lamo courts media attention.
- 2010-06-13: BoingBoing: Xeni Jardin: Video: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg at Personal Democracy Forum Some excellent comments on Xeni Jardin's post were subsequently linked to by Glenn Greenwald.
- 2010-06-13: The Times (UK): Inside the Pimpernel’s bunker. Julian Assange is obsessed with exposing secret while staying hidden himself. But now he has let his guard drop
- 2010-06-16: WIRED.COM: Threat Level: Poulsen & Zetter: 3 Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges in Wikileaks Probe
- 2010-06-16: Whistleblower.org: Jess Radack: Jon Stewart Agrees on Drake Case; Wikileaks May Be the Only Option Left for Whistleblowers.Julian Assange Comments on Jess Radack's Whistleblower.org post.
- 2010-06-17: Glenn Greenwald's Blog: Email Exchange with Adrian Lamo Constitutional Lawyer and Journalist Glenn Greenwald exchanges emails with Adrian Lamo
- 2010-06-17: Democracy Now: Ellsberg, Wikileaks & Obama's record on Whistleblowers With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblowers of Classified Information
- 2010-06-17: An Open Letter of Reconciliation and Responsibility to the Iraqi People. Initiated by Josh Stieber and Ethan McCord.
- 2010-06-17: Independent (UK): Iceland rewrites law to create haven for investigative reporting Independent covers the IMMI.
- 2010-06-17: New York Times The Lede Blog: Victory for Wikileaks in Iceland's Parliament Documenting the Passing of the IMMI in Iceland.
- 2010-06-18: Salon.com: Glenn Greenwald: The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo Examining the strange facts around the WIRED.COM Adrian Lamo and Bradley Manning case.
- 2010-06-18: Gawker Media: Adrian Chen: Wired, Wikileaks and the Hacker-Journalist Complex Adrian Chen calls for more transparency about how WIRED came by its material.
- 2010-06-18: Washinton Post Blog: SpyTalk with Jeff Stein: Wikileaks founder in hiding, fearful of arrest This video makes reference to Birgitta Jonsdottir mentioning another video "much worse" than the Collateral Murder video, which has yet to be released.
- 2010-06-18: Columbia Journalism Review: WikiLeaks Alleges Collusion:Wired Happy to set the timeline straight. Clint Hendler investates the allegations against Wired.com
- 2010-06-18: The Times (UK): Assange has passport confiscated The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week.
- 2010-06-21: LobbyPlanet: Listening to Wikileaks' Julian Assange at the European Parliament Comments on Assange's appearance at the EU Discussion on Freedom of Expression.
- 2010-06-21: The Guardian: Assange breaks cover, but will avoid america. US desperate to ask hacker what he knows of classified messages about Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
- 2010-06-29: Secrecy News: Steven Aftergood: Wikileaks Fails Due Diligence Test. Julian Assange responds in the comments.
Archive - July 2010
- 2010-07-14: The Guardian: Julian Assange: The Whistleblower. A profile and interview by Stephen Moss.
- 2010-07-20: The Washington Post: Top Secret America: National Security, Inc.. Part of the wide-ranging WaPo research project led by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin.
- 2010-07-21: The Washingtonian: Plugging the Leaks. Shane Harris reports on the Obama administration's record prosecution of whistleblowers.
- 2010-07-21: Strike The Root: Who Are the Real Terrorists?. Per Bylund on Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks and the language of the "war on terror."
- 2010-07-22: MichaelMoore.com: Feces, Urine, Blood, Smoke, and Something Indescribable. Ethan McCord remembers the Collateral Murder Apache attack.
- 2010-07-26: The New Yorker: WikiLeaks and the War. Amy Davidson on the release of the Afghan War Diaries.
- 2010-07-27: The Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: How US marines sanitised record of bloodbath. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: Democracy Now!"WikiLeaks is Not One Person...We Are All the Threat". Hacker Magazine editor says WikiLeaks is "big".
