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Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Deutsch English español français svenska our network ! (https://iamwikileaks.org/) Run by Courage (https://iamwikileaks.org/) (https://iamwikileaks.org/) (https://couragefound.org/) (https://twitter.com/couragewl) Donate Now! (https://iamwikileaks.org/donate) Open Letter to President Trump: Dear President Trump, We are journalists, activists and citizens from the United States and around the world who care about press freedom and are writing to you in response to the latest threat of prosecution against WikiLeaks for its journalistic work. We ask you to immediately close the Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and drop any charges against Julian Assange and other Wikileaks staff members which the Department of Justice is planning. This threat to WikiLeaks escalates a long-running war of attrition against the great virtue of the United States — free speech. The Obama Administration prosecuted more whistleblowers than all presidents combined and opened a Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks that had no precedent. It now appears the US is preparing to take the next step — prosecuting publishers who provide the "currency" of free speech, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson. It is reported that charges, including conspiracy, theft of government property and violating the Espionage Act are being considered against members of WikiLeaks, and that charging WikiLeaks Editor, Julian Assange, is now a priority of the Department of Justice. A threat to WikiLeaks' work — which is publishing information protected under the First Amendment — is a threat to all free journalism. If the DOJ is able to convict a publisher for its journalistic work, all free journalism can be criminalised. We call on you as President of the United States to close the Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and drop any charges planned against any member of WikiLeaks. It was a free and robust press that provided you with a platform on which to run for president. Defending a truly free press requires freedom from fear and favour and the support of journalists and citizens https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 1 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 everywhere; for the kind of threat now facing WikiLeaks — and all publishers and journalists — is a step into the darkness. Initial signatures: Alfonso Sánchez activist Andrej Hunko Member of German Parliament (DIE LINKE), member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Andrew Bartlett Former Senator in the Australian Parliament - 1997-2008 Andrew Fowler Journalist/author Andy Müller-Maguhn Member of the Board, Wau Holland Foundation (WHS) / Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) Angela Richter Director Ann Wright Col., US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer (resigned) Annegret Falter Whistleblower-Network Annie Machon Former British intelligence officer Arjen Kamphuis BeeHive4.2 Bastian Obermayer Investigative journalist Benet Salellas Lawyer and Diputy in the Catalan Parliament Brandon Bryant https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 2 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Recipient of the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year Award Brennan Novak Transparency Toolkit Carlos Enrique Bayo Redactor Jefe de Investigación e Internacional, Publico, Madrid Carlos Latuff Cartoonist Christian Grothoff Researcher Christine Milne Former Aust Greens Leader Cian Westmoreland SrA USAF (Honorable Discharge), Veterans for Peace Coleen Rowley FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.) Costas Efimeros The Press Project Craig Murray Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Ellsberg Former State and Defense Dept. official, released Top Secret Pentagon Papers in 1971 Daniel Richter Artist Daniel Sommer Courage France, PDG DS Invest David Fernández Journalist David Swanson Director of World Beyond War, campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 3 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Diani Barreto Journalist, researcher, campaigner, coordinator at ExposeFacts Dr George Gittoes AM 2015 Sydney Peace Prize, Artist,Filmmaker,War Witness,Founder Yellow House Jalalabad Edward Snowden President, Freedom of the Press Foundation Elizabeth Murray Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Near East, CIA and National Intelligence Council (ret.) Eva Blum-Dumontet researcher Felicity Ruby PhD Candidate, Sydney University Frederik Obermaier Investigative Journalist Friedrich Moser director A GOOD AMERICAN Geoffroy de Lagasnerie Philosopher and professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) Gerard Goggin ARC Future Fellow, Professor of Media and Communications, Department of Media and Communications Giordano The Juice Media Günter