What is Wikileaks?

If you've paid any attention to the news lately, you've probably heard about Wikileaks, especially when sensitive or extremely private governmental information has been released. What is Wikileaks? Why is Wikileaks so important? How does Wikileaks work?

Wikileaks is a site designed to receive and to broadcast sensitive information. The goal of Wikileaks is to provide a safe haven for journalists, private (and public) citizens, and anyone who might need to be protected from the information they upload to Wikileaks; in other words, if you're a whistle blower and need a go-between to communicate your information, Wikileaks is one of the best resources you can find.

How does Wikileaks work?

If you have sensitive information that you feel needs to have a broader audience, you can upload it to Wikileaks via the Submit documents page. According to the Wikileaks FAQ page, information submitted to Wikileaks is protected by a network of software, anonymous postal drops, and (worst case scenario) lawyers. Basically, Wikileaks operates on a policy of secrecy and strives to keep all its submitters safe from any possible reprisals.

Can the material on Wikileaks be trusted?

Because of the sensitive nature of most of the information available on Wikileaks, authenticity is not just assumed. The Wikileaks community carefully vets all submissions, making absolutely sure that the innocent are protected and that the information is both secure and authentic.

How can I find information on Wikileaks?

There are a number of different ways you can find information on Wikileaks:

Why is Wikileaks so important?

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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- George Orwell

Update: On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, was charged with disclosing this video (after allegedly speaking to an unfaithful journalist). The whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has called Mr. Manning a 'hero'. He is currently imprisoned in Kuwait. The Apache crew and those behind the cover up depicted in the video have yet to be charged. To assist Private Manning, please see bradleymanning.org.

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.

After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement".

Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.

WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.

WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.

WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work.

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2. Act normal

If you are a high-risk source, avoid saying anything or doing anything after submitting which might promote suspicion. In particular, you should try to stick to your normal routine and behaviour.

If you are a high-risk source and the computer you prepared your submission on, or uploaded it from, could subsequently be audited in an investigation, we recommend that you format and dispose of the computer hard drive and any other storage media you used.

In particular, hard drives retain data after formatting which may be visible to a digital forensics team and flash media (USB sticks, memory cards and SSD drives) retain data even after a secure erasure. If you used flash media to store sensitive data, it is important to destroy the media.

If you do this and are a high-risk source you should make sure there are no traces of the clean-up, since such traces themselves may draw suspicion.

If a legal action is brought against you as a result of your submission, there are organisations that may help you. The Courage Foundation is an international organisation dedicated to the protection of journalistic sources. You can find more details at https://www.couragefound.org.

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange put the life of Bolivian President Evo Morales in danger by leaking false information, the Bolivian ambassador to Russia claimed Monday. Maria Luisa Ramos demanded that Assange apologize to Morales for putting his life at risk by leaking false information that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on his plane in July 2013, according to teleSUR.

In July 2013, Morales' presidential plane made an emergency landing in Austriaafter he was denied permission to fly over France and Portugal because of the Snowden rumors. Snowden was allegedly traveling with Morales en route to asylum in Bolivia. Before the plane incident, Morales said Boliviawould look favourably on an asylum request from Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked thousands of sensitive documents and is currently in exile in Russia.

Have you apologized to Morales? Ramos asked Assange during a video conference Monday during the premier of thedocumentaryTerminal F, which examines Snowden's search for exile."It is possible that in this wide-ranging game that you began my president did not play a crucial role, but what you did was not important to my president, but it was to me and the citizens of our country. And I have faith that when you planned this game you took into consideration the consequences."

In the documentary, Assange claims the rumor that Snowden traveled with Morales were false and were planted by United States. Ramos said Assange was behind the rumor. "For your big countries this may not be important, but for Bolivia it does matter, she said, reiterating her question: Have you apologized to Morales for this issue?

Assange said he had reason to believe the rumors at the time. Edward Snowden could have been on board the Bolivian president's airplane because it is considered a diplomatic plane. In order to deny a plane the use of airspace, there have to be good reasons, he said.

He added that Washington was to blame for the plane's emergency landing. We weren't expecting this outcome. The result was caused by the United States' intervention. We can only regret what happened, Assange concluded.

Morales spent 12 hours at the airport in Vienna after his plane was unable to continue its journey in 2013. At the time, Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca said: "We don't know who invented this lie. We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales."

Assange has been exiled at the Ecuadorean embassy in Londonwhere he has taken refuge as the U.S. pursues a criminal investigation into his anti-secrecy group.Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Alexandria, Virginia, told Reuters last month the investigation into WikiLeaks remained open.

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Hillary Clinton's new campaign logo came in for instant ridicule after it was released on Sunday Some compared it to the work of a third-grader others suggested it was thrown together in 15 minutes Users compared the logo to Cuban flag, an English grocery store that went out of business in the 1980s, hospital road signs, the History Channel logo or the FedEx logo

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Published: 19:35 EST, 12 April 2015 | Updated: 15:55 EST, 13 April 2015

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Hillary Clinton engineered a low-profile start to her campaign. But she's getting some high-profile attention over an unlikely target - her campaign logo.

Thousands of people have weighed in online to mock the simplistic logo. Many pointed out that despite the $1billion Clinton is likely to raise in the 2016 campaign, her campaign graphic looks like it was slapped together in 15 minutes.

'Savvy first move by Hillary. The biggest knock on her is she's too elitist, so she's like, "Boom, let's make the campaign logo in MS Paint,' quipped Aaron Levie, the CEO of tech startup Box.

'So what lucky 3rd grader won the Design the Hillary Clinton Campaign Logo contest?' joked another Twitter user.

