MB Civic

This is the first I’ve heard of WikiLeaks, a website devoted to publishing classified government and corporate documents – the kind of information that was available before the Freedom of Information Act got watered down after 9/11. This is a WikiLeaks press release on the harassment, spying and surveillance by various actors:

Developing world violence aside, we’ve become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest. But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive. Some of the new interest is related to a film exposing a U.S. massacre we will release at the U.S. National Press Club on April 5. The spying includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks’ volunteer in Iceland on Monday night.

there’s more about WikiLeaks from Glenn Greenwald and Firedoglake’s Emptywheel – mab .. read more