Tag: WHISTLEBLOWER

Share Last night, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sat down for a rare, extended interview with Steve Kroft of '60 Minutes.' In what CBS has called Assange's "most extensive television interview to date," the Australian national defended his organization's mission, discussed the roots of his own anti-authoritarian philosophy, and compared WikiLeaks' core principles to "those of the U.S. ...

A Swiss former banker has provided WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with confidential information on hundreds of offshore bank accounts. The whistleblower, Rudolf Elmer, used to work in the Cayman Islands, where he headed the office of Julius Baer, a Swiss bank. He was fired in 2002, but is apparently intent on exposing the abuses of the offshore banking industry to the rest of the world. At a ...

Yesterday, Wikileaks published its long awaited 'Iraq War Logs,' a collection of nearly 400,000 classified military documents covering the controversial war in Iraq. According to the Guardian, the logs consist of verified first-hand accounts from coalition soldiers on the ground, and give a chilling "glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to ...

Well, it looks like storm clouds are brewing over the Wikileaks horizon once again. Just a few days after leaking more than 77,000 classified military documents about Afghanistan, the mysterious whistle-blowing site has now posted a far larger, encrypted file, entitled 'Insurance.' Weighing in at 1.4 gigabytes, the file is about 20 times larger than the pile of military documents leaked earlier, ...

A few weeks ago we reported on the developing story of online whistleblower site Wikileaks. It exists as a safe haven for would-be exposers of corruption and dirty deeds, but after it got involved with a bank, hosting documents indicating some shady operations and potential money laundering, a judge in California ordered the site off-line. Now, that same judge has reversed his earlier decision, ...

Nobody likes a snitch, but the whistleblower, someone who exposes corruption, is often held in quite high regard. There's a fine line between the two types of tattletales, but most everyone is almost always happy to see shady and illegal back room dealings exposed. Everyone, it seems, except the American courts. The U.S. Supreme Court made exposing misdeeds a little more dangerous last year when ...