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The Army judge presiding at the Sept. 11 terror trial has added a new adviser to his staff the former military judge who presided at the 2013 court martial of Private Chelsea Manning.

Retired Army Col. Denise R. Lind, who finished her career this month on the Armys Court of Criminal Appeals, has been hired by the Pentagon division responsible for the war court here as a senior attorney adviser. She will work with the Military Commissions Trial Judiciary, whose chief is Army Col. James L. Pohl, the 9/11 judge.

Both are here for this weeks effort to get pretrial hearings back on track in the Sept. 11 conspiracy case after one of the five alleged conspirators in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil expressed interest in serving as his own lawyer at the complex death-penalty trial.

As an Army judge, Lind presided over the court martial of Manning then Bradley Manning and convicted the soldier of violating the Espionage Act by leaking more than 700,000 government files to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks. Manning had opted for a judge-only trial rather than have the case heard by a military jury.

Lind then sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison. Linds sentence was more lenient than the 60 years proposed by Army prosecutors.

The New York Times at the time described the sentence as the longest ever handed down in a case involving a leak of United States government information for the purpose of having the information reported to the public.

At the trial, Lind had ruled that Mannings conditions were too severe during his 2010-2011 detention at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, where he was at times denied clothing and kept in a windowless cell 23 hours a day, awarding him 112 days off his sentence.

Among the documents Manning was convicted of leaking were the 2006-08 military profiles of most of the 780 or so war-on-terror captives held across the years at the Guantnamo Bay detention center. They are marked SECRET and offered a window into the thinking of prison and military intelligence staff compiling the dossiers in those years, as well as the information at that time about the captives identities, capture and behavior at the prison.

The alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four alleged accomplices were among them.

So, in joining the judges team, Lind comes from a recent, complicated high-profile national security trial that involved abusive conditions of confinement to an even more complicated, high-profile national security trial that alleges torture. In both cases, public interest groups have fought for greater transparency.

New York attorney Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, observed portions of the Manning trial and sued on behalf of the civil liberties legal group to secure the release of unclassified rulings and motions in the case as swiftly in federal court.

On Wednesday, Ratner described Lind as a pro-government judge, and her sentence for Manning severe.

Lind relied on court-martial practice that withheld much of the public record until after the trial was over. So Ratners team went to federal court.

She read her orders out at such speed that we could not follow, he recalled. I don't think this bodes well for shaking up the 9/11 trials and making them more law compliant, if that is even possible.

Lind has also taught a law course at George Washington University Law School called The Craft of Judging, according to the schools associate dean for academic affairs, Lisa Schenck.

Schenck, a former Army colleague, described the colonel as an avid runner and model of fairness in a 2013 Washington Post profile ahead of the Manning trial.

Shell go through every bit of evidence and every element of proof, and she will be 100 percent sure that the government meets its burden, Schenck told the Post. She is the most thorough person that you could put on that trial.

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Last month, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and other privacy activists launched a new campaign to establish global privacy standards. The proposed International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers would require states to ban mass data collection and implement public oversight of national security programs. It would also require states to offer asylum to whistleblowers. Its been dubbed the "Snowden Treaty." We discuss the state of mass surveillance with Nils Muinieks, the Council of Europes commissioner for human rights.

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AMY GOODMAN: Were talking to Nils Muinieks. He is the commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe. Last month, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and other privacy activists launched a new campaign to establish global privacy standards. The proposed International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers would require states to ban mass data collection and implement public oversight of national security programs. It would also require states to offer asylum to whistleblowers. Its been dubbed the, quote, "Snowden Treaty." Snowden spoke about the need for the treaty via teleconference from Russia at the September launch.

EDWARD SNOWDEN: This is not a problem exclusive to the United States or the National Security Agency or the FBI or the Department of Justice or any agency of government anywhere. This is a global problem that affects all of us.

AMY GOODMAN: Thats Edward Snowden. What do you think has to happen around mass surveillance?

NILS MUINIEKS: Well, we have a very negative trend now in Europe, where a number of countries are moving from targeted surveillance to untargeted surveillance, and this is quite dangerous. This means that everybody is a suspect. What we need is we need strict rules on authorization of surveillance measures. We need to outlaw certainthe use of certain technologies, which catch awhich cast a very wide net and grab communications of everybody in an area, everybody communicating with a certain person who might be suspected of terrorist activities. But we need to beef up democratic oversight of security services. We need intrusive parliamentary committees. We need judicial authorization. We needwe need to be assured that the security services arent doing what they can, but that they are operating within the framework of the rule of law. And we need to provide remedies, effective remedies, to those who have been done wrong, who have been unjustly surveilled and had their privacy invaded.

AMY GOODMAN: Who would be the police on this?

NILS MUINIEKS: There are various models in Europe. But very often, to make it democratic, it has to be parliamentarian, as well. You need members of parliament engaged and keeping an eye on the executive, keeping an eye on the security services. Very often you have expert panels assisting parliaments, people who have the technical expertise to know what theyre being shown by the security services. And I think its completely legitimate to give money to security services, to give them technological know-how, but we need to do the same to the overseers, so that they can really see and understand whats going on and keep an eye on it.

AMY GOODMAN: Go ahead.

NILS MUINIEKS: Very often these overseers are rubberthey rubber-stamp requests for surveillance. They dont really go into the meat of it. When I wasI asked in Germany, for example, the people involved with authorizing surveillance requests. They said 98 to 99 percent of all requests are granted. To me, this shows that the system is not effective.

AMY GOODMAN: Is Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor, do you believe?

