U.S. Press Freedom 2014: Much Is in the Eye of the Beholder
The headline from “World Press Freedom 2014,” published by Reporters Without Borders (RWB), was grave: The United States has plummeted in its rankings of 180… Read More
Bradley Manning: A Disappointing Sentence
Well, that was disappointing. Military Judge Denise Lind, an Army colonel, sentenced 25-year-old Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison, which was more… Read More
Snowden Asylum Is Burying Obama’s Russian “Reset”
The Kremlin delivered a diplomatic blow to U.S.–Russian relations when Moscow granted former NSA analyst Edward Snowden a temporary political asylum. Now, the White House… Read More
Manning Verdict in WikiLeaks Case Sends Message to Lawbreakers
Today’s verdict in the trial of Private First Class Bradley Manning is an important benchmark in the ongoing debate over the handling of secret information…. Read More
Edward Snowden Dodges Cybersecurity Regulations
Edward Snowden, the leaker of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs, was reportedly able to smuggle thousands of classified documents out of the NSA… Read More
Snowden, Rafael Correa, and Ecuador
The saga of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor turned “whistleblower” Edward Snowden continues to attract global attention. If press reports prove accurate, Snowden’s final… Read More
Morning Bell: WikiLeaks’ Anti-Americanism Now Backed by Ecuador
Yesterday, WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, a 41-year-old Australian fleeing rape charges, stood on the balcony of Ecuador’s London embassy and told the President of the… Read More
Julian Assange’s Sordid Ego Trip
After hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for two months, Julian Assange was granted asylum in Ecuador yesterday to avoid extradition to Sweden, where… Read More
Britain Is Right: No Asylum for Assange
Early on August 16, Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patino, announced that his country is granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum—that is, if he can… Read More
WikiLeaks’s Assange, Ecuador’s Correa, and the Politics of Anti-Americanism
On June 19, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, breached his bail conditions and secretly made his way to Ecuador’s embassy in London. There he made… Read More
Wiki Worries
Oops! In order to prevent leaks over the trial of alleged Wiki-leaker Bradley Manning, e-mail filtering for government prosecutors inadvertently screened out messages from the… Read More
If Nobel Were Alive, Would He Take His Prize Back?
Shocker news: Apparently, you don’t have to do anything to promote the cause of peace to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Bradley Manning,… Read More
Heritage Expert’s New Book Addresses Battle for the Internet
Today we have access to vast amount of information at the click of mouse but are also faced with those who seek to steal secrets,… Read More
LawNews
The Trial of Alleged Wikileaks Informant Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning, the Army private who allegedly leaked classified information to WikiLeaks, starts his trial process today with an Article 32 hearing at Fort Meade… Read More
WikiLeaks: Delightful Irony, Rank Hypocrisy, or Both?
You have to love this story. Apparently, WikiLeaks is plagued by … you guessed it, leaks! Confronted with the fact that some of its volunteers… Read More
WikiLeaking on GITMO
WikiLeaks, which has been sitting on an enormous cache of classified U.S. government documents, released another batch of materials to U.S. and European news “partners”… Read More
Ecuador’s Correa Rashly Expels the U.S. Ambassador
On April 5, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa rashly declared the U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges persona non grata. Hodges has been ordered to leave the country… Read More
PODCAST: WikiLeaks, New START, Harming Friends
Great Britain has been a stalwart ally and friend to the United States, helping us save the world in World Wars I and II, and… Read More
Julian Assange: Free for Now
“It’s great to smell the fresh air of London again” announced infamous WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he was released on bail this evening in… Read More
Podcast: WikiLeaks
As Julian Assange avoids stepping foot in the United States and cuts off ties to U.S.-based servers for his website, WikiLeaks, what recourse is left… Read More
Will WikiLeaks Sink New START?
The Wikileaks revelations have been described as the “9/11 of diplomacy”. One not-so-secret revelation, however, is news that the Obama Administration doesn’t hold the transatlantic… Read More
The End of Diplomacy As We Know It
There is no such thing as secret diplomacy anymore, maybe not even plain old diplomacy. This week’s mammoth WikiLeaks dump of State Department Internet traffic… Read More
Viktor Bout: Weapons Smuggler May Be the Tip of the Iceberg
Documents from WikiLeaks published in International Business Times disclosed that American officials warned Washington that the Russian intelligence services are working closely with organized crime…. Read More
Wikileaks and Latin America: Don’t Make U.S. Diplomats Liars
Diplomats have often been disparaged as honest men sent abroad to lie for the good of their countries. If the plethora of disloyal, dangerous attacks… Read More
WikiLeaks Documents Amplify Concerns About Iran’s Military Threat
The illegal revelation of more than 250,000 State Department documents last weekend by the WikiLeaks organization is a damaging setback for U.S. foreign policy that… Read More
Obama Hit by History
When President Obama entered office he adopted a doctrine toward national security that mirrored President Jimmy Carter’s reliance on diplomacy and the United Nations. America’s… Read More
Morning Bell: Just Another WikiLeak On An Already Sinking Ship
There is nothing positive that can be said about the release of more than a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables by the rogue hacker organization… Read More
WikiLeaks’ Inconvenient Truth about Iraqi Chemical Weapons
Buried in the WikiLeaks avalanche of documents related to the war in Iraq are various reports about the discovery of chemical weapons caches inside Iraq—reports… Read More
Wikisteria: Don’t Take Anti-War Bait
The aim of releasing thousands of classified documents on the Afghanistan war on the WikiLeaks Web site was apparently to undermine American public support for… Read More
The WikiLeaks Assault on the Rule of Law and National Security
The publication of over 91,000 classified U.S. military documents on Afghanistan by WikiLeaks has, as White House national security adviser Jim Jones said, “put the… Read More
