Just two weeks after its launch, Transparency Toolkit’s ICWatch project, which documents more than 100,000 job profiles
associated with the US "intelligence community" has been rehoused at
WikiLeaks due to death threats and DDoS attacks on its infrastructure.
The death threat quoted above, sent from a US intelligence analyst in
Washington DC to the project on May 13, perhaps perfectly encapsulates
why the US intelligence community (IC) needs to be kept under close observation.
The ICWatch project has been expanded to 139,361 job profiles for
today’s relaunch. These records reveal key details for hundreds of US spying, assassination, drone and detainee programs - providing important leads for journalists and prosecutors.
By hosting ICWatch WikiLeaks can shield the project from censorship
and intimidation. ICwatch’s profiles have also been merged into the main
WikiLeaks investigative search engine, boosting WikiLeaks’ analytical scope to 8.62 million records.
ICWatch launched at Berlin’s Re:publica conference to rave reviews
on 6 May 2015. The project collects and cross references resumes posted
on LinkedIn by people working in or associated with the intelligence
and security sector. The dataset is intended as a tool for journalists,
researchers and members of the public to better understand the secretive
surveillance industry. The developers have simply made information that
is already in the public domain easy to research.
M.C McGrath, the founder of Transparency Toolkit, who developed the project and presented
it in Berlin, remarked that "open source intelligence is one of our
biggest assets in understanding secret surveillance programs".
Search ICWatch at icwatch.wikileaks.org (example, JPEL)
Search ICWatch using WikiLeaks advanced search
(example, JPEL)
Search all of WikiLeaks including ICWatch (example, JPEL)
