Wikileaks under attack

[w1z4rd]

Just got this in my email from them:

WikiLeaks may be under attack.

You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor resources to respond.

Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand what is going on. We apologize for not getting back to you before. It is not through any lack of interest on our part, but an enforced lack of resources.

One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait, where he is being held without trail. Mr. Manning is alleged to have acted according to his conscious and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and the video of a massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani.

The Garani massacre, which we are still working on, killed over 100 people, mostly children.

Mr. Manning allegedly also sent us 260,000 classified US Department cables, reporting on the actions of US Embassy's engaging in abusive actions all over the world. We have denied the allegation, but the US government is acting as if the allegation is true and we do have a lot of other material that exposes human rights abuses by the United States government.

Mr. Manning was allegedly exposed after talking to an unrelated "journalist" who then worked with the US government to detain him.

Some background on the Manning case:

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/20...-fears-us-might-assasinate-wikileaks-founder/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/state-department-anxious/
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/06/143011.htm

[ note that there are some questions about the Wired reportage, see: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/13/video-wikileaks-foun.html#comment-809677 ]

WikiLeaks a small organization going through enormous growth and operating in an adverserial, high-security environment which can make communication time consuming and the acquisition of new staff and volunteers, also difficult since they require high levels of trust.

To try and deal with our growth and the current difficult situation, we want to get you to work together with our other supporters to set up a "Friends of WikiLeaks" group in your area. We have multiple supporters in most countries and would like to see them be a strong and independent force.

Please write to [email protected] if you are interested in helping with Friends of WikiLeaks in your area. You will receive further instructions.

We also have significant unexpected legal costs (for example flying a legal team to Kuwait, video production. Collateral Murder production costs were $50,000 all up).

Any financial contributions will be of IMMEDIATE assistance.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Special:Support

Please donate and tell the world that you have done so. Encourage all your friends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious.

Julian Assange
Editor in Chief
WIKILEAKS

Thought I would share.

 

[Hosehead]

Why did Adrian Lamo shop Bradley Manning?

 

[Peon]

What you mean by shop?

 

[Centaur]

This is shocking news. I hope WikiLeaks recover soon. I see that they are starting to embrace Torrents, which is good for saving bandwidth and costs ( http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-embraces-torrent-and-magnet-links-100609/ )

 

[Captain Slog]

WikiLeaks must be an agent. The Americans are our friend, they won't hurt you

 

[gpe]

Yeah I've been following this story keenly and thinking about it too. @hosehead : Because he is a tool. Claims to be a hacker yet sold him out. Although its probably for the best as Manning shouldn't have been working as in "intelligence analyst". I read through the Chat logs and to me Manning seems incredibly childish and immature. Just goes to show that the NSA isn't all that (based on the content about their security setup and quality of personal) and they don't seem to care. Even Lamo seemed liked an idiot during the chat. Back to my point about Manning not working there -- yeah its for the best as nobody wants to see videos of innocent people being bombed. We all know its going on, that's war. The gov. is corrupt as hell and the amount of abuses and corruption is unthinkable but exposing it isn't going to change a thing. The Collateral Damage video was watered down and justified by the military. Remember the TV series "Jericho" which got pulled from US television because of complaints about a program showing America being attacked by nuclear missiles?? Pretty sensitive nation - blame the US media. Same story here ... the military doesn't want their dirty work being aired and we(globally) all know its going on.

The US doesn't care about "mental health" and soldiers who witness kids being blown away are told to merely "suck it up" (see Collateral Murder video response from ground troop member) .. they don't care about PTSD (best offer is a scramble for drugs companies to now produce a pill for returning soldiers, funded by DARPA). Mental Health is not a priority and Manning is another prime example. Instead of getting some shrink to put things in perspective for him his told "I don't want to hear it, find insurgents". If the war of terror ever ends I shudder to think of all the troops returning home(US) -- expect to see a wave of homicides, wife beatings, suicides and general lawlessness amongst vets who attempt to integrate back into society with zero benefit of counseling.