NILS MUINIEKS: I thinkI will be agnostic on that question, but I think that he revealed a serious human rights issue, which until then had not been known. And some of the issuesome of the solutions that he is proposing, I think, are very much in line with what we have been advocating.

AMY GOODMAN: Finally, a ceasefire agreed in the east of Ukrainehas been agreedbetween the separatists and Ukrainian government forces, has been holding. But fears remain that fighting could resume. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kiev was not upholding its end of the Ukraine peace deal.

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: [translated] It is useless to endlessly blame Russia for not fulfilling or not urging the authorities of unrecognized republics in the southeast of Ukraine to do something in fulfillment of the Minsk agreements, if the key positions of the Minsk agreements are not fulfilled by the Kiev authorities. And they are not fulfilled by the Kiev authorities.

AMY GOODMAN: That is Putin of Russia. Nils Muinieks, youve been spending a lot of your time on Ukraine. What should we understand about it?

NILS MUINIEKS: Ukraine is a human rights disaster zone. Crimea has been annexed. The human rights situation there has deteriorated very seriously in the last year. The east of the country, which is held by the rebels, supported by RussiaI was in Donetsk, in rebel-occupied Donetsk, in July. There are very serious human rights issues there, but the humanitarian situation there is also catastrophic. You have a lot of people who have been displaced. You have a lot of people who are going hungry, who dont have access to clean water, to medicine. You have allegations of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, torture. And the West needs to support Ukraine, but it also needs to hold it to account for its human rights violations, because it also has not done everything it can. And sometimes there are somethere are some military groupings which are also involved in or implicated in human rights violations.

AMY GOODMAN: Were going to have to leave it there, but of course well continue to follow all of these issues. Nils Muinieks is the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights.

And that does it for our show, though this news just in: Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee has dropped out of the race for the Democratic Party nomination for president. Chafee is a Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democratic former governor and senator of Rhode Island.

We have a job opening at Democracy Now! Its development director, full-time in New York. Go to our website to find out the details at democracynow.org.

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Who is Edward Snowden and what did he do?

Edward Snowden is a 30-year-old whistleblower and former NSA contractor. He left his home in Hawaii in May 2013, travelling to Hong Kong to leak documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald. At the time of his departure from the US, Snowden worked as a Booz Allen Hamilton systems analyst doing contract work for the NSA. The documents he revealed detailed secret NSA programs and capabilities that have been and continue to be used to collect and store personal communications both within the US and abroad.

Documents revealed by Snowden show that the US intelligence community and its partners including the UK, Israeli and German spy agencies are involved in warrantless mass surveillance of citizens domestically and abroad. Numerous documents show that, beyond the espionage performed for counterterrorism purposes, the NSA and its partners carried out political and industrial espionage, including the bugging of EU and UN buildings and the collection of phone and email data from Brazils Ministry of Mines and Energy. To read more about the revelations, see the Revelations page.

Despite the many millions of people that the transnational surveillance systems affect, these have been constructed without the knowledge, authorisation or scrutiny of the elected legislative bodies of the US and its partner countries much less the public. Snowden felt that this important information should be democratised:

Im just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watches whats happening and goes, This is something thats not our place to decide, the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.' (Snowden, June 2013)

Read more about the investigations, transparency measures, legislative reform, complaints and public awareness generated due to Snowdens revelations on our Impact page.

As stated by Glenn Greenwald in various places, Edward Snowden gave documents to journalists for the express purpose of allowing them to vet and analyse the documents before releasing what they deem appropriate.

Edward Snowdens revelations of secret mass surveillance by the NSA and its national security-sector contractors have greatly embarrassed the US government. Attempts to extradite him to stand trial in the United States come against a background of systemic overclassification of information, increasing secrecy in the courts and a harsh crackdown on national security journalism, centred around investigations of unauthorised leaks. The Obama administration has prosecuted more people under the Espionage Act for leaks to the press than all previous administrations combined.

Edward Snowden has been charged by the US government with theft of government property (18 USC 641), unauthorised communication of national defense information (18 USC 793(d)) and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorised person (18 USC 798(a)(3)).

Edward Snowden has been charged by the US government with theft and two charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. These charges together incur a maximum 30-year prison sentence and, as happened in Chelsea Mannings case, it is possible that a second set of charges might be added at a later date. There is no public interest or whistleblower defence allowed for charges under the Espionage Act. The US has also submitted extradition requests to numerous countries and taken action to pressure other countries from granting him asylum.

For more information on the threats facing Edward Snowden, read our Threats overview section.

Whilst Snowden could have voiced concerns under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, he would only have been able to present complaints that the law deems of urgent concern to Congress. The US Congress has been briefed on warrantless wiretapping before and failed to respond, as evidenced by an NSA Inspector General review of surveillance activities, which indicates 60 US Congress members had already been briefed [see page 23 of the corresponding pdf] on top secret programs such as STELLARWIND. The same document describes how, immediately following the public exposure of President George W. Bushs warrantless wiretapping program, new orders were signed which essentially gave NSA the same authority to collect bulk internet metadata that it had under the PSP [Presidents Surveillance Program].

In an interview with Glenn Greenwald, Snowden explained that while he did talk to people about abuses he saw, he eventually realised that the wrongdoing he witnessed was something that should be determined by the public. Snowden later described his attempts to discuss his concerns internally in some detail in an interview with the Washington Post.

In addition, Snowden was aware of the significant risks of voicing such concerns through official channels; not only could he have been persecuted for speaking up, but the issues of concern may have continued to be hidden from public view. Thomas Drake, a former senior NSA executive, wrote in the Guardian about his own experience with the Act: By following protocol, you get flagged just for raising issues. Youre identified as someone they dont like, someone not to be trusted.

