Chelsea Manning shared secrets with WikiLeaks. Now she's telling her own story (Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)

So we would just be spinning our wheels more and more, like if you're stuck in a ditch and you run the engine and you try to go faster, but you end up digging deeper. That was what was happening. And I kept seeing this again and again. And it was very clear that the approaches of counterinsurgency warfare were extremely self-destructive.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129416671/chelsea-manning-wikileaks-memoir-readme

Mike Pompeo & CIA Sued for Spying on Americans Who Visited Julian Assange in Embassy in U.K. - YouTube

 Lawyers and journalists sued the CIA and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo Monday for spying on them while they met Julian Assange when he was living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had political asylum. The lawsuit is being filed as Britain prepares to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. We speak with the lead attorney in the case, Richard Roth, who details how a private security company stationed at the London Embassy unknowingly sent images from Assange's visitors' cellphones and laptops as well as streamed video from inside meetings to American intelligence. He says the offenses breach a range of client privileges and could sway a U.S. judge to dismiss the case if Assange is successfully extradited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2XlGS_9obo

CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange – report

Mike Pompeo and officials requested 'options' for killing Assange following WikiLeaks' publication of CIA hacking tools, report says…

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/27/senior-cia-officials-trump-discussed-assassinating-julian-assange

Over the course of 48 hours, most of Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories get hammered - The Washington Post

... we have an array of new evidence showing just how hollow Trump's claims were...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/03/over-course-48-hours-most-trumps-favorite-conspiracy-theories-get-hammered/

Senate report details ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ posed by Trump campaign’s 2016 contact with Russia - The Washington Post

...In one of its most startling passages, the report concludes that one of Trump's core claims of innocence cannot be credited. In written testimony to the team of federal prosecutors led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump insisted that he could not recall ever discussing the WikiLeaks dumps with political adviser Roger Stone or any other associate.
"Despite Trump's recollection," the Senate report said, "the committee assesses that Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about WikiLeaks and with members of his campaign about Stone's access to WikiLeaks on multiple occasions."...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html

“Drop the Podesta Emails”: Senate Report Sure Seems Like Another Trump-Russia Smoking Gun | Vanity Fair

More details of Roger Stone’s interactions with WikiLeaks and Paul Manafort’s Russian ties don’t look great for the Trump campaign.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/drop-the-podesta-emails-senate-report-sure-seems-like-another-trump-russia-smoking-gun

Roger Stone Told Trump WikiLeaks Was Releasing Clinton Documents

Newly unredacted portions of the Mueller report show that Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and Michael Cohen told investigators Stone had promised the campaign damaging revelations by WikiLeaks. The information was released following a lawsuit by BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/roger-stone-warned-trump-wikileaks-clinton-dump

'All lies': how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq

Former Reuters journalist Dean Yates was in charge of the bureau in Baghdad when his Iraqi colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh were killed. A WikiLeaks video called Collateral Murder later revealed details of their death
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq

Gates' testimony indicates Trump lied when he claimed he never talked with Stone about WikiLeaks

Prosecutors in Trump ally Roger Stone's federal trial closed their presentation of evidence today with testimony from Trump campaign staffer and Paul Manafort co-conspirator Rick Gates. Gates testified that then-campaign head Paul Manafort asked him to maintain contact with Roger Stone on potential WikiLeaks disclosures (that is, on WikiLeaks' release of Democratic documents obtained by Russian intelligence agents in their campaign to damage candidate Hillary Clinton), with Manafort making it clear to Gates that he would be updating Trump with what Gates learned....
 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/11/12/1898905/-Prosecution-witness-Gates-tells-court-Trump-personally-spoke-to-Roger-Stone-about-WikiLeaks-info

Mueller interview notes obtained by CNN show Trump's push for stolen emails - CNNPolitics

President Donald Trump and other top 2016 Trump campaign officials repeatedly privately discussed how the campaign could get access to stolen Democratic emails WikiLeaks had in 2016, according to newly released interview notes from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/mueller-investigation-notes-trump-stolen-emails/index.html

Julian Assange Arrested (Opening Arguments podcast OA269)

Today's episode breaks down the recent arrest of Julian Assange in England and what it means for Chelsea Manning (and Donald Trump!)

