Wikileaks, Teller of Secrets

Wikileaks is the whistle-blowing site that governments hate and the citizens should love. If the government practice of CYA bothers you, consider contributing to them.

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Wikileaks “ ... serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch. ” — In praise of... WikiLeaks - The Guardian, October 20, 2009

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Wikileaks publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, and religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. Within one year of its December 2006 launch, its database had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.

The Wikileaks team consists of five people who work full-time and about 800 people who work occasionally. None are paid. Wikileaks has no official headquarters. The expenses per year are about $200,000, mainly for servers and bureaucracy, which is provided by donations.

Maybe it is too effective. On March 15, 2010, Wikileaks released a secret 32 page U.S. Department of Defense Counterintelligence Analysis Report from March 2008. The document described some prominent reports leaked on the website which related to the security interests of the USA, and described potential methods of marginalizing the organization.

The report discussed deterring potential whistleblowers via termination of employment and criminal prosecution of any existing or former insiders, leakers or whistleblowers. Reasons for the attack include notable leaks such as U.S. equipment expenditure, human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay and the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah.

For up-to-the-second reports on what is going on, there is a Feed.

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