Edward Snowden requests asylum in 20 countries, Amnesty International calls US actions to prevent asylum ‘deplorable’
NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden is still seeking some country to receive him as he awaits in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport. Image/CIA After asylum requests to Iceland, More...
Australia’s newest political party: The Wikileaks Party
Whistleblower website, Wikileaks, was officially granted political party status with the Australian Electoral Commission on July 1, just in time for Julian Assange’s run for the Senate from the Ecuadorean More...
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden passport revoked, Wikileaks founder says it’s a ‘disgrace’
The former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed a highly classified surveillance program has had his U.S. passport revoked, but may do little other than strand the man in Russia. Wikileaks founder Julian More...
Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong, seeks asylum in Ecuador
Just two days after the US government filed espionage charges against the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and reports say authorities have requested that Hong Kong detain him for extradition, Snowden has More...
FBI addresses conspiracy theories on Michael Hastings death, contradicts WikiLeaks tweet
While the Internet is buzzing with conspiracy theories, the FBI took the unusual step this week of denying rumors it was investigating Michael Hastings before the journalist’s death. “At no time was More...
Bradley Manning case begins as debate continues: whistleblower or traitor?
The court-martial for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning begins today in Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of military and State Department documents that ended up being published More...
WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, drops 1.7 million more US documents outing Henry Kissinger files
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has published 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence records on his “whistleblowing” website. The documents cover diplomatic or intelligence reports on every More...
Julian Assange attacks Benedict Cumberbatch led film as ‘massive propaganda attack’
The Wikileaks founder has voiced his dissatisfaction with a new film profiling his development of Wikileaks and the outing of secret information which made him famous. Julian Assange speaking the Ecuador Embassy More...
First look at ‘The Fifth Estate’ with Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Production gets underway on “The Fifth Estate,” a film diving in the Wikileaks organization and its founder Julian Assange. Assange will be played by “Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch More...
Julian Assange says Wikileaks will release 1 million more documents in 2013
Julian Assange makes a rare public appearance from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has taken refuge, to announce more documents are coming in 2013. Details and a video was made available More...
Wikileaks tweets US to blame for Embassy attacks, then posts new statements
WikiLeaks has sparked outrage after suggesting the Libyan embassy was attacked because the US had backed Britain’s threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London and remove Julian Assange. Julian Assange More...
Bradley Manning case complicated as government ‘excises’ evidence
In addition to their 22 charged offenses, prosecutors can use uncharged conduct by alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning to undermine his defense that he was a “good soldier” before his arrest, a More...
Britain says Julian Assange will not be given safe passage to Ecuador, ‘may storm’ embassy
The diplomatic and political minefield that is the fate of Julian Assange is expected to come a step closer to being traversed when Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, gave his decision to grant the WikiLeaks’ More...
Ecuador grants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange asylum
Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, has agreed to grant Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador’s government have said. The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at Ecuador’s London embassy More...
Julian Assange ignores police request to surrender
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is ignoring a Metropolitan Police order to surrender himself at a police station, his representative has said. Susan Benn said he was advised to “decline to comply” and More...
Bradley Manning will face court martial, life imprisonment for leaking documents to Wikileaks
The US Army has confirmed that Bradley Manning, the US soldier charged with passing thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, will face court martial and the risk of life imprisonment. Prosecutors say WikiLeaks More...
Bradley Manning court martial hearing moves forward, prosecution not seeking death penalty
A US Army analyst suspected of leaking government secrets will face a military court on 16 December, his lawyer says. Bradley Manning faces charges of obtaining and distributing government secrets – which he allegedly More...
Wikileaks: Guantanamo Bay conditions detailed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed warns of nuclear bomb
WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblower website run by Australian Julian Assange, has released yet another cache of highly secret, highly controversial documents – this time about the U.S. detention facility More...
HBO developing Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, biopic
Julian Assange might be getting the HBO film treatment. A movie about the controversial WikiLeaks founder is in early development at HBO Films. HBO is in discussions with frequent collaborator BBC about co-producing More...
CIA launches Wikileaks Task Force, WTF, to investigate impact of leaked documents by Bradley Manning
The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA More...