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17 hrs ago | Russia Taday

Obama 'worse than Nixon' for press freedoms

President Barack Obama is the biggest threat to press freedom, one of the hallmarks of a true democracy, the United States has seen since former President Nixon, according to attorney James Goodale, widely seen as "the father of reporters' privileges." Goodale is best known for using the First Amendment of the US Constitution to successfully defend ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Opinion

20 hrs ago | Switched

WikiLeaks Doc Accused Of 'Errors And Sleight Of Hand'

WikiLeaks characterizes the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," as biased and accuses its director, Alex Gibney of "errors and sleight of hand." The publishing site released a statement Thursday announcing it had posted an annotated transcript of the film ahead of its Friday release.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, 2012, Gangster Squad

Yesterday | Mashable

Is Strongbox the New Wikileaks?

The New Yorker 's new Strongbox feature claims to be an online safebox for whistleblowers to submit documents safely and anonymously.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks, Computer Security, Science / Technology, Journalism, Computers, Boston University

Yesterday | International Business Times

Julian Assange's WikiLeaks 'Barely Able to Cover Costs' as Donations Dry up

Donations totalled only $68,000 in 2012 according to the Wau Holland Foundation, a German not-for-profit body that processes the money given to the site.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks

Yesterday | Russia Taday

'Filled with errors and speculation': WikiLeaks slams 'We Steal Secrets' doc film

WikiLeaks has lashed out at forthcoming a US-made documentary on founder Julian Assange.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Yesterday | WNYC-AM New York

Documentary Introduces Us To The Man Behind WikiLeaks

David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks .

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Yesterday | Bradford Today

WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle

As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have slowed to a trickle.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks

Thu May 23, 2013

Palo Alto Weekly

Ruthless silenced

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he's expected to be grilled over the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks

BroadwayWorld.com

Condon & Cumberbatch's Fifth Estate Relase Date Moved Up

Stage and screen superstar Benedict Cumberbatch essays the role of a lifetime in portraying controversial modern-day figure Julian Assange in the new Bill Condon -directed biopic THE FIFTH ESTATE and the release date for the highly anticipated film has just been moved up more than a month by distributor Disney, signaling the studio's faith in the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Benedict Cumberbatch

The Independent

Don't forget about my rights, says Julian Assange 'sex victim'

A lawyer for one of the women who have accused Julian Assange of sex crimes has called for more pressure to be placed on Ecuador to allow the WikiLeaks founder to face Swedish justice.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks

OhNoTheyDidnt

Julian Assange Didn't Want Benedict Cumberbatch To Play Him

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange did not want "Star Trek Into Darkness" actor Benedict Cumberbatch to play him in upcoming film adaptation "The Fifth Estate." Cumberbatch told New York Magazine Assange asked him to pass on the role.

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Related Topix: Benedict Cumberbatch, WikiLeaks

Mother Jones

Alex Gibney's new documentary traces the rise and fall of WikiLeaks and its prickly founder.

Julian Assange already hates this movie. That six-word review may be all that his diehard supporters need to know about We Steal Secrets , Alex Gibney's exhaustive and exhausting new documentary on the rise and fall of WikiLeaks .

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Related Topix: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, WikiLeaks, Prison

Daily Star

Aretha Franklin scraps...

Rock icon DAVID BOWIE has paid tribute to his former bandmate TREVOR BOLDER after the bassist lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday .

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Aretha Franklin, Soul, Pancreatic Cancer, Health, Blake Shelton, Country, WikiLeaks

Wed May 22, 2013

OC Weekly

'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks': All the News That's Fit to Hack

There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning and, sometimes, miracle-working before a story goes to print: An editor higher on the food chain will receive a disheveled manuscript from a writer, make a few halfhearted tweaks, and pass it along with a note that says, ... (more)

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Related Topix: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks, Movies, Entertainment

Russia Taday

Julian Assange sues US military over secrecy of Bradley Manning trial

Julian Assange and a coalition of activists and journalists filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the military judge overseeing Army Pfc.

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Related Topix: Prison, Journalism, WikiLeaks

The Atlantic

What 'Stop the Leaks' Hardliners Don't Realize: They Can't and Won't Ever Win

Many journalists are outraged that James Rosen, a Fox News correspondent, stands accused of criminal activity for soliciting classified information from government sources, something all national security reporters do.

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Related Topix: Journalism, WikiLeaks, Computer Security, Science / Technology, US Politics, US News

StarPulse.com

Julian Assange wanted Benedict Cumberbatch to quit WikiLeaks film

Wanted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded with British actor Benedict Cumberbatch to drop out of the Hollywood adaptation of his story after objecting to an early version of the film's script.

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Related Topix: Benedict Cumberbatch, WikiLeaks

Tue May 21, 2013

The Village Voice

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Can't Get a Fix on Its Thorny Subject Matter

There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning, and, sometimes, miracle-working before a story goes to print: An editor higher on the food chain will receive a disheveled manuscript from a writer, make a few halfhearted tweaks, and pass it along with a note that says ... (more)

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Related Topix: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks, Movies, Entertainment

Poynter Online

The day in government snooping

"[I]t is unprecedented for the government, in an official court document, to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets." a " [T]his is the same argument the Justice Department has been using in their attempt to indict WikiLeaks and Julian Assange ," Trevor Timm writes.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks, Washington Post, Publishing

Mon May 20, 2013

Common Dreams

Institute for Public Accuracy: "Wake Up!" Obama Nixonian, Shield Law...

May 20 - JAMES GOODALE, via Devi Shah, dkshah at debevoise.com . Available for a limited number of interviews, Goodale represented The New York Times in the landmark Pentagon Papers case, when the Nixon White House attempted to stop the Times from publishing top secret documents about the Vietnam War leaked by Daniel Ellsberg.

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Related Topix: US News, WikiLeaks, US Politics, Charles Schumer, US Senate, Democrat, Liberal Political News