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  • Oct 4, 2013
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WikiLeaks

The anti-secrecy international organisation was founded in 2006 by Australian Julian Assange. The non-profit group calls itself a media organisation and also acts as an online "drop box" for anonymous sources to leak information and documents to journalists. In 2010, WikiLeaks became more prominent after releasing the "Collateral Murder" video, which showed US Army helicopter firing on a group of mostly unarmed men, two of whom were journalists.

24 Sep 2013

WikiLeaks has posted the script to The Fifth Estate online and made its most forceful denunciation of the film about the site's creation and its colorful founder.

3:32AM
13 Sep 2013

Leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden triggered a much needed debate about surveillance in America, even if they jeopardised national security, the country’s spy chief...

8:57AM
6 Sep 2013

WikiLeaks founder and 'people-smuggler' Julian Assange revealed to the South China Morning Post the reason why Edward Snowden fled Hong Kong for Russia two weeks after the former CIA analyst first...

10:36AM
30 Aug 2013

A lawyer for US Army Private Bradley Manning said in a blog post on Thursday the soldier is doing well as he goes through processing at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth.

11:03AM
27 Aug 2013

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has recorded a musical spoof on his Australian political party for cult web series Rap News, satirising rock star John Farnham in a wig and denim shirt.

5:03PM
23 Aug 2013

Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the US soldier said yesterday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for...

2:53AM

Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party was in crisis yesterday after one of its most prominent Australian election candidates quit, saying she was disillusioned with its lack of democracy.

3:11AM

US Army Private Bradley Manning will be sentenced on Wednesday for handing a mass of data to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of official secrets in American history.

3:47PM

They argued that his leaks of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website in 2010 severely damaged US intelligence operations and made a mockery of the nation's diplomatic missions.

2:35AM

They argued that his leaks of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website in 2010 severely damaged US intelligence operations and made a mockery of the nation's diplomatic missions.

2:35AM

US soldier Bradley Manning took the stand at his sentencing hearing in the WikiLeaks case and apologised for hurting his country. He pleaded with a military judge for a chance to go to college and...

2:28AM

US Army private Bradley Manning apologised on Wednesday for leaking secret intelligence files to WikiLeaks and admitted for the first time he had harmed his country and others.

8:34AM

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