REPORTAJE: El conflicto en Afganistán
Wikileaks: cómo destapar escándalos en Internet
La web ha revelado varios casos comprometidos como el ataque indiscriminado del Ejército de EE UU a un cámara de Reuters o la intrahistoria de los atentados del 11-S
FERNANDO NAVARRO - Madrid - 26/07/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Wikileaks/destapar/escandalos/Internet/elpepuint/20100726elpepuint_6/Tes
FEATURE: The conflict in AfghanistanWikileaks: how to uncover scandals InternetThe website has revealed a number of cases involved and the indiscriminate attack the U.S. Army to a Reuters camera or intra of the 11-S
FERNANDO NAVARRO - Madrid - 26/07/2010
Can a simple website with no advertising or public aid committed uncover documents of international scope, as xenophobic ideology of a political party in Britain, the indiscriminate attack U.S. Army against a cameraman for Reuters, or now , papers reveal civilian deaths and the duplicity of Pakistan in the fight against the Taliban? The only answer is yes since there Wikileaks.
Since its inception in December 2006, this site has managed to become a speaker uncomfortable for governments, public authorities and multinational companies. Now go back to being a journalist to disclose regarding covert and hidden information about the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. On the page, have been leaked about 90,000 pages of classified U.S. military documents. The reports, covering 2004 to 2010, show that both the U.S. has withheld evidence of their own actions outside the law and the military power accumulated by the Taliban and have carried out bloody massacres, killing some 2,000 civilians so far .
With over a million documents or reports to its credit in its existence, Wikileaks (wikifiltraciones, Castilian) functions as a kind of container leaks found, a project from day one was opened to the public though, that yes, they lost sight of the traditional reporter, who served as liaison and applied his approach between the source and the environment. The purpose of Wikileaks, meanwhile, is above all to protect their sources, known as the whistleblowers themselves.
Thus, the web, created by anonymous activists and journalists in the manner of participatory encyclopedia Wikipedia offers any user the opportunity to host anonymously using an encrypted text, audio or video confidential portal whose authenticity is responsible for checking later. Five full-time volunteers and between 800 and 1000 employees (computer technicians, lawyers, journalists ...) working on this site that feeds on donations and, as they say its founders, accepts no advertising or public aid. Among the donors, are the British newspaper The Guardian.
Global Impact
With a presence in Twitter and Facebook, Wikileaks has grown from a site with little impact to a world reference site for the weight of their reporting. In 2008, he received the media award for the year by the Economist magazine. In 2009, the portal and its founder, Julian Assange, won the Amnesty International award in the category of New Media for bringing to light reports of massacres in Kenya.
In October 2009, the website leaked a detailed and long list of thousands of members of the BNP racist training (abbreviation in English of the British National Party), which could have access to the names of its members and as their home addresses and phone numbers. The controversy in the UK jumped by the secrecy surrounding a political party full of accusations of racism.
In the UK, also uncovered the Wikileaks case of protection for the company Trafigura. The carrier paid a local company in Ivory Coast to dispose of 400 tons of low quality gasoline. The operator simply hired spread it near the city of Abidjan. 85,000 people needed medical attention, paralyzing the fragile health of the country. Eight people died, apparently of exposure to the chemical waste. Trafigura turned to the judge asking for protection against the leaking of a confidential document and Wikileaks revealed the whole network.
Pretty impact also had tapes that revealed the inside story of the 11-S, second by second. Wikileaks made available to the reader in November 2009, half a million of communications that have been issued and received on that day in the Twin Towers and Pentagon headquarters, most of them issued by the FBI or the NYPD. Phone calls, emails and text messages intercepted who were gathered on the web at over 12 pages aroused the issue of respect to privacy of thousands of people or the need to show the drama that came free in the moment following the attacks.
