Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs

Manning chat logs contain no smoking gun, Wired editors claim
Wired editors claim"> Stumble This! Editors with Wired Magazine have finally come forward to say that the chat logs in their possession contain no further evidence of a Conspiracy between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the soldier accused of leaking 250,000 US State Department cables. In his Monday column, Salon's Glenn Greenwald suggested that Wired Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen committed "one of the worst journalistic disgraces of the year" by withholding the majority of chat logs that co...

Important Update on Wired and Lamo Chat Logs: No Unpub Material on Assange
Source: Greg Mitchell @ The Nation 11:55 Seemingly important updates by the Wired folks tonight saying they reviewed the chat logs and found NO unpublished Manning references to Assange.  This leads BoingBoing to suggest in a new piece (see earlier one just below) that this undermines some of Lamo's claims and will make it harder to go after Assange in this matter. Read more: https://www.thenation.com/blog/157348/blogging-wikeleaks... https://m.boingboing.net/2010/12/29/lamomanning-wikileak... W..

Your pick for Most Intriguing Person of 2010 is ...
He's been called a criminal, a spy and a champion of the First Amendment. Some think he’s a villain. Some see him as a hero. The only thing that’s beyond debate: Julian Assange has more intrigue than the pulp section of a bookstore. Wikileaks' mastermind, the guy who everyone loved to hate or loved to defend, got the most first-place votes (25%) on CNN.com's “Most Intriguing Person” poll for 2010. Following Assange were: 10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts a...

What's in the Manning/Lamo WikiLeaks Chat Logs?
Glenn Greenwald has been warring with Wired over Wired's supposed responsibility to release more of the chat logs between arrested-but-not-convicted alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the man to whom he supposedly confessed his Crime and who turned him in. Here is Wired explaining why they have released all they ought, and why Greenwald is a hypocrite, a bad Journalist, and any number of other yucky things. Here is Greenwald's response to Wired (including suggestive accusations...

Response to Wired's accusations
As noted above, the principal tactic of Wired.com Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen and Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen in responding to my criticisms is to hurl a variety of accusations at me as a means of distracting attention from the issue that matters.  Between my June article and the one on Sunday, I've now written more than 9,000 words about Wired's role in the Manning/Lamo case.  To accuse me of "a breathtaking mix of sophistry, hypocrisy and journalistic laziness," they raise a h...

Response to Wired's accusations
As noted above, the principal tactic of Wired.com Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen and Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen in responding to my criticisms is to hurl a variety of accusations at me as a means of distracting attention from the issue that matters.  Between my June article and the one on Sunday, I've now written more than 9,000 words about Wired's role in the Manning/Lamo case.  To accuse me of "a breathtaking mix of sophistry, hypocrisy and journalistic laziness," they raise a h...

Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job
The story on the surface makes for a script for a new Oliver Stone Hollywood thriller. However, a closer look at the details of what has so far been carefully leaked by the most ultra-establishment of international media such as the New York Times reveals a clear agenda. That agenda coincidentally serves to buttress the agenda of US geopolitics around the world from Iran to North Korea. The Wikileaks is a big and dangerous US intelligence Con Job which will likely be used to police the Interne...

The Unlikely Story of Adrian Lamo, Bradley Manning, Wired Magazine and the Federal Government
I’ve now gone through just about everything I can find of various accounts of what transpired between Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo, Wired and the Federal Government.  (A data base of all the relevant media  can be found here.) And having reviewed all the material, I cannot tell you how implausible I find the cover story to be (Wired 6/6/2010, CJR 6/18 2010). Furthermore, I cannot believe that anyone of any journalistic standing has not seriously questioned it before going into print us...

Julian Assange, the Rosenberg Case and the Espionage Act of 1917
Rumors are swirling that the United States is preparing to indict Wikileaks leader Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. The modern version of that act states among many, many other things that: "Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States" causes the disclosure or publication of this material, could be subject to massive crim...

If Only WikiLeaks Existed Before the Iraq War Began: Die Zeit, Germany
Here’s an interesting question: would the release of internal White House documents before the Iraq War began have prevented the Bush Administration from going ahead with it? According to columnist Ulrich Ladurner of Germany’s Die Zeit, not only is it likely that the war would have been prevented - but Julian Assange may well have won the Nobel Peace Prize. For Die Zeit, Ulrich Ladurner writes in part: Julian Assange has been much reviled for his dogma that everything should b...

Showing Their True Colors
“Everything looks worse in black and white.” - a lyric from “Kodachrome” by singer Paul Simon The last picture ever to be developed with Kodachrome film was slated to be processed today at the lone processing lab still handling this film — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kan. A year after Kodak announced that it was retiring Kodachrome film, after nearly 75 years of production (making it the oldest and longest-running film in production of all time), the last shipment

Quiet spy expulsions won't spoil the party
MADRID, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Plans by Russia and Spain to celebrate in 2011 each other's cultures remain intact despite tit-for-tat expulsions of alleged spies in the past several weeks. Russia quietly expelled two Spanish Diplomats last week on charges of spying, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Political attache Ignacio Cartagena and first secretary Borja Cortes-Breton were sent home from Moscow. But Spain did the same last month to two Russians, sending them home for "activities incompa...

