#bradley_manning

#Surveillance et #punition

Cette semaine d’"#Histoire_Vivante" est consacrée au philosophe #Michel_Foucault et à sa profonde réflexion sur le #pouvoir.

Dimanche 31 mai 2015, vous pouvez découvrir sur RTS Deux : « Edward Snowden, ennemi d’Etat » un documentaire de John Goetz et Poul-Erik Heilbuth (2015 / France / Allemagne / Danemark / Norvège).

Traître et espion pour les USA, héros pour les défenseurs des libertés individuelles : pour la première fois, le récit de la traque menée contre Edward Snowden, l’homme qui a fait trembler le gouvernement américain...

►http://www.rts.ch/docs/histoire-vivante/6804587-des-philosophes-aux-activistes-1-5.html

#activisme #philosophie

Chelsea Manning raconte sa vie en prison
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/fuites-de-wikileaks/201504/09/01-4859536-chelsea-manning-raconte-sa-vie-en-prison.php

Âgée de 27 ans, Chelsea a été condamnée en août 2013 à 35 ans de prison pour avoir transmis plus de 700 000 documents confidentiels au site WikiLeaks, alors qu’elle travaillait comme analyste du renseignement en Irak.

Après sa condamnation, le soldat Bradley Manning avait annoncé qu’il se sentait femme et voulait être reconnu comme étant Chelsea Manning.

Dans sa première interview depuis son incarcération dans la prison militaire de Fort Leavenworth au Kansas, publiée mercredi dans le magazine Cosmopolitan, elle affirme notamment souffrir qu’on lui interdise de se laisser pousser les cheveux : c’est à la fois « douloureux et bizarre ».

▻http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a38728/chelsea-manning-may-2015

#Bradley_Manning #Chelsea_Manning #Lanceur_d'alerte #Prison #WikiLeaks #États-Unis

The New York Times and Manning’s prison sentence - World Socialist Web Site

►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/23/nyti-a23.html

The New York Times and Manning’s prison sentence
By Thomas Gaist
23 August 2013

In an editorial published yesterday, “Bradley Manning’s Excessive Sentence,” the New York Times has endorsed the suppression of whistleblowers spearheaded by the Obama administration.

#wikileak #bradley_manning

Edito du NYT qui juge la sentence de #Bradley_Manning "excessive".
Il pourra faire appel dans 8 ans. Il est incarcéré depuis 3.

Bradley Manning’s Excessive Sentence - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/bradley-mannings-sentence-is-excessive.html?nl=todaysheadlines

But the larger issue, which is not resolved by Private Manning’s sentencing, is the federal government’s addiction to secrecy and what it will do when faced with future leaks, an inevitability when 92 million documents are classified in a year and more than 4 million Americans have security clearance.

Quelle autre sentence eut été possible ? Exercice de #droit international comparé : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/166825

Une autre réaction, celle de Birgitta Jónsdóttir, qui souligne les errements d’Obama, prof de droit constitutionnel, qui a pesé de tout son poids dans cette affaire :

When the president says that the Ellsberg’s material was classified in a different way, he seems to be unaware that there was a higher classification on the documents Ellsberg leaked.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/bradley-manning-sentence-birgitta-jonsdottir

Affaire Snowden : Obama n’a pas su réformer les politiques sécuritaires
▻http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/140813/affaire-snowden-obama-na-pas-su-reformer-les-politiques-securitaires?ongle

En examinant l’entourage du président américain, il est frappant de constater le nombre d’anciens de l’administration Bush qui continuent d’occuper des postes-clés en matière de surveillance et d’espionnage.

Fin d’un procès devant une cour martiale qui aura vu, quelques jours après son ouverture, éclater l’affaire #Snowden #Prism #surveillance ; et que les #journalistes (dont le destin se confond de plus en plus avec celui des #whistleblowers — mais est-ce vraiment neuf ?) auront eu toutes les peines du monde à couvrir (et ce n’est pas fini cf. les déboires du Guardian et de G. Greenwald).

A ce sujet, je signale cet entretien derrière un #paywall avec le sociologue Francis Chateauraynaud qui aurait "importé en France le terme de « lanceur d’alerte », tout en le distinguant de sa matrice anglo-saxonne de whistleblower."

