Wikileaks BBC Scandal, how I faked the winner of Chris Evans 500 Words Short Story Contest 2014 – Video


Wikileaks BBC Scandal, how I faked the winner of Chris Evans 500 Words Short Story Contest 2014
Bob Shennan secretly hired me to write a #39;winner #39; for Chris Evans #39; 500 Words Contest, because all the ones sent in by kids were bilge. He paid me in Popmaste...

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‘Paranoid, vain and jealous’ – the secret life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Hed rather spend hours Googling himself than have his own say in the pages of his autobiography.

In the end Assange's publisher, Cannongate, releases its own version of the autobiography, after Assange allegedly fails to honour the terms of his contract. The book flopped, selling only 700 copies in its first week

During their time together Assange behaves in front of OHagan like an egotistical tyrant interested more in his own self-publicity than in changing the world. Worse still, he turns on his friends with increasing regularity, rather than focusing his anger on his enemies.

At one stage Assange describes the Ecuadorean ambassador offering him diplomatic asylum as mad, fat and ludicrous for going on a diet because she did not like the photographs of herself in the press.

The WikiLeaks founder is also disparaging of his former ally Jemima Khan, who put up the surety for his bail before he broke its conditions by seeking refuge in the embassy. OHagan recounts: He didnt pause to ask why a loyal supporter might become aggrieved; when I raised it with him he simply made a horribly sexist remark.

Earlier OHagan had watched as Assange leered at two 14-year-old girls as they walked past a caf table at which they were sitting. OHagan writes how Assange thought they were fine, until he saw one was wearing braces.

Even Assanges girlfriend, WikiLeaks researcher Sarah Harrison, grew increasingly frustrated at his behaviour during the weeks he spent on bail at Ellingham Hall, in Norfolk, the home of another of his guarantors, Vaughan Smith, the founder of the Frontline Club.

Miss Harrison says of Assange: He openly chats girls up and has his hands on their a**e and goes nuts if I even talk to another guy. Hes like threatened to fire me a few times and always for crazy reasons. One of the times was literally because I had hugged another member of staff. Julian was like 'thats so disrespectful to me.

Indeed Miss Harrison appears to begin having doubts about Assanges account of his relationship with the two Swedish women who have accused him of rape.

She tells OHagan: It was weird. Like, why was he even staying with those girls? He didnt rape them, but he was really f****** stupid.

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Whistleblowers unite in London

Whistleblowers must not only face the wrath of powerful and unforgiving opponents, as the cases of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning illustrate. They also face other trials, of which we know little. There is endless personal hardship, the loss of friends, the swift shrinkage of financial resources, the nightmare of unemployment and unemployability, and crippling legal costs. In short, the prospect of coping with manifestly life-altering circumstances.

The new Whistler Fellowship Alliance, set up by Gavin Mcfayden, Director of the London-based Centre for Investigative Journalism, and Eileen Chubb, a former health care worker who blew the whistle on elderly patient abuse in hospitals and health-care homes in the UK, WFA will provide emotional and legal assistance to those who have or are considering righting a wrong.

If you take up the issue of abuse internally, your employer does not take action. It you decide to go public, you are not employable, and that is happening on a huge scale, said Ms. Chubb at a pre-launch event organised at the City University London on February 18. After she lost her job, and her legal case, Ms. Chubb set up Compassion in Care, a trust that now works with people like her.

It was only after I left government could I see with clarity how former colleagues were suborned into manufacturing fraudulent evidence during the Iraq war, said Ray McGovern, a retired Central Intelligence Agency analyst-turned political activist, who returned his Intelligence Commendation Medal in 2006 in protest against CIAs alleged involvement in torture.

A former senior NSA official, Thomas Drake spoke of his horror in the aftermath of 9/11 to discover that the very Constitution that I had taken an oath to defend was being subverted in the name of national security. Little did I know at that time that I would end up being declared an enemy of the state.

According to him, the U.S. government had information that if it shared would have stopped 9/11 itself from happening. Taking the decision to work within the system as long as I could do so, he came up against successive blocks. He even made a detailed presentation before a Congressional Committee on what he calls the dirty secrets of the secret state that had the evidence for 9/11 and chose not to share it before [the event], then covered it all up afterwards.

I had become radioactive, Mr. Drake said. He went to the press in 2005, was indicted under the Espionage Act in April 2010, and faced 35 years in prison. He was declared indigent as he could not pay legal fees. His case was fought by Jesselyn Radack, a former U.S. Department of Justice Ethics Adviser. Eventually, all 10 felony charges against him were dropped.

Ms. Radack, who is also legal adviser to Edward Snowden, was herself blacklisted for exposing a major reconstruction fraud in Iraq. She was put on a no-fly list by the U.S. government. I have dedicated my life to protecting whistleblowers, she said.

Annie Machon, a former MI5 intelligence officer, had to leave the British Security Service in 1997. With her partner David Shayle, Ms. Machon was on the run for several years for exposing illegal intelligence activities.

The formal launch of the organisation is on March 20.

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Whistleblowers refuse to be hounded, form alliance

Whistleblowers must not only face the wrath of powerful and unforgiving opponents, as the cases of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning illustrate. They also face other trials, of which we know little. There is endless personal hardship, the loss of friends, the swift shrinkage of financial resources, the nightmare of unemployment and unemployability, and crippling legal costs. In short, the prospect of coping with manifestly life-altering circumstances.

