[Peace-discuss] Wikileaks video/cover-up

[C. G. Estabrook]

	March 30 2010
	WikiLeaks to release video of civilians,
	journalists being murdered in airstrike
	By Stephen C. Webster
	Raw Story

Whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is planning to release a video that 
reveals what it's calling a Pentagon "cover-up" of an incident in which 
numerous civilians and journalists were murdered in an airstrike, 
according to a recent media advisory.

The video will be released on April 5 at the National Press Club, the 
group said.

They also noted their members have recently been tailed by individuals 
under State Department diplomatic immunity, and that "one related person 
was detained for 22 hours" while authorities seized computer equipment.

In a video released Friday, a Russia Today broadcast discusses the 
pending release of the video WikiLeaks first announced in a tweet on 
Feb. 20, 2010, which read: "Finally cracked the encryption to US 
military video in which journalists, among others, are shot. Thanks to 
all who donated $/CPUs."

A follow-up on March 22 announced their reveal date.



"Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts 
by security organizations," founder Julian Assange writes. "We've become 
used to the level of security service interest in us and have 
established procedures to ignore that interest. But the increase in 
surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely 
publishing due to fundraising, are excessive."

On Tuesday evening, followers of the WikiLeaks Twitter feed were 
startled to read, "WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and 
Icelandic surveillance operation." This was followed a few minutes later 
by "If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And 
you know who is responsible." A succeeding message warned, "We have 
airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don't think you can get away 
with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks."

The site also recently published a document by a CIA think tank that 
proposes how European public opinion on the Afghan war could be manipulated.

"The need for independent leaks and whistle-blowing exposures is 
particularly acute now because, at exactly the same time that 
investigative journalism has collapsed, public and private efforts to 
manipulate public opinion have proliferated," Glenn Greenwald wrote in a 
recent piece about how the United States and other governments plot to 
destroy WikiLeaks. " This is exemplified by the type of public opinion 
management campaign detailed by the above-referenced CIA Report, the 
Pentagon's TV propaganda program exposed in 2008, and the ways in which 
private interests covertly pay and control supposedly "independent 
political commentators" to participate in our public debates and shape 
public opinion."

This video was published to YouTube on March 26, 2010, clipped from 
Russia Today.

The full WikiLeaks press release follows.

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The State Department/CIA has been tailing and detaining those related to 
Wikileaks over the planned April 5th leak of a decrypted video depicting 
an airstrike on civilians and journalissts.

iReport has the story on this.

Wikileaks Twitter page:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks

"We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don't think you can 
get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks."

Sounds like the people behind Wikileaks are under some pressure. Since 
this is unlikely to turn up in your newspapers, I post it here to spread 
awareness.

Wikileaks has a mission of bringing hidden information to light, when 
it’s in the public interest. Wikipedia outlines their greatest hits, 
including Gauntanamo Bay procedure documents, scientology secrets, and 
net censorship lists. They come under fire sometimes for hosting 
material that probably isn’t much in the public interest, but overall 
they have contributed some compelling information to some fractious 
global arguments.

In the last 24 hours, their Twitter feed has contained some worrying 
content.

* WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, 
Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club[at]sunshinepress[dot]org

* WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic 
surveillance operation. Following/photographing/filming/detaining

* If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you 
know who is responsible.

* Two under State Dep diplomatic cover followed our editor from Iceland 
to http://skup.no on Thursday.

* One related person was detained for 22 hours. Computer’s seized.That’s 
http://www.skup.no

* We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being 
discussed at the highest levels of US command.

* We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been 
asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike.

* We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don’t think you 
can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks.

All those came out in a rush, then silence for hours. Might just be a 
timezone thing, with people sleeping, or maybe there’s been no news, or 
maybe everyone with access to the Twitter feed has been detained. I 
await more information.

UPDATE: “To those worrying about us–we’re fine, and will issue a 
suitable riposte shortly.” 8.22am NZ time.

UPDATE: Just noticed that the first tweet quoted, “WikiLeaks to reveal 
Pentagon murder-coverup” is gone from the feed. Now I wish I’d linked to 
all of them individually. Anyway, it was definitely there, and I think 
Linda is right that it is this previously-referred-to video

UPDATE: commenter eru found the missing tweet. It isn’t visible in the 
ordinary feed for some reason.

Source: Raw Story
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