Qu’est-ce qui fait le succès du #lanceur_d'alerte ?
▻http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/260713/quest-ce-qui-fait-le-succes-du-lanceur-dalerte?onglet=full

Au même moment, on apprend que la surveillance domestique de la #NSA a été jugé illégale (contraire au 4e amendement) dès 2011 :

#Secret Court Rebuked N.S.A. on Surveillance
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/2011-ruling-found-an-nsa-program-unconstitutional.html?pagewanted=all
►http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/08/21/la-nsa-est-en-mesure-de-surveiller-75-du-trafic-internet-aux-etats-unis_3464

Vers le prix #Nobel de la #paix pour #Bradley_Manning ?

Des soutiens de Bradley Manning, soldat américain jugé pour avoir transmis des documents confidentiels à WikiLeaks, ont remis lundi à l’Institut Nobel d’Oslo une pétition géante pour que le prix éponyme de la paix lui soit attribué.

Selon eux, un tel prix permettrait aussi de dissiper « le nuage » qui « plane au-dessus du comité Nobel norvégien » depuis l’attribution de la prestigieuse récompense au président américain Barack #Obama en 2009 alors qu’il était tout juste entré en fonction et qu’il venait de décider d’intensifier l’effort de guerre en Afghanistan.

▻http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/08/12/plus-de-100-000-signatures-pour-un-nobel-de-la-paix-a-manning_924359

#Bradley_Manning trial: what we know from the leaked #WikiLeaks documents | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning-wikileaks-revelations

Below are 10 of the most revelatory:

...

One set raised concerns in the US by suggesting alleged support for the Taliban from Pakistan, particularly that the country’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had been collaborating with the Taliban.

Irony : Congress May Declare Today ’National Whistleblower Day’ As Court Announces Manning Verdict
▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/17283923996/irony-congress-may-declare-today-national-whistleblower-day-as-court-annou

In a few hours, the court hearing the #Bradley_Manning trial will be announcing the verdict. I’m sure we’ll have plenty of commentary on the eventual decision, but it’s worth noting this bit of ridiculousness. Senator Chuck Grassley is trying to get today declared National Whistleblower Day by Congress, in honor of the Constitutional Congress’ very first whitleblower protection law, enacted on July 30, 1778. As the article notes, Grassley has worked hard over the years to protect whistleblowers, but we recently wrote about his hypocrisy on the subject, passing a special law for a Swiss bank security guard who did more or less the same thing as Ed #Snowden, while bashing Snowden for not facing a trial in the US. Congress just really has a knack for doing the exact wrong thing, don’t they? If they want to actually support whistleblowers, they should support #whistleblowers, not name a pointless day after them on the very same day that a high profile whistleblower likely finds out that he’s going to spend much, if not all, of the rest of his life in jail.

encore une fois @kassem merci, j’avais pas vu : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/161344 #tmi

Les journalistes sous haute surveillance au procès de Bradley Manning

▻http://boingboing.net/2013/07/25/bradley-manning-trial-judge-in.html#more-245422

Huffington Post reporter Matt Sledge read my Boing Boing post earlier today about reports from the Bradley Manning trial of dramatically-increased security measures for press. Those measures including armed military police standing behind journalists at their laptops, snooping on their screens.

#bradley_manning #whistleblower

Journalism, Even When It’s Tilted - NYTimes.com
By David Carr
June 30, 2013
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/business/media/journalism-is-still-at-work-even-when-its-practitioner-has-a-slant.html?pag

#Journaliste ou #militant ? | Courrier international
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/07/16/journaliste-ou-militant #whistleblower

Tous les militants ne sont pas journalistes, mais tous les vrais journalistes sont des militants. Il existe une valeur, un but propres au journalisme : servir de contre-pouvoir.”

USA must respect international standards on protection of whistleblowers · Article 19
▻http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/37133/en/usa-must-respect-international-standards-on-protection-of-whistleblowers

ARTICLE 19 reiterates its calls for the US government to respect international human rights standards on the protection of whistleblowers. This is in light of the US authorities’ recent actions against #whistleblower Edward #Snowden and the ongoing trial of Private #Bradley_Manning.

