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This article deals with publications on the WikiLeaks Internet platform .

Publications

2007

The sack of Kenya in the Guardian

On August 31, 2007, The Guardian newspaper published an exposé about billion-dollar corruption in the family of former Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi . The newspaper relied on a report published by WikiLeaks.

Guantánamo Bay manuals

WikiLeaks published the US Army Guantanamo Detention Center Guantanamo Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures in November and December 2007 . The documents proved for the first time violations of human rights and the Geneva Conventions, such as the systematic removal of certain prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross . The abuse was carried out with expert guidance from doctors. A manual contained instructions that the International Committee of the Red Cross should only have access to certain prisoners.

2008

Bank Julius Baer versus WikiLeaks

In January 2008 WikiLeaks published internal documents of the Julius Baer Bank & Trust Company in the Cayman Islands , a company of the Swiss banking group Julius Baer . The documents contained client information and the bank's internal information on tax matters handled through the Cayman Islands. The documents included forgeries and the names and addresses of innocent people. WikiLeaks had to apologize to a victim in at least one case. Julius Baer called on Californian lawyers from Lavely & Singer to take legal action against the domain registrar of the domain wikileaks.org. On February 18, 2008, the domain was removed from the registrar's name register by a California court ruling . Since the servers used by WikiLeaks are spread over several countries and WikiLeaks was accessible via almost 150 other domains, WikiLeaks was never offline. CBS News reported "Freedom of Speech has a number: 88.80.13.160" and the New York Times published WikiLeaks' IP address.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted a motion to intervene with the aim of becoming a further party in the trial for the censorship of WikiLeaks. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press organized a coalition of media and press institutions to provide an amicus curiae for WikiLeaks. The coalition included major U.S. newspaper publications and press organizations such as the American Society of Newspaper Editors , the Associated Press , the Citizen Media Law Project , the EW Scripps Company , the Gannett Company , the Hearst Corporation , the Los Angeles Times , the National Newspaper Association , the Newspaper Association of America , the Radio-Television News Directors Association , and the Society of Professional Journalists . The coalition asked to be heard as a friend of the court to raise awareness of important legal issues that the coalition believed were overlooked in the first judgment.

According to a Julius Baer spokesman, the measure was not directed against WikiLeaks as a provider, but was taken "because the bank had become the subject of defamatory allegations" and the allegations contained on the site were based on forged and stolen documents. The bank didn't want to close the whole website. She asked the judge to have the documents removed from the internet platform. Since the judge could not find the anonymous operator of the website, he immediately closed the entire page.

On February 29, 2008, the responsible judge lifted the temporary injunction to block the building, because the existing alternative addresses did not allow the desired secrecy to be achieved with the block. Shortly thereafter, the Julius Baer banking group withdrew the lawsuit without giving any reason.

The documents were stolen by the bank employee at the time, Rudolf Elmer . Due to the transfer of customer and business records in 2008 to WikiLeaks and on January 17, 2011 in the London Frontline Club to WikiLeaks spokesman Assange, Elmer was arrested and taken into custody on the grounds that there was an urgent suspicion and a risk of blackout . Elmer lodged a complaint against the pre-trial detention with the Higher Court of the Canton of Zurich . Shortly before, Elmer was sentenced to a fine on probation by a Swiss court for repeated attempts at coercion, threats and violation of Swiss banking secrecy . He also had to bear part of the court costs. In 2004 Elmer forwarded records to the media and tax authorities and threatened bank employees. Elmer laid appeal against the judgment. The transfer of the records to WikiLeaks was not part of the indictment.

Elmer speaks of around 40 politicians who should be included in the data sets that he passed on to Assange in 2011. However, the names of the potential tax evaders are not published. The focus is on exposing the structure that underlies tax evasion.

Scientology

On April 7, 2008 WikiLeaks received a letter dated March 27, 2008 from the Religious Technology Center of Scientology claiming the rights to the Church of Scientology's content published by WikiLeaks , including in connection with the OT Levels manuals.

Through the letter, WikiLeaks was also asked to release the connection details of the source of the Scientology material. In a statement to Wikinews , WikiLeaks stated that it would publish thousands more pages of Scientology documents in response to Scientology's inquiry and attempt to suppress the material.

WikiLeaks has the largest collection of Church of Scientology records available to the public. It was soon used extensively by insiders and former Scientologists to expose the organization. The platform has numerous audio and video recordings from science fiction writer and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard . These include the so-called Introspection Rundown , which Scientology member Lisa McPherson died while using it in 1995.