Everyone has the right to seek and to be granted asylum outside of his or her country of nationality on the basis that they are unable or unwilling to return because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, as stated in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The right to asylum is governed by a large body of international human rights and refugee law treaties; for example, when the government of Ecuador granted asylum to Julian Assange it quoted a list of 16 conventions and treaties under which his right to asylum was mandated. International customary law also includes the principles of non-refoulement and safe passage. The 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees and its 1967 Protocol prohibits states from returning refugees in any manner whatsoever to countries or territories in which their lives or freedom may be threatened (non-refoulment), and is binding on all states.

Asylum is granted to people who are at risk of or fear persecution for their political views, or who are charged with political offences. Edward Snowden has been indicted with two charges under the Espionage Act 1917, which falls under the definition of political offences. Following his whistleblowing about secret NSA mass surveillance, the US government has retaliated in unprecedented ways: unsealing a Grand Jury indictment for Snowden prior to his detention in custody; cancelling his passport; and even causing a diplomatic incident by forcing down the presidential plane of Evo Morales on suspicion that Snowden was on it. It is clear that this level of retaliation may endanger Mr Snowdens safety, integrity and even his life.

In August 2013 Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning was sentenced to 35 years on Espionage Act charges for passing classified information to the media. During her trial she was legally found to have suffered unlawful treatment in pre-trial detention. All these factors taken together make it clear that Edward Snowden is at risk of persecution and unfair trial in the United States.

When Edward Snowden reached Moscow airport from Hong Kong on 23 June 2013 the US authorities announced they had revoked his US passport and he was subsequently stranded in the transit area of Sheremetyevo airport. The District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia (the court with jurisdiction over the US Department of Defense and the CIA, and where the US government brings most of its national security cases) quickly began sending pre-emptive extradition requests to a number of countries, prior to Mr Snowden being present on those countries territory, to block any attempt by him to travel to or through them. Julian Assange later explained why there were so many asylum requests: We were involved in filling out asylum requests for Edward Snowden formally and informally to around 20 different nations. Some because we thought there was a decent chance, others because we wanted to show the public the refusal, to generate some public debate and awareness about how the government is behaving.

For more detail about Snowdens asylum requests, read the Asylum requests page.

As a publishing organisation, WikiLeaks campaigns for greater protection of journalistic sources and has taken a leading role in assisting Edward Snowden. At his request, WikiLeaks stepped in to use its legal expertise and experience to help Mr Snowden get out of Hong Kong safely. WikiLeaks also provided a legal adviser to accompany him at all times to ensure his safety and assist in making asylum requests to more than two dozen countries. Sarah Harrison stayed with Mr Snowden for four months until she was sure that he was settled and free from the interference of any government.

Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum by Russia on 1 August 2013 for a period of one year ending 31 July 2014, which includes the right to work and travel within the Russian Federation. In August 2014, Edward Snowden was granted a three-year residence permit, which also allows him to travel abroad for periods of up to three months. Mr Snowden is currently at an undisclosed secure location.

Find out more about Edwards current status on the Asylum in Russia page.

Theres plenty you can do! Already local and international events to support Edward Snowden and to highlight the issues his whistleblowing has raised have been organised around the world. We will post details of the latest Edward Snowden-related events here, so you can keep an eye out for events being held in your area. We will also post petitions that you can sign. If you enjoy writing, why not compose an open letter that can be shared with other supporters for a more targeted campaign?

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Software developers, cryptographers and hacktivists are constantly working on methods to help people maintain their privacy online. There are methods available by which you can protect your web browsing data, email communications, instant messaging, SMS, file storage, and more. We are working on a Privacy enhancing technologies page check back soon for more information!

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Julian Assange | Sam Adams Awards | Oxford Union – YouTube

Julian Assange gives his address live via Videolink to the Oxford Union Society. SUBSCRIBE for more speakers http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Facebook @ http://fb.me/theoxfordunion Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/OxfordUnion Oxford Union Website @ http://www.oxford-union.org/

Julian Assange begins his address by saying that in 2007-08 he was looking at what was happening in Iran. He says that a lot of people did good work, especially Thomas Fingar in:

Trying to correct the movement towards war with Iran based on lies.

He says one of the worst modern deceptions of the western world happened only in 2003 where we went to war with Iraq based on lies where over 100, 000 people were killed and millions of Iraqi refugees displaced as a result.

In 2008 WikiLeaks published Iraq's classified rules of engagement for the US army. In those rules there was a section that permitted a border skirmish to start up that allowed US troops to go into Iran under a variety of circumstances. Because of the leak Iran held a press conference saying that in no way are the US allowed into their territory. After this a second rules of engagement was published omitting the border skirmish. Between 20% and 50% of all wars have started as a result of these border skirmishes. 45 hostile military bases surrounds Iran's borders, because of this there is a constant fear of being invaded making for a very tense atmosphere in the country.

He makes the point that WikiLeaks is not against intelligence agencies but mentions that corruption within intelligence agencies is born out of secrecy.

Intelligence analysts mustn't be held responsible to the public through cultural bias but must be responsible to historical record.

He mentions the WikiLeaks movie saying that it's a mass propaganda attack against the WikiLeaks organisation, also it fans the flames for war on Iran as is demonstrated in the opening scene of the film that is read out by Assange who has the script. The movie shows Iran as having an active nuclear program when intelligence reports have revealed in high confidence that this is not the case.