Wallraff Investigative journalist Harry Karanikas Journalist Helen Razer Australian journalist https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 4 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Ilija Trojanow Author J.M. Porup Journalist Jean-Michel Jarre composer Jeff Cohen Director of Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College Jeff Sparrow Writer, editor and broadcaster Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Ph.D. Jérémie Zimmermann La Quadrature du Net, co-founder Jérôme Hourdeaux Journalist Jimmy Schulz Chairman LOAD e.V & Vice Chairman ISOC Germany Joan Llinares Director of the Transparency Office of the Barcelona City Council Johannes Wahlström Investigative journalist and filmmaker John Kiriakou Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer John Pilger journalist, Courage Trustee Jordi Angusto Economist Juan Branco https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 5 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 writer and lawyer Ken Loach film director Kevin Zeese Co-director, Popular Resistance Kirk Wiebe NSA Whistleblower and Retired Senior Intelligence Analyst Leif Ryge Researcher Linda Lewis WMD preparedness policy analyst, US Dept of Agriculture (ret.) Lisa Ling TSgt USAF (ret.) Ludovic Courtès GNU Project M. C. McGrath Transparency Toolkit Mairead Maguire Nobel Peace Prize winner Marie Gutbub journalist Marie-Agnès Sommet Courage France, Directrice Générale SRP Mark Weisbrot Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Mary Kostakidis Former anchor, SBS world News Matt Kennard Journalist https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 6 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Matthew Hoh Former Capt., US Marine Corps, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan Michael Kreil Data journalist Michael S. Kearns Captain, US Air Force (Ret.) Monika Ermert c't/heise online Moritz Bartl Renewable Freedom Foundation Natalia Uval Journalist, La Diaria newspaper, Uruguay Nicky Hager Investigative journalist, New Zealand Noam Chomsky linguist, MIT Norman Solomon Coordinator, RootsAction.com Oliver Stone filmmaker Pamela Anderson Tenure Board Member Patrick Schiffer Chairman Pirate Party Germany Patti Smith artist Peter Kofod independent journalist https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 7 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Peter Van Buren Whistleblower, Department of State Philip Giraldi CIA, Operations Officer (ret.) PJ Harvey musician Pratap Chatterjee Executive Director, CorpWatch Raimond Gaita Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School & Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London Ray McGovern Former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.) and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity as well as Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Rebecca O'Brien Producer, Sixteen Films Renata Avila human rights lawyer, Courage Trustee Robert Naiman Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy Robert Wing Former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS) Sana Saleem Journalist Scott Ludlam Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia Senator Lee Rhiannon Sergio Salgado activist https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 8 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Simona Levi Theater director and Activist Slavoj Žižek philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities Srećko Horvat philosopher and co-founder of DiEM25 Stefania Maurizi Investigative journalist, La Repubblica, Italy Susan Benn Senior Advisor to the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Courage Trustee Thomas Drake Former Senior Executive, NSA Todd E. Pierce MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.) Tom Ballard Comedian & Broadcaster Vivienne Westwood fashion designer, Courage Trustee Volker Birk pEp foundation Will Potter Author William Binney Technical Director, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.) Yanis Varoufakis economist and co-founder of DiEM25 Signatures: https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 9 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Marianne Steenken Erika Gerlach citizen Eugen Grzondziel no afilliated Justin Knight Mr Joseph Martz Special Master and InfoSec Consultant at European Comission Zhee Rojj Visiting Delegate to Three Realms Dorin Prunila freelance journalust Lea Ouai citizen Alain Vassallo Citizen Cindy Veasey Citizen Wanda Retired concerned canadian vicki nitk Asish Dey None Professor Arthur Noble University Professor (Emeritus) Samantha Rothschild Selene Carrillo Carlos https://www.iamwikileaks.org/openletter/ Page 10 of 108 Sign the I am WikiLeaks open letter! 20.05.17 13:21 Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas Jacque Stallman Larry Voils Citizen Herbert Davis Mr. Danilyn WL Supporter Daniel Perry Independent Teresa wentz