Switzerland:website that allows whistle blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in
Submitted by RJM on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 11:53
Whistle blower site taken offline Interlaken in Switzerland, with the Eiger in the background The case was brought by lawyers working for a Swiss bank A controversial website that allows whistle blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities. "
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Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
By Ryan Singel 11.14.07 | 12:00 AM
A detail from the "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" manual shows a camp layout at the Guantánamo Bay military detention facility.
Image: Wikileaks.org A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002.
The 238-page document, "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures," is dated March 28, 2003. It is unclassified, but designated "For Official Use Only." It hit the web last Wednesday on Wikileaks.org.
The disclosure highlights the internet's usefulness to whistle-blowers in anonymously propagating documents the government and others would rather conceal. The Pentagon has been resisting -- since October 2003 -- a Freedom of Information Act request from the American Civil Liberties Union seeking the very same documen
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