Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo & the WikiLeaks Affair

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Quote:Wikileaks Founder "Annoyed" At 9/11 Theories

therightperspective.org — Conspiracy theorists have begun developing their own ideas about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange after he said in a recent interview that he is annoyed at false conspiracy theories surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

http://digg.com/world_news/Wikileaks_Fou...1_Theories
http://www.therightperspective.org/2010/...-theories/

I think it's also because he's marketing the Leak brand to mainstream and this was a better hook. He blew his cover good lately on the whole Bradley Manning thing. John Young (Cryptome) Wikileaks was in talks to arrange funding with OSI (George Soros). ABC, Time Magazine and CNN et al love him. Assange is the Pentagon's 'Most Wanted Man in America' but he's making TV appearances. The CIA can catch a 14 year old girl downloading Lady Gaga on BitTorrent but they can't pop by a TV studio they have close connections with and pick up Assange .. ok. Who's buying this crap?

Another angle of this is that all this high profile leaking is a threat to national security so they are giving it play to justify programs like CYBERCOM, Internet Journalism Liscences and the RealID.

Also Wikileaks has reportedly raised close to $1M for Bradley Manning's defence. The Manning camp hasn't seen a dime.

A couple of great shows on this with Jack Blood on Deadline Live recently:

John Young (Cryptome) Talks About Wikileaks
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/08/03/dead...st-2-2010/
.. also a really good interview with Michael Shaw of http://freedomadvocates.org/ in the second hour on the Agenda 21, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development agenda. I'm working on putting some stuff together with him soon.

Wayne Madsen (Madsen Report) on Wikileaks
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/08/04/dead...st-3-2010/

Related:

What is Wikileaks?
A little more glossed over history, I liked John Young's version better
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367103,00.asp

Chinese cyber-dissidents launch WikiLeaks, a site for whistleblowers
Early AFP Promo - January 11, 2007 - 7:35AM
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology...82315.html

MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says
.. better get more security, maybe chip the students?
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapc...tml?hpt=T1