exposing classified information? Just as government transparency has waned in recent years, there have been several instances of very public national intelligence whistle-blowing. Large scale leaks such as those published by The Guardian and WikiLeaks have prompted debate on issues of government secrecy, as well as the balance between security and liberty. High profile whistleblowers like Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden have, at great personal risk, leaked classified information to
few years. Assange started out by leaking documents he had acquired over the internet about banks in various European countries. Chelsea Manning, Army Private at the time stationed in Iraq joined up with Assange and delivered to him thousands of classified documents that Manning, a military intelligence analyst had access to. Manning was in contact with a former hacker named Adrian Lamo who he asked advice of, advice whether or not he should leak the documents. Manning going against Lamo’s advice
The U.S is at war and it has just escalated and no one knows much about the specifics. Now someone has exposed documents portraying the horrible civilian casualties and some of the unjust activities. This information helps to expose the inhumane way that the war was being conducted and forces a change in policy. This is what whistleblowers do; expose governments for what they are hiding. Julian Assange is one of these whistleblowers and the creator and main editor of Wikileaks (an organization built
international organization founded in 2006, definitely opened a new dimension of journalism by releasing information that should not be banned from the public in the name of the American idea of greater democracy. The citizens deserve to know the truth regardless of how damaging it might be. An analysis of organization's background reveals why the Wiki-Leaks' rise was inevitable based on: content of major classified documents and governmental attempts to destroy the funding system and distort the image of a
Freedom of speech has been a topic of discussion for many years. Since democracy was established in many countries to provide safety and rights, freedom of speech has been one of the most important rights in any constitution. Freedom of speech constitutes a human right that all people should have and one that must be respected. As individuals, we are entitled to express our opinions, write, publish or communicate, and such expressions must be, if not shared, respected. Different countries have certain
Goodbye Mr. Robinson. The late afternoon sun was disappearing behind towering monsoon clouds gathering over the horizon as a yellow motor scooter came to a halt in front of the hotel by the beach. Yip, a young looking Thai lady of thirty-five or forty dressed in shorts and a white t-shirt drove it. The pillion passenger was a tall slim Englishman of about sixty, smartly although slightly incongruously dressed in beige trousers, pink shirt, and a navy blue blazer that he removed and slung over his
Authors have used the element of secrecy to produce a desired effect in their novel throughout history. Vital pieces of information are often withheld from other characters for various reasons. Secrecy is necessary in some cases. Information may be withheld to protect the one sharing the information, to protect others, or a person might not be in the right position to share such information to other trustworthy people. Some secrets are meant to be kept until death and others are to be withheld until the
The main question of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are the Hillary Clinton mishandled emails stored on her private server and did they contain classified information before being sent outside an approved government system. The email scandal started after Clinton left office and the State Department requested copies of all her work-related emails which ended up totaling about 55,000 printed pages. Reports were she used a private email server during her role as the secretary of state.
political, diplomatic, historical or ethical interest". The dedicated team of journalists, of equal gender and diverse cultural backgrounds, verifies these documents for accuracies and then crafts news stories regarding their release. The classified information is published and presented using the Wikipedia style. Instead of competing for
of privacy, right of accountability and confidentiality among Information and data sharing also it has a negative impact on governments, private sectors or businesses and also individuals, there is also a big question of accountability. Right of privacy, right of accountability and confidentiality are some of the rights that you accuire being a citizen of the country and when these rights are violated it is a offence. Certain information like the social security number or ATM pin number and banking
Area 51 may be the most famous military base run by the US government that doesn’t officially exist as no one knows what goes on inside the base past its perimeters. Its current primary purpose is publicly unknown; however, based on historical evidence, it most likely supports the development and testing of experimental aircraft Under highly secretive conditions. The official explanation given by the military is that this is the location of a firing range used by the US Air Force. There are several
communications, radars, and weapons systems of intelligence targets.2 Not specifically covered in the above definitions (which historically refer only to the collection of information 'in motion') is the increasingly popular technique of computer network operations (CNO), which involves the deliberate acquisition of information that is 'at rest' - in layman's terms, hacking.3 Advantages of SIGINT SIGINT has a number of advantages over other forms of intelligence collection, incl... ... middle
released confidential information to WikiLeaks and the aftermath, there were many ethical issues surrounding it. However, arguably, the most central ethical issue was whether Manning was in the right or not to release confidential information. This issue will later be discussed using the theories of Utilitarianism and Kantian ethics. Chelsea Manning (then Bradley Manning) was an Army Private who released more than 700,000 classified documents of US government information to WikiLeaks in 2010. Most
Area 51 was a top secret military base, located in southern Nevada at 37 degrees 14’06”N, 115 degrees 48’40”w. The base was also used by the CIA.Colonel hugh “slip” slater,87, was the commander in the 1960’s. Area 51 was used as a test site mainly for the military. It was a restricted area where military and CIA personnel can only access the base. In often term it is called “R-4808N or the box”. Thornton T.D. barrens was the special projects engineer for the base. Henry Martin was one of the men
defend the Constitution of the United States as well as to protect the secret information accessed during his tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigations however, less than four years later, a disgruntled and angry Earl Edwin Pitts entered into a conspiracy with the Soviet Union to betray his country. Earl Edwin Pitts was a thirteen year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigations when he was caught selling information to the United States’ largest adversary; nine of those years were as a double
bodies of people handle some of the information they receive is in no way helping those who deserve to know it. Secrecy has always been a trend in many
other group (Nonconsequentialists) who were appalled by his actions. However my questions are: in the end will throwing a 400 lb. person overboard save the other people on the lifeboat, or in Private Manning’s case, did his exposing “top secret information” do more harm than good? The answer is: it’s according to who’s coming up with the answer.
Edward Snowden is a former employee of the CIA and the NSA. This person has disclosed secret information about US intelligence surveillance of citizens to everyday people around the world. Thus, there occurred a question whether Snowden a traitor or patriot. Although the debate on this subject continues, now there are many people living in the USA and the Europe who are ready to support the whistleblower. It is evident that Snowden is a patriot because a concept of American patriotism is concluded
Just as United States has the freedom of speech, they also have the freedom of information; it is not exactly the same type of meaning. The Freedom of Information Act was established in 1966 and signed by President Johnson and in 1996 a more modern act was constructed, the Electronic Freedom of Information Act. These acts were designed for an individual to have the ability to obtain unreleased information or documents controlled by the United States government. An organization named WikiLeaks has
“The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela The short story “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela is set in Argentina during the dictatorship of Jorge Videla who reigned from 1976 to 1983. Juan, the protagonist of the text, starts the story by writing a letter to his old friend, Mariana, at her new residence in Paris. He had received Mariana’s new address from a confidential source and was too excited to think of his actions before writing and sending the letter. Later, Juan’s “mind [was] off his job during the