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Microsoft Demands Takedown of MS Spy Guide 

http://cryptome.org/0001/ms-spy-takedown.htm

Microsoft has received information that the domain 
listed
      above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is 
offering unlicensed
      copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating
 to copyrighted
      works published by Microsoft.

      

      1. Identification of copyrighted works: 

      

      Copyrighted work(s): 

      Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook 

      

      Copyright owner: 

      Microsoft Corporation 

      

      2. Copyright infringing material or activity 
found at
      the following location(s): 

      

      http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/microsoft-spy.zip
      

      

spy-call.htm          Why Not Call Spying Spying                       March 3, 2010
earthlink-spy.pdf     Earthlink Lawful Spying Guide                    March 3, 2010
earthlink-dmca.pdf    Earthlink DMCA Spying Guide                      March 3, 2010
netsol-spy.pdf        Network Solutions Lawful Spying Guide            March 3, 2010 (1MB)
time-warner-spy.pdf   Time Warner Lawful Spying Guide                  March 3, 2010

http://cryptome.org/

wikileaks is requesting for helps. spread this around wide and fast, specially if you have anon or internal networks.



http://twitter.com/wikileaks

1. We have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don't think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks. +0000 2010'}" class="published timestamp">about 11 hours ago via bit.ly
2. We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike. +0000 2010'}" class="published timestamp">about 11 hours ago via bit.ly
3. If you know more about the operations against us, contact https://secure.wikileaks.org/ +0000 2010'}" class="published timestamp">about 11 hours ago via bit.ly
4. We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being discussed at the highest levels of US command. +0000 2010'}" class="published timestamp">about 11 hours ago via bit.ly

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"Wikileaks announced on Mar 21 (via its twitter account) its intentions 'to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am.' It appears that during the last 24 hours someone from the State Department/CIA decided to visit them, by 'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours. Apparently, the offending leak is a video footage of a US airstrike."

Wikileaks Twitter Feed - This hasn't been updated for some 14 hours as of 2:00 pm EST.

Update 2:29 EST

It's worth noting that German police last year raided the home of a certain individual who owned that nation's version of the Wikileaks domain name. Again, national governments take Wikileaks seriously, and so should you.

Update 2:40 EST

The New York Times deserves credit for having reported on the U.S. intel community's plan to discredit Wikileaks a few days ago. More to the point, this should help to convince those who may be coming to this late to the game that, yes, this is legitimate. Our nation's intelligence service has targeted this website for destruction, and is most likely carrying out some variant on the plan at this very moment.

My wife made lemon cupcakes.

Of course they are. Information is money.... what's the old saying? Follow the money? Shit is free because they are making money off the data ALL of them get from us, Facebook, Google, etc, etc, etc x 1,000,000. We've said it before, but privacy is dead. You can hide, sure, but I betcha no matter what you do, you can be tracked.

A rebuttal to the wikileaks video ---> http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/04/06/supporting-the-decision-of-the-soldiers-in-the-wikileaks-video/

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wants a copy of the chat logs in which a U.S. intelligence analyst discussed providing classified materials to the whistle-blower site, according to an e-mail shown to Wired.com by the ex-hacker who turned the analyst in.

Assange says he’s arranging the legal defense for 22-year-old Bradley Manning, now in his third week in military custody.

In the Friday e-mail to Adrian Lamo, Assange (or someone convincingly posing as him) claims he wants to forward the logs to attorneys he says he’s hired to represent Manning, though the e-mail doesn’t explain why the unnamed lawyers aren’t approaching Lamo directly.

 

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-to-lamo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

 

10 to 1, they are torturing.

Pentagon is faking that "we capture the leaker story" trying to get wiki founder. Pentagon is using known trojan horse trying to penetrate the wiki network.



http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks/index.html



In other words, exactly what the U.S. Government wanted to happen in order to destroy WikiLeaks has happened here:  news reports that a key WikiLeaks source has been identified and arrested, followed by announcements from anonymous government officials that there is now a worldwide "manhunt" for its Editor-in-Chief.  Even though WikiLeaks did absolutely nothing (either in this case or ever) to compromise the identity of its source, isn't it easy to see how these screeching media reports -- WikiLeaks source arrested; worldwide manhunt for WikiLeaks; major national security threat -- would cause a prospective leaker to WikiLeaks to think twice, at least:  exactly as the Pentagon Report sought to achieve?  And that Pentagon Report was from 2008, before the Apache Video was released; imagine how intensified is the Pentagon's desire to destroy WikiLeaks now.  Combine that with what both the NYT and Newsweek recently realized is the Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistle-blowers, and one can't overstate the caution that's merited here before assuming one knows what happened.