- 2020-07-27: Balloon Juice: The Real Concern. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: The Atlantic: Wikileaks and AfPak: What Everybody Knows. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: Mother Jones: Wikileaks Afghan Documents and Me. By Adam Weinstein.
- 2010-07-27: Mother Jones: The Afghan Document Dump. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: Mother Jones: Wikileaks Afghanistan Bombshell. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: Newsweek: Exclusive: After Revealing Afghan War Secrets, Wikileaks Prepares Document Dumps on Iraq and Diplomacy. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: Yahoo News: Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghanistan Media to run friendly stories PSYOPS. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-27: Spyblog: Leak-o-nomy: The Economy of Wikileaks. Julian Assange interviewed by Stefan Mey.
- 2010-07-27: The New York Times: House Approves Measure to Pay for Combat Operations: Business as Usual after Wikileaks Afghan Leak. Report on the release of the Afghanistan war logs.
- 2010-07-29: El País: Entrevista: Julian Assange, Fundador de la web Wikileaks: "Damos buena información sin intereses empresariales ni políticos". Fernando Navarro interviews Julian Assange: "We provide good information without commercial or political interests."
- 2010-07-30: Knowledge Empire: Wikileaks and the Pursuit of Truth: Knowledge Takes Over in 2010. "The revolution taking place is centered on justice, truth and freedom."
- 2010-07-30: Wired: Wikileaks posts mysterious 'insurance' file WikiLeaks reports on the encrypted insurance file, which you can download here (BitTorrent link).
Archive - August 2010
- 2010-08-02: Salon: Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy. Glenn Greenwald looks at Project Vigilant, the surveillance project that Adrian Lamo has been involved with.
- 2010-08-02: Democracy Now!Andrew Bacevich on the Afghanistan War. "The president lacks the guts to get out," says the military historian.
- 2010-08-03: Military Families Speak Out: Veterans and Military Families Say Pentagon Statements on WikiLeaks Aim to Cloud Real Issue. Press release by MFSO addressing the Pentagon's reaction to the WikiLeaks release of the Afghan war logs.
- 2010-08-05: Salon: Re-visiting Project Vigilant Part two of Glenn Greenwald's analysis of Project Vigilant.
- 2010-08-07: Townhall: WikiLeaks Afghan Papers Killing Obama. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann look at Democratic disaffection with Obama after the continuing involvement in Afghanistan, in the light of the WikiLeaks war logs release.
- 2010-08-09: Cato Institute: The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous. Lead essay by Glenn Greenwald on the post-9/11 expansion of surveillance in the United States.
- 2010-08-10: The Daily Beast: U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks. Philip Shenon reports on the Obama administration's pressure on allied governments to open criminal probes against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
- 2010-08-11: CounterPunch: A War on WikiLeaks? Maximilian Forte analyzes the Pentagon's strategy of intimidation towards WikiLeaks.
- 2010-08-11: The Washington Post: Pentagon: Undisclosed Wikileaks documents 'potentially more explosive'. Ellen Nakashima reports on the Pentagon's evaluation of the 15,000 Afghan war documents that WikiLeaks has not released yet.
- 2010-08-13: Wired: Cyber War Against WikiLeaks? Good Luck with That. Kevin Poulsen looks at why the US government's plans to shut down WikiLeaks likely won't work.
- 2010-08-16: The Local (Sweden): Assange: Swedish press freedoms 'most proven'Julian Assange, the Australian founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has praised Swedish legislation protecting the freedom of the press but says that other countries, such as Iceland, are also working to improve their legal framework.
- 2010-08-19: New Statesman: Why WikiLeaks must be protected. "The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that there’s never been greater need to speak truth to power than today," writes John Pilger.
- 2010-08-19: AlterNet: How Many Lives Will WikiLeaks Save? Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on the power of transparency to save lives by avoiding or shortening wars.
- 2010-08-20: Salon: Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? Glenn Greenwald debunks the Pentagon's claim that WikiLeaks did not contact them for assisting in the redaction of the Afghan war diaries.