Prism, nouvel échelon dans la surveillance globale - Les blogs du Diplo
►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2013-06-12-Sauter-l-echelon

Pour l’heure, seuls cinq fichiers de présentation du programme « #Prism » — sur quarante et un — ont été rendus publics, nous n’en savons donc pas beaucoup plus sur la manière précise dont s’effectue cette #surveillance globale, sinon qu’elle est profonde, et qu’elle touche potentiellement l’ensemble des communications, appels téléphoniques et historiques de recherche, jusqu’aux dispositifs d’écoute placés sur certains #câbles_sous-marins. Mais le plus inquiétant reste peut-être l’apathie ambiante qu’une telle confirmation est la plus à même de conforter, sur l’air du « rien de nouveau sous le soleil ».

#NSA #FBI #cybersécurité #données_personnelles #whistleblowing #Bradley_Manning #free_bradley

Au coeur du renseignement américain (#2001/11)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/11/HAGER/15859

Incapables de prévenir les attaques du 11 septembre 2001, les services de renseignement des Etats-Unis ont-ils failli à leur mission ? Pourquoi Echelon, le système d’écoute planétaire de la National Security Agency (NSA), n’a-t-il été d’aucun secours ?

Le système #Echelon (#1999/07) @fil
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/46/RIVIERE/m1

Avec un budget annuel de 26,7 milliards de dollars — autant que pendant la guerre froide —, les services de renseignement américains sont les mieux dotés de la planète. Des alliances stratégiques et une technologie puissante leur permettent d’espionner de manière routinière téléphone, fax et courrier électronique dans le monde entier.

Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial
▻http://wikileaks.org/Assange-Statement-on-the-First-Day.html

The government has prepared for a good show. The trial is to proceed for twelve straight weeks: a fully choreographed extravaganza, with a 141-strong cast of prosecution witnesses. The defense was denied permission to call all but a handful of witnesses. Three weeks ago, in closed session, the court actually held a rehearsal. Even experts on military law have called this unprecedented.

Bradley Manning’s conviction is already written into the script. The commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, Barack Obama, spoiled the plot for all of us when he pronounced Bradley Manning guilty two years ago. “He broke the law,” President Obama stated, when asked on camera at a fundraiser about his position on Mr. Manning. In a civilized society, such a prejudicial statement alone would have resulted in a mistrial.

To convict Bradley Manning, it will be necessary for the US government to conceal crucial parts of his trial. Key portions of the trial are to be conducted in secrecy: 24 prosecution witnesses will give secret testimony in closed session, permitting the judge to claim that secret evidence justifies her decision. But closed justice is no justice at all.

What cannot be shrouded in secrecy will be hidden through obfuscation. The remote situation of the courtroom, the arbitrary and discretionary restrictions on access for journalists, and the deliberate complexity and scale of the case are all designed to drive fact-hungry reporters into the arms of official military PR men, who mill around the Fort Meade press room like over-eager sales assistants. The management of Bradley Manning’s case will not stop at the limits of the courtroom. It has already been revealed that the Pentagon is closely monitoring press coverage and social media discussions on the case.

This is not justice; never could this be justice. The verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity. It is a show of wasteful vengeance; a theatrical warning to people of conscience.

Le procès en Cour martiale de #Bradley_Manning, le jeune soldat à l’origine des fuites de #WikiLeaks, doit commencer ce lundi. En janvier 2011, Philippe Rivière dénonçait l’acharnement judiciaire des Etats-Unis contre l’organisation de Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks, mort au messager, par Philippe Rivière @fil (#2011/01)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/01/RIVIERE/20058

C’était un discours important, que n’auraient pas renié les pères fondateurs des Etats-Unis. Le 21 janvier 2010, Mme Hillary Clinton prononçait une allocution sur la liberté d’Internet. Critiquant les pays qui « ont créé des barrières électroniques pour empêcher leurs populations d’avoir accès à certaines parties des réseaux mondiaux [et] ont supprimé des mots, des noms et des phrases des résultats des moteurs de recherche », la secrétaire d’Etat reprenait le credo du président Barack Obama : « Plus l’information circule librement, plus les sociétés deviennent fortes. »

#Presse #Médias #Internet #Diplomatie #Information #Technologie #Informatique #Communication #Relations_internationales #Technologies_de_l’information #États-Unis

En anglais : Shoot the messenger
▻http://mondediplo.com/2011/01/02wikileaks

How Amnesty has let down Bradley Manning
▻http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david/how-amnesty-has-let-down-bradley-manning

Why is Amnesty applying different rules to the US than to Russia?