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ABOUT JULIAN ASSANGE: Known worldwide as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has made headlines across the world by exposing government misconduct. He has championed the principle of freedom of information, yet some have criticised his activities as reckless and dangerous. Under Assange's leadership, WikiLeaks has published innumerable classified diplomatic cables and played a crucial role in shaping the international political landscape. He is currently living as a fugitive in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

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WikiLeaks – CIA Director John Brennan emails

Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects.

John Brennan became the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in March 2013, replacing General David Petraeus who was forced to step down after becoming embroiled in a classified information mishandling scandal. Brennan was made Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism on the commencement of the Obama presidency in 2009--a position he held until taking up his role as CIA chief.

According to the CIA Brennan previously worked for the agency for a 25 year stretch, from 1980 to 2005.

Brennan went private in 2005-2008, founding an intelligence and analysis firm The Analysis Corp (TAC). In 2008 Brennan became a donor to Obama. The same year TAC, led by Brennan, became a security advisor to the Obama campaign and later that year to the Obama-Biden Transition Project. It is during this period many of the Obama administration's key strategic policies to China, Iran and "Af-Pak" were formulated. When Obama and Biden entered into power, Brennan was lifted up on high, resulting in his subsequent high-level national security appointments.

If you have similar official documents that have not been published yet, submit them to WikiLeaks.

Recommendations for a USG strategy in the Afghanistan-Pakistan (AF-PK) region. (7. November 2008, Author: SAA)

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A draft report from Louis Tucker, Minority Staff Director to Vice Chairman Christopher Bond, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, outlining the recommendations of the previous document. (7 November 2008, Author: Louis Tucker)

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A list of contacts as stored in the AOL email account of John Brennan. It mostly contains email addresses (people in active email exchange with the account holder) as well as some Instant-Messenger IDs (AIM).

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"National Security Position" form for John Brennan. This form, filled out by Brennan himself before he assumed his current position, reveals a quite comprehensive social graph of the current Director of the CIA with a lot of additional non-govermental and professional/military career details. (17 November 2008, Author: John Brennan)

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FAX from the General Counsel of the CIA to the Goverment Accountability Office about a legal quarrel between the CIA and "The Analysis Corporation". TAC seems to have lost a tender for a US watchlist-related software project to a competitor. Issues seem to revolve around "growth of historical data" and "real-time responsiveness" of the system. (15 February 2008, Sender: CIA, Office of General Counsel, Larry Passar)

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Challenges for the US Intelligence Community in a post cold-war and post-9/11 world; a calling for inter-agency cooperation, a ten-year term for the Director of the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence. It also demands the autonomy of the Intelligence Community, that it "... must never be subject to political manipulation and interference." An unfinished paragraph is titled "Damaging Leaks of Classified Information". (15 July 2007, Author: John Brennan)

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Recommendations to the next President (assuming office in Jan. 2009) on how to play the figures on the U.S.-Iranian Chessboard (18 November 2007, Author: John Brennan)

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Letter from Vice Chairman Bond, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to his fellow board members with a proposal on how to make future interrogation methods "compliant" and "legal". Instead of listing all allowed methods, every kind of interrogation should be considered compliant, as long as it is not explicitly forbidden by the "Army Field Manual" (AFM). (May 2008)

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A bill from July 2008 called "Limitations on Interrogation Techniques Act of 2008" explicitly list the forbidden interrogation techniques mentioned in the previous document and can be considered a direct implementation of the recommendations of Christopher Bond. (31 July 2008)

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WikiLeaks publishes CIA chief’s personal info

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Though all of the documents predate Brennan's time in the Obama administration and reveal no classified data, information such as Social Security numbers, passport numbers and addresses of his family and associates is causing great concern within the agency.

Among the documents released online is Brennan's incomplete SF86, a questionnaire federal employees must fill out in order to gain security clearance. Along with personally identifiable information, this document includes personal information about his health, criminal history, questions about whether he's used drugs and associations with foreign governments.

Other documents, such as a letter from the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a congressional bill from 2008 that would limit interrogation techniques, and a intelligence policy paper were also published but offered little insight into the inner workings of the intelligence community.

The hackers, who claim to have illegally accessed Brennan's personal server last week, are believed to have supplied WikiLeaks with this information and are threatening to release more documents.

"The hacking of the Brennan family account is a crime and the Brennan family is the victim," the CIA said in a statement. "The private electronic holdings of the Brennan family were plundered with malicious intent and are now being distributed across the web. This attack is something that could happen to anyone and should be condemned, not promoted. There is no indication that any the documents released thus far are classified. In fact, they appear to be documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise would be expected to possess."

WikiLeaks tweeted late Wednesday afternoon that it planned to release more emails from Brennan.

"Tomorrow we continue our @CIA chief John Brennan email series, including on US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. #AfPak #CIA," the group said.

CNN's Evan Perez contributed to this report.

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Brennan WikiLeaks Dump Contains No Bombshells

Documents from CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account released by WikiLeaks Wednesday afternoon do not contain any revelations about U.S. intelligence or any classified material, but do include a draft of a paper that urges the president to "tone down" rhetoric about Iran.

There are no actual emails in the release, the first in a series planned by WikiLeaks. Instead, the group published six documents culled from Brennan's emails.

One draft position paper outlines challenges and changes for the U.S. intelligence community after 9/11. It was written in July 2007, but the author is not named. At the time, Brennan was an advisor to the Obama campaign on national security.

Another document that apparently dates from 2007 outlines recommendations on diplomacy and intelligence related to Iran for "whoever takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2009."

The first recommendation in the document, entitled "The Conundrum of Iran," is "Tone Down the Rhetoric" and the second is "Establish a Direct Dialogue with Tehran." Brennan suggests that former Secretary of State Colin Powell be tapped to negotiate with the Iranians, and names other potential candidates -- Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, Tony Lake and Brent Scowcroft.

