Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
WikiLeaks (/ ˈ w ɪ k i l iː k s /) is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. [14] It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. [15] Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief.
On 5 April 2010, WikiLeaks released classified U.S. military footage from a series of attacks on 12 July 2007 in Baghdad by a U.S. helicopter that killed 12–18 people, [96] [97] [98] including two Reuters news staff, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. The attack also wounded others including two children who were in a van that was fired on ...
In April, CIA director Mike Pompeo called WikiLeaks "a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia". [343] Assange responded "The head of the CIA determining who is a publisher, who's not a publisher, who's a journalist, who's not a journalist, is totally out of line". [344]
Among the most potent in the cache of files published by WikiLeaks was video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people, including two Reuters journalists.
It was founded by Assange in 2006 and lists several international media organisations among its co-publishers, research partners and funders. What is WikiLeaks and why did it get Julian Assange in ...
The first part of the video released by WikiLeaks, showing the first attack, on a group of men and the second attack, on a van. This is 13 minutes of onboard footage from one of the two AH-64 Apache helicopters involved in the incident released by WikiLeaks.
The founding of Wikileaks in 2006 is followed by coverage of several key events: its 2009–2010 leaks about the Icelandic financial collapse, Swiss banking tax evasion, Kenyan government corruption, toxic-waste dumping, Chelsea Manning's communications with Adrian Lamo, the release by Wikileaks of the Collateral Murder video, the Iraq War ...
Thordarson denied the charges but was found guilty in late 2013 and received 8 months in prison. [68] [2] In 2012, WikiLeaks filed criminal charges against Thordarson for embezzlement. Thordarson denied the charges and the case was later dismissed. He was later arrested in the summer of 2013 on charges of financial fraud.