We begin, however, with two separate sports-related stories: the improbable success of Marcus Rademacher in the Opening Arguments March Madness pool, and the (far sadder) saga of the Trump Administration's indefensible decision to overrule the MLB's deal with Cuba that would have brought an end to the dangerous human trafficking of ballplayers.

After that, it's time for our deep dive into the sealed Julian Assange indictment and his arrest in England. We also discuss at great length exactly why Chelsea Manning is apparently being held in solitary confinement in prison -- even though her crime was commuted by President Obama -- and whether this indictment is relevant to the Mueller investigation. Oh, and Thomas gives you something to look out for!

And if all that isn't enough for you, well, we end, as always, with a brand new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #122 involving hearsay and a search for public records. As always, remember to follow our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and like our Facebook Page so that you too can play along with #TTTBE!
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa269-julian-assange-arrested/

Assange's arrest, Bernie's foreign policy & potential war with Iran | Pod Save the World

Tommy and Ben discuss the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Bernie's foreign policy, potential war with Iran and the arrest of Chinese scholars.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/R5-DqvCFat8

Actually, the Mueller report showed that Russia did affect the vote - The Washington Post: Analysis

Trump praised WikiLeaks because he thought it helped him win votes — and Mueller showed that WikiLeaks got its information from Russia.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/19/actually-mueller-report-showed-that-russia-did-affect-vote/

Pence: Trump saying ‘I love WikiLeaks’ doesn’t mean he endorses what it did - The Washington Post

Vice President Pence asserted in an interview broadcast Friday that President Trump’s enthusiastic reaction to WikiLeaks’s releases of damaging material on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race did not amount to an endorsement of the organization. “I think the president always, as you and the media do, always welcomes information,” Pence said in an interview with CNN. “But that was in no way an endorsement of an organization that we now understand was involved in disseminating classified information by the United States of America.”....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-says-trump-welcomes-information-but-didnt-endorse-wikileaks-in-2016/2019/04/12/de7c3b6a-5d1b-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html

Even Fox News fact-checks Trump’s WikiLeaks lie

BREAKING: Fox News just fact-checked Trump’s WikiLeaks lie in brutal fashion. Even his favorite network is done carrying water for him…
https://youtu.be/3lMgbu8wwkA

Trump's WikiLeaks Amnesia

After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on Thursday for conspiracy to commit computer hacking, as part of a US extradition treaty, a reporter asked President Donald Trump at the White House, “Do you still love WikiLeaks?” Trump’s response? “I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing.” Hmmmm. Let’s review the tape. ...
https://youtu.be/x7gF357NR8o

Roger Stone wanted WikiLeaks dump to distract from ‘Access Hollywood’ tape, says Mueller witness -- The Washington Post:

The revelation in The Washington Post of a tape of Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women landed just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2016. Less than an hour later, WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization founded by Julian Assange, began releasing hacked emails from the account of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/29/roger-stone-wanted-wikileaks-email-dump-distract-access-hollywood-tape-associate-claims/

What the Roger Stone Indictment Left Out: How He Helped Russia Attack the 2016 Election - Mother Jones

Roger Stone, the conniving conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed dirty trickster whose motto is "admit nothing, deny everything," was indicted Friday morning by special counsel Robert Mueller for allegedly lying to the House intelligence committee about his efforts to interact with WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/what-the-roger-stone-indictment-left-out-how-he-helped-russia-attack-the-2016-election/

Roger Stone indictment exposes how the media was manipulated into questioning Clinton's health - Raw Story

On Friday morning, in highly dramatic fashion, FBI agents swooped in and arrested Roger Stone, a longtime friend and unofficial campaign adviser to Donald Trump. The charges — witness-tampering, lying to federal officials, obstruction of justice — have been long expected....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/roger-stone-indictment-exposes-media-manipulated-questioning-clintons-health/

Fox News' Sean Hannity appears to have acted on directives from newly revealed Stone-WikiLeaks emails - Raw Story

Fox News host Sean Hannity appears to have acted on the directives from the emails between President Donald Trump's longtime political adviser Roger Stone and an intermediary who claimed to have communicated with WikiLeaks. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/fox-news-sean-hannity-appears-acted-directives-newly-revealed-stone-wikileaks-emails/