The WikiLeaks founder was forced to plead guilty to something journalists do every day.
Julian Assange
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 2: Billionaire Press Domination
The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALEC’s push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Julian Assange, the Espionage Act of 1917, and Freedom of the Press
The case against Assange represents the first time the 102-year-old act has been used to target a media organization.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The “Great Man” Theory of Rape
Overlooking sexual harassment and rape for the sake of WikiLeaks’ reputation does more harm than good to the organization’s name.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Real Significance of WikiLeaks
WIKILEAKS: INSIDE JULIAN ASSANGE’S WAR ON SECRECY BY DAVID LEIGH AND LUKE HARDING, PublicAffairs, 339 pages, $15.99 OPEN SECRETS: WIKILEAKS, WAR, AND AMERICAN DIPLOMACY EDITED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES STAFF, ALEXANDER STAR, AND BILL KELLER Grove Press, 523 pages, $16.95 WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY BY MICAH L. SIFRY, OR Books, 211 pages, […]
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Assange And The New York Times
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that another publication reported that Julian Assange told someone that there was a “Jewish conspiracy” against him. Now, I’m not fan of Assange’s, but it strikes me as odd for the New York Times to be publishing someone else’s second-hand account of an incident for which the Times itself […]
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Investigators Struggling To Link Manning, Assange.
The Wall Street Journal reports further on what we’ve already heard about the difficulties prosecutors are having in the WikiLeaks case: U.S. investigators have been unable to uncover evidence that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange induced an Army private to leak government documents to his website, according to officials familiar with the matter. New findings suggest […]
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Why Prosecuting Assange Is A Bad Idea.
Marvin Ammori has written a great post on why the U.S. shouldn’t prosecute Julian Assange, not because he’s a hero but precisely because jettisoning freedoms in the pursuit of unsympathetic characters is what leads to those freedoms being abandoned. Many of our nation’s landmark free speech decisions are not about heroes–several are about flag-burners, racists, […]
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Best of TAP 2010: Jaclyn Friedman on the Assange Rape Accusations.
There are some fights progressives have to wage constantly, and one of them is over the ways rape victims are questioned and their accusations are treated when the charges become public. It’s a fight both frustrating and rewarding, because there are plenty of opportunities for lessons, yet no one seems to learn them. For that […]
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Charging Assange.
Charlie Savage reports that the Department of Justice is planning on charging Julian Assange with conspiracy, which is about the least terrible path for the government to take having made the bad decision to prosecute him in connection with his publication of said material at all. Justice Department officials are trying to find out whether […]