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More on the disappearance of Julian Assange

June 19, 2010

Apropos the last post, here are a couple of interesting links discussing the predicament of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who recently leaked a video showing US troops opening fire on a group of civilians in Iraq. First, the Daily Beast has an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers back in the 1970s. [...]

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ABC on Iceland, WikiLeaks and the disappearance of Julian Assange

June 18, 2010

As some readers may recall, WikiLeaks recently released a video entitled Collateral Murder, showing US troops shooting at civilians in Iraq back in 2007. [We wrote about it here.] Predictably the video generated a bit of attention, and the US military has now detained a soldier named Bradley Manning, who it suspects of leaking the [...]

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Making Iceland into a journalistic haven, redux

June 16, 2010

Remember the Iceland Modern Media Initiative — the proposed new laws to make Iceland into a haven for journalists and investigative journalism, that I wrote about back in February? It was passed by the Icelandic parliament last night. You know, I’m kind of amazed. I thought there would be a lot more wrangling and haggling [...]

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Anyone who cares about the truth

April 6, 2010

… needs to watch a video entitled Collateral Murder published by WikiLeaks yesterday, showing an attack on a group of civilians in Iraq back in 2007. Two of those civilians worked for Reuters. It is essential viewing, especially for those who believe attacks on civilians are simply an unfortunate byproduct of bringing democracy to the [...]

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Leakedy leak

March 15, 2010

So WikiLeaks today publishes Kaupthing’s claim book in its entirety, all 28,167 claims and 520 pages of it. To quote WikiLeaks: This document contains a list of 28167 claims, totally 40 billion euro, lodged against the failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing Bank hf. The document is important because it reveals billions in cash, bonds and other [...]

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Classified Icesave document leaked from US Embassy

February 18, 2010

Curious development this evening. A classified document was leaked from the American Embassy in Reykjavík describing a meeting between Icelandic officials from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with Embassy officials. The Icelanders’ agenda was to secure support from the US government in the Icesave matter. The US was, by all appearances, rather blasé about the [...]

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On making Iceland into a journalistic haven

February 15, 2010

A few days ago I made mention of an initiative that a group of MPs in collaboration with WikiLeaks are launching here in Iceland. Essentially it consists of a new parliamentary resolution that would amend laws to allow Iceland to grant a high level of protection for journalists, jouralists’ sources, whistleblowers and data storage facilities, [...]

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Negotiations, raids and a Wikileaks story that was leaked

February 12, 2010

It’s been a really interesting news day, though there have been no Big Explosions. More like minor tremors, which with any luck will have a long-lasting ripple effect. First, renegotiations on the Icesave debacle are due to commence next week. That’s correct – the British and Dutch have agreed to return to the bargaining table, [...]

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On Icelandic and the meaning of nuance

December 1, 2009

So, the dudes from WikiLeaks are in town to stake out the general area. They were interviewed on Silfur Egils this past weekend and, from what I could gather, they have something fairly dramatic up their sleeves – some juicy revelation involving SMS messages and the manager of one of Iceland’s failed banks. Stay tuned [...]

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UK’s Serious Fraud Office investigates Kaupthing’s loan book

August 4, 2009

Oh, man. Old Kaupthing bank has really f*cked itself over by attempting to cover up that leak this past weekend and getting that gag order placed on RÚV. I wonder if the matter had received half the attention it has if they’d just quietly looked the other way, waiting for it to blow over. It [...]

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