Archive - 2010-06 (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.