- 2010-08-20: The Agonist: Mea Culpa. Sean Paul Kelly discovers that the Pentagon wasn't telling the truth and WikiLeaks was, with regards to the Afghan war diary redaction.
- 2010-08-22: A Moving World: Why Did Swedish Prosecutors Break Their Own Policy in the Assange Case? "So far, the explanations offered by the Prosecution Authority do not even begin to explain an apparent failure to follow their own policies. All this, needless to say, doesn't even touch on the remarkable flimsiness of the case."
- 2010-08-31: Salon: The "nobody could have known" excuse and Iraq. "The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures," writes Glenn Greenwald.
- 2010-08-31: Balloon Juice: My Iraq War Retrospective. Former war supporter John Cole says he "was wrong about everything" with regards to the Iraq war.
Archive - October 2010
- 2010-10-01: PBS: Daniel Ellsberg: The most dangerous man in America. Introduction and trailer to the new PBS documentary.
- 2010-10-06: Salon: Times Square bomber: Cause and effect in the War on Terror. Glenn Greenwald on how the US "actions in the Muslim world -- ostensibly undertaken to combat Terrorism -- do more than anything else to spur Terrorism and ensure its permanent continuation."
- 2010-10-15: Los Angeles Times: WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if? FBI special agent Coleen Rowley and former FAA special agent and whistleblower Bogdan Dzakovic on how WikiLeaks could have averted the 9/11 attacks by giving frustrated investigators an outlet to make their findings public.
- 2010-10-17: Salon: How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition. Glenn Greenwald's point-by-point analysis on "how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda."
- 2010-10-18: Reuters: Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents. "News organizations should be cautioned not to facilitate the leaking of classified documents with this disreputable organization known as WikiLeaks," Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said.
- 2010-10-22: Fabius Maximus: The US government successfully smears Wikileaks, while America sleeps. "US government operations grind down Wikileaks and its best known member, Julian Assange. All smoothly done. But such success requires our disinterest and passivity. Fortunately for our rulers, these are notable characteristics of most 21st century Americans."
- 2010-10-23: The New York Times: WikiLeaks Founder Gets Support in Rebuking U.S. on Whistle-Blowers. Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg joins Julian Assange at Iraq War Logs release press conference.
- 2010-10-23: El País: Cómo navegar por los 'papeles de Irak' (How to navigate the Iraq War Logs). El País guide to WikiLeaks' "Diarydig" app.
- 2010-10-23: Juanelo: WikiLeaks cartoon on the Pentagon reaction to the Iraq War Logs release.
- 2010-10-24: El País: Cita secreta con el hombre que hace temblar al Pentágono (A secret meeting with the man who makes the Pentagon tremble). An in-depth interview with Julian Assange by Joseba Elola.
- 2010-10-24: El País: ANÁLISIS: Los 'papeles' del conflicto iraquí: La rutina del horror (Analysis: The Iraq conflict documents: The normalcy of horror). Miguel Gonzáles on the Iraq War Logs.
- 2010-10-24: El País: Los crímenes de Irak se revelan al mundo (The crimes in Iraq are revealed to the world). Walter Oppenheimer on the revelations in the Iraq War Logs.
- 2010-10-24: Roads to Iraq: WikiLeaks documents in the Arab media. English translations of Arab media coverage of Iraq War Logs release.
- 2010-10-24: The First Post: WikiLeaks latest: Assange has helped serve the truth. "What Assange has achieved is to shift the axis of the information war by the range and depth of his revelations. And authority seems unable to absorb this," writes Robert Fox
- 2010-10-25: Der Spiegel: A 'Dumb' War: Taking Stock of the Iraq Invasion. A three-part analysis by Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand.
- 2010-10-25: Truthout: Now We Know. William Rivers Pitt on the undeniable proof that the WikiLeaks Iraq Logs brought about what many had suspected about the war.
- 2010-10-26: Huffington Post: Julian Assange: God of War Chaz Pazienza on the Iraq War Logs. Considerable corrections in the comments.
