Ontem vi a notícia sobre as negociações entre Austrália e Japão para o apoio à caça à baleia. Confesso que fiquei chocada, este tipo de notícias deixa-me chocada.
Estes países ainda se juntaram para impedir as actividades de grupos ambientalistas como o "Sea Shepherd".

No fundo, acho que estes vazamentos devem ser divulgados, mas devemos sempre ter em atenção toda a veracidade das informações, pois se estas forem verdadeiras (com provas identificadas) a wikileaks é algo de positivo.

CNN escreveu:

Crowley resigns as State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley abruptly resigned Sunday as State Department spokesman over controversial comments he made about the Bradley Manning case. Sources close to the matter the resignation, first reported by CNN, came under pressure from the White House, where officials were furious about his suggestion that the Obama administration is mistreating Manning, the Army private who is being held in solitary confinement in Quantico, Virginia, under suspicion that he leaked highly classified State Department cables to the website Wikileaks. Speaking to a small group at MIT last week, Crowley was asked about allegations that Manning is being tortured and kicked up a firestorm by answering that what is being done to Manning by Defense Department officials "is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid." Crowley did add that "nonetheless, Bradley Manning is in the right place" because of his alleged crimes, according to a blog post by BBC reporter Philippa Thomas, who was present at Crowley's talk. "The unauthorized disclosure of classified information is a serious crime under U.S. law," Crowley said in a statement Sunday. "My recent comments regarding the conditions of the pre-trial detention of Private First Class Bradley Manning were intended to highlight the broader, even strategic impact of discreet actions undertaken by national security agencies every day and their impact on our global standing and leadership. "The exercise of power in today's challenging times and relentless media environment must be prudent and consistent with our laws and values," Crowley said. "Given the impact of my remarks, for which I take full responsibility, I have submitted my resignation." (...) Obama revealed that he had asked Pentagon officials "whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of (Manning's) confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards." In a comment that drew howls of protest from liberals, Obama added that Pentagon officials "assure me that they are. I can't go into details about some of their concerns, but some of this has to do with Private Manning's safety as well."

Fonte: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/13/crowley.stepping.down/

Enfim.... Democráticos? Benevolentes? Justiceiros? Livres? Transparentes? "In God We Trust"?

O caso do Bradley Manning é uma vergonha e revela toda a hipocrisia do governo americano.

Spoiler:

Ressuscito o tópico com uma entrevista recente ao Julian Assange.

Spoiler:
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Entretanto... Assange loses appeal against extradition

O quê? Ainda andamos nessa parvoíce pegada dos supostos "abusos sexuais" onde as mulheres "violadas" por ele estavam no dia seguinte alegremente com ele a tomar um belo pequeno almoço ou a fazer uma festa? Hahaha. Bem, até o Glenn Beck da Fox News (com fama de ser totalmente parcial, contra tudo o que possa ser distorcido e chamado de "antiamericanismo") concorda que essa história cheira a treta por todo o lado.

A parte fixe é ele ser extraditado sem haver ainda acusação. Disse o juiz inglês que, se tivesse acontecido no Reino Unido, ele teria sido acusado, portanto bora mandá-lo para a Suécia.

E para quem já suspeitava:

Citação:

Wikileaks docs reveal that governments use malware for surveillance The latest round of documents published by Wikileaks offers a rare glimpse into the world of surveillance products. The collection—which Wikileaks calls the Spy Files—includes confidential brochures and slide presentations that companies use to market intrusive surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies. A report that Wikileaks published alongside the documents raises concern about the growing use of mass surveillance tools that indiscriminately monitor and analyze entire populations. The group also points out that some of the products described in the documents are sold to authoritarian regimes, which use them to hunt and track political dissidents. The details revealed by Wikileaks echo a recent report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that discussed the surveillance industry. The publication analyzed approximately 200 documents from 36 separate companies as part of a special investigative project called The Surveillance Catalog. The material released by Wikileaks corroborates much of what the WSJ reported, but includes a broader range of material. The documents published by Wikileaks include 287 files that describe products from 160 companies. The group says that these files are only the first set of a larger collection and that more will be published in the future. The project is being carried out in collaboration with activist groups such as Privacy International and press organizations such as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Washington Post. "[The surveillance industry] is, in practice, unregulated. Intelligence agencies, military forces, and police authorities are able to silently, and on mass, and [sic] secretly intercept calls and take over computers without the help or knowledge of the telecommunication providers," wrote Wikileaks in its report. "In the last ten years systems for indiscriminate, mass surveillance have become the norm." Surveillance products revealed in the Spy Files cover a wide range of different communication technologies. Many are designed to circumvent standard privacy and security safeguards in mainstream consumer technology products so that they can collect as much data as possible. Some are even deliberately programmed to operate like malware. One example of commercial malware designed to aid criminal investigations is DigiTask's remote forensic software, which is described in a confidential slide presentation that Wikileaks included in its document collection. DigiTask is a German company that characterizes itself as a market leader in building special telecommunications systems for law enforcement agencies. The company promises that its software—which is designed to work on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and some smartphones—can circumvent SSL encryption by intercepting the keys on the local system. The software will capture the content of encrypted communications—including instant messaging conversations, e-mails, and the user's Web activity—and will relay the data to the party conducting surveillance. The software also includes key logging, remote file access, and has the ability to capture screenshots. The company cites "zero day exploits" and "social engineering" in a bulleted list of ways that its remote forensic software can be installed on the computer of a surveillance target. (...)

Ler o restante artigo:
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/wikileaks-docs-reveal-that-governments-use-malware-for-surveillance.ars