Wikileaks is a whistleblower site. Insist on all sorts of secret messages about contacts between governments and between governments themselves or their embassies. Wikileaks started in early December 2010 with the launch of 250,000 reports of secret contacts between U.S. embassies and the government in Washington. Wikileaks show that there is a lot that people do not know.
Publications by Wikileaks documents
Newspapers like The New York Times, The Guardian and El Pais have already published the documents on WikiLeaks stand. They had already been accessed by ordinary citizens. On Wikileaks there is also information about the views of U.S. diplomats about the friendship between the Italian premium Berlusconi and Russian President Putin. Wikileaks also has many reports of diplomats on the bonds that the Russian president would have to organized crime in his country.
On Wikileaks there is also a lot about the concerns that diplomats for years about the nuclear developments in places like North Korea and Iran through. Thus read the decision that Iran could have missiles from North Korea that the countries of Western Europe could take.
Documents from the U.S. Wikileaks from 1966 to 2010
The documents come from the traffic between Washington and the various embassies were established in the years between 1966 and early 2010.
The White House has put on the net of all those convicted of leaked documents and said that this reckless and dangerous. The Pentagon wants to take measures to better protect the secret information. Security would need to ensure that people are not just able to put documents on a PC, for example, a USB stick or floppy disk.
If Wikileaks is actually created?
Wikileaks was created in 2007. It was a way where whistleblowers information became known without being able to put things which they brought to light that really could not.
Anyone can send documents to Wikileaks and therefore remains anonymous. However, the documents reviewed and the volunteers who are members of Wikileaks then decide whether the document is positive or not.
Wikileaks documents to take when it comes to material that is: secret, confidential or censored material is political, diplomatic or ethical significance.
What is the purpose of Wikileaks
Julian Assange
Wikileaks aims to ensure that the leaking of government documents, many more things to come out. It is also intended to eliminate corruptions worldwide.
Wikileaks gets skewed documents in various ways through e-mail or by mail. Wikileaks will not know the documents sent. If that happens, they will be destroyed so that data can not be figure out. The WikiLeaks documents are defended by lawyers.
People who think Wikileaks is a good thing, are journalists, politicians, workers, but also ordinary citizens who think that it is a good opportunity for material that otherwise can not be published now comes out.
Opponents of Wikileaks are right that the site security of countries in jeopardy, but also bodies and even people on certain items.
Julian Assange is one of the leaders of Wikileaks. In December 2010 he was sent to jail because he is suspected of raping and molesting the second Swedish women. For this reason the Swedish government seeks him the indictment. Assange in early December in England arrested after he had walked into a police station to report. He says that the rape charge is a way to silence the site. Wikileaks published in October 2010 about 400,000 documents on the war in Iraq. On one of the movies is to see that among the U.S. military kills civilians and journalists. This movie rocked the world, but was published on Wikileaks unknown.
Wikileaks in 2008 and 2009 awards for the particular way of working. These were:
the 2008 Economist Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award
The 2009 Amnesty International Human Rights Reporting Award (New Media)