Julian Assange wins Sam Adams Award for Integrity 564

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The award is judged by a group of retired senior US military and intelligence personnel, and past winners. This year the award to Julian Assange was unanimous.

Previous winners and ceremony locations:

Coleen Rowley of the FBI; in Washington, D.C.

Katharine Gun of British intelligence; in Copenhagen, Denmark

Sibel Edmonds of the FBI; in Washington, D.C.

Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan; in New York City

Sam Provance, former sergeant, U.S. Army, truth-teller about Abu Ghraib; in Washington, D.C.

Frank Grevil, major, Danish army intelligence, imprisoned for giving the Danish press documents showing that Denmark’s prime minister disregarded warnings that there was no authentic evidence of WMDs in Iraq; in Copenhagen, Denmark

Larry Wilkerson, colonel, U.S. Army (retired), former chief of staff to Secretary Colin Powell at the State Department, who has exposed what he called the “Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal”; in Washington, D.C.

http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/08/15/can-wikileaks-help-save-lives/

Not sure yet where this year’s award ceremony will be held, but I’ll be there.

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  • antidote

    Arthur Silber treats the issue of Wikileaks very well, as always. I find him one of the best and most honest bloggers.

  • Abe Rene

    John Van Rooyen: ‘traitor’ is a loaded word. The people who work for the Americans are fighting the Taleban, who are Islamists who would impose a lunatic and oppressive regime, treat women as slaves, and give support to Al-Qaeda. My sympathies are certainly against them. Assange has high-handedly put people at risk and deserves punishment, not sympathy as far as I am concerned.

  • somebody

    I could give Abe Rene a long list of ‘loaded’ words connected to the illegal wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.

    This is from one of the doctors in the original group. Remember that they have been going at this for nearly seven years. I admire their tenacity throughout and their resistance to the cold water poured on them by the likes of Mangold and Aaronovitch, Blair’s pals Rentoul and Campbell and even Gilligan recently. The cold water has ended up just muddying the water but has so far failed to silence those who call for justice.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/19/david-kelly-inquest-disgrace

  • nik

    Antidote,

    i’ll second that comment about Arthur Silber – he’s one of the most uncompromising and consistently brilliant bloggers out there.

  • Skeptical

    Does anyone else see what’s really going on here? Assange has conjured up one of the most elaborate spider’s web ever spun. I strongly urge everyone to be extra cautious.

  • Alfred

    Larry said,

    “So when do you think Assange will publish documents that detail 911 being an inside job? Answer: never. They don’t exist, you silly gooses.”

    Larry, no one here raised the issue of 911. Did you by chance post this on the wrong thread, or perhaps the wrong web site?

    And despite the name, aren’t you really a girl. I mean, how many guys go around calling people “silly gooses”?

    Any how, it’s geese. So, run along you silly goose.

  • bert

    I take cognisance of F. William Engdahl’s view of the topic, as noted upthread^ (copy also here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2dbr3a4).

    Engdahl is one of the few to analyse the implicity of the leaks, rather than the (overwhelming) content of the leaks themselves (has anyone done that? – links please!)

    Craig, I wouldn’t be assuaged at all by the rostrum that Julian Assange now shares with you. After all the ‘award’ is ‘_judged by a group of retired senior US military and intelligence personnel_’…… When was it you were awarded this similar ‘accolade’? & did the retired military and intelligence bods explain in detail their reasonings?

    I ask with the greatest respect for you…

    It is hard to discover the corollary of so many of the events of today/yesterday.

    & totally off-topic, but worthy of a mention (particularly for the analysis in [youtube] parts 1-6 of historical events) is the new documentary ‘Seeds of Deconstruction’.

    Further info on the film ‘Seeds of Deconstruction’ is available here:

    http://tinyurl.com/35b78ow

  • Florentino

    Sorry for misplacing this comment!

    i didn’t find the “post a comment” on that page.

    i just ordered the “The Catholic Orangmen of Togo”, but i missed the “Special Instructions to Merchant” box for a signed copy. It’s the one for 16 Richards. Mille Grazie! Dio vi benedica!

