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8 August 2010
These misleading inquiries about Wikileaks occur frequently, about a two dozen since Collateral Murder. They claim to be doubtful or suspicious of Wikileaks and ask for confirmation of their misgivings. An urgent deadline requires a fast response. Cryptome has provided a series of prepackaged responses to snitches and others out to smear Wikileaks, sample below (reused from one yesterday).
Al Jazeera Yet Another Snitch Against Wikileaks
From: Ilona Viczian <Ilona.Viczian[at]aljazeera.net> To: "cryptome[at]earthlink.net" <cryptome[at]earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 20:43:20 +0300 Subject: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Hello, I wanted to see if you are potentially available for an interview with us tonight to discuss wikileaks. I am trying to set up a three-way conversation on the subject, so two guests moderated by our anchor. It would be fantastic to have you on, please let me know if you are available, Thanks! Ilona 202.445.0049
Then a telephone discussion with Ilona Viczian.
From: Ilona Viczian <Ilona.Viczian[at]aljazeera.net> To: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:37:10 +0300 Subject: RE: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Can you send me a piece that best lays out your criticism of wikileaks? Thanks, Ilona -----Original Message----- From: John Young [mailto:jya[at]pipeline.com] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 17:59 To: Ilona Viczian Subject: Re: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Ilona, Yes, available. What time? Can you share the identity of the other guest? Regards, John Young 212-873-8700
From: Ilona Viczian <Ilona.Viczian[at]aljazeera.net> To: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:10:22 +0300 Subject: RE: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Perfect. I have two more questions, we can either do it on the phone, or you can send me the answers. What DO we know about their funding? What has been the extent of their response to the secrecy criticisms? -----Original Message----- From: John Young [mailto:jya[at]pipeline.com] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 18:47 To: Ilona Viczian Subject: RE: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Ilona, The statement below was written yesterday, among a slew of others. More of my comments on the Afghan War Diary data dump: http://cryptome.org/0002/wl-diary-mirror.htm The Wikileaks private maillist messages from Dec 2006-January 2007: http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak2.htm John _____ 7 August 2010 The principal deficiency of Wikileaks is its lack of transparency about its operators and funds, characteristics of spies and secret societies up to no good and whose main purpose is to hide from public accountability and conceal corruption and criminality. Such organizations always use a noble purpose and claim secrecy is needed to protect supporters. In practice the secrecy protects the principal beneficiaries, the operators and sources of funds, and supporters are sacrificed to protect the continuation of the enterprise. Wikileaks has followed the lucrative model of the cult of national security, the largest world's secret enterprise, composed of selected elements of governments, military, intelligence, NGOs, contractors, lobbyists and supporters, identified by their clearance for access to classified information. Royalty and religion have long demonstrated the power of secrecy in misrepresenting what they are up to, pronouncing a great public benefit while reaping privileged rewards behind this cloak -- a lavish cloak of property, ceremony, titles and prizes, architecture, clothing, language and literature, music, fine arts, and not least, a complex apparatus of punishment for apostates and infidels, often by military means but equally often by covert attacks. Cults of royalty, religion, military are the main practitioners of secrecy and they are role models for ambitious persons who believe they have a mission to be superior to the public and must violate public trust to battle those who have similar ambitions. They invent enemies to warrant this betrayal. They also combine with their competitors to advance their causes. Thus the appeal of global initiatives to violate national borders in transgression of local law hidden by secrecy. That's the short sermon. Far better is the browsible library of bountiful supporting information undoctored by sermonizing, Cryptome.
Then a telephone call cancelling the appearance.
From: Ilona Viczian <Ilona.Viczian[at]aljazeera.net> To: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 00:26:39 +0300 Subject: RE: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Hi John, No problem, but I thought it was information posted on your site.... And again, I'm sorry this didn't work out, it seemed you would have been a great guest! Hopefully we can try again in the future. -----Original Message----- From: John Young [mailto:jya[at]pipeline.com] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 21:22 To: Ilona Viczian Subject: RE: Al Jazeera English Interview Request Dear Ilona, Do not use, publish, or provide to others, any of the material I sent you. John Young Cryptome.org
Dear Ms. Viczian, This is the second time Al Jazeera has misled me into providing information under guise of being interviewed for an appearance. Claire Clark of Al Jazeera did the same on July 30, 2010. Her initial message below, followed by telephone calls asking urgently for more information, just as you have, claiming a deadline was near. Ms. Clark lost her temper on the telephone at my accusation, but could not effectively deny it, instead sceamed at me about her reputation and accomplishments. I reminded that flaunting reputation is also part of the tactic to conceal ulterior motives. I told he she was lying about her reputation. That set off another scream of fake outrage. These are a common tactics employed by intelligence and law enforcement agencies. I told Ms. Clark and I tell you, you are liars, working on behalf of undisclosed parties under disguise of Al Jazeera. These are unbelievable pretenses, although that is a trademark of Al Jazeera. John Young Cryptome.org ________ From: Claire Clarke <claire.clarke[at]aljazeera.net> To: "cryptome[at]earthlink.net" <cryptome[at]earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:54:38 +0300 Subject: Interview request-Al Jazeera English/ Young/ Wikileaks Dear Mr. Young: The Riz Khan show on Al Jazeera English is interested in speaking with you about
your doubts over WikiLeaks, a story that we have closely followed. If you could please contact me I would be very grateful. Best, Claire Claire Clarke Riz Khan show Al Jazeera English (310) 479-9698 claire.clarke[at]aljazeera.net
8 August 2010. A sends:
One thing I noted, I ran the phone number listed, and seems that the person you were speaking with may work with many media companies, not limited to Al Jazeera. The credentials she has would make her able to use a variety of US-media based accounts available to her. The fact she utilized her credentials under Al Jazeera indicates to me possible trap-baiting, trying to come across as someone from the "other side of the fence" as they say. Take a gander through http://fitzgibbonmedia.com/contactAlso, looking up the previous caller, seems yet another freelancer, using mixed credentials. Claire Clarke/Brown seems to also have a modest internet profile, nothing showing working directly for Al Jazeera.
By any chance, can you get the email headers for those messages, see if they actually came from an Al Jazeera server, or perhaps instead, (my most paranoid case) were in response to tapped communications in plaintext, using falsified sender addresses. (I have seen such attacks before, though in academic situations.)
Cryptome: mail headers:
Received: from 01-edge-01.aljazeera.tv ([213.130.112.86]) by samuel.mail.atl.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1oIaKd2893Nl3pv1 for <jya[at]pipeline.com>; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 14:37:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 01-casht-02.ALJAZEERA.TV (172.30.30.14) by maila.aljazeera.net (172.30.30.11) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.393.1; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:34:44 +0300 Received: from 01-EX-CL01.ALJAZEERA.TV ([10.10.20.160]) by 01-casht-02.ALJAZEERA.TV ([10.10.49.14]) with mapi; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:37:12 +0300 From: Ilona Viczian <Ilona.Viczian[at]aljazeera.net> Received: from 01-edge-01.aljazeera.tv ([213.130.112.86]) by mx-pigeons.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1oETN61o43Nl34g0 for <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:54:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 01-casht-01.ALJAZEERA.TV (172.30.30.14) by maila.aljazeera.net (172.30.30.11) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.393.1; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:52:15 +0300 Received: from 01-EX-CL01.ALJAZEERA.TV ([10.10.20.160]) by 01-casht-01.ALJAZEERA.TV ([10.10.49.13]) with mapi; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:54:39 +0300 From: Claire Clarke <claire.clarke[at]aljazeera.net>