BNP membership list

On November 18, 2008 WikiLeaks published the membership list of the British National Party , a right-wing extremist party in the United Kingdom. The list included names, addresses, ages and occupations of almost all 12,801 members of the party, including police officers, lawyers, pastors, doctors and teachers in elementary and secondary schools. In the UK, police officers are banned from joining the BNP and at least one police officer has been dismissed from service due to the publication. The BNP was known for the strict secrecy of its membership lists. On November 19, BNP boss Nick Griffin announced that the leak had been found in the BNP and that it was a former leadership cadre of the party who, however, had left the party in 2007.

Publication of internet blacklists and investigations against WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks has been publishing internet blacklists in various countries since 2008 , including the more restrictive countries such as China and Thailand, but also blacklists from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Italy and Australia.

The publication confirmed the clear political abuse of the blocking systems: In Australia, pages from anti-abortionists and the press release on WikiLeaks about the blacklists were filtered by the Australian government. A blog in Finland was blocked because it had published parts of the list there. In general, a high error rate was found in the lists. A study by the Australian Senate confirmed that only 32% of the blocked sites offered content with pornographic representations of people under the age of 18. The lists of the Scandinavian countries showed even higher error rates of up to 90%. In the Finnish censorship list only 1% of the entries were correct. The publication of the blacklists is particularly important to WikiLeaks in order to ensure that the free communication of society is not and cannot be restricted by uncontrolled and demonstrably abused and incorrect blacklists.

2009

Kaupthing Bank

WikiLeaks published an internal Kaupthing Bank document on July 29, 2009 , which was drawn up shortly before the financial collapse of the Icelandic banking sector that led to the Icelandic financial crisis. The document shows that extremely large loans, sometimes in the billions, were given to various owners of the bank without any real collateral and that very large sums of money were written off. The world's media reported that the bank was "looted by its owners". Kaupthing lawyers threatened WikiLeaks with legal action, invoking banking secrecy. The publication sparked a public outcry in Iceland and was discussed in the media for weeks. The first political consequence is the government's efforts to move away from the existing banking secrecy.

Minton Report on Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast

In September 2009 WikiLeaks published the Minton Report on Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast . This is an internal (and after its creation, kept secret) report by the Dutch raw materials and energy group Trafigura from 2006 on the health risk from the company's waste sold in Abidjan . According to the report, the waste contained hydrogen sulfide , thiols and sodium hydrogen sulfide , among other things . Trafigura previously threatened Norwegian Broadcasting with legal action against the publication of the report. According to UN estimates, 17 people died as a result of the waste and almost 100,000 had to be treated medically. Trafigura's management stated at the time that it was unaware of the health hazards. However, Minton’s own report mentions burns to the skin, eyes and lungs as possible consequences of the waste. After the report was published, Trafigura justified itself by stating that the Minton report was imprecise and unfinished.

Transfer of bank details from the European Union to the USA

On November 12th, 2009 WikiLeaks published a draft of the secret agreement between the European Union and the USA for the evaluation and transfer of European bank data to the USA ( SWIFT ). The day before, the Financial Times Deutschland had reported on the content of the agreement.

Intercepted pager messages from September 11, 2001

On November 25, 2009, WikiLeaks published a list of approximately 570,000 messages from radio pagers that were intercepted on the day of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 from 3:00 a.m. to September 12, 2001 at around 12:00 p.m. According to WikiLeaks, the pager messages also included many communications from officials from the United States Department of Defense and the NYPD .

Emails from the Climatic Research Unit

On November 21, 2009 WikiLeaks made the hacked zip files "Climatic Research Unit emails, data, models, 1996–2009" available. The documents, over 1,073 emails and 3,485 other files, were from 1996 to 2009 and are genuine , according to Philip D. Jones , director of the Climatic Research Unit. Because of some of the emails contained therein, some researchers have been accused of scientific dishonesty by critics. The incident and the accusations raised as a result attracted attention in blogs and mentions in the mass media in the run-up to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen . Several official investigations, including by the university concerned, the Royal Society and the British House of Commons , later almost completely dismissed the allegations made against the scientists. Nothing more precise was known about the perpetrators of the data theft, the police investigations against the hackers were stopped in July 2012.

