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It's been 10 years since the first major WikilLeaks information bomb. It was July 25, 2010. That day, the organization founded by Julian Assange became known globally with the publication of more than 90,000 classified documents on United States military operations in Afghanistan, including the deaths of civilians during the conflict. Later would come the papers on abuse and vexations in Guantánamo or the famous 'emails' of Hillary Clinton that allegedly cost him the 2016 elections. A decade later WikiLeaks, the medium from which major political and financial scandals were leaked, seems to have lost bellows.
His most recent intelligence document is from December 2018. And his main source for years, then-soldier Bruce Manning, lives away from the spheres where he had access to classified material, released again after being released from prison in March 2020 and enjoying her new identity - her name is Chelsea Manning - after a sex change. There are forums on the internet that ask if WikiLeaks is still active after a long period of silence.
In fact, the last time the platform did damage was during the 2016 presidential campaign with the leak of emails from the former secretary of state. Assange was then linked to the plot of Russian interference in the US elections and her attempt to favor Donald Trump.
It does not seem an easy task to recover the lost luster with Assange out of action. After seven years of exile at the Ecuadorian embassy in London , the Australian computer programmer, activist and hero for many, is in a British prison. He was admitted on April 11, 2019 for violation of probation in relation to a case with the Swedish justice. Assange was accused of sexual abuse of two women during a stay in Stockholm for a conference.
After enjoying the protection of the Ecuadorian Government for seven years, Assange's disagreements with the South American embassy led him to surrender and face British justice, with a request for extradition from the United States for espionage. The activist, who has been a champion of truth for years, denied the Swedish justice accusations and said they were an excuse to extradite him to the United States, where his leaks raised blisters during the Barack Obama government.
Much has been said about his state of health. A report signed by 216 medical professionals from 33 countries a few months ago denounced his poor condition and the urgency of getting him out of prison. There is little chance that this will happen soon.
Under his direction, Wikileaks became the most notorious leak platform on the planet. Founded in 2006, "they started by saying they were an open intelligence source or an intelligence agency for the people," said James Ball, a former WikiLeaks member and author of the book 'Post Truth.' "Just like the CIA or the British GCHQ uncover secrets for their governments, the idea of WikiLeaks was to get them for everyone ."
Their first hit was in December 2007, when they published the United States Navy manual for soldiers in charge of prisoners at Guantánamo. In April 2010, they captured the classified military video of the Apache helicopter from where they killed two journalists and a group of Iraqi civilians in 2007. And in July 2010, a large number of documents were released detailing military activity in Afghanistan, from the death of civilians to the search and capture of Osama Bin Laden.
The Guantanamo thing was a separate chapter. The revealed papers reported abuse of prisoners even if they were innocent. In the military prison in Cuba there were adolescents, peasants and even old men in a state of senile dementia without any link to the Jihad, whom they tortured and mixed with true terrorists.
None of this would have been known without the intervention of the greatest informant in the history of the United States, Chelsea Manning. The former intelligence analyst for the US military leaked more than 750,000 documents to Assange's organization and was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the 1917 espionage law, among other charges. She was in jail between 2010 and 2017 until President Obama commuted much of her sentence.
While in prison, he announced his intention to undergo a sex change, but was prevented by the fact that he was in a military prison for men, where he attempted suicide twice.
In March 2019, she was re-arrested for refusing to testify before a grand jury about the same leaks, and in March this year she tried to kill herself again at a detention center in Alexandria, Virginia. A day later, a federal judge ordered her release. The $ 256,000 fine they imposed on him for refusing to testify was paid by his followers through a crowdfunding campaign . She now lives in Brooklyn.
When he contacted Assange, he was a low-ranking 22-year-old intelligence analyst who began collecting classified information from his post in Iraq. Manning put WikiLeaks, a previously unknown portal, on the map. He maintains that his intention was to denounce the killing of innocent civilians during both conflicts, scandalized by what he was seeing.
He gave an unusual flight to a platform that now lies silent but that, for the moment, maintains the same motto. This was written by the former editor of the publication, Sarah Harrison. " We publish without fear or favor , casting transparency on powerful factions and secret institutions, taking no side except that of truth."
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