{"id":1361,"date":"2010-03-25T00:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:10:38","slug":"wikileaks-something-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks: Something is up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like the people behind Wikileaks are under some pressure. Since this is unlikely to turn up in your newspapers, I post it here to spread awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks has a mission of bringing hidden information to light, when it&#8217;s in the public interest. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikileaks\">Wikipedia outlines their greatest hits<\/a>, including Gauntanamo Bay procedure documents, scientology secrets, and net censorship lists. They come under fire sometimes for hosting material that probably isn&#8217;t much in the public interest, but overall they have contributed some compelling information to some fractious global arguments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/10961072669\">In the last 24 hours, their Twitter feed has contained some worrying content.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club@sunshinepress.org<\/li>\n<li>WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation. Following\/photographing\/filming\/detaining<\/li>\n<li>If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible.<\/li>\n<li>Two under State Dep diplomatic cover followed our editor from Iceland to http:\/\/skup.no on Thursday.<\/li>\n<li>One related person was detained for 22 hours. Computer&#8217;s seized.That&#8217;s http:\/\/www.skup.no<\/li>\n<li>We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being discussed at the highest levels of US command.<\/li>\n<li>We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike.<\/li>\n<li>We have airline records of the State Dep\/CIA tails. Don&#8217;t think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All those came out in a rush, then silence for hours. Might just be a timezone thing, with people sleeping, or maybe there&#8217;s been no news, or maybe everyone with access to the Twitter feed has been detained. I await more information.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/10993931099\">To those worrying about us&#8211;we&#8217;re fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly<\/a>.&#8221; 8.22am NZ time.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Just noticed that the first tweet quoted, &#8220;WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup&#8221; is gone from the feed. Now I wish I&#8217;d linked to all of them individually. Anyway, it was definitely there, and I think Linda is right that it is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/9412020034\">this previously-referred-to video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: commenter eru <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/10860504725\">found the missing tweet<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t visible in the ordinary feed for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like the people behind Wikileaks are under some pressure. Since this is unlikely to turn up in your newspapers, I post it here to spread awareness. Wikileaks has a mission of bringing hidden information to light, when it&#8217;s in the public interest. Wikipedia outlines their greatest hits, including Gauntanamo Bay procedure documents, scientology secrets, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wikileaks: Something is up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediawatch","tag-wikileaks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-lX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}