Publication of the Toll Collect contracts

On November 25, 2009 WikiLeaks announced that it would publish over 10,000 pages of the secret Toll Collect contracts. Due to the mass of data, it was referred to as a collaborative experiment. The publication contained excerpts and attachments from the secret, but not the complete operator contract, the cooperation contract with AGES (a correspondingly specialized service company) and contracts with an expert office that was supposed to check the functionality of the toll system. According to Daniel Domscheit-Berg , who left Wikileaks , the federal government had promised the operator consortium of the truck toll system a return of 19 percent. This sum can only be achieved if the taxpayer pays for it.

Kunduz military police report

On December 13, 2009 WikiLeaks published a police report on a controversial bombing of two tank trucks in Afghanistan on September 4, 2009 by the German armed forces stationed there, in which Afghan civilians died. The report contradicted the Federal Government's presentation on several points, in particular the point at which the government had known that the bombing had led to the death of civilians, and thus led to a domestic political crisis including a demand for the resignation of Defense Minister Karl- Theodor zu Guttenberg .

2010

US secret service plans to undermine WikiLeaks

On March 15, 2010, a document from the US secret service CIA was published at WikiLeaks, in which the CIA describes why the US secret service considers WikiLeaks to be problematic and explains methods of how to proceed against whistleblowers and WikiLeaks employees, and thus WikiLeaks could destroy. According to the document, the secret service also fears that there could be whistleblowers in their own ranks and at WikiLeaks further unpublished secret documents. Efforts are recommended to pursue and disclose WikiLeaks' secret agents. By disclosing the data, it is hoped that the whistleblower's trust in WikiLeaks will be severely weakened and the support community will collapse.

US intelligence report on manipulation of opinions on the Afghanistan mission

On March 26, 2010, a CIA document by the group CIA Red Cell was published on WikiLeaks, which highlights possible PR strategies of the US secret services in Germany and France, which are intended to create support for the Afghan fighting and the weakening of the opposition. The report emphasizes that there is an apathy among the people about the use of Afghanistan and that it is therefore possible for politicians to ignore the will of the voters. However, this could change in the future. One focus of the strategy in France should be to present the situation of the people in Afghanistan positively influenced by the military operation and to use Afghans as supporters of the operation, whereby the sympathy of the French population for the Afghans should be used. In Germany, PR should depict the negative consequences of defeat (drugs, terror, refugees) and the relationship with NATO should be used as a reason for the mission.

Violent death of Iraqi civilians and journalists by US military

On July 12, 2007, around twelve people - including the two Reuters employees Saeed Chmagh (also: Said Chmar ) and Namir Noor-Eldeen (also: Namir Nur-Eldin ) - were killed by gunmen of American Apache helicopters in Baghdad at the age of 30 -mm on-board machine guns shot.

On April 5, 2010, WikiLeaks published the video recordings of the incident recorded on board the Apache helicopters at a press conference entitled Collateral Murder . The 38-minute video was recorded by the aiming camera of the on-board cannon. It shows several people who, according to the US soldiers, were carrying AK-47 assault rifles and a bazooka ( RPG ). Some of the suspected weapons were journalists' cameras. The on-board camera shows how fire was opened on the group. About 12 people, including two Reuters employees, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, were killed. A minibus passed shortly afterwards and the unarmed occupants tried to rescue the injured Saeed Chmagh. The helicopter crew wrongly assumed that the bus occupants were recovering weapons and asked the operations management for permission to fire again. Chmagh was killed in the subsequent attack on the van. Two small children who were on the bus survived seriously injured.

The published video received a lot of attention early on in blogs, on Youtube and investigative journalists. Mainstream media later reported the video and the incident internationally.

Bradley Manning was arrested as a suspected informant in May 2010 after Adrian Lamo notified authorities that Bradley Manning had shared the video.

Air raid near Garani

In mid-June 2010 WikiLeaks announced that it would publish hitherto secret footage of the air strike near Garani in Afghanistan , in which between 86 and 145 people were killed in an attack by the US Air Force .

War Diary: Afghanistan War Logs ("Afghan War Diary"), 2004–2010

The Afghan War Diary ( Afghan War Diary / Diary of the Afghan war ) is an on 25. July 2010 published collection of 76,911 documents about the war in Afghanistan in the period from 2004 to 2010. About 15,000 more are to follow. An initial analysis of the data was published simultaneously by Spiegel Online , the New York Times and The Guardian .