- 2010-10-26: Arab News: WikiLeaks affair: Why the truth matters. Osama Al Sharif on the significance of the Iraq War Logs release.
- 2010-10-27: The Nation: WikiLeaks and war spending. Laura Flanders: "The free press failed this weekend, with the Sunday talk shows ignoring the Iraq War Logs in order to talk horse race strategy for the upcoming elections."
- 2010-10-28: Die Tageszeitung: "Die Medien sind ein Desaster". German version of the El País interview with Julian Assange.
- 2010-10-28: The Hindu: More Iraq Lies Exposed. The Hindu editorial on the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs revelations.
- 2010-10-28: The Intelligence: Ist Julian Assange ein Verräter? (Is Julian Assange a traitor?). "Wikileaks deserves full respect, support and protection. Australia has, by following the demands of the United States, enacted the betrayal of a citizen."
- 2010-10-28: BTC News: Celebrate 'Turn Yourself In To The FBI Day'. Weldon Berger on the latest censorship attempts and proposals against WikiLeaks.
- 2010-10-28: Foreign Policy: Popping the Military's Classification Bubble. "The vast majority of the WikiLeaks documents on Afghanistan shouldn't have been classified. I should know, I wrote some of them," writes Scott Bohlinger.
- 2010-10-28: BBC: US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack . The BBC interviews former soldier and current IVAW activist Ethan McCord about the Apache attack and how what he saw impacted his life. (video included)
- 2010-10-28: The Vibe: Wikileaks Iraq War Logs – the first findings. "The publication of the US incidence military reports by Wikileaks brings some harsh truths to our attention," writes Georg Hoehne.
- 2010-10-29: AFP: Arab League urges action on WikiLeaks revelations. "These documents and what they have unveiled... constitute a crime equivalent to crimes against humanity and violations against the Iraqi people," said Ahmed ben Helli, the Cairo-based organisation's deputy security general.
- 2010-10-29: Antiwar / Tribune Media Services: Defying A Superpower. Robert Koehler applauds WikiLeaks for the bravery to bring the truth about Iraq into the light.
- 2010-10-29: The Atlantic: On 'Treason' and Julian Assange. James Fallows points out that foreign citizens can't by definition commit 'treason' against the US, as some have accused.
- 2010-10-29: Harper's: The Washington Post and WikiLeaks. Scott Horton debunks the WaPo's claim about the Iraq War Logs that "we've heard this all before."
- 2010-10-29: Salon: Jonah Goldberg wonders why Jason Bourne hasn't killed Julian Assange. Alex Pareene on the latest neocon fantasy.
- 2010-10-29: Salon: The wretched mind of the American authoritarian. "Decadent governments often spawn a decadent citizenry." Glenn Greenwald on Jonah Goldberg's "wondering" why Julian Assange hasn't been assassinated yet.
- 2010-10-29: CounterPunch: Xbox vs. WikiLeaks John Grant on Bradley Manning and Julian Assange: "They’re sticking their necks way out for us. We need to support them."
- 2010-10-30: American Journalism Review: Spreading Leaks Before WikiLeaks. Mark Feldstein: "In the 1970s, the course of greatest impact was Jack Anderson's column. Today, it is WikiLeaks. The lesson then, and now, is that when mainstream journalism doesn't uncover abuses, more radical muckraking activists will, sometimes influencing events in ways politicians and generals do not anticipate."
- 2010-10-30: La Vanguardia: ¿Quién teme a Wikileaks? (Who Is Afraid of WikiLeaks?). Manuel Castells on the impact of WikiLeaks, the Iraq War Logs and the establishment's reaction.
- 2010-10-31: Huffington Post: Let's Rally to Restore Peace. Marjorie Cohn on America's forgotten wars and the lack of media reactions to the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs revelations.
- 2010-10-31: Boston Globe: US must accept responsibility. Globe editorial urges accountability for torture and abuse revealed in WikiLeaks disclosures.
- 2010-10-31: Zero Anthropology: WikiLeaks's Iraq War Logs: The US Goverment's Crisis of Legitimacy. Maximilian Forte on the Pentagon and State Department's reaction to the release of the Iraq War Logs.
