Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood was an American threat analyst and hacker. Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks,including those of The New York Times,Yahoo!,and Microsoft,culminating in his 2003 arrest.
Max Marlin Fitzwater is an American writer-journalist who served as White House Press Secretary for six years under U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush,making him one of the longest-serving press secretaries in history. He is the only U.S. Press Secretary to be appointed by two different U.S. Presidents.
Lanny Jesse Davis is an American political operative,lawyer,consultant,lobbyist,author,and television commentator. He is the co-founder and partner of the law firm of Davis Goldberg &Galper PLLC,and co-founder and partner of the public relations firm Trident DMG. From 1996 to 1998,he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton,and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues.
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange,an Australian editor,publisher,and activist. Since September 2018,Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022,numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. In 2023,Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers.
Philippa Thomas is a former television newsreader and journalist,both domestic and foreign. At the BBC she was a chief news presenter at BBC World News,presenting evening bulletins on BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She was presenter of Coronavirus:Your Stories on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. She left the BBC in 2021 to become a full-time Executive Coach.
On July 12,2007,a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah,New Baghdad,during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. On April 5,2010,the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of classified gunsight footage by WikiLeaks. The video,which WikiLeaks titled Collateral Murder,showed the crew firing on a group of people and killing several of them,including two Reuters journalists,and then laughing at some of the casualties,all of whom were civilians. An anonymous U.S. military official confirmed the authenticity of the footage,which provoked global discussion on the legality and morality of the attacks.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses,after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified,or unclassified but sensitive,military and diplomatic documents. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama. A trans woman,Manning said in 2013 that she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.
The Afghan War documents leak,also called the Afghan War Diary,is a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan,which was published by WikiLeaks on 25 July 2010. The logs consist of over 91,000 Afghan War documents,covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009. Most of the documents are classified secret. As of 28 July 2010,only 75,000 of the documents have been released to the public,a move which WikiLeaks says is "part of a harm minimization process demanded by [the] source". Prior to releasing the initial 75,000 documents,WikiLeaks made the logs available to The Guardian,The New York Times and Der Spiegel in its German and English online edition,which published reports in line with an agreement made earlier the same day,25 July 2010.
The United States diplomatic cables leak,widely known as Cablegate,began on Sunday,28 November 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates,embassies,and diplomatic missions around the world. Dated between December 1966 and February 2010,the cables contain diplomatic analysis from world leaders,and the diplomats' assessment of host countries and their officials.
WikiLeaks began publishing the United States diplomatic cables leak on 28 November 2010. The documents included classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by its consulates,embassies,and diplomatic missions around the world. The cables were dated between December 1966 and February 2010,and contained assessments of host countries and their officials. The publication of the cables produced varying responses around the world.
Kristinn Hrafnsson is an Icelandic investigative journalist who has been the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2018. He was the spokesperson for WikiLeaks between 2010 and 2017.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg,previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt,is a German technology activist. He is best known as the former spokesperson for WikiLeaks and the author of Inside WikiLeaks:My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website (2011).
WikiLeaks,a whistleblowing website founded by Julian Assange,has received praise as well as criticism from the public,hacktivists,journalist organisations and government officials. The organisation has revealed human rights abuses and was the target of an alleged "cyber war". Allegations have been made that Wikileaks worked with or was exploited by the Russian government and acted in a partisan manner during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil is a Libyan politician who was the Chairman of the National Transitional Council from 5 March 2011 until its dissolution on 8 August 2012. This position meant he was de facto head of state during a transitional period after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's government in the Libyan Civil War,and until the handover of power to the General National Congress.
Mahmoud Jibril el-Warfally,also transcribed Jabril or Jebril or Gebril,was a Libyan politician who served as the interim Prime Minister of Libya for seven and a half months during the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Civil War,chairing the executive board of the National Transitional Council (NTC) from 5 March to 23 October 2011. He also served as the Head of International Affairs. As of July 2012,Jibril was the head of one of the largest political parties in Libya,the National Forces Alliance.
The international reactions to the 2011 military intervention in Libya were the responses to the military intervention in Libya by NATO and allied forces to impose a no-fly zone. The intervention was authorized by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973,approved in New York on 17 March,in response to the Libyan Civil War,though some governments allege participants in the operation exceeded their mandate.
Moussa Ibrahim Gaddafi is a Libyan political figure who rose to international attention in 2011 as Muammar Gaddafi's Information Minister and official spokesman,serving in this role until the government was toppled the same year in the Libyan Civil War. Ibrahim held frequent press conferences in the course of the war,denouncing rebel forces and the NATO-led military intervention,often in defiant and impassioned tones. His status and whereabouts remained unknown following the Battle of Tripoli in which the Gaddafi government was overthrown,although there were several claims and subsequent refutations of his capture. Eventually,in late 2014,it was discovered he was in Egypt before he was deported and fled to Serbia. On 12 January 2015 Moussa Ibrahim spoke publicly by video link at a political event hosted at the Committee Rooms Houses of Parliament,Westminster,London from an undisclosed location,also the Director of Private Security Company.
The international reactions to the killing of Muammar Gaddafi concern the responses of foreign governments and supranational organisations to the killing of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the Battle of Sirte,the last major engagement of the 2011 Libyan civil war,on 20 October 2011.
United States v. Manning was the court-martial of former United States Army Private First Class,Chelsea Manning.
Global surveillance and journalism is a subject covering journalism or reporting of governmental espionage,which gained worldwide attention after the Global surveillance disclosures of 2013 that resulted from Edward Snowden's leaks. Since 2013,many leaks have emerged from different government departments in the US,which confirm that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on US citizens and foreign enemies alike. Journalists were attacked for publishing the leaks and were regarded in the same light as the whistleblowers who gave them the information. Subsequently,the US government made arrests,raising concerns about the freedom of the press.
