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big news about NSA GCHQ
and wiki leaks from Edward snowden Juliana sign she has now called for the
appointment of a special prosecutor
to investigate the NSA after documents that show
the US has been spying on Wikileaks
and WikiLeaks supporters and website visitors
documents were published from Edward snowden detail in the US and UK spying
efforts into WikiLeaks
and into those who visit the WikiLeaks website
one document shows that going all the way back to 2010
the US National Security Agency added wiki leaks
and Juliana signs to a man hunting
target list together with suspected members about Qaeda
that's right surveillance was being done on WikiLeaks and Julian assigns
in the same scope that it was done on those suspected of being members of al
Qaeda
another document shows that the NSA wanted to designate WikiLeaks a quote
malicious foreign actor in order to even further expand
the NSA's ability to target wiki leaks in WikiLeaks staff
associates and supporters and then we have a third document from 2012
which shows that the NSA's British partner the GCHQ
was also spying on Wikileaks and its leaders
wikiLeaks is now saying the following it in light of these revelations
quote news that the NSA plan these operations at the level up its office of
the General Counsel
is especially troubling no less concerning I revelations that the US
government deployed elements upstate
power to pressure you are European nations into abusing their own legal
systems
and that the British spy agency GCHQ
is engaged in extensive hostile monitoring
ever-popular publisher's website and its readers the system that was used by GCHQ
to monitor the net wiki leaks website was code-named
anti-crisis girl is described in a PowerPoint presentation which is
classified but it's been
now a distributed in leaked and
it I it's a system that also allows
the IP addresses visitors to WikiLeaks to then be tracked and of course even
though it's quote
meta-data it's very easy even in layman's terms to understand how they
can easily backtrack
and figure out who is accessing the website as someone who has been on the
press list
wiki leaks and sunshine press for a lot for years
speaking at myself couldn't I be
almost certain at this point that some of my information
is probably within that meta data at this point without a doubt mine tonight
by visited WikiLeaks
and itself hey I mean I I'm not worried about that of course one thirty-second
internet search
I'll be there are names gorgeous tracing and IP addressing don't know exactly why
we were there
%ah wide for a lot of other americans I don't know they they might not be as
lucky name I have people showing up at their door
or who knows I think that this is a
its even more evidence when we think back to
did remember Chelsea Manning was the source for the WikiLeaks documents
the fact that it's being discussed in monitored
in the same breath as suspected al Qaeda members really tells us a lot
about the perception leakers and whistleblowers at this point remember
unlike Edward snowden
a Chelsea Manian WikiLeaks did expose
crimes that have been committed we can disagree over whether there should be
crimes in what edwards known exposed but
actually speaking Chelsea Manning exposed crimes