Daily News Article - December 9, 2010
1. What did Julian Assange of WikiLeaks threaten to do if he is imprisoned or dies or WikiLeaks is destroyed?
2. What have Assange and the WikiLeaks staff warned they will do if anyone interferes with their activities?
3. What has the anonymous group of hackers, believed to be supporters of Julian Assange, done to those who don't support WikiLeaks?
4. Since July: WikiLeaks has released 90,000 secret intelligence documents about the Afghanistan War; 400,000 pages of classified intel about the Iraq War, and purportedly more than a quarter million [confidential] cables authored by U.S. diplomats.
a) How did human rights organizations react to WikiLeaks release of the confidential information?
b) How did Assange respond to this accusation?
c) What does common sense tell you would happen to people in other countries once it is known that they have helped the U.S. government?
5. What does security expert Hemu Nigam recommend the U.S. do to obtain the yet-to-be-publicized government information Assange is threatening to release?
6. A previous CNN profile of Julian Assange states: "WikiLeaks skyrocketed to notoriety in July when it published 90,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan. It was considered the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. ...followed in October with classified documents about the Iraq war. ...then cables revealing a trove of secret diplomatic information. Some praised WikiLeaks as a beacon of free speech. But others, including outraged Pentagon and White House officials, consider it irresponsible and want WikiLeaks silenced for what they call irreparable damage to global security."
The CNN reporter in this article says that Assanges' release of the documents "stok[ed] the ire of the U.S. government by sharing with the world its confidential and sensitive war-time intelligence"
The media focuses on the anger of the U.S. government, or the U.S. Pentagon. Who else is outraged by the theft and publication of U.S. secrets?