Loveparade 2010 planning documents

On August 20, 2010, WikiLeaks published documents relating to the planning and approval process within the municipal authorities and with the organizer, the course of the event and subsequent documentation including special permits, event sector plans, minutes from various working groups (e.g. on traffic and safety ), Event descriptions, police measures, visitor estimates, an event log, residents' report and photos of the Loveparade 2010, in which a mass panic left 21 dead and at least 652 injured.

Wikileaks has summarized the content of the documents. Accordingly, employees of the city administration expressed concerns in advance that the site was too small. In a meeting on March 2, 2010, the event space was described as absolutely inadequate. The traffic researcher Michael Schreckenberg , who works at the University of Duisburg-Essen, named in his flow analysis the constant information of the visitors over loudspeakers as essential. However, this loudspeaker system, as required by the building authorities, was not installed. In a detailed description of the event, the organizer Lopavent mentioned that the city of Duisburg was responsible for the detailed planning of the access and exit routes. The approval published by Wikileaks shows that both the legally required escape route width and a fire service plan had been dispensed with.

CIA Memorandum on the US as an Exporter of Terrorism

August 25, 2010 published WikiLeaks under the English title CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States exporting terrorism a memorandum of Red Cell subdivision called the US Foreign Intelligence Agency, the case games with regard to the recruitment of American extremists by al-Qaida includes. In the report, the authors mention, among other things, that, contrary to popular belief, the US export of terrorism is neither a current nor exclusively a phenomenon limited to Islamic fundamentalism, including the support of Jewish, Muslim and Irish nationalists Terrorist is entered into by US citizens. Against this background, the CIA report finally feared the international community's perception of the double standards in US security policy.

War Diary: Iraq War Logs ("Iraq War Logs"), 2004–2009

The Iraq War Logs ( Diary of the Iraq war ) are a on 22 October 2010 at 17:00 ( EST published) collection of 391,832 secret documents about the war in Iraq from the period from 2004 to 2009. According to the documents were among the 109,000 victims 66081 Civilians . It is the largest publication of military documents in United States history , larger than that of the Afghan War Diary on July 25, 2010.

Announced publications on China and Russia

In October, WikiLeaks spokeswoman Hrafnsson announced revelations about Russia: “Russian readers will learn a lot about their country.” Assange himself also promised to reveal not only American, but also Russian or Chinese documents: “We believe it is the most closed societies that have the most reform potential. "

US Embassy Cables ("Cablegate"), 1966–2010

Cablegate (ger .: portmanteau of cable , telegram 'and Watergate ) is since 28 November 2010, the Internet platform WikiLeaks partially published collection of 251,287 internal reports and situation assessments of US embassies around the world to the US State Department . It contains over 100,000 reports classified as secret or confidential, which date from January 2009 to June 2010. At the same time, the Guardian , Le Monde , El Pais and the news portal Spiegel Online reported , which WikiLeaks made the analysis possible in advance, and the New York Times , which received the data from the Guardian. As of August 20, 2011, 19,791 documents had been published. In the days that followed, the pace of the release was increased massively and tens of thousands more documents were made available to the public within a short period of time. On August 27, the number of viewable dispatches was already 143,014. At about the same time it became known through a press report that an encrypted file called cables.csv with a size of 1.6 gigabytes , along with the associated key, was available on the Internet. It contained the complete, unedited collection of the embassy dispatches. After the data breach, WikiLeaks released the entire collection of dispatches itself. Thus the names of the informants of the US embassies, who passed on some explosive information, became public. This had dire consequences for an Ethiopian journalist who left his country and two generals from Zimbabwe who were charged with high treason.

2011

The Guantánamo Files ("Gitmo files"), 2002–2008

On Easter Sunday 2011, Wikileaks began publishing 779 files under the title Gitmo files (The Guantánamo Files) on the controversial prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , which at that time still contained 172 prisoners. 765 files were published within four weeks. The publication showed that the purpose of the camp was not only to protect the public or the United States from dangerous persons, but that the acquisition of intelligence information played an essential, if not paramount, role.

The Spiegel , Washington Post , The Daily Telegraph and other WikiLeaks partner media also started publishing and commenting. Two former partner media of WikiLeaks, the British Guardian and the New York Times , had started publishing without consulting WikiLeaks, prompting WikiLeaks and its partners to follow suit at short notice. Daniel Domscheit-Berg was held responsible for the disclosure of information by WikiLeaks in a message on Twitter, but denied this. As with other WikiLeaks publications, whistleblower Chelsea Manning is held responsible for the primary acquisition of the data.

