Michael Springmann: Assigned to the Jeddah Consulate … author Visas for al Qaeda: CIA Handout that Rocked the World. ibid.
William Rodriguez, janitor, dubbed The Last Man Out … One of the heroes that day … An explosion below him … ‘An explosion so hard that pushed us upwards’ … ibid.
These [firefighters’] stories suggest that what was happening inside the Twin Towers that morning was in fact a series of explosive events … A pattern of explosive testimony. ibid.
Gladio B: Projecting US power in the former Soviet sphere of influence to access previously untapped strategic energy and mineral reserves for US and European companies; pushing back Russian and Chinese power; and expanding the scope of lucrative criminal activities, particularly illegal arms and drugs trafficking. Sibel Edmonds, ceasefire magazine
Daniel Ellsberg is the source of the Pentagon documents. War on Whistleblowers, news, Brave New Films 2015
Karen Silkwood took on one of the biggest companies in America, crusading against America’s nuclear power industry. ibid.
Senators call for probe on MRAP’s report claims. ibid. USA Today
Michael Kort: The Deepwater Program: ‘the boats were not designed properly’ etc.
But how do we make … the decisions about the kind of government we want if we don’t know what those governments are doing? ibid. Snowden
Editorial: The NSA Leaks and National Security. ibid. Chicago Tribune
There is a backlog of 400 million pages of documents to be declassified. ibid. caption
The man who leaked details of a secret telephone and internet surveillance program in the USA has disappeared in Hong Kong. Storyville: Anonymous: Chasing Edward Snowden, BBC 2016
Just three weeks earlier Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old analyst from the National Security Agency in the USA, was waiting for journalists he thought he could trust. In his backpack he had nearly a million top-secret NSA documents. The journalists were travelling across the world from New York to a hotel in Hong Kong for a secret meeting whose outcome they couldn’t predict. ibid.
The two Guardian journalists published their first story; they did not name their source. ibid.
Ten thousand kilometres away in London there was one thing the US government might be happy about: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was not involved in the Snowden revelations. Assange has been confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012: the US government saw him as out of commission. ibid.
Until Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning’s leak of American government’ documents had been the biggest loss of secrets in American history. Wikileaks had published the documents. ibid.
‘Our breaking news this hour: Chinese sources have alleged that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is en route to Moscow.’ ibid. news
‘The US cancelled my passport; they tried to freeze me in place.’ ibid. Snowden
‘I couldn’t believe that the United States government would go so far as to ground the diplomatic jet carrying a head of state to search it for somebody like me.’ ibid.
The shuttle launched without incident but the WANK worm continued to spread affecting 300,000 computer terminals around the world. We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, 2013
‘A mountain of secrets dumped into the public domain by a website.’ ibid. news
Julian Assange was obsessed with secrets … He built a machine for leaking secrets and called it Wikileaks. The website boasted an electronic drop-box. ibid.
‘We’re going to fuck them all … crack the world open and let it flower into something new.’ ibid. Assange
[Bradley] Manning was regarded as one of the smartest intelligence analysts in the unit. ibid.
‘The biggest leak of secret material in the history of this particular planet.’ ibid. journalist
The [Afghanistan] war logs revealed a conflict that was very different from what citizens had been told. ibid.
A secret American assassination squad with a terrible record of wounding and killing women and children. ibid.
‘He was the focus of intense enemies.’ ibid. journalist
The Wikileaks website came under cyber-attack. ibid.
In 2006 WikiLeaks creates an online submission system that allows sources to leak documents anonymously. Four years later they receive 700,000 military and state department documents. Risk, caption, 2016
Assange and WikiLeaks staff are under secret US grand jury investigation for espionage and conspiracy. Several financial institutions have blocked online donations, cutting off cash flow to the organization. ibid.
In 2010 WikiLeaks published this leaked video showing the US military killing Iraqis, including two Reuters journalists. The source, 22-year-old intelligence analyst Private Bradley Manning, is arrested after a hacker informs on him to the FBI. ibid.
Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden over sexual assault allegations made by two women. ibid.
Jeffrey: I got fired this morning …
Liane: What are we supposed to do? What about our medical coverage? What about our health? What about our car payments? Payments on this house? The Insider ***** 1999 starring Al Pacino & Russell Crowe & Christopher Plummer & Diane Venora & Michael Gambon & Rip Torn & Philip Baker Hall & Lindsay Crouse & Debi Mazar & Renee Olstead et al, director Michael Mann
I received a shitload of scientific papers from inside Philip Morris. Anonymous. ibid. Lowell
I have no intention of violating my confidentiality agreement and disclosing that which I said I wouldn’t. ibid. Jeffrey
Big Tobacco is a big story. And you’ve got something important to say. ibid. Lowell to Jeffrey
I always thought of myself as a man of science. That’s what’s wrong with it. ibid. Jeffrey to Lowell
This guy is the ultimate insider. ibid. Lowell to 60 Minutes team
The process is known as impact boosting. While not spiking nicotine, they clearly manipulate it. There is extensive use of this technology known as ammonia chemistry. It allows for the nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lung and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system. ibid. Jeffrey on 60 Minutes
I find chemistry to be magical. I find it an adventure. An exploration into the building blocks of our physical universe. ibid.
Fuck it. Let’s go to court. ibid.
The greater the truth, the greater the damage. ibid. 60 Minutes lawyer
Tortious Interference: sounds like a disease caught by a radio. ibid.
The piece of land down below … Lidl doesn’t own it: it’s the property of an offshore company based in the Caribbean … This structure can reduce tax bills. It’s exposed by secret files belonging to a large law firm in Panama. The firm specialises in offshore companies. A whistleblower has leaked over 11 million documents to journalists. Among them are 4.5 million emails … It also involves politicians and those close to them. Panama Papers: The Shady World of Offshore Companies, Das Erste 2016
Mossack Fonseca in Panama: with 48 branches around the world it is one of the very biggest. The law firm has established more than 200,000 offshore companies. ibid.
Members of the Italian Mafia are also among Mossack Fonseca’s clients. There are also several Southern American drug barons. ibid.
For years the fate of Julian Assange has been left to speculation. What would a Trump presidency name for his freedom? Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Randy Credico 44.10, 2018
‘Can’t we just drone this guy [Assange]?’ ibid. Hillary Clinton, cited Wikileaks
In 2006, WikiLeaks creates an online submission system that allows sources to leak documents anonymously. Four years later they receive over 700,000 US military and State Department documents. Julian Assange: Risk, caption, BBC 2019
After months of making global headlines, WikiLeaks learns that their password to 250,000 US State Department documents has been exposed. ibid.
Assange and WikiLeaks staff are under secret US grand jury investigation for espionage and conspiracy. Several large institutions have blocked online donations, cutting off cash flow to the organisation. ibid.