WikiLeaks

About WikiLeaks

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WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. We are a young organisation that has grown very quickly, relying on a network of dedicated volunteers around the globe. Since 2007, when the organisation was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. We also develop and adapt technologies to support these activities.

How WikiLeaks works

WikiLeaks has combined high-end security technologies with journalism and ethical principles. Like other media outlets conducting investigative journalism, we accept (but do not solicit) anonymous sources of information. Unlike other outlets, we provide a high security anonymous drop box fortified by cutting-edge cryptographic information technologies. This provides maximum protection to our sources. We are fearless in our efforts to get the unvarnished truth out to the public. When information comes in, our journalists analyse the material, verify it and write a news piece about it describing its significance to society. We then publish both the news story and the original material in order to enable readers to analyse the story in the context of the original source material themselves.

Scrutiny requires information. Historically, information has been costly in terms of human life, human rights and economics. As a result of technical advances particularly the internet and cryptography - the risks of conveying important information can be lowered. In its landmark ruling on the Pentagon Papers, the US Supreme Court ruled that "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." We agree.

We believe that it is not only the people of one country that keep their own government honest, but also the people of other countries who are watching that government through the media.

In the years leading up to the founding of WikiLeaks, we observed the world's publishing media becoming less independent and far less willing to ask the hard questions of government, corporations and other institutions. We believed this needed to change.

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

http://wikileaks.org/

Astia au publicat balariile aslea de la Pentagon ca sa capete credibilitate pentru alte fapte .

romania inedit a scris:

Astia au publicat balariile aslea de la Pentagon ca sa capete credibilitate pentru alte fapte .

I don't think that to be an adequate term for classified Pentagon documents. The American gov. is in full swing to charge and persecute those involved with this web page. Similar demands have been made from other western govs, to restrict their international travel and crack down on their web page which at one point was shut down by the US gov. Why go through all that if those documents were not sensitive material ?

In the mean time let the stupid masses listen to "the truth" delivered to them by the media which in turn is controlled by govs. and the nature of the information presented is suspicious at best if not right down false.

PS: Understand who the people behind this web page are, what are they doing and why before you jump to conclusions.

To get credibility for what exactly ? Maybe you would like to elaborate.

And since this topic is in the international area/english forum, write in english please. For romanian, we have the romanian forum.

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How WikiLeaks works

http://wikileaks.org/

.org domain is gone ! New secret informations are now available on .ch extension, i.e. WikiLeaks.ch

American government lost face big time

I wonder what they intend to do to come clean

Diela a scris:

I wonder what they intend to do to come clean

Big world powers la U.S.A. become clean whenever they wish.

Let's imagine Obama or someone alse from the administration, asking a romanian official: "Mr. ....escu, is America...clean ?" And the answer of the romanian official would certainly be: "Yes sir, America is clean sir !"

a Romanian official would answer "Yes, sir, it's clean", no doubt about that

but a German one? a British one?

Diela a scris:

a Romanian official would answer "Yes, sir, it's clean", no doubt about that

but a German one? a British one?

As long as the american market is available for german products like BMW, Mercedes and others, U.S.A. will be clean for germans.

The British ? Well, the american marine took the hand of a british soldier and shot some irakians. For the british politicians, the americans are always clean. They are their...brothers !