http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk
"blow the whistle on abusive power"
2006 they hoped the general public would review the documents. Media have the only resources to do this.
Chaos Computer Club is the oldest hacker club.
PRQ provides access to the material Wikileaks provides to the public
No geo geographic boundaries; Multinational trading company dumped toxic wast in ivory coast. they then proceeded to 'gag' company secreet order to 'gag' all of the press reporting on this issue.
Sara Palin is bypassing us transparency law and Wikileaks publishes her emails
"Site is a threat of national security" to the United States
Island in the middle of the North Atlantic
October 2008, Iceland's bank collapse was due to carelessness, secretes, etc and they attacked Wikileaks. All of the regulators were lax in their duties, bankers were lying.
The proposal for Iceland to be the haven for journalism. Wilkileaks was the push that made this happen. The proposal was adopted unanimously within parliament. They have a vision to improve society.
Leaked helicopter video:
"c'mon, let us shot"
[A father driving his kids to school catches sight of the injured man and stops to help him]
"engage"
[when the ground troops arrive, they see that there are children in the car]
"it's their fault for bringing their kids into battle"
[the children survived the attack]
NYT, WSJ to review this material [the leaked US documents]
Some criticism arose that Wikileaks picked the biggest leaks to dwell on.
Pentagon Papers' Ellsberg on Wikileaks Whistleblowers
http://fora.tv/2010/09/29/The_Bomb_Daniel_Ellsberg#Whistleblowers_Ellsberg_on_Manning_and_WikiLeaks
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