Wikileaks Vault 7 Release Paints A Grim Picture For Journalism

Wikileaks’ recent disclosure of the CIA’s hacking and surveillance capabilities highlights a frightening new reality for today’s journalists. Considering the CIA’s penchant for silencing and intimidating reporters and editors, journalists will have to overcome greater odds to protect the public’s right to know.

Whitney Webb
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MINNEAPOLIS-- This past Tuesday saw the biggest shake-up in the tech world since Edward Snowden first revealed the full extent of the National Security Agency’s “dragnet” surveillance program nearly four years ago. Thanks to Wikileaks’ first publication of its “Vault 7” documents, which detail the CIA’s global covert hacking program, the CIA’s

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WikiLeaks Holds Press Conference On CIA Hack, Will Share Hacking Tools With Tech Firms

Wikileaks has announced that Assange will share details on the CIA’s hacking tools with the tech industry before releasing them to the general public.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy to addresses waiting supporters and media in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

(REPORT) --- On Tuesday morning, at the same time that Wikileaks was releasing the contents of "Vault 7" CIA-document dump, it was supposed to hold a press conference, which however was said to have suffered terminal technical difficulties. As a result, Wikileaks delayed it until now, at 9:45am Eastern on Thursday. Watch it live

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CIA Claims New WikiLeaks Disclosures Help ‘Adversaries’

In the case of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden the narrative was that letting the public know about the US government’s many, many misdeeds was itself the problem.

Jason Ditz
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A figure depicts Julian Assange on a cross on top of a supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a vigil outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP /Sang Tan)

(REPORT) --- US intelligence officials are scrambling to address the fallout of what some are describing as the biggest leak of government secrets in nearly four years. That may not sound like a very long time, but the US has lost a lot of very embarrassing data related to its assorted crimes in recent years. The reaction hasn’t changed though,

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The Hunt Begins: FBI Mobilizes To Find Source Of Wikileaks’ Vault 7

Yesterday’s Wikileaks release, which detailed the scope of the CIA’s hacking capabilities, has sent the U.S. government on a search for the source of the leak. However, the government has yet to respond to the concerns that have been raised by the contents of the leak.

Whitney Webb
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The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON, DC -- The transparency advocate group Wikileaks has made plenty of enemies in the U.S. government over the years, but yesterday’s events likely earned them several more. Wikileaks’ recent publication of the “Vault 7” files details the CIA’s technological capabilities, including its arsenal of sophisticated hacking tools and its

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Snowden: What The Wikileaks Revelations Show Is “Reckless Beyond Words”

“Mr. Snowden provided a briefing book on U.S. surveillance, but the CIA leaks could provide the blueprints.”

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Unlike the Green Party’s Jill Stein, not one Republican or Democratic nominee has voiced any support for the NSA whistleblower or shown any willingness to allow him to return to the U.S. as a free man. (Photo: Tony Webster/CC)

(ANALYSIS) --- While it has been superficially covered by much of the press - and one can make the argument that what Julian Assange has revealed is more relevant to the US population, than constant and so far unconfirmed speculation that Trump is a puppet of Putin - the fallout from the Wikileaks' "Vault 7" release this morning of thousands of

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Wikileaks Reveals America’s Homegrown Assault On Democracy

WikiLeaks’ new dump of CIA documents reveals that when it comes to undermining the Constitution and democracy, U.S. intelligence agencies and their political “overseers” are doing the jump quite nicely, thanks, says Norman Solomon.

Norman Solomon
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For months now, our country has endured the tacit denigration of American ingenuity. Countless statements — from elected officials, activist groups, journalists and many others — have ignored our nation’s superb blend of dazzling high-tech capacities and statecraft mendacities. Fortunately, this week the news about release of illuminating CIA

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