Brennan published a paper with the same name and much of the same text in an academic journal in 2008, but adding Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Carter, to the list of possible negotiators.

"If WikiLeaks would release his paper, it might actually cause some people to read it," said a former top Pentagon official.

Both the Iran and the post-9/11 documents released by WikiLeaks are apparently drafts, since they include incomplete paragraphs and sentences.

Two other documents in the WikiLeaks dump that relate to torture were not authored by Brennan, but by then-Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri. One details a proposal for future interrogation methods not prohibited by the Army Field Manual, while the other is the text of a bill, dated May 2008, to limit interrogation techniques. Bond left the Senate in 2011, but was the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2008. His bill was referred to the committee in August 2008 but never made it any further.

Another document is part of a contract dispute between Brennan's private firm and the CIA in 2007.

The documents also include a form dated Nov. 17, 2008 that Brennan filled out to obtain a national security clearance. It contains some personal information but is not completed. After Obama's election and inauguration, Brennan became his homeland security advisor. He became CIA director in 2013.

After a hacker revealed he had gained access to Brennan's personal AOL account earlier this week, as first reported by the New York Post, Wikileaks said it would begin releasing emails from the account. It has not said when to expect the next release of emails or documents.

In a statement, a CIA spokesman called the hacking of the Brennan account a crime. "The private electronic holdings of the Brennan family were plundered with malicious intent and are now being distributed across the web," said the statement. "This attack is something that could happen to anyone and should be condemned, not promoted."

"There is no indication that any the documents released thus far are classified. In fact, they appear to be documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise would be expected to possess."

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Edward Snowden attorney: ‘Pick your misdemeanor’

Ben Wizner an attorney for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, spoke in Nashville on Saturday about the impact of government surveillance on free speech and democracy.(Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)Buy Photo

Edward Snowden wants to return to the United States, an attorney for the NSA whistleblower told a Nashville crowd on Saturday, but it would have to be under considerably more lenientterms than thecrimes he would currently face.

Ben Wizner, an attorney for Snowden, framed those comments assimplyreading between the lines of past statements from Snowden. Wizner was speaking at an American Civil Liberties Union-sponsored event at the downtown Nashville Public Library called, Surveillance State: Can Democracy Survive?

Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor considered a hero by some and traitor by others, remains living in Russia more than two years after his release of documents to multiple media organizations revealed government programs that systematically collect data from private citizens in the name of national security.

Whats next for Edward Snowden? Wizner said. I will tell you what hes said. He would like to return to the United States. He doesnt like being across the world from his closest family members. Hes not going to come back and accept felony convictions and lose civil rights as a consequence of his act of conscience.

Hes not going to accept a sentence to be held up as a deterrent to future acts of whistleblowing, Wizner added. He has also said that hes not afraid of accepting some punishment. Hes never ruled out doing jail time. If you read between the lines of all those statements, maybe what hes saying to the government is, Pick your misdemeanor,but otherwise thats not a justice system,its a punishment system.'I do think the climate around his ultimate decision is changing.

Ben Wizner, right, an attorney for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, answers questions during a forum with ACLU of Tennessee Executive Director Hedy Weinberg at the downtown Nashville Public Library.(Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)

Wizner, director of the ACLUs Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, started working at the ACLU one month before 9/11. Since then, hes focused much of his legal work on government intelligence and terrorism.

Under the Espionage Act, Wizner said that the trial Snowden would get would be an empty exercise if he did choose to come home because Snowden already identified himself as the person who leaked the documents to journalists.

That is all the government needs to prove that trial, he said. And everything that he might want to say in his own defense is not only irrelevant under the Espionage Act, its inadmissible under the Espionage Act.

Wizners Nashville appearance was kicked off Saturday with a viewing of "Citizenfour," a documentary film that details the meetings between Snowden and reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras leading up to Snowdens leak of documents. Wizner, who was introduced Saturday by ACLU of Tennessee Executive Director Hedy Weinberg, spoke for about 25 minutes before taking questions from those in attendance.

In his remarks, Wizner argued that the oversight of government intelligence has improved in the two-plus years since Snowden took actions to expose the scope of government surveillance. Wizner defended his thesis by pointing to a recent court decision, congressional action this summer and new attitudes among both media and technology companies. He cited:

All of the entities in our society that are set up to do oversight over the executive branch and the intelligence community have been strengthened in the last two and a half years, Wizner said.Correspondingly, the intelligence community, which has been unchecked for so long, and certainly since 9/11, has been constrained more in the last two and a half years than perhaps in a whole generation.

Moving forward, he said he's encouraged that the government surveillance issue has not turned partisan.

For the most part, politically, this is not playing out as a partisan issue, he said. The fact that its not played out as a partisan issue makes it more possible for us to actually get victories.

Reach Joey Garrison at 615-259-8236 and on Twitter @joeygarrison.

Ben Wizner, an attorney for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, waits to be introduced at the downtown Nashville Public Library as Wayne Neal Remmy and dog OrEo look on.(Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)

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WikiLeaks Wikipdia, a enciclopdia livre

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WikiLeaks uma organizao transnacional sem fins lucrativos, sediada na Sucia,[1] que publica, em sua pgina (site), postagens (posts) de fontes annimas, documentos, fotos e informaes confidenciais, vazadas de governos ou empresas, sobre assuntos sensveis. A pgina (site) foi construda com base em vrios pacotes de programas (software), incluindo MediaWiki, Freenet, Tor e PGP.[2] Apesar do seu nome, a WikiLeaks no uma wiki - leitores que no tm as permisses adequadas no podem editar o seu contedo.