The military documents of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo , classified as "secret", date from 2002 to 2008 and each refer to one prisoner. The US government confirmed the authenticity of the documents and regretted their disclosure. Press evaluations showed that at least 150 innocent prisoners were held in Guantánamo and only 220 out of a total of 779 were classified as dangerous extremists. The release of prisoners was arbitrary and without regard to their dangerousness. Both a 14-year-old and an 89-year-old patient with dementia were wrongly imprisoned.

The interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed revealed that a few weeks after the attacks in New York and Washington, London's Heathrow airport should also have been attacked with a hijacked commercial aircraft. Further attacks with hijacked airliners on buildings and airports as well as attacks with cyanide in the United States have also been considered. In addition, a nuclear bomb was threatened in Europe if bin Laden was caught or killed.

The Spyfiles

At the beginning of December 2011, WikiLeaks began to publish 287 files from the field of security and surveillance technology companies under the name The Spy Files and announced the continuation into 2012. WikiLeaks had worked with ARD , L'Espresso and the Washington Post . Most of the initially compiled documents were already accessible, their summary in one place and the ability to search through them with the help of an interactive map were rated as comprehensive and useful. WikiLeaks is on the way to becoming a "campaign platform" by denouncing an industry that delivers surveillance technology to states with dubious human rights situations and dictatorial regimes.

2012

The Global Intelligence Files

On February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing internal e-mails for the US company Stratfor under the title The Global Intelligence Files in cooperation with 25 media partners , which offers its customers analyzes of geopolitics . WikiLeaks claimed to be in possession of five million emails between July 2004 and December 2011 and posted 214 of them on the first day. The intention was to expose the company's network of informants and to show that Stratfor was working with questionable or illegal methods, had a close relationship with intelligence services and was thus itself a privately operating and uncontrolled secret service. The collection of the data is assigned to the Anonymous collective . Jeremy Hammond was convicted .

Syria Files

From the beginning of July 2012 WikiLeaks began to make e-mails from Syrian politicians and other personalities as well as from Syrian ministries and companies accessible online. The authors of the illegal downloads are said to be members of the Anonymous collective . A total of two million "Syria Files" are planned to be published between 2006 and 2012 and will be collected in a publicly searchable database. WikiLeaks works with several media partners, including the German NDR and the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar , to search the emails for useful information.

The Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag reported in September 2012, citing the Syria Files , that the Schindler Elevator company had continued its business with Syria in the "ethical and legal gray area" even after the Syrian regime was outlawed internationally during the civil war there .

The Italian magazine L'Espresso reported on September 14, 2012 on a letter from the President of Ascom Italia, Roberto Schedoni, in which he addressed the Syrian Minister for Irrigation and Water Use, George Somy, to President Bashar al-Assad on July 21, 2011 for his Efforts to eradicate corruption praised and ended with wishes for security and peace and the elimination of terrorists.

On September 12, 2012 Wikileaks published e-mail excerpts from the year 2008 between contacts between the German management consulting firms GFA Consulting Group , based in Hamburg, and ICON-INSTITUTE GmbH & Co. KG Consulting Group , Cologne, and the Syrian project managers of Banking Sector Support Program II (BSSP) as part of the project funded by the European Union with 6 million euros for the modernization of the central bank and the establishment of private banks and the Bank Training Center (BTC) in Damascus.

Detainee Policies

Coleman Barracks Military Prison

As of October 25, 2012, WikiLeaks published documents under the name Detainee Policies on the treatment of prisoners in US military prisons and detention centers. The first of the published texts describes, in 33 pages, standard procedures that were adopted in 2002 for prisoners of Camp Delta in the prison camps of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base . Further documents contain, among other things, the requirements for combating a possible prisoner uprising in the military prison of the Mannheim Coleman Barracks and the procedure for a prisoner to flee. A total of around 100 documents are to be published in the course of a month, including those relating to Abu Ghuraib prison and Camp Bucca . WikiLeaks called on the public to analyze the documents from the point of view of their development history and human rights.

2014

Documents from the Bilderberg conferences

In May 2014 WikiLeaks published 244 older lists of participants and minutes of the Bilderberg conferences .

FinSpy

In September 2014 WikiLeaks offered parts of the government-used espionage software FinSpy for download.

Internal documents of the CIA

Three internal documents of the CIA , dated 2009, 2011 and 2012, which fell under the secrecy level SECRET and the restriction NOFORN ( English no foreign nationals , not intended for foreign nationals), were published in December 2014.

