Trump’s new FBI head candidate? Mass surveillance, FISA advocate Mike Rogers. Rogers called Snowden a “traitor” for exposing mass surveillance and sits on the board of the security industry funded pro-surveillance, pro-censorship “Atlantic Council” as well as other contractors:
"Assange’s actions squarely fell under the protections of the law. But he angered the security state, which was powerful enough to push for a reinterpretation of a cornerstone of US law without any formal process."
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“I was formally convicted by a foreign power for asking for, receiving and publishing truthful information about that power, while I was in Europe. The fundamental issue is simple: Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs.”
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"The leaked emails prove beyond any doubt that both the Israeli government and the IDF liaise with some of the most powerful people in the entertainment world in order to push forward a pro-Israel message."
Reporting based on the WikiLeaks Sony Archives: https://t.co/0i7yhuXaBG
Reporting by @theintercept on "...whether the FBI is actually investigating true terrorism versus just targeting groups for investigation because they don’t like their political beliefs."
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"The leading 15 defence contractors are forecast to log free cash flow of $52bn in 2026... almost double their combined cash flow at the end of 2021."
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All the search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs sent by millions of students across the US are being monitored by AI-powered surveillance software 👇 https://t.co/sfCggvEQzt
Supply chain attacks have precedents: CIA's Athena malware is designed to be injected into a target's supply chain (e.g shipments from Dell) #Vault7
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200 people critically injured; an eight-year-old girl among the dead: "For Israel to embed an explosive trigger within the new batch of pagers, they would have likely needed access to the supply chain of these devices."
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Hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon. 3 people reported killed and dozens wounded in latest wave of explosions. Security sources: devices modified by Israel at production stage; purchased by Hezbollah 5 months ago, around same time pagers were bought https://t.co/NqmJfYGkuY
“People have started to say, ‘Okay, this is going to be the new type of warfare. This is going to be how they're going to fight. It's going to be terrorism warfare. So this is the new normal now.’”
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"Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, at least six new intelligence software systems designed for monitoring social media have been developed and deployed in Israel."
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.@IDF suggests that Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah, has been killed.
Julian conducted a long-form interview with Nasrallah in 2012: watch here -
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"The fundamental issue is simple: Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs.
Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society" - Julian Assange, Council of Europe
Julian Assange - "After 14 years detained in the UK… and facing a 175 year sentence, with the prospect of years more in prison before being able to have a shot at the European Court of Human Rights, I accepted a plea offer from the United States that would release me from prison immediately…. The US insisted that I not be able to take a case in relation to what happened to me, in relation to the extradition proceedings. Nor could I file a Freedom of Information Act [to the] US government...”
Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, replies to a question at the Council of Europe today:
"What can be done when we have horrible stories about targeted killings? When we now have evidence of that in wars, it is the reality that reporting on wars is more severe than ever before and it was bad. It was bad in Iraq. Now it is even worse, it is a horror story.
It is hard to give out advice for these journalists how they can deal with that situation. The only thing we can call out at least is for an outcry and condemnation that this should be going on because we need information, we need this information.
There are no tools to secure individuals in Gaza that are being followed by drones and are being targeted in mass bombings. There is little defence from that. But the outcry and condemnation should be there. We should not be silent when this happens"
Full breakdown of the vote at the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly which today passed a resolution recognising that Julian Assange was a political prisoner when he was held in the UK, with 88 votes in favour, 13 against and 20 abstentions 👉 https://t.co/CGcGSKz5Ms