My own interest in human rights was sparked by the protests over US foreign policy that occurred when Ronald Reagan visited Ireland in 1984 (I was 13 years old at the time). I first heard about Amnesty a year or two later and have supported the organization ever since.

So it felt like a betrayal when I heard that Amnesty’s American office was headed for most of last year by Suzanne Nossel; before taking up that job she had been a deputy assistant secretary of state under Hillary Clinton. Under Nossel’s leadership, Amnesty whitewashed the invasion of Afghanistan by hosting a conference praising NATO’s “progress” in that country. The guest of “honor” at that event was Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state who declared that killing as many as 500,000 children in Iraq by depriving them of essential medicines was a price worth paying.

Silencing the Whistle-Blowers - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/opinion/silencing-the-whistle-blowers.html

... while Private Manning’s ordeal has received exhaustive news coverage, it may ultimately have a less profound bearing on this tension than a barely noticed memo quietly released by the Obama administration earlier this year.

Issued on Jan. 25, the memo instructs the director of national intelligence and the Office of Personnel Management to establish standards that would give federal agencies the power to fire employees, without appeal, deemed ineligible to hold “ noncritical sensitive” jobs. It means giving them immense power to bypass civil service law, which is the foundation for all whistle-blower rights.

The administration claims that the order will simply enable these agencies to determine which jobs qualify as “sensitive.” But the proposed rules are exceptionally vague, defining such jobs as any that could have “a material adverse impact” on national security — including police, customs and immigration positions.

...

The Obama era has been a strange time for whistle-blowers. Agencies with investigative powers have become more responsive to tips from whistle-blowers. Important new laws have been enacted.

Yet during Mr. Obama’s first term, a record number of national security officials were prosecuted for allegedly leaking classified information to the press, a zeal that continues today, with aggressive tactics employed to locate officials who leaked information to Fox News and The Associated Press.

The administration apparently strongly supports whistle-blower rights — except when that support collides with its desire to appease the national security establishment..

Déclaration du Pfc. Bradley E. Manning devant la Commission d’enquête préparatoire
▻http://reflets.info/declaration-du-pfc-bradley-e-manning-devant-la-commission-denquete-prepara

Reflets a joué au traducteur. La presse française est silencieuse sur le procès de #Bradley_Manning alors qu’il a des répercussions insoupçonnables. Voici donc sa déclaration devant la commission d’enquête préparatoire visant à déterminer si un accord sur la base du plaider coupable est possible. Il ressort principalement trois choses de ce témoignage. 1) Bradley [...]

#A_la_Une #Revue_de_Web #Technos #Cour_Martiale #featured #Julian_Assange #Justice #SIPRNet #USA #Wikileaks

Providence — a short #film featuring #Bradley_Manning ’s voice
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L79wWAFUqg

Leaked audio recording of Bradley Manning describing his response to the July 12, 2007 Baghdad Apache airstrike video that documented the killing of two Reuters journalists.

#wikileaks #cablegate #irak #répression

Private Manning’s Confidant - Bill Keller - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/keller-private-mannings-confidant.html

But if Manning had been our direct source, the consequences might have been slightly mitigated. Although as a matter of law I believe #WikiLeaks and The New York Times are equally protected by the First Amendment, it’s possible the court’s judgment of the leaker might be colored by the fact that he delivered the goods to a group of former hackers with an outlaw sensibility and an antipathy toward American interests.

#presse #cablegate #défends_tes_sources_en_les_enfonçant

mais aussi :

The Impact of the #Bradley_Manning Case
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/opinion/the-impact-of-the-bradley-manning-case.html

If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment. Anyone who holds freedom of the press dear should shudder at the threat that the prosecution’s theory presents to journalists, their sources and the public that relies on them.

