What we have learned from WikiLeaks

What we have learned from WikiLeaks




A Timeline on I am Wikileaks: A record of WikiLeaks‘ releases and Julian Assange’s persecution. Maintained by I AM WIKILEAKS can be found here  -> LINK


Just a view highlights:

- Information released by WikiLeaks has been used by those seeking justice in numerous court cases, for example, the Chagos Islands case uses cables in evidence.

- The Minton Report detailed how Dutch multinational company Trafigura had dumped toxic waste in the Ivory Coast affecting 108,000 people. The report had been suppressed through a super injunction.

- El-Masri, a completely innocent German citizen, snatched off the streets, detained, tortured, and dumped on the street in Albania, took a case to the European Court of Human Rights, using six cables in evidence.

- People have been freed from Pakistani prisons based on the cables.

- Syria Files provided an extraordinary insight into the Assad regime 2006 - 2012 -> Link

- Saudi Arabia offered a bribe to the United Kingdom of $100,000 to "help" the UK campaign to be on the Human Rights Council. Part of the deal, offered by the UK, was a vote swap, that saw Saudi Arabia leading the Human Rights Council.

- U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks - > PDF

-  IAEA had warned Japan about safety issues at nuclear plants in 2009, years before the Fukushima disaster, particularly that its power plants could not withstand powerful earthquakes.

- Obama Administration spied upon United Nations leadership and personnel, authorizing the theft of biometric data (DNA, fingerprints, retina scans, etc) as well as passwords etc

- The US has a manual for unconventional warfare, active policy doctrine, that was created in 2008 for US Special Forces for when they are overthrowing a government.

- TPP, TTIP & TISA major trade agreements were drafted and negotiated in secret without proper democratic oversight were seen by those affected when WikiLeaks provided multiple draft chapters & negotiating positions to the public, fueling social justice & fair trade movements


- The Saudi Cables: Cables and other documents from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs A total of 122619 published so far -> Link

- Wikileaks has released 70 United Nations investigative reports classified "Strictly Confidential". The reports expose matters from allegations of hundreds of European peace-keepers sexually abusing refugee girls -> Link

- We learned about numerous ca
ses of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Iraqi police and soldiers, as well as proof of the US government’s involvement in the deaths and maiming of more than 200,000 people in Iraq

- The WikiLeaks Threat / Overview how Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico
Technologies bring the expertise and approach needed to combat theWikiLeaks threat effectively -> PDF Link

- 2010 Nov 28: Cablegate "The momentous release by WikiLeaks of 251,287 US diplomatic cables starting on November 28, 2010, in conjunction with The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and The New York Times ->LInk

- 2010 July 25 - Afghan War Logs -> Link

- The Guantanamo Files exposed systematic and routine violations of the Geneva Conventions and abuse of 800 prisoners as young as 14 and as old as 89 at Guantanamo Bay. 2011 April 25: The Guantanamo Files - >


- The Collateral Murder classified US military video showed a helicopter gunship slaying eighteen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad, including two Reuters journalists and their rescuers, documenting a war crime. 

- 2010 July 23: Ethan McCord on Collateral Murder 



- The Global Intelligence Files revealed the inner workings of the private intel firm Stratfor that services the US government & large corporations such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and numerous government agencies. -> Link

- 2010 Oct 22: Iraq War Logs - The War Diaries

- 2012 Dec 3: US Detainee Policies -> Link

- the NSA World Leaders Targets revealed interceptions of NSA targets, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's meetings with Heads of State, Prime Ministers Berlusconi and Netanyahu, President Hollande, the Japanese cabinet, UNHCR, and WTO. 

- We learned in 2016 of a corrupt multi-billion dollar war by Western and Chinese companies grab uranium and other mining rights in the Central African Republic (CAR) and escape paying for the environmental consequences.

- We learned about safety and security issues with the UK Trident nuclear weapon system as revealed to WikiLeaks by Royal Navy Able Seaman William McNeilly 

- We learned that cash payments were made to Indian MPs for support of US India nuclear deal

- We saw footage of the 1995 Japanese Monju disaster. Following the 2008 announcement that the fast breeder nuclear reactor would be reopened, activists leaked the suppressed video footage of the sodium spill disaster that led to its closure in 1995.

- We learned that Burma shipped 10,000 tons of rice to food poor North Korea as payment for sophisticated conventional weapons. The cable references a business source stating that the exchange of weapons for food had gone on for more than five years. 

- We learned that Australia worked with Britain, Canada, Japan, and others to undermine the cluster munitions treaty, ensuring that deploying US cluster bombs on their soil was not precluded by the convention.

- We learned of illegal spying by German intelligence on the German press when the missing pages of the 2006 report compiled by former federal judge Professor Schaefer investigated spying on journalists by Germany's secret intelligence service 

- By providing the latest draft of EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) when there was still time for industry and civil society in the EU and India to know what their governments intend to agree to.

- WikiLeaks has released over 650,000 critical documents relating to Russia under Vladimir Putin, including releases about surveillance contractors in Russia. 

- Australian internet blacklist / In 2009, as the Australian government plotted a "great firewall of Australia" intended to prevent internet users in that country from seeing websites which the government deemed unsuitable, Wikileaks got hold of the proposed blacklist.

- The Dutroux Dossier, a 1235 page document presents a summary of key dates, persons, communications and financial transfers involved in the infamous 1986-1996 Dutroux case, in which a number of girls and young women were kept hidden underground and used as sex slaves before being killed.

