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by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of transgender soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years behind bars for handing classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Obama pardoned 64 people and commuted the sentences of 209 others, including Manning, in one of his final acts as president. Manning was convicted in August 2013 of espionage and other offenses after admitting to leaking 700,000 […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A secret CIA assessment has found that Russia sought to tip last month’s US presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor, The Washington Post reported Friday, a conclusion that drew an extraordinary rebuke from the president-elect’s camp. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” Trump’s transition team said, launching a broadside against the spy agency. “The election […]
(Eagle News)– Malacañang on Sunday (September 25) said it will look into a WikiLeaks report that President Rodrigo Duterte permitted vigilante killings during his tenure as Davao mayor. “We will look into [it] first,” Presidential Communications Secretary Martin M. Andanar said. In a WikiLeaks cable, it pointed out that Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Regional Director Alberto Sipaco confirmed then Mayor Duterte’s knowledge and permission of the slays. “Recounting a conversation he once had with […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Ecuador said Wednesday it will let Swedish officials interview Julian Assange at its embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been sheltering since June 2012. In a statement, the foreign ministry said a letter has been sent by the Ecuadoran government to set up a meeting with Swedish officials at Quito’s embassy in London. The meeting is to take place “in the coming weeks,” the statement said. Prosecutors in Sweden want […]
ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — WikiLeaks released files on Wednesday (July 27) of what it said were audio recordings pulled from the emails of the Democratic National Committee that were obtained by hacking its servers. The latest release, which came in the middle of the Democratic National Convention where Hillary Clinton was officially named the party’s presidential nominee, is the second batch in a series that has deeply rattled the party and prompted the organization’s […]