#peine_de_mort

Daniel Ellsberg : In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander | Democracy Now !
▻http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/12/daniel_ellsberg_in_hearing_bradley_manning

To discuss Bradley Manning’s recorded court statement that was recently leaked to the press, we’re joined by perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. “What we’ve heard are people like The New York Times who have consistently slandered him ... that he was vague and couldn’t think of specific instances that had led him to inform the American people of injustices,” Ellsberg says. “The American people can now, for the first time, hear Bradley in his own words, emotionally and in the greatest specific detail, tell what it was that he felt that needed revelation.”

#wikileaks #Bradley_Manning

Media and US Government True Betrayers in #Bradley_Manning Case (The 99.99998271%)
▻http://99998271.blogspot.de/2013/03/media-and-us-government-true-betrayers.html

“Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is this awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest” — Robert Gates, former United States Secretary of Defense

In a prepared statement Bradley Manning this week pleaded guilty to ten of the charges against him and revealed that before sending 251,287 US diplomatic cables to #Wikileaks he had first approached and been rebuffed by The New York Times and The Washington Post, an unexpected twist in a saga that has polarized opinion on the young former intelligence analyst.

une liste de résultats engrangés grâce au #cablegate (et pas grâce à la #presse)

After two years, #Amnesty explains why #Bradley_Manning has not been named a Prisoner of Conscience, by Joe Emersberger
▻http://www.zcommunications.org/after-two-years-amnesty-explains-why-bradley-manning-has-not-been-n

Today, I was finally told by an Amnesty USA employee (after she consulted with their “expert” on the case) that they have still not named Manning a Prisoner of Conscience (POC) but that Amnesty is “still investigating” if he qualifies. She added that Amnesty is not yet certain of two criteria that must be met
 
1) That Manning released information in a “responsible manner”
2) That the government has been punishing him in order to prevent 
public knowledge of human rights abuses.

#wikileaks #cablegate #droits_humains #prisonniers_politiques

#WikiLeaks delivers contribution to #Bradley_Manning defence fund | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/13/wikileaks-bradley-manning-defence-fund?INTCMP=SRCH

WikiLeaks, the website that has published thousands of confidential US embassy cables, has donated $15,100 (£9,500) to the legal defence fund of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of handing providing it with the digital trove.

WikiLeaks had been coming under mounting criticism from Manning’s supporters to honour a pledge made last July to take on board a substantial part of the financial burden of the soldier’s defence. The fund is managed by Manning’s Rhode Island-based lawyer, David Coombs.

Freed on bail – but US steps up efforts to charge #Assange with conspiracy - The Independent
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/freed-on-bail-ndash-but-us-steps-up-efforts-to-charge-assange-with-co

US authorities have stepped up their efforts to prosecute Julian Assange by offering #Bradley_Manning, the American soldier allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents, the possibility of a plea bargain if he names the #WikiLeaks founder as a fellow conspirator.

Pour enfoncer #Bradley_Manning, suspecté d’être la source des #Wikileaks sur les #WarLogs, le #New_York_Times descend au fond des chiottes:
►http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html?_r=1
“He spent part of his childhood with his father in the arid plains of central Oklahoma, where classmates made fun of him for being a geek. He spent another part with his mother in a small, remote corner of southwest Wales, where classmates made fun of him for being gay.

Then he joined the Army, where, friends said, his social life was defined by the need to conceal his sexuality under “don’t ask, don’t tell” and he wasted brainpower fetching coffee for officers.

But it was around two years ago, when Pfc. Bradley Manning came here to visit a man he had fallen in love with, that he finally seemed to have found a place where he fit in, part of a social circle that included politically motivated computer hackers and his boyfriend, a self-described drag queen.”

Oui, les trois premiers paragraphes d’un article consacré à celui qui risque quelques dizaines d’années de prison pour avoir permis la sortie des War Logs concernent, uniquement, sa présumée #homosexualité.

À classer sous: #homophobie #Maccarthisme #journalisme_de_révérence