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A Free And Fearless Press?

By Nancy A. Youssef

The freedom of the press committee of the Overseas Press Club of America in New York City declared him "not one of us."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27230.htm



US demands IP's and other info of all 637,000 followers

Wikileaks says: Too late to unfollow; Trick used is to demand the lists, dates and IPs of all who received our twitter messages.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/23943796899184640



Original Twitter Subpoena

637,000 Wikileaks followers are target of US gov subpoena against Twitter.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf



Facebook and Google under pressure over WikiLeaks

Pressure was growing for Facebook and Google to state whether they have been asked to submit data on prominent figures linked to WikiLeaks, as fresh signs emerged that a secret jury investigation will lead to an attempt to lay criminal charges against the whistleblowing website's founder.

http://ind.pn/egblO4


From Information Clearing House

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Let a thousand leaks bloom

Wikileaks WendyMcElroy.com
by Wendy McElroy

01/09/11

The ongoing torrent of released documents by WikiLeaks is an e-nightmare for the United States. WikiLeaks is the international document-leaking organization run by Julian Assange on the principle that the purpose of political secrecy is to protect the guilty. As authorities scramble frantically to silence the flow of information, technology is poised to make that task closer to impossible...

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3720



Bradley Manning and the rule of law

Bradley Manning Antiwar.com
by Kevin B. Zeese

01/11/11

The case of Pfc. Bradley Manning raises legal issues about his pre-trial detention, freedom of speech and the press, and proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Putting aside Manning?s guilt or innocence, if Bradley Manning saw the Afghan and Iraq war diaries as well as the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, what should he have done? And what should be the proper response of government to their publication?

http://tinyurl.com/4bef4hv



Government-created climate of fear

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/10/11

A government can guarantee all the political liberties in the world on paper (free speech, free assembly, freedom of association), but if it succeeds in frightening the citizenry out of exercising those rights, they become meaningless. So much of what the U.S. Government has done over the last decade has been devoted to creating and strengthening this climate of fear...

http://salon.com/a/s9iIfAA



Weighing the consequences of political rhetoric

The American Prospect
by Michelle Goldberg

01/10/11

Certainly, there are crazy people across the political spectrum. But somehow, in recent decades, the vast majority of political violence in this country comes from the right and is directed at either liberals or the federal government...

http://tinyurl.com/22nn7oe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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