- 2010-10-31: New Europe: Assuaging Assange: Taking WikiLeaks Seriously Report on the Iraq War Logs and the EU Parliament's ALDE Group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) intention to raise the issue of torture and abuse at the EU-US Lisbon summit in November.
Archive - November 2010
Coverage in November 2010:
- 2010-11-01: The Big Issue: WikiLeaks founder is 'hero', says Afghanistan veteran and antiwar activist Joe Glenton.
- 2010-11-02: World Socialist: “The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that has been hidden until now” Interview with WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson.
- 2010-11-02: Periodismo Humano: Wikileaks, el Pentágono y la información, II. Part two of a series by war correspondent Olga Rodríguez.
- 2010-11-02: Huffington Post: Wikileaks Iraq documents raise critical questions. Human Rights First's international legal director Gabor Rona on the abuses revealed in the Iraq War Logs.
- 2010-11-03: Reason Gone Mad: "Enough About the War!" Bill Schein does a satirical take on the deafening silence of the US conversation about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- 2010-11-03: Tehran Times: Leaking the Truth. Chandra Muzaffar, President of JUST, writes in defense of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning and Seymour Hersh.
- 2010-11-03: Svenska Dagbladet: Assange vill ha skadestånd. Julian Assange tells SvD he intends to sue the Swedish government for malpractice over handling of investigation.
- 2010-11-04: Open Democracy: Iraq, War and WikiLeaks: The Real Story. The tranche of American military documents released by the WikiLeaks project contains a wealth of detail about the coalition's indifference to civilian life. But the materials also tell a deeper story of “how” war has killed in Iraq, says Martin Shaw.
- 2010-11-04: Les Inrocks: Rencontre avec Julian Assange dans le bunker de WikiLeaks (A meeting with Julian Assange in the WikiLeaks bunker). Interview and teaser video for ARTE's new WikiLeaks documentary.
- 2010-11-04: El Universal: Wikileaks anuncia que revelará más documentos secretos. Report from Geneva press conference.
- 2010-11-04: Reuters: WikiLeaks urges U.S. to fully examine abuses Report from Geneva press conference.
- 2010-11-04: TSR: Julian Assange compte demander l'asile en Suisse. Report from Geneva press conference, including video interview with Julian Assange on TSR.
- 2010-11-04: 20 Minuten: Assange geisselt US-Haltung zu Folterungen. Report from Geneva press conference.
- 2010-11-04: Le Matin: Visite sous haute surveillance. A report from Julian Assange's visit to Geneva.
- 2010-11-05: Reuters: WikiLeaks urges U.S. to fully examine abuses. Report from Geneva press conference.
- 2010-11-05: TSR: Julian Assange compte demander l'asile en Suisse. Report from Geneva press conference, including a video interview with Julian Assange.
- 2010-11-05: The Telegraph: Wikileaks says US must open up. Report from Geneva press conference
- 2010-11-05: The Guardian: Iraqis take fight for 'torture' inquiry to high court. Public Interest Lawyers group, acting for more than 140 Iraqi civilians who allege they suffered torture and degrading treatment at the hands of British soldiers and interrogators, go to the High Court seeking a wide-ranging public inquiry.
- 2010-11-06: L'Express: WikiLeaks: La guerre contre le secret, une enquête de Luc Hermann et Paul Moreira. Review of the new ARTE Reportage documentary on WikiLeaks.
- 2010-11-08: Al Jazeera: No more rage against the machine. Mark LeVine on the public's lack of anger at the horrors revealed in the latest Wikileaks Iraq war logs.
- 2010-11-08: El Modernísimo: ¿El regreso de Estados Unidos al multilateralismo en materia de Derechos Humanos? A report on the UN UPR session on US human rights, and Julian Assange's conference at the UN on this occasion.
- 2010-11-09: Global Times: The Price of Truth is Always Worth Paying". An interview with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Iraq veteran Josh Stieber about WikiLeaks and the Iraq War Logs.