But the most important was the Collateral Murder video broadcasting, where a U.S. Apache helicopter brought down the July 12, 2007 to a dozen people in a Baghdad neighborhood. The video went around the world with over four million hits on YouTube in 72 hours. It showed that among the dead was a Reuters cameraman Namir Noor Eldeen, and driver Saeed Chmagh. The images brought complaints from organizations of journalists and forced the Pentagon to open a new investigation into the attack.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Wikileaks/destapar/escandalos/Internet/elpepuint/20100726elpepuint_6/Tes
FEATURE: The conflict in AfghanistanWikileaks: how to uncover scandals InternetThe website has revealed a number of cases involved and the indiscriminate attack the U.S. Army to a Reuters camera or intra of the 11-S
FERNANDO NAVARRO - Madrid - 26/07/2010
Can a simple website with no advertising or public aid committed uncover documents of international scope, as xenophobic ideology of a political party in Britain, the indiscriminate attack U.S. Army against a cameraman for Reuters, or now , papers reveal civilian deaths and the duplicity of Pakistan in the fight against the Taliban? The only answer is yes since there Wikileaks.
Since its inception in December 2006, this site has managed to become a speaker uncomfortable for governments, public authorities and multinational companies. Now go back to being a journalist to disclose regarding covert and hidden information about the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. On the page, have been leaked about 90,000 pages of classified U.S. military documents. The reports, covering 2004 to 2010, show that both the U.S. has withheld evidence of their own actions outside the law and the military power accumulated by the Taliban and have carried out bloody massacres, killing some 2,000 civilians so far .
With over a million documents or reports to its credit in its existence, Wikileaks (wikifiltraciones, Castilian) functions as a kind of container leaks found, a project from day one was opened to the public though, that yes, they lost sight of the traditional reporter, who served as liaison and applied his approach between the source and the environment. The purpose of Wikileaks, meanwhile, is above all to protect their sources, known as the whistleblowers themselves.
Thus, the web, created by anonymous activists and journalists in the manner of participatory encyclopedia Wikipedia offers any user the opportunity to host anonymously using an encrypted text, audio or video confidential portal whose authenticity is responsible for checking later. Five full-time volunteers and between 800 and 1000 employees (computer technicians, lawyers, journalists ...) working on this site that feeds on donations and, as they say its founders, accepts no advertising or public aid. Among the donors, are the British newspaper The Guardian.
Global Impact
With a presence in Twitter and Facebook, Wikileaks has grown from a site with little impact to a world reference site for the weight of their reporting. In 2008, he received the media award for the year by the Economist magazine. In 2009, the portal and its founder, Julian Assange, won the Amnesty International award in the category of New Media for bringing to light reports of massacres in Kenya.
In October 2009, the website leaked a detailed and long list of thousands of members of the BNP racist training (abbreviation in English of the British National Party), which could have access to the names of its members and as their home addresses and phone numbers. The controversy in the UK jumped by the secrecy surrounding a political party full of accusations of racism.
In the UK, also uncovered the Wikileaks case of protection for the company Trafigura. The carrier paid a local company in Ivory Coast to dispose of 400 tons of low quality gasoline. The operator simply hired spread it near the city of Abidjan. 85,000 people needed medical attention, paralyzing the fragile health of the country. Eight people died, apparently of exposure to the chemical waste. Trafigura turned to the judge asking for protection against the leaking of a confidential document and Wikileaks revealed the whole network.
Pretty impact also had tapes that revealed the inside story of the 11-S, second by second. Wikileaks made available to the reader in November 2009, half a million of communications that have been issued and received on that day in the Twin Towers and Pentagon headquarters, most of them issued by the FBI or the NYPD. Phone calls, emails and text messages intercepted who were gathered on the web at over 12 pages aroused the issue of respect to privacy of thousands of people or the need to show the drama that came free in the moment following the attacks.
But the most important was the Collateral Murder video broadcasting, where a U.S. Apache helicopter brought down the July 12, 2007 to a dozen people in a Baghdad neighborhood. The video went around the world with over four million hits on YouTube in 72 hours. It showed that among the dead was a Reuters cameraman Namir Noor Eldeen, and driver Saeed Chmagh. The images brought complaints from organizations of journalists and forced the Pentagon to open a new investigation into the attack.
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