- The CIA has the ability to break into Android and iPhone handsets, and all kinds of computers
- Doing so would make apps like Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp entirely insecure
- The CIA could use smart TVs to listen in on conversations that happened around them
- The agency explored hacking into cars and cr
- The CIA hid vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers from other countries or governments

- 2014 / CIA Travel Advice To Operatives -> Link

- 2015 Nov 16: TPP - a searchable and highlightable text of the agreed version of the Trans-Pacific-Partnership (TPP) Agreement. -> Link

- 2015 July 31- Target Tokyo - NSA World spying -> Link


- The Yemen Files offer documentary evidence of the US arming, training and funding of Yemeni forces 
- Obama lied: he knew about Hillary’s secret server and wrote to her using a pseudonym, cover-up happened (intent to destroy evidence)

- 2016 Feb 5: The New Dirty War for Africa's uranium and mineral rights. This is a collection of documents that open up a corrupt multi-billion dollar war by Western and Chinese companies grab uranium and other mining rights in the Central African Republic (CAR) and escape paying for the environmental consequences. -> Link


- Obama picked people in his administration from the suggestion list of Citi bank advisor/Wall St shill
- Obama elevated Malaysia on the human rights list JUST to let Malaysia into TPP 
- Morocco 'quid pro quo’/ implication from the leaked emails is that a $12m donation from the king of Morocco was dependent on Mrs. Clinton attending the summit.
- Hillary Clinton received money from and supported nations that she KNEW funded ISIS and terrorists
- a longtime aide to Bill Clinton describes using his consulting firm to raise money for the Clinton Global Initiative as well as direct personal income for the former president. One client, Coca Cola, received a face-to-face meeting with the former president at his home in 2009, after contributing millions to the non-profit foundation.
- Hillary has public positions on policy and her private ones
- Paying people to incite violence and unrest at Trump rallies
- Clinton-Silsby Child Trafficking Scandal And How The Media Covered It Up
- Hillary deleted her incriminating emails. State covered it up. Asked about using White House executive privilege to hide from Congress.
- Bribery: King of Morocco gave Clinton Foundation $12 million for a meeting with Hillary, 6 months later Morocco gets weapons 
- State Department tried to bribe FBI to un-classify Clinton emails (FBI docs)
- Hillary caught on tape about rigging the Palestine election
- Clinton campaign was in direct communication with DOJ regarding Hillary's investigation
- Bill Clinton receives $1 million "birthday gift" from ISIS-funding Qatar while Hillary was SoS, Qatar receives arms flow increases of 1,482%
- Rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders 
- Clinton Foundation schemed with Big Pharma: keep the price of AIDS drugs high in America and NO to cheaper generic versions
- Rigging media polls through oversampling
- "Bill Clinton Inc." How millions of dollars were raised for the Clintons. Blurred lines between personal and Foundation money 
- Hillary sold 20% of America’s uranium to Russia as SoS, Clinton camp worried that the deal is being investigated
- 2016 March 16: Released Hillary Clinton Email Archive, a searchable archive for over 30K emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was Secretary of State. The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010 to 12 Aug 2014. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. More added Feb 29, 2016, and Feb 2, 2018 -> Link
- From 2016 Oct 7: The Podesta Emails (Part 1) John Podesta and The Uranium One Story -> Link
- Hillary took money from foreigners for the campaign (illegal)
- Referring to a “Shadow Government” that protects Hillary (FBI docs)
- 2016 July 22 - the DNC email database -> Link
- List of reporters that Hillary wined and dined, including biggest journalists and pundits of CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, NY Times, and a lot more. 
- Democrats using American lobbyists to money launder foreign donations illegally
- Podesta's very close friend at DOJ in charge of FBI re-opening email investigation, previously gave campaign "heads up"
- Billionaire George Soros has influence over Hillary, ties to election fraud in systems used for U.S. voting
- Admitting Hillary did not use a private server for security reasons 
- Are there other emails that Hillary didn't release to Congress? "Definitely"
- Big media collusion email, working with reporters
- Hillary campaign caught partaking in insider trading (illegal)
- "Bernie needs to be ground to a pulp" and more 
- Disney, ABC head is colluding with Hillary's campaign 
- Coordinating with SuperPACs, which is illegal
- Hillary sends U.S. intelligence and war plans to Podesta’s hacked email
- Hillary's team admits to knowing of classified material in emails 
- NBC colluded with the Clinton campaign
- Podesta illegally has access to top secret information
- Violating campaign finance law
- Proof that ‘Correct the Record’ (SuperPAC) is directly coordinating with the Hillary campaign against federal campaign law

- 2016 Feb 17 - EUNAVFOR MED - Operation SOPHIA" WikiLeaks is releasing the classified report about the first six months of Operation SOPHIA, the EU military intervention against "refugee boats" in Libya and the Mediterranean -> Link

- September 19th, 2017, WikiLeaks starts publishing the series "Spy Files Russia" with documents from the Russian company Петер-Сервис (PETER-SERVICE) -> Link


- 2017 March 7: Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed. Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. - LINK

- and many many more....- > Link

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What we have learned from Wikileaks


- The Great Library
“This great library - built from the courage and sweat of many - has had a five-year confrontation with power without losing a single “book”. At the same time, these “books” have educated many, and in some cases, in a literal sense, let the innocent go free.” - Julian Assange, 20 July 2015
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