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Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks and the New York Times

Source: Editors Weblog, Dec 6 2012, 11:07am CST

‘It’s really crazy,’ says Michael Ratner, a human rights lawyer from the Centre for Constitutional Rights, who counts Julian Assange as a client. ‘The key leaker in U.S. history in the last decade, and they don’t cover his treatment? He’s the one whose m ...

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Judge sides with US government, Army in document dispute involving Bradley Manning case

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:50pm CDT

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Baltimore said Wednesday she's satisfied for now with measures the military has taken to release documents related to Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial in the Wikileaks case. Lawyers for the New York-bas ...

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Julian Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden gain asylum

Source: MSNBC  |   Jun 19 2013, 8:35pm CDT

Anthony Devlin / Pool / Reuters Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London June 14, 2013. By Andrew Rafferty and Courtney Kube, NBC News WikiLeaks founder Juli ...

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Judge sides with US in Manning document dispute

Source: FindLaw: AP Professional News  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:54pm CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Baltimore says she's satisfied for now with measures the military has taken to release documents related to Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's his court-martial in the Wikileaks ca ...

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Assange: Obama corrupted the presidency

Source: Russia Today  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:24pm CDT

Exactly one year to the day after entering London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at the Obama administration Wednesday over the White House’s ongoing pursuit of leakers. Citing the prosecution of alleged WikiLeaks sourc ...

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Is Julian Assange Pretending to Help Snowden for Publicity?

Source: The Atlantic  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:59pm CDT

The two most high-profile, hiding-in-plain sight figures at Wikileaks now claim to be helping the high-profile, on-the-lam leaker Edward Snowden on his apparent quest to seek asylum in Iceland. But Glenn Greenwald, ...

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Julian Assange Claims WikiLeaks Is Working With Edward Snowden's Lawyers

Source: The Huffington Post  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:39pm CDT

Speaking on the one-year anniversary of his flight to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that his group has a "common cause" with Edward Snowden and is in touch with the NSA leaker's lawyers to help him seek asy ...

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Julian Assange Really Wants In on this Edward Snowden Story

Source: New York Magazine  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:20pm CDT

As advocates for government transparency, the parallels between NSA leaker Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks are obvious. The ideological similarities — and potential for branding alliances — have not been lost on Julian Assange, who gave a quick I told ...

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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Preparing More Disclosures

Source: Mother Jones  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:19pm CDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent the last year holed up inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London seeking asylum from Swedish and American authorities, held a press call today to discuss former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and th ...

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Attorneys in Bradley Manning Trial Fight Over Tweet Authenticity

Source: Legal Insurrection  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:37pm CDT

The military trial in the case of Wikileaker Bradley Manning continued earlier this week. An interesting legal point in the case has arisen, as Manning’s defense lawyers pushed back against tweets that the prosecution wan ...

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The Band of Leakers

Source: The New Republic  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:29pm CDT

The nominal occasions for a conference call today with “Julian Assange & Whistleblowers” were, obviously, Edward Snowden’s recent leaks; the ongoing Bradley Manning court-martial; and the one-year anniversary of Assange’s “embassy confinement” (he took a ...

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