Montana's "Inquisition" and Wikileaks
So you are a little girl in grammar school in 1917. Your name is Christine Shupp and you live near Melville in Sweet Grass County. Every morning after the pledge of allegiance to the flag, the teacher makes you, alone, kneel down on the floor and kiss the flag. It is because you are German. You are a rancher in Rosebud County and you call WWI "a Millionaire's war" and you are dragged off by neighbors to jail. You're in a saloon and call war time food regulations "a big joke" and you are sentence...

Moscow unveils 90 years of spying secrets
Soviet spy Veteran Grigor Vardanyan looked at Kim Philby's immaculately-kept pipe and sighed. "He was such a cultured man," the former agent said of one of Britain's most notorious turncoats. "So educated. So well prepared. He served our cause until the end." Such fond memories were being murmured through the great halls of Moscow's World War II museum as Russia's foreign intelligence service, in a rare exhibition, revealed the tools it has been using for the past decades to outsmart the West...

Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association Astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect Terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA astroturfing on Wikipedia, the ALA is attempting retaliation. They are attempting to block the Safe L...

Re: Khodorkovskys Fate
This is example 3,097.876 why I feel lied to by Action Movies. Clearly, if Hollywood was telling me the truth about how the world works, Khodorkovsky would have hired a team of ex-military mercs to spring him from jail by now. From Wednesday night’s Fox News All-Stars. On what kind of speaker John Boehner will be: Boehner will be strong and lachrymose, which . . . Go On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the . . . Go I'm...

This week in the Middle East | Brian Whitaker
Demonstrators clash with Tunisian security force members on December 27, 2010 in Tunis centre. Photograph: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images The biggest story from the Middle East this week … No, the biggest, most important and most inspiring story from the Middle East this year is one that most readers may only vaguely have heard of, if at all. It's the Tunisian uprising. For almost two weeks now, people up and down the country have been protesting, some of them Rioting, others demonstrat...

How The Mainstream Media Can Be More Bearable
The Mainstream Media and the liberal biases inherent in it are not as influential as they once were, especially as New Media and technologies proliferate. Stubbornly, though, the Mainstream Media networks, such as ABC and CNN, still have an ability to influence and set the agenda when it comes to political discourse, especially when it comes to how casual observers of politics get their information. This is so mainly because of the platforms, even though they are diminishing, and resources they...

Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical
One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek ​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, childlike old woman known as "Sook." They gallivant through the hills and dales together, buying whiskey and making fruitcase and chopping down their very own Christmas Tree. That kind of sums up how...

Impurifying Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Back in late 2001, Reason magazine’s Ronald Bailey wrote a brilliant article titled, “Impurifying our precious bodily fluids,” in which Bailey noted that the MacGuffin of Dr. Strangelove, Gen. Ripper’s Bircheresque fear of Fluoride, began to take a left turn during the 1990s: During the 2000 Presidential Campaign, Green Party Candidate and left-wing icon Ralph Nader came out against fluoridation. Now groups like the Sierra Club claim that there are “valid concerns...

Audio: Liberal Claims That Ritalin May Turn Children Into Conservatives
By now, many have already heard that being a conservative is a brain disorder: Study: Conservatives have larger ‘fear center’ in brain. Larger fear center as in primate, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior c...

Nassau County Gets A 3-Week Reprieve. Shouldn't County Exec Mangano Be Forced To Leave?
1. Instead of taking over the county's finances today as it was widely expected to do, the Nassau Interim Financing Authority, the Oversight Board established after the county's last Budget fiasco to monitor its finances, today decided to give County Executive Edward Mangano three more weeks to come up with a Balanced Budget that is based on more than gimmicks, mirrors, and praying. As David Halbfinger reports in the New York Times, the extension, which was granted at Mangano's request, was anyt...

Safe Haven For Bad Journalists
by Zoë Pollock In classic style, Alex Pareene gloats about Judith Miller's new gig at Newsmax, "a goofy right-wing magazine where Conservatives you've never heard of (and John Stossel, apparently) report, constantly, that Barack Obama is bad and unpopular": While someone who's wrong about everything is an odd hire for any magazine, even one that exists mostly to sell old people Acai berries, Judith Miller, you must remember, was fired by the liberal New York Times. If li...

Written on the Body: The Progressive Torture of Bradley Manning
It is these factors that mark out his conditions of detention as sharing some key elements with the conditions endured by the three "Enemy Combatants" held on the US mainland under the Bush Administration -- the US citizens Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla, and the US legal resident Ali al-Marri. ... al-Marri, along with two American Citizens also held as "Enemy Combatants" -- Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla -- was subjected to the same "Standard Operating Procedure" that was applied to Prisoners at...

Jonathan Weiler: Bradley Manning: Political Prisoner?
In a recent New Yorker column, titled "Gulag Lite," David Remnick, makes the case that the former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Political Prisoner. Nothing gets old Russia hands like Remnick more excited than the opportunity to moralize about Russian political malfeasance -- it's a particularly satisfying itch to scratch. But this isn't a hard case to make: There is little doubt that the former chairman of Yukos oil has been the Victim of selective prosecution. He's already been in ...