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Pulitzer Source Says New York Times Didn’t Submit WikiLeaks Reporting

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Posted on Apr 19, 2011
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One of the biggest stories of 2010, WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of classified diplomatic cables from around the world, won no recognition from the Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday.

Forbes reports that The New York Times, whose reporting on the WikiLeaks documents cast light upon the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, didn’t submit its work for the top prize in journalism.

Andy Greenberg wrote, “Despite its intense, often-impressive coverage of WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diaries, Iraq War Logs, and many of the thousands of leaked State Department cables the secret-spilling organization has so far released, a source close to the Pulitzer submissions process tells me that the paper didn’t offer up any of that reporting to the Pulitzer panel.”

The paper later said it had included some WikiLeaks reporting as part of a larger submission, but it’s clear the reporting was not treated as a showpiece by the Times.

WikiLeaks actually didn’t leak any documents directly to Executive Editor Bill Keller’s staff. Instead, as The Washington Post revealed, The Guardian shared them with its neighbors to the east. Keller has also been publicly critical of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which may also have played into the decision. —KDG

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By gerard, April 20, 2011 at 3:43 pm Link to this comment

Update on moving Bradley Manning out of Qantico to Leavenworth:  According to MSNBC.com, Jim Maklaszewski:

“Once at Leavenworth, he’ll be placed in a new medium-security facility. Although locked in a cell at night, he’ll have some freedom of movement in an open day room, have contact and take meals with fellow prisoners, shower when he wants and have access to books and TV. He will also have three hours a day of recreation time.

This will make visits with his civilian attorney, family and some friends more difficult, but it’s the nearest such facility for pre-trial confinement the Army has. Manning will have to return to Fort Belvoir in Virginia for any court appearances.  Putting him back into Quantico is “out of the question,” according to Pentagon and military officials, so the Army may make arrangements with a civilian detention facility to hold him temporarily as needed.”

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By gerard, April 20, 2011 at 1:13 pm Link to this comment

News (I sincerely hope not accurate; nevertheless circulating widely) is that Bradley Manning will be moved to Leavenworth Prison which is maximum security and much more stringent as to visitations, outside contacts etc.  No word yet on why.  Presumably even more isolating and punishing—and still without trial, judge or jury. 
  This country is really out of balance.  It is becoming an economic and a political bone-crusher..

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By MarthaA, April 20, 2011 at 10:51 am Link to this comment

The New York Times is trying to scapegoat Julian
Assange, but they are just as guilty of reporting
to the public what comes into their hands as
Julian Assange is, if Assange is declared guilty by
the tyrannical powers that be for reporting to the
public, then so should the NY Times be. 
Personally, I see none of them as guilty, as
nothing that was published was a danger to the
United States and I am thankful that there are
journalists out there who will make it possible for
truth to be known by the public at large.  And, if
Bradley Manning, who is being punished though
has not been found guilty in a court of law, did
slip the info out to Wikileaks about the atrocities
happening in the name of the public of the United
States, I see Bradley Manning as a patriot to the
citizens of the United States that’s government
has been corrupted.

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By gerard, April 19, 2011 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment

Anything to prevent the U.S. Government from having to admit its mistakes (crimes) and go about self-correcting, as any good democratic organization is honor bound to do.

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By diamond, April 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm Link to this comment

They don’t call it the ‘New York Crimes’ for nothing.

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