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my feeling, the pentagon video is a honey bait to penetrate wiki to get the real damaging material, the state dept. communication. (eg. a lot of them are war crime evidence and can cause massive international diplomacy upset.)



The iraq video themselves probably are only minor. but who know. those video sure twist a lot of undies.

hmm. manning -lamo looks more and more like a military operation trying to penetrate and discredit wiki to me.



http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/19/wikileaks-a-somewhat.html#more



(12:22:49 PM) bradass87: the air-gap has been penetrated... =L

(12:23:19 PM) Adrian: how so?

(12:26:09 PM) Adrian: yt?

(12:26:09 PM) bradass87: lets just say *someone* i know intimately well,

has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the ones

described... and been transferring that data from the classified networks

over the "air gap" onto a commercial network computer... sorting the data,

compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white haired

aussie who can't seem to stay in one country very long =L

(12:27:13 PM) bradass87: im here

(12:27:24 PM) Adrian: Depends. What are the particulars?

(12:28:19 PM) bradass87: theres substantial lag i think

(12:29:52 PM) Adrian: I don't understand.

(12:30:13 PM) bradass87: what was the last message you recieved?

(12:30:47 PM) Adrian: (12:28:19 PM) bradass87: theres substantial lag i think

(12:30:56 PM) bradass87: before that

(12:31:09 PM) Adrian:

(12:26:09 PM) bradass87: lets just say *someone* i know intimately well,

has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the ones

described... and been transferring that data from the classified networks

over the "air gap" onto a commercial network computer... sorting the data,

compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white haired

aussie who can't seem to stay in one country very long =L

I love this shit. Now the true criminals are all in trouble. scheming for war, stealing money, killing people.



http://diplopundit.blogspot.com/2010/06/web-abuzz-with-possible-nightmare-at-c.html



In case you've missed this troubling news.  Yep, that's 260,000 classified cables the news outlets are reporting and buzzing the internets in the last few days.



Here is CNN blog's take: Dept. of State, embassies anxious about cable link claims



Officials at Foggy Bottom and diplomats at U.S. embassies around the world are biting their nails as they await an investigation into claims by an Army intelligence analyst that he downloaded 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables and gave them to the whistleblower site Wikileaks.

[...]

"Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public, he reportedly told Lamo, who then turned Manning into authorities. He is currently under arrest in Kuwait.

Score BIG one for the good guy.  Well played.



So now, there is at least a small spot on earth to put server to report corruption. Next stop, acta, big labels corruptions and thuggery around the world. fuckers are going down.



http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/06/17/wikileaks-proposal-for-new-media-haven-passed-by-icelandic-parliament/

The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), proposed by whistleblowing website Wikileaks and Icelandic MPs, has been passed by the Icelandic parliament.

The IMMI calls for better laws in the country to protect journalists and their sources, which has the potential to create a haven for investigative journalists in Iceland.

The initiatiave also wants to challenge so-called “libel tourism” and change libel laws that threaten publishers, internet hosts and sites like Wikileaks that act as a “conduit” between source and journalist.

Two amendments were made to the original proposals, according to an email update from Wikileaks:

• That the government should perform a detailed analysis, especially with respect to operational security, for the prospect of operating data centres in Iceland;
• That the government should organise an international conference in Iceland regarding the changes to the legal environment being caused by expansion of cloud computing, data havens, and the judicial state of the internet.

Nieman Journalism Lab looks at what the IMMI means for journalists and how long it will take before the proposals become law.

 

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But although the legislative package sounds very encouraging from a freedom of expression point of view, it’s not clear what the practical benefits will be to organizations outside Iceland. In his analysis of the proposal, Arthur Bright of the Citizen Media Law Project has noted that, in one major test case of cross-border online libel law, “publication” was deemed to occur at the point of download — meaning that serving a controversial page from Iceland won’t keep you from getting sued in other countries. But if nothing else, it would probably prevent your servers from being forcibly shut down.

There might be other benefits too. Wikileaks says that it routes all submissions through Sweden, where investigations into the identity of an anonymous source are illegal. Wikileaks was heavily involved in drafting and promoting the Icelandic package, and whatever your opinion of their current controversies, they’ve proven remarkably immune to legal prosecution in their short history. Conceivably, other journalism organizations could gain some measure of legal protection for anonymous sources if all communications were routed through Iceland.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/what-will-icelands-new-media-laws-mean-for-journalists/

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/17/wikileaks_whistleblowers

The usual neocon crew was trying to make their move. They truly deserve special spot in war crime tribunal.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-18/new-bill-would-let-obama-police-internet-for-national-security-reasons/?cid=hp:exc

The Protecting Cyberspace Act was introduced last week by Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the panel’s ranking Republican. Counterparts in the House Homeland Security Committee have endorsed identical legislation, meaning that a final bill could be adopted by the full Congress within weeks. The White House has not taken a stand on the legislation so far.