A pgina (site), administrado por The Sunshine Press,[3] foi lanado em dezembro de 2006 e, em meados de novembro de 2007, j continha 1,2 milho de documentos.[4] Seu principal editor e porta-voz o australiano Julian Assange, jornalista e ciberativista.[5]

Ao longo de 2010, WikiLeaks publicou grandes quantidades de documentos confidenciais do governo dos Estados Unidos, com forte repercusso mundial. Em abril, divulgou um vdeo de 2007, que mostra o ataque de um helicptero Apache estado-unidense, matando pelo menos 12 pessoas - dentre as quais dois jornalistas da agncia de notcias Reuters - em Bagd, no contexto da ocupao do Iraque. O vdeo do ataque areo em Bagd (Collateral Murder) uma das mais notveis publicaes da pgina (site).[6][7] Outro documento polmico mostrado pela pgina (site) a cpia de um manual de instrues para tratamento de prisioneiros na priso militar estado-unidense de Guantnamo, em Cuba.[8] Em julho do mesmo ano, WikiLeaks promoveu a divulgao de uma grande quantidade de documentos secretos do exrcito dos Estados Unidos, reportando a morte de milhares de civis na guerra do Afeganisto em decorrncia da ao de militares norte-americanos. Finalmente, em novembro, publicou uma srie de telegramas secretos enviados pelas embaixadas dos Estados Unidos ao governo do pas.

Como aliados, atraiu os meios tradicionais El Pas, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Guardian e The New York Times, com o intuito de divulgar contedo secreto da diplomacia americana. Recebeu manifestaes de apoio de lderes mundiais como Lus Incio Lula da Silva e Vladimir Putin, que defenderam sua liberdade. [9]

Em 2 de fevereiro de 2011, o WikiLeaks foi indicado ao Prmio Nobel da Paz,[10][11] pelo parlamentar noruegus Snorre Valen. O autor da proposta disse que o WikiLeaks "uma das contribuies mais importantes para a liberdade de expresso e transparncia" no sculo XXI. "Ao divulgar informaes sobre corrupo, violaes dos direitos humanos e crimes de guerra, o WikiLeaks um candidato natural ao Prmio Nobel da Paz", acrescentou.[12]

Seu fundador, Julian Assange publicou livros: Cypherpunks Liberdade e o futuro da Internet, onde acusa governos de usarem a internet com objetivos de manuteno do poder poltico e econmico das naes e Wikileaks A guerra de Julian Assange contra os segredos de Estado. [13]

O domnio wikileaks.org foi registrado em 4 de outubro de 2006, mas o projeto WikiLeaks foi mantido em segredo at a publicao do primeiro documento, em dezembro do mesmo ano.[14][15]

Em janeiro de 2007, Steven Aftergood, editor do Secrecy News, veio a pblico apresentar o site.[16] Segundo o site da WikiLeaks, entre seus fundadores esto dissidentes chineses, jornalistas, matemticos e tecnlogos de empresas start-up dos EUA, de Taiwan, da Europa, Austrlia e frica do Sul.[17][18] . Os organizadores afirmam que a WikiLeaks uma entidade autorregulada.

Para a postagem, a WikiLeaks recomenda vivamente o uso do Tor, visando a preservar a privacidade dos seus usurios,[19] e garante que a informao colocada pelos usurios no rastrevel.

De acordo com uma entrevista de janeiro de 2010, a equipe da WikiLeaks constituda por menos de dez pessoas que trabalham em tempo integral, mas especula-se que a WikiLeaks conte com algo entre mil e dois mil voluntrios, que colaboram ocasionalmente - a maioria sem qualquer contrapartida financeira. Entre os intelectuais, ativistas, jornalistas e programadores listados pela WikiLeaks como membros de seu conselho, esto o australiano Phillip Adams (produtor do clssico documentrio Coraes e mentes), o brasileiro Chico Whitaker (proponente e articulador do Frum Social Mundial), o chins Wang Dan (um dos lderes dos protestos da Praa Tiananmen em 1989) e Ben Laurie (criador do Apache-SSL e um dos maiores especialistas mundiais em segurana de rede).[20][21]

A organizao no possui sede oficial. As despesas por ano so de cerca de 200.000 dlares, principalmente empregues em servidores, burocracia e pagamento de advogados[22] , mas atingiria os 600.000 dlares se o trabalho doado pelos voluntrios fosse remunerado. Para pagar suas despesas judiciais, a WikiLeaks conta com doaes de centenas de milhares de dlares feitas por organizaes de mdia, tais como a Associated Press, o Los Angeles Times e a National Newspaper Publishers Association. As suas nicas fontes de rendimentos so as doaes, mas a WikiLeaks planeja criar um modelo de leilo, no qual ser vendido o acesso precoce a documentos confidenciais. Segundo a fundao Wau Holland[23] , a WikiLeaks no recebe dinheiro para cobrir custos de pessoal, mas sim para hardware, viagens e largura de banda. O site sofre sanes de vrias organizaes bancrias.[24]

As atividades da WikiLeaks tiveram enorme repercusso mundial aps a divulgao de uma grande massa de documentos secretos do exrcito dos Estados Unidos, reportando a morte de milhares de civis na guerra do Afeganisto por militares norte-americanos. Julian Assange, o fundador da WikiLeaks, vazou (da o nome leak: vazar, em ingls, isto , tornar pblica uma informao reservada) parte dos quase 92 mil documentos[25] recebidos de um colaborador para The New York Times, The Guardian e Der Spiegel e depois publicou-os na Internet.[26][27] Os relatrios abrangem o perodo de janeiro de 2004 a dezembro de 2009.[28][29][30]

