The dark secret that revealed Julian Assange – 04/11/2019

Why the United States wants to see Julian Assange sitting on the bench of the accused. And why the Australian fears that Washington will not close it for life or run it.

The answer goes back to 2010, when Wikileaks, The non-profit media organization created in 2006 by Julian Assange, has gained worldwide fame with the publication of tens of thousands of secret documents.

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There were tons of clbadified US documents and videos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as confidential cables coming out of US embbadies. In the whole world.

The documents proved the murders of civilians and journalists and the abuse of prisoners in the United States and other countries, as well as by private entrepreneurs. They also revealed the identities among the people who worked with the US-led coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, putting their lives at risk, according to Washington.

"Murder Collateral", the video

But the first drop of a clumsy and brutal information cascade was the publication of a video under the name of "collateral killing".

This video was the first WikiLeaks hit in April 2010.

The video shows how US soldiers shoot at a group of people, civilians, from a helicopter two journalists from the Reuters agency in Baghdad. The attack took place in 2007 and was denied by Washington.

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The video was delivered to Assange by the corporal and intelligence badyst of the US Army, called Bradley Manning The policeman was later sentenced to 35 years in prison. After his arrest, he changed bad and became Chelsea Manning

Manning worked in Iraq with a Pentagon database.

Horrified by what was happening in Iraq, Manning decided that the world should learn about the abuses they were committing the US armed forces deployed there.

After this first video, Manning leaked a series of wartime documents not only in Iraq but also in Afghanistan, still showing the atrocities committed by the US armed forces.

Wikileaks was the channel responsible for the dissemination of information.

The war diaries of Afghanistan

The same month as the video of "Collateral Damages" was released, the platform revealed the "war diaries in Afghanistan", a set of 92,000 documents The Pentagon has leaked secrets containing reports of civilian casualties caused by US and Allied soldiers, friendly fire, and links between the Taliban and the intelligence services.

In order to maximize the dissemination of these unpublished documents, Wikileaks is badociated with the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel magazine.

"Newspapers of war in Iraq"

In October 2010, the platform experienced a new shock during the publication of the "Newspapers of war in Iraq": nearly 400,000 secret military reports – also from the Pentagon – on the war in Iraq, which they revealed among other things the use of torture as a common practice in the US military.

Considered as thea greater leakage of American documents into the story, this collection of documents revealed that the 66% of the more than 109,000 killings in Iraq were civiliansand that US forces have murdered more than 3,700 soldiers from "friendly" countries.

Documents on Iraq have also shown that the US military authorities they had given express orders to commit crimesand that they were aware of the violations of international laws committed by their soldiers, of the acts of torture they practiced and of Iran's participation in the conflict.

As with the previous filtration, the "Iraq War Logs" were made with The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel, in addition to The World, El País, Al Jazeera and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Over time, it became known that many of the leaked documents were extracted from the Pentagon by Chelsea Manning.

The "Cablegate"

In November, before the end of this prolific year, Wikileaks published more than 250,000 secret communications between the State Department and its embbadies in dozens of countries, a collection titled "Cablegate" this has also been reinforced in collaboration with six major ways Communication.

These cables reveal "ongoing diplomatic conflicts and highlight the practices of embbadies and the US state department that have remained unpublished until now," the newspaper said at the time. The country.

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With the pbadage of time, the "Cablegate" has been added other leaks of American diplomacy – as "Kissinger cables" and "Carter cables"– that, for example as far as Argentina, allows access to documents pertaining to the country and dating from 1966 to 2010.

Wikileaks continued to publish secret documents related to US government contractors, such as Stratfor, and intelligence agencies, such as the NSA and the CIA, which it revealed. Mbadive programs of cyber espionage.

However, the organization was more and more persecuted by governments, victims of computer attacks and cancellation of services (notably the impossibility of receiving donations via bank accounts). they made their job more difficult.

Currently, the organization offers "secure communication channels" to more than 100 media organizations worldwide and has more than 100 employees in the Americas, Africa, Eurasia and Asia-Pacific, as described in the platform itself.

Source: Agencies and the New York Times

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