The new Whistler Fellowship Alliance, set up by Gavin Mcfayden, Director of the London-based Centre for Investigative Journalism, and Eileen Chubb, a former health care worker who blew the whistle on elderly patient abuse in hospitals and health-care homes in the UK, WFA will provide emotional and legal assistance to those who have or are considering righting a wrong.

If you take up the issue of abuse internally, your employer does not take action. It you decide to go public, you are not employable, and that is happening on a huge scale, said Ms. Chubb at a pre-launch event organised at the City University London on February 18. After she lost her job, and her legal case, Ms. Chubb set up Compassion in Care, a trust that now works with people like her.

It was only after I left government could I see with clarity how former colleagues were suborned into manufacturing fraudulent evidence during the Iraq war, said Ray McGovern, a retired Central Intelligence Agency analyst-turned political activist, who returned his Intelligence Commendation Medal in 2006 in protest against CIAs alleged involvement in torture.

A former senior NSA official, Thomas Drake spoke of his horror in the aftermath of 9/11 to discover that the very Constitution that I had taken an oath to defend was being subverted in the name of national security. Little did I know at that time that I would end up being declared an enemy of the state.

According to him, the U.S. government had information that if it shared would have stopped 9/11 itself from happening. Taking the decision to work within the system as long as I could do so, he came up against successive blocks. He even made a detailed presentation before a Congressional Committee on what he calls the dirty secrets of the secret state that had the evidence for 9/11 and chose not to share it before [the event], then covered it all up afterwards.

I had become radioactive, Mr. Drake said. He went to the press in 2005, was indicted under the Espionage Act in April 2010, and faced 35 years in prison. He was declared indigent as he could not pay legal fees. His case was fought by Jesselyn Radack, a former U.S. Department of Justice Ethics Adviser. Eventually, all 10 felony charges against him were dropped.

Ms. Radack, who is also legal adviser to Edward Snowden, was herself blacklisted for exposing a major reconstruction fraud in Iraq. She was put on a no-fly list by the U.S. government. I have dedicated my life to protecting whistleblowers, she said.

Annie Machon, a former MI5 intelligence officer, had to leave the British Security Service in 1997. With her partner David Shayle, Ms. Machon was on the run for several years for exposing illegal intelligence activities.

The formal launch of the organisation is on March 20.

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NSA Official Warned About Threat 17 Years Before Snowden

Seventeen years before Edward Snowden began releasing secret documents on U.S. electronic spying, an analyst with the National Security Agency foresaw just such a threat.

In their quest to benefit from the great advantages of networked computer systems, the U.S. military and intelligence communities have put almost all of their classified information eggs into one very precarious basket: computer system administrators, the unidentified analyst wrote in a 1996 special edition of Cryptologic Quarterly, an NSA magazine.

Despite the warning, the NSA remained vulnerable. When Snowdens first disclosures became public last year, some of the agencies computers were still equipped with USB ports where thumb drives could be used to copy files, according to a National Public Radio report in September.

Snowden was a systems analyst working as a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. (BAH) at an NSA regional signals intelligence facility in Hawaii when he exploited his administrative access to copy thousands of top-secret documents before fleeing to Hong Kong and then Moscow.

A relatively small number of system administrators are able to read, copy, move, alter, and destroy almost every piece of classified information handled by a given agency or organization, the analyst wrote in the 1996 article. An insider-gone-bad with enough hacking skills to gain root privileges might acquire similar capabilities. It seems amazing that so few are allowed to control so much -- apparently with little or no supervision or security audits.

The authors name remains classified. It was redacted in a declassified version of the article that was released in 2012.

One thing we have done post-media leaks is lock those down hard, so those are all in two-person control areas, Lonny Anderson, the head of the NSAs Technology Directorate, told NPR.

In a speech at Fordham University in New York last year, General Keith Alexander, the NSAs director, said the agency also has taken steps to reduce the number of systems administrators and those with privileged access.

Snowdens security breach wasnt unprecedented, according to the 1996 article, titled Out of Control.

In 1994, for example, a contractor employed at a Regional SIGINT Operations Center (RSOC) was caught accessing restricted files on a classified system, according to the article. It also cited another incident at the same RSOC, the details of which were redacted when the article was declassified.

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Snowden elected rector of UK varsity

LONDON: Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency analyst who revealed US surveillance of phone and Internet communications, was elected rector of Glasgow University in Scotland on Wednesday. The analyst was nominated by a group of students at the university who said they had received his approval through his lawyer. The group said: We are incredibly delighted to see Edward Snowden elected as the new rector of Glasgow University. The statement said the institution had a virtuous tradition of making significant statements through our rectors. It added: Our opposition to pervasive and immoral state intrusion has gone down in the records. What is more, we showed Edward Snowden and other brave whistleblowers that we stand in solidarity with them, regardless of where they are. The largely symbolic post of rector mainly involves representing the universitys students. The successful candidate is expected to attend meetings with the governing body and other authorities. Snowden received temporary asylum in Russia in August a move that infuriated the United States and is believed to be living in the Moscow area. Previous holders of the rectors post at Glasgow University include Winnie Mandela and Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. The current holder is former Liberal Democrat party leader Charles Kennedy. (AFP)

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