Archive - 2010-08 (August 2010)
- 2010-08-02: Salon: Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy. Glenn Greenwald looks at Project Vigilant, the surveillance project that Adrian Lamo has been involved with.
- 2010-08-02: Democracy Now!Andrew Bacevich on the Afghanistan War. "The president lacks the guts to get out," says the military historian.
- 2010-08-03: Military Families Speak Out: Veterans and Military Families Say Pentagon Statements on WikiLeaks Aim to Cloud Real Issue. Press release by MFSO addressing the Pentagon's reaction to the WikiLeaks release of the Afghan war logs.
- 2010-08-05: Salon: Re-visiting Project Vigilant Part two of Glenn Greenwald's analysis of Project Vigilant.
- 2010-08-07: Townhall: WikiLeaks Afghan Papers Killing Obama. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann look at Democratic disaffection with Obama after the continuing involvement in Afghanistan, in the light of the WikiLeaks war logs release.
- 2010-08-09: Cato Institute: The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous. Lead essay by Glenn Greenwald on the post-9/11 expansion of surveillance in the United States.
- 2010-08-10: The Daily Beast: U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks. Philip Shenon reports on the Obama administration's pressure on allied governments to open criminal probes against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
- 2010-08-11: CounterPunch: A War on WikiLeaks? Maximilian Forte analyzes the Pentagon's strategy of intimidation towards WikiLeaks.
- 2010-08-11: The Washington Post: Pentagon: Undisclosed Wikileaks documents 'potentially more explosive'. Ellen Nakashima reports on the Pentagon's evaluation of the 15,000 Afghan war documents that WikiLeaks has not released yet.
- 2010-08-13: Wired: Cyber War Against WikiLeaks? Good Luck with That. Kevin Poulsen looks at why the US government's plans to shut down WikiLeaks likely won't work.
- 2010-08-16: The Local (Sweden): Assange: Swedish press freedoms 'most proven'Julian Assange, the Australian founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has praised Swedish legislation protecting the freedom of the press but says that other countries, such as Iceland, are also working to improve their legal framework.
- 2010-08-19: New Statesman: Why WikiLeaks must be protected. "The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that there’s never been greater need to speak truth to power than today," writes John Pilger.
- 2010-08-19: AlterNet: How Many Lives Will WikiLeaks Save? Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on the power of transparency to save lives by avoiding or shortening wars.
- 2010-08-20: Salon: Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? Glenn Greenwald debunks the Pentagon's claim that WikiLeaks did not contact them for assisting in the redaction of the Afghan war diaries.
- 2010-08-20: The Agonist: Mea Culpa. Sean Paul Kelly discovers that the Pentagon wasn't telling the truth and WikiLeaks was, with regards to the Afghan war diary redaction.
- 2010-08-22: A Moving World: Why Did Swedish Prosecutors Break Their Own Policy in the Assange Case? "So far, the explanations offered by the Prosecution Authority do not even begin to explain an apparent failure to follow their own policies. All this, needless to say, doesn't even touch on the remarkable flimsiness of the case."
- 2010-08-31: Salon: The "nobody could have known" excuse and Iraq. "The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures," writes Glenn Greenwald.
- 2010-08-31: Balloon Juice: My Iraq War Retrospective. Former war supporter John Cole says he "was wrong about everything" with regards to the Iraq war.