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The Pentagon said on Thursday it was reviewing and updating its distribution lists of classified documents. This meant, naturally, that many more people could now view classified information. "One of the things we learned from 9/11 is ... we really need to share information," said Michael Atkinson, a former U.S. Intelligence Community inspector general. But they cannot track co-workers' private online activities - for example, posting classified information to impress others. "The Insider Threat Program was looking for other Bradley Mannings," said Aftergood.

☆ Chelsea Manning describes transitioning behind bars while serving her 7-year sentence: 'Prisons just don't prioritize medical care'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Chelsea Manning opened up to NPR about the experience of transitioning while in prison. "Prisons just don't prioritize medical care," she said, adding the fight to get care made her dysphoria worse. "Prisons just don't prioritize medical care in prison, period," Manning said in an interview with NPR. As the result of her 2015 lawsuit, Manning was the first person to receive gender-affirming health care while in military prison, per the ACLU. Though her experience seeking trans health care while jailed was particularly troubling to her, "there needs to be a lot more robust protections for prisoners and prisoners' access to care in general, not just in terms of trans care," Manning told NPR.

☆ Exclusive: The FBI's McGonigal labyrinth
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

She never saw McGonigal pay. "The notion that Mr. Deripaska is some proxy for the Russian state is a blatant lie," Ruben Bunyatyan, a spokesperson for Deripaska, told Insider by email. McGonigal was not charged with espionage, and although there is currently no evidence that McGonigal committed espionage, an FBI source told Insider that the investigation is ongoing. At the FBI, McGonigal racked up a string of big cases and promotions. "He said he needed to make more money," Guerriero told Insider.

☆ Exclusive: Inside the extramarital affair and cash-fueled double life of Charles McGonigal, the FBI spy-hunter indicted for allegedly taking Russian money
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

She had dated federal law enforcement officials before. "Charlie McGonigal knew everybody in the national security and law enforcement world," Guerriero said, in an exclusive interview with Insider. One law enforcement source estimated that McGonigal stood to make roughly $300,000 to $350,000 a year, including annual bonuses. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom she knew from law enforcement circles, let her stay in a guest bedroom. During her relationship with McGonigal, Guerriero says, they never talked about politics.

☆ Leading media outlets urge U.S. to end prosecution of Julian Assange
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The United States should end its prosecution of Julian Assange, leading media outlets from the United States and Europe that had collaborated with the WikiLeaks founder said on Monday, citing press freedom concerns. Assange is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, related to WikiLeaks' release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables. Monday marked twelve years since those media outlets collaborated to release excerpts from over 250,000 documents obtained by Assange in the so-called "Cablegate" leak. If extradited to the United States, he faces a sentence of up to 175 years in an American maximum security prison. "Publishing is not a crime," the media outlets said in their letter on Monday.

☆ Opinion | Chelsea Manning: ‘I’m Still Bound to Secrecy’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Chelsea Manning | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

He’d faced charges that carried a 35-year prison sentence, but shortly before trial he’d cut a deal that left him with only probation and community service. I never really reckoned with the notion of a life spent in prison, or worse. I was sentenced to 35 years in a maximum-security prison, where I spent seven years, much of it in solitary confinement. It also included fixes to the Freedom of Information Act and would give stronger federal protections to journalists. Even in prison, with restrictions on hair length and clothing, people had begun to accept me as a woman.

☆ Exclusive: Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A former high-level FBI agent who was involved in the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 election has himself come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his ties with Russia and other foreign governments. A witness subpoena obtained by Insider indicates information that federal prosecutors were seeking about former FBI official Charles McGonigal. "It's very rare that former FBI people at all, and certainly former senior FBI people, wind up as grand-jury targets," the official said. McGonigal used his official FBI letterhead to try and arrange a business meeting with Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania. Since he left the FBI, McGonigal has continued to trade on his expertise in counterintelligence.

☆ Un tribunal londonez se pronunță asupra cererii de extrădare a lui Julian Assange în SUA
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-04 | by ( Milena Onisim | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

Un tribunal din Londra se pronunţă luni, 4 ianuarie, asupra cererii de extrădare a fondatorului WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, în SUA, unde acesta trebuie să răspundă la 18 capete de acuzare, riscând o pedeapsă de 175 de ani de închisoare, transmite DPA și Agerpres. Documentele secrete au fost difuzate pe Wikileaks, deşi Assange a colaborat şi cu jurnalişti de la instituţii media proeminente. Susţinătorii lui Julian Assange şi organizaţii pentru apărarea libertăţii presei îl consideră pe acesta un jurnalist de investigaţii care a adus în atenţia opiniei publice crimele de război. Acuzat mai întâi de piraterie informatică, Julian Assange a fost inculpat în mai anul trecut pentru alte 17 capete de acuzare de justiţia americană, pe baza legislaţiei antispionaj. Julian Assange a respins mereu aceste acuzaţii, iar urmărirea penală în acest caz a fost abandonată în urmă cu trei ani.

Persons: Julian Assange, Vanessa Baraitser, Washingtonul, Chelsea Manning, Assange Organizations: Curtea Europeană, Drepturilor, CEDO Locations: Londra, SUA, Agerpres, Regatului Unit, american, Irak, Wikileaks, Afganistan, Assange, Londrei, Ecuadorului, Suedia

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