From wl-office@sunshinepress.org Fri Jul 6 02:38:03 2018 From: WikiLeaks To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: WikiLeaks may be under attack Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:38:03 +0000 Message-ID: <172289067512.3849117.18406683775449837966.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3048214791363222479==" --===============3048214791363222479== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WikiLeaks may be under attack. You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor resour= ces to respond. Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand = what is going on. We apologize for not getting back to you before. It is not = through any lack of interest on our part, but an enforced lack of resources. One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning,= has been detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait, where he is= being held without trail. Mr. Manning is alleged to have acted according to = his conscious and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and the video of a= massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani. The Garani massacre, which we are still working on, killed over 100 people, m= ostly children. Mr. Manning allegedly also sent us 260,000 classified US Department cables, r= eporting on the actions of US Embassy's engaging in abusive actions all over = the world. We have denied the allegation, but the US government is acting as = if the allegation is true and we do have a lot of other material that exposes= human rights abuses by the United States government. Mr. Manning was allegedly exposed after talking to an unrelated "journalist" = who then worked with the US government to detain him. Some background on the Manning case: http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/06/11/transcript-daniel-ellsberg-says-h= e-fears-us-might-assasinate-wikileaks-founder/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/state-department-anxious/ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/06/143011.htm [ note that there are some questions about the Wired reportage, see: http://w= ww.boingboing.net/2010/06/13/video-wikileaks-foun.html#comment-809677 ] WikiLeaks a small organization going through enormous growth and operating in= an adverserial, high-security environment which can make communication time = consuming and the acquisition of new staff and volunteers, also difficult sin= ce they require high levels of trust. To try and deal with our growth and the current difficult situation, we want = to get you to work together with our other supporters to set up a "Friends of= WikiLeaks" group in your area. We have multiple supporters in most countries= and would like to see them be a strong and independent force.=20 Please write to friends(a)sunshinepress.org if you are interested in helping = with Friends of WikiLeaks in your area. You will receive further instructions. We also have significant unexpected legal costs (for example flying a legal t= eam to Kuwait, video production. Collateral Murder production costs were $50,= 000 all up). Any financial contributions will be of IMMEDIATE assistance. http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Special:Support Please donate and tell the world that you have done so. Encourage all your fr= iends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious. Julian Assange Editor in Chief WIKILEAKS ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============3048214791363222479==--