Carta Abierta al Presidente Donald Trump en Defensa de Wikileaks

Carta abierta de la Courage Foundation al Presidente Donald Trump pidiendo que cierre la investigación y retire cualquier cargo contra los miembros de Wikileaks.

Puedes firmar para apoyar la carta aquí: https://iamwikileaks.org/openletter/

Carta abierta al Presidente Donald Trump:

Querido Sr. Presidente Trump:

Somos periodistas, activistas y ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos y de todo el mundo que se preocupan por la libertad de prensa y le escriben en respuesta a la última amenaza de enjuiciamiento contra WikiLeaks por su trabajo periodístico. Le pedimos que cierre inmediata,emte la investigación del Gran Jurado a WikiLeaks y descarte las acusación contra Julian Assange y otros miembros del personal de Wikileaks que el Departamento de Justicia está planeando.

Esta amenaza a WikiLeaks intensifica una larga guerra de desgaste contra la gran virtud de los Estados Unidos, la libertad de expresión. La Administración Obama procesó a más denunciantes que todos los presidentes juntos y abrió una investigación del Gran Jurado a WikiLeaks sin precedentes. Ahora parece que los EE.UU. se están preparando para dar el siguiente paso, procesar a los editores que proporcionan la «moneda» de la libertad de expresión, parafraseando a Thomas Jefferson. Se ha informado de que están siendo considerados contra miembros de WikiLeaks los cargos de conspiración, robo de propiedad del gobierno y violación de la Ley de Espionaje y que la acusación al editor de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, es ahora una prioridad del Departamento de Justicia.

Una amenaza para el trabajo de WikiLeaks, que es publicar información bajo la protección de la Primera Enmienda, es una amenaza para todo el periodismo libre. Si el Departamento de Justicia es capaz de condenar a un editor por su trabajo periodístico, todo el periodismo libre puede ser criminalizado.

Le invitamos como Presidente de los Estados Unidos a cerrar la investigación del Gran Jurado a WikiLeaks y descartar cualquier cargo planeado contra cualquier miembro de WikiLeaks. Fue una prensa libre y robusta la que le proporcionó una plataforma en la que postularse para la presidencia. La defensa de una prensa realmente libre requiere liberarse del miedo y tener el apoyo de los periodistas y ciudadanos en todas partes; la amenaza que ahora enfrenta WikiLeaks (y todos los editores y periodistas) es un paso hacia la oscuridad.

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 everywhere; for the kind of threat now facing WikiLeaks — and all publishers and journalists — is a step into the darkness.

Link original: https://iamwikileaks.org/openletter/

Firmas Iniciales:

• 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
  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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Jordi Angusto
  Economist

• Juan Branco
  writer and lawyer

• Jérémie Zimmermann
  La Quadrature du Net, co-founder

• Jérôme Hourdeaux
  Journalist

• 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

• 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

• PJ Harvey
  musician

• Pamela Anderson
  Tenure Board Member

• Patrick Schiffer
  Chairman Pirate Party Germany

• Patti Smith
  artist

• Peter Kofod
  independent journalist

• Peter Van Buren
  Whistleblower, Department of State

• Philip Giraldi
  CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Thomas Drake
  Former Senior Executive, NSA

• Todd E. Pierce
  MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)

• Tom Ballard
  Comedian & Broadcaster

• 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