4/5/10 :
A 2007 video of a U.S. air assault attack in Iraq was submitted to wikileaks.
This is a photo of the U.S. Intelligence Analyst that leaked the video. His name is Bradley Manning...a 22 year old from Potomac, Maryland. He was eventually detained after a former hacker provided the information he learned from Manning to the proper authorities.Here is a link to the whole story:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/
Here are the instant messages between Manning and the informant that turned him in:
"I can't believe what I'm confessing to you"
Manning "couldn't believe" he was spilling the beans to former hacker Adrian Lamo.
I'm not sure what will happen to Manning. He is under investigation and this case will most likely require a thorough investigation and probing of how Manning exploited the electronic systems and how much information he released. Not to mention patching up and making security tight.
6/10/2010
Julian Assange, Australian journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, is being sought by the Pentagon for questioning on his alleged role in the Manning leak.
At close to 40 years of age Assange is probably still quite mobile.
I don't actually know if Assange has safehouses but if he gets out of this he probably will want to have several prospective safehouses.
Iceland was so inspired by this story that they are now seeking to become a "safe haven" for journalists seeking asylum. So with that, Assange just might be Iceland's first asylum seeking journalist.
I don't know if this would be a good or bad thing for Iceland. When you harbor journalists that important people want to talk to you might find yourself walking on eggshells instead of sunshine.
Here are two ways that journalists could be extradited from Iceland:
1) Iceland joins the EU and the EU pressures Iceland to extradite journalists that powerhouse countries in the EU want extradited. Since Iceland has debt issues, it will most likely obey and take orders. Of course this won't be much of an issue if Iceland takes several years (maybe decades) to pay off its debt before applying to the EU.
2) Journalists that are implicated in international crimes could be taken into custody by Interpol.
"Criminal Suspect" or "Suspected Terrorist" most likely weighs more than "journalist" in the Web 2.0 era where even I could call myself a "journalist."
So that's that. Maybe this will develop further and I'll have another update.
Until then, if you want to travel to those leak sites I mentioned here are two big ones I know of:
Wikileaks (as mentioned here)
Cryptome (worth a look)