- 2010-11-09: MediaLens: WikiLeaks: The Smear and the Denial, Part II. The continuation of an in-depth analysis of media reactions to WikiLeaks.
- 2010-11-09: Marianne: Wikileaks, qui veut la peau de Julian Assange? (Who Wants Julian Assange's head?) Flore Vasseur examines the media reaction to WikiLeaks.
- 2010-11-10: TIME magazine: Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?. Julian Assange is on the list. (And while you're there, vote for him in TIME's online poll!)
- 2010-11-10: Honolulu Weekly: Nixon's Ghosts. An interview with celebrated Pentagon Papers whisleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
- 2010-11-11: Consortium News: WikiLeaks Ban or Global Secrecy Act? David H. Kerby on Sen John Ensign's (R-NV) proposal to amend the Espionage Act and its implications.
- 2010-11-11: Truthout: The Things That Come Apart in War. Vietnam veteran Davidson Loehr on the realities of war and the WikiLeaks revelations.
- 2010-11-11: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin: Die gefährlichste Webseite der Welt (The Most Dangerous Website in the World). A 3-page special on WikiLeaks.
- 2010-11-11: Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights: Rapport de visite de M. Julian Assange en Suisse: Le témoin qui dérange, and Le fondateur de WikiLeaks à Genève, invité par l'IIPJDH. Two reports from Julian Assange's visit to Geneva in early November.
- 2010-11-12: Zero Anthropology: Wikileaks Roundup: Man of the Year, Assange the Swede, Blocked at Harvard, Telling the Truth. Maximilian Forte looks at "a short selection of Wikileaks-related articles from the past week or so that range from the amusing to the distressing."
- 2010-11-12: NY Law School: Wikileaks Has Committed No Crime The messenger shooters certainly don't seem able to find one.
- 2010-11-12: AFP: WikiLeaks registers company in Iceland. The new firm appears to be WikiLeaks' first known legal presence in a country.
- 2010-11-12: Army Times: 'Pentagon Papers' leaker to speak. Daniel Ellsberg will talk about standing up to government secrecy and WikiLeaks on Saturday in Honolulu.
- 2010-11-14: Noticiero Digital: Julian Assange, el derecho de conocer la verdad (Julian Assange and the right to know the truth). Simón Alberto Consalvi thinks that "No revolution will be more powerful and have more adherents than the revolution in transparency."
- 2010-11-15: Die Tageszeitung: Das Ideal der Selbstaufklärung (The Ideal of Self-Enlightenment). Peter Monnerjahn on journalism, WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs coverage, false objectivity, and why service to society requires us to take a stand.
- 2010-11-15: Tom Spender: WikiLeaks Puts ICC Credibility on the Line. Afghanistan war logs leaked by Wikileaks could eventually be used in a war crimes trial with Americans in the dock, according to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
- 2010-11-15: In These Times: War News Unfit for Print. Andrew Oxford looks at how US media reporting of the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs has been strikingly different from the rest of the world.
- 2010-11-16: Village Magazine: Learning to like WikiLeaks. Dara McHugh on shield laws and why whistleblowers are important.
- 2010-11-16: Reuters: Interview: UN expert urges full U.S. torture investigation. Incoming UN rapporteur for torture says "the United States has a duty to investigate every act of torture. Unfortunately, we haven't seen much in the way of accountability."
- 2010-11-17: TruthDig: Wars Went MIA from Midterm Debates. Jon Dillingham on the absence from the US public debate of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- 2010-11-17: Intellectual Conservative: Does Julian Assange deserve to die? Vasko Kohlmayer takes on Jonah Goldberg's infamous op-ed: "Every morally sane person must reply in the negative."
- 2010-11-18: JTurn: Next Up: The “War on Journalism”? Jonathan Lundqvist writes an analysis of war in the 21st century, the relationship between the media and the military, the internet as a new domain for warfare and the role of WikiLeaks and the free press.
