Mediastan Page #9

Synopsis: The bleak, mountainous terrain and quiet, lonely roads set the tone for this compelling venture into the heart of 'the Stans'. The first stop is Asia Plus, a newspaper in Tajikistan. "If we were to talk too freely about our taboos, what kind of taboo would that be?" asks the Editor-in-Chief, Marat Mamadshoev, with a smile. "We'd rather get approval from our superior first..." he says nervously. "The Washington DC overlord of Asia Plus!" Given the go-ahead, the team pours over the material. Speaking over Skype, Assange warns, "Read all of it. If you go searching for particular things you will bring your own prejudice to the material." But as the Wikileaks team move on to their next meeting, soon the call comes, "the problem is that there are many things in the cables that we cannot publish...because we will get into trouble". At the offices of the Kazakh Telegraph Agency the team receive a more frosty reception. "Why have you come here? If an unskilled man gets access to this data it wi
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Johannes Wahlström
Production: The Orchard
 
IMDB:
7.9
Year:
2013
94 min
Website
33 Views


To Arthur- Thanks for a memorable Ed Board meeting!

I've just gone back to the writing life

and my first op-ed column was published this morning

it was a somewhat...

half hearted defence of Obama

against...

...disenchanted liberals.

and you know what the Drudge Report is?

The Drudge Report is a website

a very conservative website

that basically aggregates headlines from all over the place

but with a kind of right wing commentary.

It's got a huge following.

So, if Matt Drudge, the guy who runs this website...

...finds something that you've written and puts it on his homepage

with a snarky comment

it drives traffic amazingly.

I mean driving traffic is nice, but the traffic that he drives

is mostly you know...

...'you scum bag, you idiot'.

But traffic is traffic.

[ In February 2013 Private Manning

admitted to leaking material to

WikiLeaks after failed attempts to

share it with both the Washington Post

and the New York Times: ]

[ "The more I read the cables,

the more I came to the conclusion

that this was the type of information

that should become public." ]

[ In July 2013 Private Manning was

convicted by a US Military court

on five counts of espionage and

sentenced to 35 years in prison. ]

Here it says that in the year two thousand

you sent your son to a school in Karachi.

Yes, it was in Karachi.

Does it say that he was ten years old?

That's wrong, he was eight years old.

...and it says that you were on your way to

visit your son in the spring of 2001...

when you illegally crossed the border into Afghanistan...

...and were captured by the Northern Alliance

because you had no passport

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When they interrogated me in Guantanamo,

they asked me how I crossed the border without a passport

I told them that I didn't have a passport. But that I had a beard.

In 2001 a beard was like a passport in Afganistan.

Then if you had a turban, that was your visa.

Nobody asked for documents.

No, seriously. That's what I told the interrogators.

And that's the whole truth.

[ The Pentagon admitted that no one had

been harmed by the WikiLeaks disclosures.

Yet the US espionage investigation

into WikiLeaks and its staff continues.

As does WikiLeaks publishing activities. ]

[ As of September 2013, Julian Assange

remains a political refugee at the

Ecuadorian Embassy in London. ]

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Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange (; born Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the editor of WikiLeaks. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, but came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance.In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange. He had been questioned there months earlier over allegations of sexual assault and rape. Assange continued to deny the allegations, and expressed concern that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his perceived role in publishing secret American documents. Assange surrendered himself to UK police on 7 December 2010, and was held for ten days before being released on bail. Having been unsuccessful in his challenge to the extradition proceedings, he breached his bail and absconded. He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 and has remained in the Embassy of Ecuador in London since then. Assange has held Ecuadorian citizenship since 12 December 2017.During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, WikiLeaks hosted emails sent or received by candidate Hillary Clinton from her private email server when she was Secretary of State. According to two political scientists, WikiLeaks strategically released the e-mails whenever Clinton's lead expanded in the polls. After the Democratic Party, along with cybersecurity experts, claimed that Russian intelligence had hacked Clinton campaign-related e-mails and leaked them to WikiLeaks, Assange said Clinton was causing "hysteria about Russia." He consistently denied any connection to or cooperation with Russia in relation to the leaks.On 19 May 2017, the Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation into the rape accusation against Assange and applied to revoke the European arrest warrant. Although he is free to leave the Embassy, it is likely that he would then be arrested for the criminal offence of breaching his bail conditions. The London Metropolitan Police have indicated that an arrest warrant is still in force for Assange's failure to surrender himself to his bail. On 27 July 2018, Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno revealed that he had begun talks with British authorities to withdraw the asylum for Assange. more…

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