Lieberman said the bill was intended to prevent a “cyber 9/11” in which “cyberwarriors, cyberspies, cyberterrorists and cybercriminals” take aim at the United States and try to shut down infrastructure that is dependent on the Internet—a list of targets that include everything from nuclear power plants to banks to Pentagon computer networks.

hah, i thought that news was strange...

now I really want to know how deep wirednews is inside pentagon propaganda aparatus.



http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/02/wikileaks_tor_snooping_denial/

Updated WikiLeaks has denied that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a key part in the early days of the whistle-blowing site.

Wired reports that early WikiLeaks documents were siphoned off from Chinese hackers' activities via a node on the Tor anonymiser network, as an extensive interview with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Paul Assange by the New Yorker explains in greater depth.

UPDATED 12:23 PM: Earlier today I argued that, in light of the Obama administration going after reporters and sources, Wikileaks is the only avenue left.  In the comments I stated that Wikileaks is not ideal because it lacks the fact-checking and at-least-the-pretense-of-balance of journalism.  I stand corrected.  In Mr. Assange's own words, BREAKING:

This idea is spin by those connected to the abuses we have revealed, however, it is simply not true.

1. There has never been a documented case of WikiLeaks misattributing a document.  We have a perfect record over three years of publishing.  Compare this record with any other publisher of political materials.
2. In the U.S. a lot of the anti-Wikileaks propaganda comes from military apologists attempting to undermine the strength of http://collateralmurder.com/ by attacking its messenger.  However, read that website carefully and all statements made in the video itself.  You will see that even after other details have come to light, none require corrections.  Why? Because we fact-checked--to the degree of sending people to the most dangerous part of Baghdad during election time to do it.  Who else has such demanding standards?
3. We push the ideal of "scientific journalism"--all primary sources for every article made available.  It's our invention because we love fact-checking and want others to check our facts to prove our good work.
4. On the balance issue.  You're right.  We don't believe in "balance"--we believe in accuracy and fairness.  That is an important difference and higher standard.  The truth is not revealed by balancing the lies of competing powergroups--that is a job for politicians.  We, as servants of the historical record, have a higher standard.

I can't argue with that, Julian Assange.  THANK YOU for what you are doing and for your bravery in contacting me.

In many cases, like that of Bradley Manning, we end up slamming "leakers" for going to Wikileaks instead of questioning why American soldiers used an Apache helicopter to shoot unarmed Iraqi civilians, journalists, and children, while egging each other on like they were playing Call of Duty.

If the Obama administration so despises disclosures to the media or Wikileaks, giving protections and options to national security whistleblowers should be priority one.  In the meantime, I submit that it is the government officials who engaged in torture, warrantless wiretapping, and "collateral murder" who have endangered our national security, and not those who exposed the wrongdoing.

 

http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/31-2010/610-wikileaks-may-be-the-only-option-left-for-whistleblowers-hotlist

 

The prospect of the cache of classified intelligence on the US conduct of the two wars being put online is a nightmare for Washington. The sensitivity of the information has generated media reports that Assange is the target of a US manhunt.

"[US] public statements have all been reasonable. But some statements made in private are a bit more questionable," Assange told the Guardian in Brussels. "Politically it would be a great error for them to act. I feel perfectly safe … but I have been advised by my lawyers not to travel to the US during this period."

Assange appeared in public in Brussels for the first time in almost a month to speak at a seminar on freedom of information at the European parliament.

He said: "We need support and protection. We have that. More is always helpful. But we believe that the situation is stable and under control. There's no need to be worried. There's a need always to be on the alert."

Manning is being held incommunicado by the guardian.co.uk on US military" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-military">US military in Kuwait after "confessing" to a Californian hacker on a chatline, declaring he wanted "people to see the truth".