- 2010-11-18: Svenska Dagbladet: Julian Assange överklagar häktning (Julian Assange appeals detention ruling). SvD talks to Swedish attorney Björn Hurtig and prosecutor Marianne Ny.
- 2010-11-18: Index on Censorship: Index on Censorship responds to Julian Assange allegations. "We are extremely concerned at the apparent conduct of the investigators. Anyone concerned about free speech and human rights will be alarmed."
- 2010-11-18: Death and Taxes: The Assassination of Julian Assange?"Will this “character assassination” once again stand in for actual assassination?" of an inconvenient person, asks Alex Moore.
- 2010-11-18: Deutsche Welle: Swedish court orders arrest of WikiLeaks founder DW reports on warrant request approval.
- 2010-11-18: Svenska Dagbladet: Julian Assange kommer att efterlysas. Report on Stockholm District Court granting warrant request.
- 2010-11-18: The Guardian: WikiLeaks founder faces Swedish detention. News report an a short overview of the case so far.
- 2010-11-18: VG Nett: Vil etterlyse WikiLeaks-gründer internasjonalt (International warrant sought for WikiLeaks founder). Report and interview with Julian Assange's Swedish attorney, Björn Hurtig.
- 2010-11-18: Svenska Dagbladet: Julian Assange begärs häktad (Arrest sought for Julian Assange). One of the first reports of the Swedish prosecutor's office latest game move.
- 2010-11-19: The Voice of Russia: WikiLeaks case – state interests or democratic values?. "According to Alexander Perendzhiyev, Deputy Chairman of the Association of military political analysts, it is unlikely that the charges against Assange are coincidence."
- 2010-11-19: Arab News: A Different War. "We have heard of “war on terror” but this is “war on one who exposes crimes”," writes Sam Silva.
- 2010-11-19: Channel 4: Julian Assange to fight order for arrest. The WikiLeaks founder is to challenge a Swedish prosecutor's "bizarre and exotic" request for an international arrest warrant, his lawyer Mark Stephens tells Channel 4 News.
- 2010-11-19: The Voice of Russia: The Voice of Russia: WikiLeaks, Part 1. Full-blown protection. Ignat Kulagin looks at one of the cases disclosed in the Iraq War Logs, where US troops fired on surrendering Iraqis.
- 2010-11-19: OWNI: [Live] L’avocat d’Assange dénonce une procédure “illégale”. The OWNI team are live-blogging the events and conducting their own research. Includes comments from attorney Mark Stephens, Interpol and the Pentagon.
- 2010-11-19: Le Monde: WikiLeaks : M. Assange fait appel de son mandat d'arrêt en Suède (Mr. Assange appeals against arrest warrant). Björn Hurtig tells AFP he has filed an appeal against the warrant. An appelate court will be expected to make a decision relatively quickly.
- 2010-11-19: AFP/ABC News: WikiLeaks boss to challenge warrant. Julian Assange's attorney Mark Stephens tells AFP that an appeal will be filed.
- 2010-11-20: ABC (Paraguay): Wikileaks: ¿qué importa al periodismo? (WikiLeaks: why does it matter for journalism?). ABC talks to a number of prominent Paraguayan journalists who agree that WikiLeaks serves both as an important source and an example for journalism.
- 2010-11-20: IT Wire: Assange pokes a tiger, tiger pokes back. "Julian Assange has done a lot to annoy authorities through his website WikiLeaks.[...] All of this way well be seen as 'tiger poking' by many authorities," writes David Heath.
- 2010-11-21: Financial Express: In Search of Truth. "Recall the extensive lies and twisting of facts that it resorted to prior to the invasion of Iraq. One might, however, say now that the truth has finally prevailed with the exposition of the facts from the originally recorded US files on Iraq by Wikileaks," writes Shamsher Chowdhury.
- 2010-11-22: Financial Times: Warrant for WikiLeaks founder condemned. Interview with Mark Stephens, Julian Assange's UK lawyer.
- 2010-11-22: LA Progressive: Swedish Justice on Trial in WikiLeaks Case. Tom Hayden on the Assange case: "The first line of defense will likely be in Sweden, where the state’s core identity could be on trial."
