Greenwald responds to Wired hack job

Julian Assange, the Rosenberg Case and the Espionage Act of 1917
Rumors are swirling that the United States is preparing to indict Wikileaks leader Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. The modern version of that act states among many, many other things that: "Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States" causes the disclosure or publication of this material, could be subject to massive crim...

Showing Their True Colors
“Everything looks worse in black and white.” - a lyric from “Kodachrome” by singer Paul Simon The last picture ever to be developed with Kodachrome film was slated to be processed today at the lone processing lab still handling this film — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kan. A year after Kodak announced that it was retiring Kodachrome film, after nearly 75 years of production (making it the oldest and longest-running film in production of all time), the last shipment

Quiet spy expulsions won't spoil the party
MADRID, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Plans by Russia and Spain to celebrate in 2011 each other's cultures remain intact despite tit-for-tat expulsions of alleged spies in the past several weeks. Russia quietly expelled two Spanish Diplomats last week on charges of spying, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Political attache Ignacio Cartagena and first secretary Borja Cortes-Breton were sent home from Moscow. But Spain did the same last month to two Russians, sending them home for "activities incompa...

Montana's "Inquisition" and Wikileaks
So you are a little girl in grammar school in 1917. Your name is Christine Shupp and you live near Melville in Sweet Grass County. Every morning after the pledge of allegiance to the flag, the teacher makes you, alone, kneel down on the floor and kiss the flag. It is because you are German. You are a rancher in Rosebud County and you call WWI "a Millionaire's war" and you are dragged off by neighbors to jail. You're in a saloon and call war time food regulations "a big joke" and you are sentence...

Moscow unveils 90 years of spying secrets
Soviet spy Veteran Grigor Vardanyan looked at Kim Philby's immaculately-kept pipe and sighed. "He was such a cultured man," the former agent said of one of Britain's most notorious turncoats. "So educated. So well prepared. He served our cause until the end." Such fond memories were being murmured through the great halls of Moscow's World War II museum as Russia's foreign intelligence service, in a rare exhibition, revealed the tools it has been using for the past decades to outsmart the West...

Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association Astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect Terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA astroturfing on Wikipedia, the ALA is attempting retaliation. They are attempting to block the Safe L...

This week in the Middle East | Brian Whitaker
Demonstrators clash with Tunisian security force members on December 27, 2010 in Tunis centre. Photograph: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images The biggest story from the Middle East this week … No, the biggest, most important and most inspiring story from the Middle East this year is one that most readers may only vaguely have heard of, if at all. It's the Tunisian uprising. For almost two weeks now, people up and down the country have been protesting, some of them Rioting, others demonstrat...

Re: Khodorkovskys Fate
This is example 3,097.876 why I feel lied to by Action Movies. Clearly, if Hollywood was telling me the truth about how the world works, Khodorkovsky would have hired a team of ex-military mercs to spring him from jail by now. From Wednesday night’s Fox News All-Stars. On what kind of speaker John Boehner will be: Boehner will be strong and lachrymose, which . . . Go On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the . . . Go I'm...

Republicans Eye Five Senate Races in 2012 Affecting Abortion
Republicans are already eying five Senate races in 2012 that they say involve Incumbent senators who may have a tough time winning re-election bids. While most of the attention in the next election cycle is already focused on the massive presidential race and the Republican nomination that will ultimately produce a Candidate to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama, the Senate is another key focus for pro-life advocates. With the Supreme Court potentially one vote away from reversing Roe v...

How The Mainstream Media Can Be More Bearable
The Mainstream Media and the liberal biases inherent in it are not as influential as they once were, especially as New Media and technologies proliferate. Stubbornly, though, the Mainstream Media networks, such as ABC and CNN, still have an ability to influence and set the agenda when it comes to political discourse, especially when it comes to how casual observers of politics get their information. This is so mainly because of the platforms, even though they are diminishing, and resources they...

Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical
One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek ​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, childlike old woman known as "Sook." They gallivant through the hills and dales together, buying whiskey and making fruitcase and chopping down their very own Christmas Tree. That kind of sums up how...

Audio: Liberal Claims That Ritalin May Turn Children Into Conservatives
By now, many have already heard that being a conservative is a brain disorder: Study: Conservatives have larger ‘fear center’ in brain. Larger fear center as in primate, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior c...

Impurifying Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Back in late 2001, Reason magazine’s Ronald Bailey wrote a brilliant article titled, “Impurifying our precious bodily fluids,” in which Bailey noted that the MacGuffin of Dr. Strangelove, Gen. Ripper’s Bircheresque fear of Fluoride, began to take a left turn during the 1990s: During the 2000 Presidential Campaign, Green Party Candidate and left-wing icon Ralph Nader came out against fluoridation. Now groups like the Sierra Club claim that there are “valid concerns...

