Julian Assange, Conspiracy Theorist
Assange believes the government keeps important secrets? And that mainstream media play along? That is kooky.
The Joe Biden Rules
Joe Biden on non-dictator Hosni Mubarak and “high-tech terrorist” Julian Assange.
Thank Goodness Dana Milbank Is Not Insufferable
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank derides WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for being “insufferable”–apparently because he emerged from prison talking about prison conditions.
What We Learn From WikiLeaks
In U.S. elite media, the main revelation of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables is that the U.S. government conducts its foreign policy in a largely admirable fashion.
WikiLeaks Not a Whistleblower, Assange Not a Journalist?
Funny, I thought our legal traditions generally frowned on the notion that powerful government officials, particularly members of Congress, get to declare who is and isn’t a journalist?
WikiLeaks Hasn’t ‘Leaked’ Anything
If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, anarchic exercise in “freedom” stands as a human disaster. Assange is a criminal. He’s the one who should be in jail. –Joe Klein, Swampland (12/1/10) Actually, Julian Assange didn’t leak anything–he can’t, because he didn’t […]
AFP Runs With Wikipedia Founder’s ‘Crazy Information’ About WikiLeaks
Clearly, WikiLeaks does not have a “policy of releasing absolutely everything”–as a “responsible journalist” would have noted, rather than “dumping all kinds of crazy information online.”
Iraq Killings and Media Indifference
A leaked videotape of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a dozen Iraqis was unveiled on April 5 by the website WikiLeaks. To much of the corporate media, though, it was either not worth reporting at all, or an unfortunate incident to be defended.
