Next WikiLeaks Release May Involve ECHELON

June 22nd, 2010

If they have information related to tasking the system, such as the words and phrases used, or the targets of the system, or actual intercepts, that would be pretty astonishing. It’s hard to believe that they would have stuff like this, but who knows…

Look at that 9/11 pager data dump. Where did that come from? *chortle*

Via: ABC:

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation.

There has been rampant speculation about WikiLeaks’ next revelation following its recent release of a top secret military video showing an attack in Baghdad which killed more than a dozen people, including two employees of the Reuters news agency.

Bradley Manning, a US military intelligence officer based in Iraq, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking the video but it is also claimed that Manning bragged online that he had handed WikiLeaks 260,000 secret US State Department cables.

In an interview with the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent, Mr Assange said cryptically of WikiLeaks’ current project:

“I can give an analogy. If there had been mass spying that had affected many, many people and organisations and the details of that mass spying were released then that is something that would reveal that the interests of many people had been abused.”

He agreed it would be of the “calibre” of publishing information about the way the top secret Echelon system – the US-UK electronic spying network which eavesdrops on worldwide communications traffic – had been used.

3 Responses to “Next WikiLeaks Release May Involve ECHELON”

  1. williamspd says:

    I won’t hold my breath…. but WOW! If this is true, what a coup!

  2. pookie says:

    So proud and pleased that there are human beans like Julian doing their thang. Many blessings to them.

  3. tito says:

    Yeah, but what if its about Main Core? What if it’s about Tice?

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