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    Julian Assange is a good ‘C’ programmer and has written software tools for Unix including a port scanner:

    http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/scanners/strobe/

    and an encryption program called ‘Marutukku’ for Linux

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system)

    Marutukku or ‘rubberhose’ as it was later called was used by doctors in Iraq in 2003/4 for storing data on abuses to Iraqi civilians who ended up in trauma.

    Julian is no agent, his own emails have been hacked and he warns against sending sensitive information by this route, preferring good ‘ol ‘snail-mail’ to a PO Box No.

    Bert,

    Thanks – Seeds of Deconstruction is a ‘must-see.’

    Attorney General Dominic Grieve has sloping shoulders preferring to leave the decision to release the ‘post-mortem examination report and other sensitive medical notes on David Kelly to Ken Clarke; the ‘Big Society’ awaits a positive outcome Mr Clarke –

    open government is de rigeur n’est-ce pas?

  • Derikic

    Craig, if you ever bump into Sibel Edmonds – do have a chat with her about 9/11, OBL and AQ etc

  • somebody

    Yes the dirty tricks dept have been working o/t. It must be very distressing for Assange all the same. Didn’t something similar happen to a presidential candidate.

  • Larry from St. Louis

    technicolour, did Scott Ritter ever make the argument that the Vast Conspiracy had falsified the charges against him?

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    The ‘dirty trick’ is a plot to make the hosting and security of Wikileaks on Internet servers problematic.

    A recent contract with The Pirate Party in Sweden serves to enforce the security of Wikileaks hosting.

    Julian had dinner with the Pirate Party Chairman Rick Falk Vinge last Sunday when an agreement was signed that would offer some protection in Swedish law to maintain a Wikileak presence.

    The Pirate Party does have about 10% support in Sweden (growing) and I believe has two representatives in the European parliament.

    Since its defence against P2P file sharing, the Pirate Party is gaining strength, saying: “the proposals to censor The Pirate Bay from the Internet [are] an attempt to silence one of today’s most important voices related to civil liberties and freedom on the net. It is nothing less than political censorship, which every democratically minded person must condemn.”

    I am very interested in the framework of this party and whether it could be applied successfully to British politics.

    Let face it, in Britain, we are becoming sick to death of a defunct, obsolete and burdening political system that drains taxes, supports a ‘deep’ foreign policy and humiliates local community organisers by proposing a stupid ‘big society’ plan that is undermining hard working groups the width and breadth of Great Britain.

  • Sabretache

    Further to my first comment here and at the risk of gilding the lilly on site promotion: The Wikispooks article on Wikileaks now has probably the most comprehensive set of non-MSM links to insightful information you will find anywhere. They include both Arthur Silber, Zahir Ebrahim and John Pilger articles, together with a tuned Google search of the Cryptome site and some commentary. John Young of Cryptome you will recall was the original registrant of the Wikileaks domain but resigned over their fund-raising ambitions.

    https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikileaks

  • Nomad

    Arrest warranty has been issued in Sweden today for Wikileaks founder with rape charges. CIA seems to be working pretty well.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    Peter,

    I remind you that PGP can be broken and again I advise everyone to change your ‘PGP keys’ on a regular basis (special thanks to the ‘locksmith’ who gave me a ‘laugh’ by advertising key-cutting on this site).

  • Joel

    You people have NO right to know the contents of classified info. Where in the law does it state you are entitled to this infO?

    This man was a hacker. He is a crook, a theif and, like most radical liberals, one who only cares about those who are no threat to him.

    DOes he help try to topple radical islam or dangerous criminals? No

    Does he try to topple Iran or VZ? No

    Why is that? Because he’s a scumbag. Just like you phonies

  • Alfred

    Suhayl said,

    “Now he’ll have to spend all his time defending the rape allegations. Oh, it’s so transparent. ”

    Ha! Who are the conspiracy theorists now?

  • dreoilin

    Glenn Greenwald on Assange:

    “Charges against Julian Assange withdrawn, unfounded”

    http://tinyurl.com/36dt937

    Since he says Scott Ritter was the subject of a ‘media smear campaign’, can I assume he was never convicted? Google throws up nothing.

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