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/21/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-breaks-cover

I was thinking about that, but my blogable interest can only be categorized in 2 groups:



 a) macro news, but they are way too gloomy. Even if i can win a lot of argument credibly (I made some of the biggest people online cries), in larger scheme of thing I don't feel I add anything nice. So what If I can predict when general currency collapse due to policy mistake is going to happen and 35% of population will be homeless as a result?  blogging wise, it's like telling somebody he is going to die of cancer in exactly 2 year and 4 months due metabolism breakdown. Technology might catch up in 12 years on average. Detail of medical technology seems secondary to me. The biggest most important task would be what crazy fun can fit in that 2 years and 4 months.



b) do it yourself technology. (If I can do it, anybody can do it. power to the people.) but I haven't find something that is small and manageable enough to fit my spare time. I keep reading big complicated stuff...(like, how to create your own wireless system. lol. that would be truly fun. Think about it. your own do it yourself phone system. but definitely out of my depth)



I think blogging should be something that compelled people to go out, be nice and have fun together. (Boing-boing, I can haz cheezburger, wiki probably are my ideal blogs) I am trying to find something like that that can be incorporated into MdM

The more I look at this issue the larger in importance it seems to grow. While reviewing the Manning /Lamo logs published in Wired.com's article that started this entire mess. I got stuck on a statement Manning made to Lamo pertaining to the leaked video now known as "Collateral Murder" name by Wikileaks Ffounder Julian Assange upon posting it to his site.  



The statement is said to have taken place on the 22nd of May:  



Click here for the logs

(2:15:57 PM) Manning: they also caught wind that he had a video... of the Gharani airstrike in afghanistan, which he has, but hasn't decrypted yet... the production team was actually working on the Baghdad strike though, which was never really encrypted  



(2:16:22 PM) Manning: he's got the whole 15-6 for that incident... so it wont just be video with no context  



(2:16:55 PM) Manning: but its not nearly as damning... it was an awful incident, but nothing like the baghdad one  

 

Remember this takes place on the 22nd of May. Why is Manning referring to the "production currently" taking place on the "Collateral Murder" video in present tense? The video was posted to Wikileaks over a month before this conversation took place? Am I reading the present tense of the statement "was actually working" incorrect? I know the use of the word, "was" is past tense, but when its used in the context seen here the tense changes to present form. If this is correct, then someone in the Pentagon needs to step up and start talking!



http://beforeitsnews.com/news/84/366/Manning_Lamo_Logs_May_Be_Fake._You_Decide_-_Wikileaks,_Pentagon,_Obama_Drama.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/25/intelligence-deal-uk-us-released

Ed Hampshire, a senior records specialist at the National Archives, said: "The agreement represented a crucial moment in the development of the 'special relationship' between the two wartime allies and captured the spirit and practice of the signals intelligence co-operation which had evolved on an ad-hoc basis during the second world war."

He added: "As the threat posed by Nazi Germany was replaced by a new one in the east, the agreement formed the basis for intelligence co-operation during the cold war. The two nations – linked by common bonds of history, culture and language – agreed not to collect intelligence against each other or to tell any 'third party' about the existence of the agreement."

The UKUSA agreement was later extended to include Canada in 1948, and Australia and New Zealand in 1956. According to the intelligence historian, Richard Aldrich, the British tried to use the Commonwealth as an "equalizer", summoning the Canadians and the Australians to a London signals intelligence summit before meeting the Americans, Shortly afterwards, Stewart Menzies, the head of MI6, met an American team led by Joseph Wenger at Bryanston Square in London to work on a bilateral deal. "When negotiations became sticky, Menzies whisked everyone off to White's Club for a bibulous lunch and – suitably refreshed – they resolved their differences", says Aldrich.

The agreement was signed on 5 March 1946 by Colonel Patrick Marr-Johnson on behalf of the UK's London Signals Intelligence Board and Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg for the US State-Army-Navy Communication Intelligence Board.

Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill

"A Senate Committee approved a bill that would give the president an emergency 'kill switch' over the Internet, but added some restrictions to the bill. The president may no longer simply assert that the threat remains indefinitely, he must now seek Congressional approval after 120 days. Still, privacy advocates are concerned about the government's ability to shut down private networks. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) 'said she was disappointed to read reports that the bill gives the White House a "kill switch" for the Internet, an authority she says the president already has under a little-known clause in the Communications Act passed one month after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. ... Collins [argued] the new bill actually circumscribes the president's existing authority and puts controls on its use.'"

Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, was detained in Kuwait in May after Wikileaks, a whistleblower Web site, released the video, which it titled "Collateral Murder." The footage, taken by cameras on U.S. Apache helicopters, shows several civilians, including two Reuters news agency employees, being killed in a U.S. strike in July 2007.

Manning faces two charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The first encompasses four counts of violating Army regulations by transferring classified information to his personal computer between November and May and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system. The second comprises eight counts of violating federal laws governing the handling of classified information.

