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>That article is bullshit. I found the article useful actually. I mistakenly assumed, very naively, that these people handling the leaks were wikileaks kind o

>That article is bullshit. I found the article useful actually. I mistakenly assumed, very naively, that these people handling the leaks were wikileaks kind of people and not these other kind of people: >The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Their funders include >Ford Foundation >Carnegie Endowment >Rockefeller Family Fund >W K Kellogg Foundation >Open Society Foundation (Soros)

ArnoldP 11y ago
Yeah that was some information that was missing earlier.
Quanttek 11y ago
The thing is, it's just a network. It's not an institution by itself doing all the work, just a platform for investigative journalists from different outlets to work together. Do you think that Hotel owner in Bavaria was, just because he organized the stay of the head of states, able to influence or even steer, as accused here, the conversation of the G8 group? The idea seems laughable. I mean the criticism would probably be kinda useful and interesting to consider, would it have been published after the participating journalists said "that was it. That's all we got", but no, the publification of the leak just started and you can be sure, as confirmed by SZ, there's more to come. Most western countries have been implicated (https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784 https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784) and the db will be made searchable next month. Also, most of the Wikipedia page on criticism of the Center for Public Integrity is filled with accusation of being "liberal biased" and being "anti-Koch brothers"
BogusIKnow 11y ago
If you quote these, then why not the more completly: "CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the Sunlight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.[31] The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI." -Wikipedia And from their website: "Recent ICIJ funders include: Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Waterloo Foundation." From the reporting: - Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House. - Windfalls of War, a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W. Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq - CPI's report, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?,[45] looking at the roots of the global financial crisis - Tobacco Underground, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes (All from Wikipedia)

ArnoldP 11y ago

Yeah that was some information that was missing earlier.

Quanttek 11y ago

The thing is, it's just a network. It's not an institution by itself doing all the work, just a platform for investigative journalists from different outlets to work together. Do you think that Hotel owner in Bavaria was, just because he organized the stay of the head of states, able to influence or even steer, as accused here, the conversation of the G8 group? The idea seems laughable. I mean the criticism would probably be kinda useful and interesting to consider, would it have been published after the participating journalists said "that was it. That's all we got", but no, the publification of the leak just started and you can be sure, as confirmed by SZ, there's more to come. Most western countries have been implicated (https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784 https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784) and the db will be made searchable next month. Also, most of the Wikipedia page on criticism of the Center for Public Integrity is filled with accusation of being "liberal biased" and being "anti-Koch brothers"

BogusIKnow 11y ago

If you quote these, then why not the more completly: "CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the Sunlight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.[31] The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI." -Wikipedia And from their website: "Recent ICIJ funders include: Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Waterloo Foundation." From the reporting: - Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House. - Windfalls of War, a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W. Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq - CPI's report, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?,[45] looking at the roots of the global financial crisis - Tobacco Underground, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes (All from Wikipedia)