Assange defendeu a confiabilidade do material vazado sobre o conflito e disse que os documentos contm evidncias de que crimes de guerra foram cometidos por tropas de diversas nacionalidades, em especial pelas foras estadunidenses, durante a ocupao militar do Afeganisto.[31]

O Pentgono suspeita que o responsvel pela fuga das informaes para a WikiLeaks tenha sido o soldado Bradley Manning, de 22 anos, que teria descarregado dezenas de milhares de documentos, utilizando-se de um sistema militar de correio eletrnico, denominado Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, ao qual apenas militares autorizados tm acesso. Inicialmente Manning ficou preso em uma base militar no Kuwait. Em 28 de julho, foi transferido para a base dos fuzileiros navais de Quantico, na Virginia, onde est mantido em confinamento solitrio.

Em junho, Manning foi acusado de oito violaes do Cdigo Penal dos Estados Unidos. Ele tambm suspeito de ter passado WikiLeaks o vdeo do helicptero que matou civis desarmados perto de Bagd, divulgado anteriormente. Alm de relatos de episdios de grande violncia, envolvendo a morte de civis e possveis crimes de guerra, os documentos indicam a existncia de eventual colaborao entre o servio secreto do Paquisto (pas aliado dos EUA) e os talibs, em ataques contra militares da coligao da OTAN no Afeganisto. Est em curso uma investigao para determinar se h outras pessoas envolvidas no caso.[32]

Em entrevista ao The Washington Post, um especialista em computao, da rea de Boston, reportou que, em meados de junho - depois que Manning foi acusado de passar para a WikiLeaks o vdeo do ataque de helicptero contra os civis iraquianos e antes do vazamento dos arquivos sobre a guerra do Afeganisto - investigadores do governo dos EUA lhe ofereceram dinheiro para que ele se "infiltrasse" na WikiLeaks, mas ele no aceitou.[33]

Para o governo dos Estados Unidos, o vazamento coloca em risco as vidas dos soldados estado-unidenses e do pessoal afego, abala a confiana dos aliados e ameaa a segurana nacional.[34] O diretor da WikiLeaks, porm, criticou a reao do governo norte-americano ao vazamento. Atacou especialmente o Secretrio de Defesa, Robert Gates, acusando-o de estar por trs das mortes de milhares de crianas e adultos no Afeganisto e no Iraque. Segundo Assange, Gates poderia ter anunciado a abertura de investigaes sobre as mortes denunciadas ou ter-se desculpado diante do povo afego, mas no fez nada disso. "Decidiu tratar estes assuntos e os pases afetados com desprezo", concluiu.[35]

Alguns analistas compararam este episdio a outro grande caso de vazamento, conhecido como Pentagon Papers, ocorrido em 1971, quando o The New York Times iniciou a publicao seriada de um grande relatrio do governo Lyndon Johnson sobre as aes polticas e militares dos EUA no Vietn. Os documentos mostraram que o governo mentira acerca dos seus interesses e aes no conflito. Richard Nixon, ento no poder, conseguiu sustar a publicao na Justia, alegando que o vazamento colocava em risco a segurana nacional, mas depois a Suprema Corte do pas julgou que s uma imprensa livre pode efetivamente expor as fraudes de um governo. Assim, o Times pde prosseguir na publicao do relatrio.[36]

Sobre sua segurana pessoal, Assange revelou que algumas pessoas, como o famoso reprter investigativo Seymour Hersh, fizeram chegar a ele recomendaes para que se cuide. Tambm um ex-diplomata e jornalista australiano, especializado em segurana nacional, alertou-o de que o governo dos Estados Unidos tentou articular-se com os servios de inteligncia australianos para intensificar a vigilncia e eventualmente efetuar a deteno do pessoal da WikiLeaks. Segundo a mesma fonte, o governo australiano rejeitou a proposta.[37]

Em 29 de julho, Jacob Appelbaum, especialista em segurana de computadores e um dos voluntrios da WikiLeaks, foi detido no aeroporto de Newark e interrogado durante trs horas, por agentes da inteligncia do exrcito americano e funcionrios do controle de imigrao (ICE), a respeito de suas relaes com a WikiLeaks e com Julian Assange e sobre suas opinies sobre as guerras no Iraque e no Afeganisto. Appelbaum, de 27 anos, que trabalha para a Tor Project, como desenvolvedor de softwares, retornava de uma viagem ao exterior. Seu laptop e seus trs telefones celulares foram apreendidos.

O computador (laptop) foi devolvido, depois de ter o seu contedo presumivelmente copiado. Appelbaum contou imprensa que os agentes do ICE no permitiram que ele fosse assistido por um advogado durante o interrogatrio.[38][39] Segundo Appelbaum, os agentes o ameaaram com a possibilidade de det-lo para um novo interrogatrio a cada vez que voltasse aos Estados Unidos. "Questionaram minha capacidade de voltar a entrar nos Estados Unidos, apesar de eu ser um cidado americano. muito perturbador pensar que, a cada vez que eu cruzar a fronteira, serei tratado dessa maneira", declarou ele, informando que viaja para o exterior a negcios duas vezes por ms.[40]

Iraq War Logs (Registros da Guerra do Iraque) uma coleo de 391.832 relatrios do Exrcito dos Estados Unidos sobre a Guerra do Iraque, abrangendo o perodo de 1 de janeiro de 2004 a 31 de dezembro de 2009, publicada no portal WikiLeaks a 22 de outubro de 2010, em coordenao com vrios meios de comunicao (The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera e o Bureau of Investigative Journalism), que dispunham previamente da documentao militar estadunidense e britnica.

