US strategy to prevent leaks is leaked
The US government's document on how to get various government agencies to prevent future leaks has been leaked to MSNBC. It does not get any more ironic than that. The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive steps to prevent further leaks. These steps include figuring out which employees might be most inclined to leak classified documents, by using psychiatrists and sociologists to assess their trustworthiness. Government agencies would also require employees report any contacts with members of the news media they may have.
http://www.techspot.com/news/41889-leaked-us-government-strategy-to-prevent-leaks.html
"Let there be a thousand WikiLeaks"
A group of former European Union officials and journalists launched a site called BrusselsLeaks, focused on obtaining and publishing leaked internal information about the backroom dealings and secrets of the EU. The Bulgarian newspaper The Sofia Echo reported that a Bulgarian expat in Paris has set up BalkanLeaks, a WikiLeaks-modeled site that declares that "the Balkans are not keeping secrets anymore." An Indonesian whistle-blowing site, IndoLeaks, has already published revealing documents from the country’s Suharto administration, though it seems to have since been brought down temporarily by technical glitches. German former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg is launching his own leaks site, OpenLeaks, which will not publish any documents, instead functioning as a cryptographically secure submissions box on other sites.
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/13/here-come-the-wikileaks-copycats-indoleaks-brusselsleaks-and-balkanleaks/
Pentagon Manhunt for WikiLeaks Founder
Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks, for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials said. The officials acknowledge that even if they found Assange, they may not be able to block publication of the cables on WikiLeaks, which is based in Sweden. Pentagon is convinced that Assange has classified State Department cables leaked by Army intelligence specialist Bradley Manning, who is now in custody in Kuwait. Given the contents of the cables, the Feds have good reason to be concerned. Manning, while posted in Iraq, apparently had special access to cables prepared by diplomats and State Department officials throughout the Middle East, regarding the workings of Arab governments and their leaders, according to an American diplomat.
US Army regards WikiLeaks as threat
WikiLeaks presents a "threat to the U.S. Army" and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified US intelligence report posted on WikiLeaks. The 2008 report indicates the US government's concern that "current employees or moles" within the Defense Department or the US government "are providing sensitive or classified information to WikiLeaks." The report suggested a campaign to punish those who leak to the site, which was founded in 2007 by Chinese dissidents and journalists. The document was produced by the Army Counterintelligence Center.
WikiLeaks suspended due to lack of funds
WikiLeaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The whistleblowing website, which has irked governments and big business since its launch in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations. WikiLeaks organisers announced the suspension in a statement on its site. "To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have reluctantly suspended all other operations, but will be back soon," it says. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/29/wikileaks-temporarily-closes-lack-funds
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