What I published. What they did about it. What comes next.
My detailed accounts of the most significant disclosures I published — what they contained, how we published and verified them, and what followed. Every piece lists its sources.
Case history
Over six years a single computer-intrusion charge against me grew into an 18-count Espionage Act prosecution, a five-year extradition fight in London and, finally, a one-count guilty plea on a Pacific island. What my case decided — and what it left open.
26 October 2026 · 7 min read · 12 sources|Read »
Explainer
In October 2010 we at WikiLeaks and a consortium of news organisations published 391,832 US Army field reports from Iraq. The files added an estimated 15,000 previously unrecorded civilian deaths to the public record, documented an order not to investigate abuse by Iraqi forces, and reopened arguments about secrecy, redaction and harm.
26 October 2026 · 7 min read · 12 sources|Read »
Case history
Gun-camera footage of a US Apache attack that killed two Reuters employees and wounded two children was withheld from Reuters for almost three years. Our release of it through WikiLeaks in April 2010 set the military’s account against what the video appeared to show – and the arguments it started followed Chelsea Manning and me into court.
26 October 2026 · 7 min read · 12 sources|Read »
Analysis
From 28 November 2010 we at WikiLeaks and five newspapers published stories and documents drawn from 251,287 US diplomatic cables. The revelations reached from Tunis to the United Nations; the unredacted release that followed in September 2011 began an argument about harm that ran from a court martial in Maryland to a courtroom in Saipan.
26 October 2026 · 8 min read · 12 sources|Read »
Explainer
In April 2011 we published the US military’s secret assessments of the men held at Guantánamo Bay. They revealed a risk-rating system that leaned heavily on informants and on statements from other prisoners — and an official review had already found some earlier threat assessments overstated.
26 October 2026 · 7 min read · 10 sources|Read »
Analysis
From March 2017 we at WikiLeaks published thousands of files from the CIA’s hacking division. The disclosures revived the argument over governments keeping software flaws secret, exposed lax security inside the agency, and ended with a 40-year sentence for the former CIA engineer convicted of the theft.
26 October 2026 · 7 min read · 12 sources|Read »