Safe Haven For Bad Journalists
by Zoë Pollock In classic style, Alex Pareene gloats about Judith Miller's new gig at Newsmax, "a goofy right-wing magazine where Conservatives you've never heard of (and John Stossel, apparently) report, constantly, that Barack Obama is bad and unpopular": While someone who's wrong about everything is an odd hire for any magazine, even one that exists mostly to sell old people Acai berries, Judith Miller, you must remember, was fired by the liberal New York Times. If li...

Nassau County Gets A 3-Week Reprieve. Shouldn't County Exec Mangano Be Forced To Leave?
1. Instead of taking over the county's finances today as it was widely expected to do, the Nassau Interim Financing Authority, the Oversight Board established after the county's last Budget fiasco to monitor its finances, today decided to give County Executive Edward Mangano three more weeks to come up with a Balanced Budget that is based on more than gimmicks, mirrors, and praying. As David Halbfinger reports in the New York Times, the extension, which was granted at Mangano's request, was anyt...

If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepared to out CIA-linked Arab leaders
Source: Raw Story Middle Eastern leaders who've become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could face severe retribution from their local populations if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is killed or jailed for a lengthy amount of time. That's because, in a recent interview with Arabic news network Al Jazeera, Assange allegedly warned that he had a document which reveals the identities of officials who voluntarily cultivated relationships with the CIA. "These officials are spie...

More Assange
Nick Davies of The Guardian: Jagger also insists that she has a right to know who leaked the file to the Guardian and says that the leak was part of “an obvious effort to conduct a smear campaign” against Assange. Setting aside for a moment the head-splitting hypocrisy that a supporter of Wikileaks wants to hunt down the source of a leak, there are two similar problems with this claim. First, Jagger has no idea who leaked that file (and made no attempt to find out). Second, if she ...

If Only WikiLeaks Existed Before the Iraq War Began: Die Zeit, Germany
Here’s an interesting question: would the release of internal White House documents before the Iraq War began have prevented the Bush Administration from going ahead with it? According to columnist Ulrich Ladurner of Germany’s Die Zeit, not only is it likely that the war would have been prevented - but Julian Assange may well have won the Nobel Peace Prize. For Die Zeit, Ulrich Ladurner writes in part: Julian Assange has been much reviled for his dogma that everything should b...

Julian Assange Case Is Being Driven by a Tangled Web in Sweden
* The Accusers--The women who have alleged that Assange committed sexual crimes, under Swedish law, are Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen. Our source says Ardin has a background in the Foreign Service and has spent time at the U.S. Embassy in Washington, D.C., and worked as a spy in Cuba. She has ties to the Swedish media and apparently has left the country for the Palestinian West Bank. Little is known about Wilen, other than that she is an aspiring photographer. Numerous Web sites have reported tha...

Le Monde Names Julian Assange Man of the Year: Le Monde, France
Time Magazine has chosen its 2010 Man of the Year: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. France’s Le Monde, a member of the five newspaper consortium publishing U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed by Wikileaks, has made a different choice: Julian Assange. In this excerpt from the long version published in Le Monde’s Sunday magazine, reporter Yves Eudes gives a sense of why the French newspaper chose Assange: Tall, thin and elegant, Julian Assange, founder and chief of Wikileaks, first of ...

Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job
The story on the surface makes for a script for a new Oliver Stone Hollywood thriller. However, a closer look at the details of what has so far been carefully leaked by the most ultra-establishment of international media such as the New York Times reveals a clear agenda. That agenda coincidentally serves to buttress the agenda of US geopolitics around the world from Iran to North Korea. The Wikileaks is a big and dangerous US intelligence Con Job which will likely be used to police the Interne...

"Many Arab officials are US spies in their own countries"
"... Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview wh...

Julian Assange Seeking First Sentence for Book
Via Twitter, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking input for the first sentence of his book. Here's what I came up with. As the cell door closed behind me and I faced the cold, dank space, I began to contemplate the brunt of the awesome power of government, once it has descended to unleash its wrath. Guess I better not give up my day job. What are your ideas? ...

Your pick for Most Intriguing Person of 2010 is ...
He's been called a criminal, a spy and a champion of the First Amendment. Some think he’s a villain. Some see him as a hero. The only thing that’s beyond debate: Julian Assange has more intrigue than the pulp section of a bookstore. Wikileaks' mastermind, the guy who everyone loved to hate or loved to defend, got the most first-place votes (25%) on CNN.com's “Most Intriguing Person” poll for 2010. Following Assange were: 10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts a...

Response to Wired's accusations
As noted above, the principal tactic of Wired.com Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen and Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen in responding to my criticisms is to hurl a variety of accusations at me as a means of distracting attention from the issue that matters.  Between my June article and the one on Sunday, I've now written more than 9,000 words about Wired's role in the Manning/Lamo case.  To accuse me of "a breathtaking mix of sophistry, hypocrisy and journalistic laziness," they raise a h...