Wikileaks poll

[RidleyReport]

i like wikileaks so far. who is the U.S. government to say they deserve privacy while tapping our phone lines and email without warrants?

 

[Childlike Empress]

Two weeks or so ago, Australian-born and UK-based investigative journalism legend John Pilger's latest documentary "The war you don't see" aired on UK public television. The topic could be summed up with the line in my signature. In it are excerpts from an interview Pilger did with Assange.

Now Pilger has released the full interview. Apparently it was conducted in late summer/early autumn. It's 68 min of two people sitting in a dark room and having a calm and in-depth discussion about method, motive and perspective.

I forgot to link to Pilger's documentary. Here it is.

 

[Childlike Empress]

Daniel Ellsberg elaborates on why he so vigorously supports Assange and WikiLeaks:

Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, discusses the government and media attacks on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks; a reminder that – at the time – Ellsberg was called a traitor for releasing the Pentagon papers; why Assange can’t be charged with a crime without jeopardizing investigative journalism and the notion of a free press; how Bradley Manning’s punitive detainment conditions seem designed to elicit a false confession; the question whether a potential US official secrets act (or implementation of the 1917 Espionage Act as such) would survive Supreme Court scrutiny; how the NY Times‘ deference to government power – especially when it counts the most – guarantees immunity from the charges leveled at WikiLeaks; Ellsberg’s reassuring conversation with Assange about his sexual misconduct charges; and why we need more whistleblowers ready to risk life in prison to expose government criminality.

MP3 here. (52:10)