Aug 3 2010
Wikileaks; Founder and Top Leaks

The world famous website Wikileaks went public in January 2007. In the started the website stated that it was founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. The site relies on donations with free legal support donated by media organizations such as Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange introduced himself as member of the site’s advisory board and was later referred to as the founder. Assange has made a lot of enemies since launching Wikileaks. Assange never came in front and tried to hide him saying “I prefer to keep them guessing”, He is also reported as Mendax who belongs from Australia.

He claims that pentagon is out to destroy the site after a series of exposes, notably the US rules of engagement for Iraq, Nato’s plans for the Afghan war and the operations manual for the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, CUba, which revealed it was American policy to hide some prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Secret recording of the LDS temple endowment ceremony, 2009 is also one of the hot leaks. The most explosive leak yet is a secret video shot by an American attack helicopter of Iraqi civilians and a Reuter’s photographer being mown down.

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