- 2010-11-22: Tercera Información: Continúa la persecución contra el fundador de Wikileaks. Aura Ribeiro thinks that someone is trying to silence Julian Assange.
- 2010-11-22: Pravda: Aussie man Assange and Swedish sex scandal. "Here is a question: Did the Australian really commit unlawful acts, or was it a setup of the U.S. intelligence services?"
- 2010-11-23: International Zeitschrift: Casualties of War: Including Civilians, Truth, and the Rule of Law. A remarkable analysis piece from law professor Ian Townsend-Gault on the political underpinnings of the Iraq invasion, the WikiLeaks revelations, and the folly of nations at war.
- 2010-11-23: The Telegraph: WikiLeaks release: Timeline of the key WikiLeaks revelations. John Swaine looks at nine WikiLeaks releases, including the Guantanamo Bay operating procedures, the Trafigura report, 'Climategate' emails, war logs and more.
- 2010-11-23: El Mundo: El destape en periodismo. Hernan Mira on investigative journalism and why WikiLeaks provides a much needed service in a free society.
- 2010-11-23: The Voice of Russia: WikiLeaks, Part 2: Extracts of GI reports. Ignat Kulagin's second installment looking at cases from the Iraq War Logs delves into civilian death incidents.
- 2010-11-24: Menos 25: Lluís Bassets: “El periodismo en papel, como negocio a gran escala, dentro de diez años no existirá”. Lluís Bassets, deputy director of El País, thinks that WikiLeaks is "great news for journalism."
- 2010-11-24: Uptown Almanac: More WikiLeaks Street Art Going Up on Valencia. Kevin Montgomery reports that the street artist known as "Sandwich" created a new display from "Collateral Murder" video stills.
- 2010-11-24: Reuters: Exclusive: Corruption charges to feature in WikiLeaks release. "Classified U.S. diplomatic cables reporting corruption allegations against foreign governments and leaders are expected in official documents that WikiLeaks plans to release soon, sources said on Wednesday."
- 2010-11-24: Bloomberg: Pentagon Warns House, Senate Defense Panels of More WikiLeaks Documents. Tony Capaccio writes that "The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org “intends to release several hundred thousand” classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26," in conjunction with The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.
- 2010-11-25: NRK: USA advarer om nytt Wikileaks-slipp fredag. "'The Foreign Ministry has been contacted by the United States on Wikileaks' forthcoming publication. We can not go into details on the content of the conversation,' the Foreign Ministry told politiken.dk.
- 2010-11-25: Ha'aretz: Israel, U.S. tense as WikiLeaks sets to release classified bilateral communiqués. "The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv has informed the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks was planning on releasing hundreds of thousands of American diplomatic cables, some of which might deal with Israel-America relations."
- 2010-11-25: CBC: WikiLeaks: Should sensitive diplomatic files be released? 87% of readers answer "yes" in CBC's poll.
- 2010-11-25: Politiken: Enhedslisten: WikiLeaks-stifter skal bo i København. Denmark's Unity alliance would like to extend Julian Assange an invitation to live in Copenhagen, as part of the Refuge Network initiative for persecuted writers.
- 2010-11-25: Sky News: Washington Braced For Millions Of Leaks. "Sky News understands the US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, has been seen going into Downing Street and the Foreign Office for what one source called 'contingency planning'."
- 2010-11-25: The Globe and Mail: U.S. warns Ottawa about fallout from pending WikiLeaks release. "The U.S. government has notified Ottawa that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage American relations with allies around the world."
- 2010-11-25: Sydney Morning Herald: US briefs Canberra on secret files. "Australia has been briefed by the US on the imminent release by WikiLeaks of a huge tranche of diplomatic cables that sources say contain allegations of corruption and embarrassing behaviour by politicians worldwide."
- 2010-07-30: News.com.au: Four weeks on the run with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. An interview with SBS reporter Mark Davis, who did the Inside WikiLeaks documentary.