Two of them advised agents of the CIA to pass through the Schengen area without exposure and to circumvent or survive extended screening procedures at international airports that are similar to the Secondary Security Screening Selection . The third document is a report on worldwide high-value target operations not only by the CIA, which, under the title Best Practices in Counterinsurgency, came to the conclusion that the effect of such targeted killing operations was successful on the one hand, but also limited. because they could also have unwanted effects. This could lead to solidarity among the affected population with the goals of those killed.

2015

TPP Investment Chapter

Under the title Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment Chapter , WikiLeaks published the 55-page investment section of the Agreement on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership on March 27, 2015 . The document is dated March 20 and is classified as secret. In addition, it should continue to be kept secret four years after it came into force.

The Sony Archives

In April 2015, WikiLeaks released 30,287 internal documents and 173,132 emails from Sony Pictures Entertainment that were captured during a hacking attack on the company related to the film The Interview . Even if Zeit online saw "definitely worth reporting" in individual documents, WikiLeaks was criticized there, as in other press organs, for the publication, as data worthy of protection had also been published.

NSA Committee of Inquiry Minutes

On May 12, 2015, WikiLeaks published minutes of the NSA Committee of Inquiry . These are 1380 pages of transcriptions from unclassified (public) sessions. The transcriptions cover the meetings of the committee of inquiry from May 2014 to February 2015, in which 34 witnesses speak. WikiLeaks prepared a German and English summary for each meeting.

In response, WikiLeaks was criticized by members of the committee of inquiry. The President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, called the publications a “scandal” and called for legal clarification. Markus Beckedahl from the blog netzpolitik.org complained that the "scandalization of the leaks [...] is distracted from the actual scandal", since a large part has already been published in the form of live blogs on netzpolitik.org or in other media.

2016

IMF phone call

On April 2, 2016, WikiLeaks released a recording of a conference call of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The interview took place on March 19, 2016. The participants were Delia Velcoulescou , Poul Mathias Thomsen and Iva Petrova . Topics were business games to deal with the Greek sovereign debt crisis and “the IMF's negotiating strategy and the mistrust of its members towards the commitments of the Greek government and those of the European lenders.” As a result of the publication, the Greek government held a special meeting. In the intercepted conversation was a disaster ( disaster ) for Greece predicted if the citizens of the United Kingdom in June 2016 would decide to leave the European Union . The IMF's plans to leave the Troika or Quadriga have been revealed if it does not succeed in achieving a (partial) haircut for Greece. Since the German government was not ready to do so, this put pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel .

AKP emails

On July 19, 2016, four days after the attempted coup in Turkey , WikiLeaks began publishing 294,548 emails from the Turkish ruling party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) on a search website . The content of the emails mostly does not refer to internal matters of the government, but to "relations with the world".

The Podesta emails

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election in the United States , held on November 8, WikiLeaks released emails from the account of John Podesta , campaign manager for defeated candidate Hillary Clinton, through October . They were referring to the business conduct of Clinton and her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton .

Internals of the NSA Committee of Inquiry

In December 2016 WikiLeaks published under the English title German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits 2420 non-public documents of the NSA inquiry committee , which comprised a data volume of 90 gigabytes. They came from the Federal Chancellery , the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . The Bundestag member Konstantin von Notz criticized a “deliberate torpedoing of the investigation and necessary control of the services”.

2017

Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed

According to WikiLeaks, the 9000 pages of information revealed by the CIA indicate serious security deficiencies in Android , Windows and in the UEFI firmware interface of mainboards . The Apple- related documents had been out of date for years and the loopholes had been closed. In addition, they contained specific instructions to CIA agents on how to behave when deployed abroad.

Let it be For example, it is possible to access the entries in messengers , especially the Signal and WhatsApp applications , on smartphones before they reach end-to-end encryption . Another clue related to Samsung- branded smart-enabled TVs whose built-in microphones could be tapped like bugs .

The US Consulate General in Frankfurt am Main is said to be a center for data espionage .

2019

Fishrot

WikiLeaks released around 30,000 documents in November 2019 in the context of the Fishrot affair , which affects business people and high-ranking politicians in Namibia , Iceland and Angola, as well as a bank in Norway .

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Individual evidence

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  18. ^ Message at heise.de, March 6, 2008
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  20. ^ Judge: Elmer is a whistleblower out of revenge in: Tages-Anzeiger from January 19, 2011
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