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Hilliary Clinton was today accused by WikiLeaks of stealing its 'innovative' Twitter logo design for her 2016 presidential campaign.

Hilliary Clinton was today accused by WikiLeaks of stealing its 'innovative' Twitter logo design for her 2016 presidential campaign.

"Hillary Clinton has stolen our innovative WikiLeaks twitter logo design," WikiLeakes said on Twitter. The tweet offered a side-by-side comparison of the logos. WikiLeaks' artwork features an hourglass with a dripping earth, along with a red arrow, while Clinton's shows a red arrow used to form a large "H".

The 67-year-old former first lady and New York senator on Sunday launched her second Oval Office bid, which led to countless reactions on social media. One response was a tweet from WikiLeaks, accusing Clinton's campaign of swiping their twitter logo.

This will be Clinton's second attempt for securing the top post.The one-time first lady enters the race seven years after her bitter nomination defeat to President Barack Obama in 2008. Clinton will be the top contender for the Democratic party in the elections.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lived at Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012.

Sweden's Attorney-General says he is confident Julian Assange will remain subject to an arrest warrant relating to allegations of sexual assault.

Attorney-General Anders Perklev also reaffirmed his confidence in Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny, who for more than four-and-a-half years refused to interview the Australian WikiLeaks publisher in London, but abruptly changed her mind last month after Sweden's highest court decided to hear an appeal by Mr Assange asking that the warrant for his arrest be quashed.

In an interview with Sweden's Expressen newspaper, Mr Perklev denied that Mr Assange's high profile and "special" circumstances had any impact on the handling of his case and insisted that the matter was being dealt with "entirely under Swedish law".

Mr Assange has lived at Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012. Ecuador has granted him political asylum on the grounds that he is at risk of extradition to the United States to face espionage and conspiracy charges arising from the leaking of thousands of secret diplomatic and military documents by US Army private Chelsea Manning.

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Last month, a US court confirmed that WikiLeaks and Mr Assange are still being targeted by the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in a criminal investigation relating to espionage, conspiracy, theft of US government property and computer fraud.

British police are on guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy 24 hours a day, waiting to arrest Mr Assange so he can be extradited to Sweden for questioning about the sexual assault allegations. The allegations were first raised in August 2010.

Mr Assange denies the allegations and his lawyers have advised that his extradition to Stockholm could facilitate his eventual extradition to the US.

Last month, Sweden's Supreme Court decided to hear an appeal by Mr Assange seeking to quash the arrest warrant on the grounds that prosecutors had failed to progress the case by refusing to interview him in London and that he had been denied access to key facts forming the basis for the decision to arrest him.

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MEXICO CITY: Mexicos WikiLeaks-inspired whistleblower website is already making waves just days after its launch, even though it has yet to expose any government scandals. MexicoLeaks was announced by star journalist Carmen Aristegui last week when she told her audience that her MVS radio team was part of the initiative. The website uses encryption software to encourage would-be whistleblowers, who would normally fear retaliation, to anonymously send documents to an alliance of news outlets and civic groups in order to expose corruption in a country plagued by graft. While MexicoLeaks has only begun to receive documents, it was Aristeguis seemingly benign announcement that snowballed into a scandal. MVS distanced itself from MexicoLeaks and fired two journalists before sacking Aristegui on Sunday, sparking accusations that one of the voices most critical of the government was being muzzled. Aristegui, 51, revealed last year that President Enrique Pena Nietos wife had bought a mansion from a government contractor, raising conflict of interest allegations, which the government rejected. Calling her dismissal an attack on freedom of speech, Aristegui suggested that her firing was planned by someone with much power. She said her team was investigating the finance minister and the army when they were fired. MVS has denied coming under pressure from the government or seeking to silence Aristegui. The company says it fired the first two journalists for using the stations name without authorization to promote MexicoLeaks, and that Aristegui was let go because she gave an ultimatum for them to be reinstated. The problem is the use of our brand. We have no problem with MexicoLeaks, MVS communications vice president Felipe Chao told AFP. MVS does not give up or fold before governments. There is nothing that could get in conflict with freedom of speech, Chao said. He said the company first heard of MexicoLeaks when Aristegui announced it on the air, and she was unlikely to be reinstated. The government issued a statement Tuesday saying it hoped Aristegui and MVS resolve their dispute, while stating that it has constantly respected and valued the work of journalists. While Aristegui and MVS feud, MexicoLeaks is quietly amassing documents through its secure website. The alliance of eight civic groups and news outlets, including national weekly magazine Proceso, website Animal Politico and Aristeguis team, issued a statement denying it was misusing MVSs brand. We regret that MVSs decision is based on the (Aristegui) editorial teams participation in the MexicoLeaks alliance, as if the democratic values that inspire this platform including freedom of speech, right of information, transparency and accountability trouble this company or affects its interests, the statement said. Discussions to create MexicoLeaks began last year, with the help of Free Press Unlimited, a Dutch-based foundation that helps journalists in conflict zones. A person with secrets to spill must download a special web browser named Tor, which hides their location, to be able to send them through MexicoLeaks without being detected. The whistleblower can choose to send the documents to one or more of the eight members of the alliance. The organizations then launch investigations to verify the information before deciding to publish anything. Eduard Martin-Borregon, a member of the Poder civic group that participates in MexicoLeaks, said his pro-transparency organization is already investigating tips it has received since last week. With MexicoLeaks secure filter system, we hope that many acts of corruption of human rights violations that occur in Mexico but are not exposed because people are afraid of reprisals can be published by the press and prosecuted, he said. The 30-year-old Catalan refused to give any details about the documents. But, he said, I think we wont have to wait too long for the first leak.

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