Whistleblowing

The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, a senior U.S. official said on Dec. 9.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz, who as the former advisor to the Panama government spoke before a special inquiry committee set up by the European Parliament on the “Panama papers”. The renowned US economist called for “zero tolerance” against secret tax structures and that Europe should lead the way in achieving transparency in the global financial system.

BELGRADE - Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated that the Russian government was behind the sensitive leaks from the Democratic National Committee email accounts, published by WikiLeaks, claiming the website was friends with Russian officials.

Wikileaks is celebrating its tenth anniversary as its founder Julian Assange threatens to release damaging information which could destroy Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The organisation, which claims to have released 10 million secret documents and has a further 10 million it is preparing to publish. Wikileaks said they would have ‘a celebration’ over the next ten weeks, according to

11.5 million documents and 2.6 terabytes of information have been leaked from of one of the largest law firms in Panama revealing how the rich launder money.

The disclosure of the documents and data from the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca is one of the biggest leaks in history, bigger than WikiLeaks and Snowden's revelations.

The Turkish president's office has noted that the release of daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül does not mark the end of the judicial process, adding that it is "closely following" the case.

The CIA accused WikiLeaks of "malicious intent" after the anti-secrecy campaign group published an initial tranche of documents Oct. 21 it said were from the personal email account of director John Brennan.

Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning has been found guilty of violating prison rules and will receive three weeks of recreational restrictions at the Kansas military prison where she's serving a 35-year sentence.

Tokyo on August 3 described claims that Washington spied on Japanese politicians and major firms as "deeply regrettable", in its first official response to revelations from whistleblower group WikiLeaks.

"I will withhold comment. But If this is true, as an ally, it's deeply regrettable," the government's top spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a regular press briefing.    

The US spied on senior Japanese politicians, its top central banker and major companies including conglomerate Mitsubishi, according to documents released jULY 31 by WikiLeaks, which published a list of at least 35 targets.