LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett In an extensive profile by The New York Times Magazine, Chelsea Manning describes his own increasingly bizarre behaviors that took place before and after he decided to leak more than 700,000 national security documents to WikiLeaks. After deciding to join the Army following the 2007 surge in Iraq,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Nick Givas Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is looking for a way to remotely guest host Sean Hannity’s radio program, after the Fox News anchor offered him the opportunity to participate. Assange tweeted Tuesday that people had suggested that he host his own weekly podcast from the Ecuador Embassy, where he has been sequestered since…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Luke Rosiak Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose office equipment U.S. Capitol Police seized in a criminal investigation into congressional network security violations, admitted she violates official information security policy and blamed the House’s chief administrative officer for not stopping her. In a May 17 appropriations hearing on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage of Brexit fame is a person of interest in the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 presidential campaign, The Guardian reports. “Farage has not been accused of wrongdoing and is not a suspect or a target of the US…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Washington, D.C. lobbyist and attorney Jack Burkman is filing a lawsuit Wednesday to force the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to release information regarding the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. “The release of this crucial material will help bring peace to the victim’s family, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The family of deceased Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich is calling on local police to publicize details of the murder investigation, according to the Daily Mail. ‘The family has full confidence in the Metropolitan Police Department’s ability to proceed with this investigation,” said Brad Bauman, a spokesperson for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning left a U.S. military prison nearly 30 years early Wednesday, after being pardoned by former President Barack Obama in the waning days of his presidency. Manning was scheduled to be released in 2045, after being convicted in 2013 of leaking hundreds of thousands…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Luke Rosiak A campaign operative warns that if emails are found linking a slain Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer to the 2016 leak of thousands of the partisan organization’s internal emails, they should be disregarded because they could have been altered. Brad Bauman issued the warning, which rehashes the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A Democratic National Committee staffer named Seth Rich was murdered last July in Northwest D.C and police have suggested the killing was a botched robbery, even though many circumstances surrounding the murder, seemed odd for that type of incident. The oddities led many to theorize as to what really happen…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Edward Snowden and Noam Chomsky are among those calling on Donald Trump to drop the US government’s investigation into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, reports the Guardian. According to the Guardian, Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, and social critic Chomsky, along with the signatures from over 100 other activists, journalists and government workers…