Thursday, June 27, 2013

Revealed: WikiLeaks Volunteer Doubled as FBI Mole

Julian-assange-wikileaks

For three months in 2011 — less than a year after WikiLeaks released its most famous series of documents leaked by Bradley Manning — a mole inside the non-profit organization provided the FBI with chat logs, videos and other data from Julian Assange and his associates


The mole's name is Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson, a longtime Icelandic volunteer working for WikiLeaks at the time. On Thursday, Wired's Kevin Poulsen revealed Thordarson's double role as a close Assange protégé and a paid informant working for the United States government in its WikiLeaks investigation.



Read more...More about Fbi, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Us World, and Us



via Make Your Own Website Tools Tips Tricks http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/rVUmXS_q7R0/ Best WordPress Hosting

No comments:

Post a Comment