Segundo os relatrios, houve 109.032 mortes na guerra do Iraque, incluindo 66.081 (mais de 60%) civis, 23.984 inimigos (os chamados "insurgentes"), 15.196 membros das foras do governo iraquiano e 3.771 membros das foras da coalizo.[41][42] Trata-se do maior vazamento na histria militar dos Estados Unidos, superando o vazamento de documentos sobre a guerra do Afeganisto, publicados em julho de 2010.[43][44][45][46][47] A invaso do Iraque ocorreu entre 20 de maro e 1 de maio de 2003. A guerra terminou em 18 de agosto de 2010, com a retirada das ltimas tropas de combate dos EUA - embora 50.000 militares permaneam no Iraque como "conselheiros", at o fim de 2011, para treinar as foras governamentais iraquianas e "proteger os interesses dos Estados Unidos".[48]

Em 28 de novembro de 2010, publicou uma srie de telegramas secretos de embaixadas e do governo estadunidense. Dois dias depois, em 30 de novembro, a pedido da justia da Sucia, a Interpol distribuiu em 188 pases uma notificao vermelha, ou seja, um chamado queles que souberem do paradeiro de Julian Assange para que entrem em contato com a polcia - o que equivale aproximadamente a uma ordem internacional de priso. Isso porque, em agosto, duas mulheres suecas denunciaram Assange por violncia sexual.

Em 1 de dezembro de 2010, a WikiLeaks anunciou que a Amazon o expulsara dos seus servidores, onde estava hospedado desde que comearam os ataques contra seu hospedeiro sueco, Bahnhof, em 28 de novembro, o que tornou o acesso instvel. Quando, no dia 1, os servidores da Amazon pararam de responder aos pedidos de acesso, a WikiLeaks ficou indisponvel durante vrias horas. O senador estado-unidense Joe Lieberman, que tambm chefe do Comit de Segurana Interna do Senado dos EUA, informou que a deciso da Amazon atendia a pedidos de membros do congresso americano.[49] Segundo o senador, "a deciso da companhia Amazon de cortar a WikiLeaks agora a deciso correta e deveria estabelecer o padro para as demais", referindo-se aos demais servidores onde a WikiLeaks tem documentos armazenados.

No dia 3 de dezembro de 2010, aps o EveryDNS retirar o domnio http://wikileaks.org/ do ar,[50] o WikiLeaks pediu atravs do Twitter que ajudassem a equipe, criando mirrors (espelhos) do site. O novo site foi movido para http://wikileaks.ch/, hospedado na Sua,[51] e aproximadamente 507 espelhos (mirrors) em todo o mundo foram criados.[52] Uma lista de espelhos (mirrors) pode ser encontrada em http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html. No mesmo dia, o site ficou disponvel oficialmente tambm atravs dos domnios http://wikileaks.de/, http://wikileaks.fi/ e http://wikileaks.nl/.%5B53%5D

Discusses sobre uma suposta censura do WikiLeaks por parte do Twitter comearam a surgir por volta de 5 de dezembro de 2010, motivadas pela inexistncia de Trend Topics relacionados ao WikiLeaks recentemente, quando era claro que era um assunto muito comentado na semana.[54][55] Twitter respondeu, afirmando que no h qualquer ao de censura ou apologia ao WikiLeaks por parte deles, explicando ainda como funciona o algoritmo usado para determinar se um assunto uma tendncia.[56][57] Dias depois, o Twitter divulgou seu balano anual, no qual o "Wikileaks Cablegate" aparece como a stima notcia mais comentada no ano.

Os ataques de hackers aos sites da MasterCard e Visa tiveram incio na quarta-feira de 8 de dezembro de 2010 quando crackers do Grupo Anonymous danificaram a rede de computadores das empresas de cartes de crdito MasterCard e Visa, em retaliao ao bloqueio de doaes para o site WikiLeaks.[59]

WikiLeaks recebeu vrios prmios para novas mdias, incluindo o New Media Award 2008 da revista The Economist.[60] Em junho de 2009, a WikiLeaks e Julian Assange ganharam o Media Award 2009 (categoria New Media) da Anistia Internacional[61] pela publicao de Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances, em 2008,[62] tratando-se de um relatrio da Comisso Nacional Queniana de Direitos Humanos sobre a poltica de extermnio no Qunia. Em maio de 2010, a WikiLeaks foi referida como o nmero 1 entre os "websites que poderiam mudar completamente o formato atual das notcias".[63]

Em abril de 2010, a WikiLeaks postou, no website Collateral Murder, um vdeo feito em 12 de julho de 2007, que mostrava civis iraquianos sendo mortos durante um ataque areo das foras militares dos Estados Unidos. Em julho do mesmo ano, a organizao ganhou maior visibilidade mundial, ao divulgar o Afghan War Diary, uma compilao de mais de 76.900 documentos secretos do governo americano sobre a Guerra do Afeganisto.

No ms de outubro 2010, em articulao com grandes organizaes da mdia, a WikiLeaks publicou um pacote com quase 400.000 documentos secretos, denominado Iraq War Logs, reportando torturas de prisioneiros e ataques a civis pelos norte-americanos e seus aliados, na Guerra do Iraque. Segundo os vazamentos, o governo brasileiro prendeu rabes em segredo[64] , fortaleceu relaes diplomticas com o Chile de Michelle Bachelet[65] e a Frana de Nicolas Sarkozy[66] . Alm disso, os americanos ficaram preocupados com o risco de apago durante a copa de 2014.[67] Tambm houve revelaes sobre o tratado da parceria transpacfico.[68]

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