Whistleblower gets plea deal, dodges espionage conviction

A former employee of the National Security Agency, Thomas A. Drake, charged with espionage for leaking classified information, struck a deal with the Justice Department admitting to a misdemeanor of using NSA’s computers to to provide information to a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. It is expected that Drake will not have to serve any [...]

WikiLeaks protects its information with threat of huge monetary penalty

To make sure that none of its treasure of leaked information is leaked, WikiLeaks is asking its associates to sign a nondisclosure agreement that the leaked information is solely the property of WikiLeaks, and should anyone leak this commercial property, they would be subject to a penalty of 12 million pounds or almost $20 million. [...]

Wikileaks expected to release 1000s of classified docs Friday

Editors and reporters at the New York Times, U.K.’s Guardian and Der Spiegel of Germany are poring over hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents expected to be released as early as Friday, Bloomberg reported today. “The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org ‘ntends to release several [...]

Wikileaks releasing 500,000 9/11 pager intercepts

Today WikiLeaks started releasing over half a million 9/11 text pager intercepts in hopes of gaining “a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.” Wikileaks 9/11 tragedy pager intercepts. From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is releasing over half [...]

Sheriff who leaked opponent’s expunged record resigns

N.H. Sheriff resigns after leaking info on opponent to press while claiming he believes his action is protected by First Amendment First Amendment Center N.H. sheriff resigns amid accusations of leaking info to reporters By The Associated Press 11.25.09 CONCORD, N.H. — The Rockingham County sheriff and his top deputy resigned yesterday after being accused [...]