Among the materials Manning is accused of transmitting to "a person not entitled to receive them" are the video and more than 50 classified diplomatic cables. According to the charge sheet, he allegedly downloaded more than 150,000 cables in all.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070602330.html

see also

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-will-press-crimin.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-army-manning-wont.html

Hmm, wikileaks financial seems ok. Not sure what their hardware need is.

But sooner or later, they gonna need some sort of legal defense fund, probably through EFF. They need some industrial strength international legal team.



First thing first, they need some kind of basic International legal repository/library of all laws related to their activities. Starting on all countries they are most active. International wiki laws of some sort.



I hope Europe will soon adopt IMMI type of legislation. This will be a big step.



http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Disclosures-Suggest-Wikileaks/25561/

The whistleblowing Web site Wikileaks has spent less than 10 percent of contributions received from its two major sources of support according to Wired.

The magazine’s Threat Level blog reports that Wikileaks has spent about $38,000 of the $500,000 it received through donations individuals make through PayPal or bank transfers, mostly on travel expenses for the site’s unpaid leaders and on technical costs.

Those funds are administered by the Wau Holland Foundation, in Berlin. Wikileaks also receives money from another electronic payment system. Wikileaks says it has raised about $1-million in total.

The financial disclosures came after a series of anonymous posts were circulated online accusing the site of misusing donor funds. The posts came from somebody who said he or she worked at the organization.

im going to repeat what Tsuru said and tell you to start a blog!

A volunteer for Wikileaks was detained by officials Thursday while entering the country at Newark International Airport.

Jacob Appelbaum, noted for his work with the Tor online security project, was searched and "interrogated" for three hours before being released, according to a source who asked to remain anonymous.

Wikileaks, a clearing house for information submitted by whistleblowers, released a trove of "War Logs" last Sunday relating to the conflict in Afghanistan. Appelbaum delivered a keynote speech at the recent HOPE conference in Wikileaks chief Julian Assange's place, and gave an interview to Boing Boing about the content of the logs.

According to the source, Appelbaum was stopped by customs officials and spoken to for at least three hours by a team that included a U.S. Army investigator. Army Pvt. Bradley Manning was named last week as a possible Wikileaks source in relation to the classified logs.

Appelbaum's interviewers demanded that he decrypt his laptop and other computer equipment, the source said. After his refusal to do so, they confiscated it, including three cellphones. The laptop was returned, apparently because it contained no storage drive that investigators could examine. He was also asked about his role in Wikileaks and informed that he was under surveillance.

 

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/31/wikileaks-volunteer.html

 

Time to move to Canada, eh? Land of the free.

Below, he outlines his selections and calls for congressional investigations:

1. The official U.S. "order of battle" estimates of the Taliban in Afghanistan, detailing its size, organization and geographic breakdown -- in short, the total of our opponents in this war. If possible, a comparison of the estimate in December 2009 (when President Obama decided on a troop increase and new strategy) and the estimate in June or July 2010 (after six or seven months of the new strategy). We would probably see that our increased presence and activities have strengthened the Taliban, as has happened over the past three years.

2. Memos from the administration's decision-making process between July and December 2009 on the new strategy for Afghanistan, presenting internal critiques of the McChrystal-Petraeus strategy and troop requests -- similar to the November 2009 cables from Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry that were leaked in January. In particular, memos by Vice President Biden, national security adviser Jim Jones and others; responses to the critiques; and responses to the responses. This paperwork would probably show that, like Eikenberry, other high-level internal critics of escalation made a stronger and more realistic case than its advocates, warranting congressional reexamination of the president's policy.

3. The draft revision, known as a "memo to holders," of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran from November 2007. This has been held up for the past several months, apparently because it is consistent with the judgment of that NIE that Iran has not made a decision to produce nuclear weapons. In particular, the contribution to that memo by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), since the INR has had the best track record on such matters. Plus, estimates by the INR and others of the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran later this summer. Such disclosures could arrest momentum toward a foreseeably disastrous U.S.-supported attack, as the same finding did in 2007.

4. The 28 or more pages on the foreknowledge or involvement of foreign governments (particularly Saudi Arabia) that were redacted from the congressional investigation of 9/11, over the protest of then-Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.).

On each of these matters, congressional investigation is called for. The chance of this would be greatly strengthened by leaks from insiders. Subsequent hearings could elicit testimony from the insiders who provided the information (whose identities could be made known to congressional investigators) and others who, while not willing to take on the personal risks of leaking, would be ready to testify honestly under oath if requested or subpoenaed by Congress. Leaks are essential to this process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/30/AR2010073002673.html