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20 Mar 2015

U.S. Threatened Germany Over Snowden, Vice Chancellor Says

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said the U.S. government threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin gave asylum to the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel there.
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said the U.S. government threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Germany...
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20 Mar 2015

UK Police deem Snowden investigation a state secret

British police claim a criminal investigation they launched into journalists who have reported on leaked documents from Edward Snowden has to be kept a secret due to a possibility of increased threat of terrorist activity. Following Snowden's disclosures from the National Security Agency in 2013, London s Metropolitan Police and a lawyer for the United Kingdom government separately confirmed a criminal probe had been opened into the leaks.
British police claim a criminal investigation they launched into journalists who have reported on leaked documents from...
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16 Oct 2014

New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents

Agents from New Zealand s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden
Agents from New Zealand s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this...
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3 Oct 2014

Documents Reveal NSA and GCHQ Efforts to Destroy Assange And Track Wikileaks Supporters

The NSA documents reveal that there was a broad effort by the United States government, but through the NSA--these are NSA documents; there's probably a lot more from the CIA, FBI, and other places--but a broad effort to destroy WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and to really surveil and begin to know all of the people who are their supporters. That was a--it's a very significant set of documents this week.
The NSA documents reveal that there was a broad effort by the United States government, but through the NSA--these are...
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16 Mar 2014

The U.K. ‘Can’t Tell Its Terrorists From Its Journalists’

Sarah Harrison, an editor at WikiLeaks who has also worked with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won t return to her home country of England because she fears prosecution under terrorism laws for seeking to influence her government. Harrison s fear comes straight out of the language of the U.K. Terrorism Act of 2000. Writing in The Guardian, Harrison reports the act defines terrorism as the use or threat of action [...] designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or which is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause or is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system. Elsewhere the act defines government as the government of any country, including the United States.
Sarah Harrison, an editor at WikiLeaks who has also worked with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won t return to her...
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27 Jan 2014

Snowden is in cahoots with evil space aliens, or maybe orcs and trolls, or maybe even … Satan!

Once again powers that be - in order to distract attention from Snowden's actual revelations, from President Obama's ineffectual response to those revelations, or the possibility that if those revelations forced even the president of the United States to go through the motions of reviewing them, assessing them and responding to them by at least pretending to change the policies revealed by those revelations, then maybe the person who brought the revelations to the public isn't a treasonous traitor, after all.
Once again powers that be - in order to distract attention from Snowden's actual revelations, from President Obama's...
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29 Nov 2013

Assange Statement on Anakata Extradition

Statement by WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange concerning Sweden's extradition of WikiLeaks consultant Gottfrid "Anakata" Svartholm Warg: "It is time someone says it like it is: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is a political prisoner and Sweden has fallen off the map of decent nations in its treatment of him. Gottfrid has always been ideologically driven to inform the world; he worked tirelessly to help WikiLeaks expose the slaughter of civilians in Iraq by a US helicopter gunship and was responsible for an important part of our infrastructure."
Statement by WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange concerning Sweden's extradition of WikiLeaks consultant Gottfrid...
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11 Oct 2013

Remove Wikileaks from ‘Enemies of the State’ List

President Obama: Wikileaks is a journalistic organization dedicated to creating transparency in government. They have never released information that puts lives at risk, and they have never committed slander or libel. According to the U.S. government, however, Wikileaks is considered an "enemy of the state," a list that also includes the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. To consider a journalistic organization in the same category as terrorism is absurd and undemocratic.
President Obama: Wikileaks is a journalistic organization dedicated to creating transparency in government. They have...
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8 Jul 2013

Why MSNBC Defends NSA Surveillance

President Obama seems more willing to alienate his base of young supporters who object to the growing Surveillance State than to offend the national security apparatchiks who run it. But Obama s crackdown on leakers also has found apologists among MSNBC s liberal talkers, as Jeff Cohen reports.
President Obama seems more willing to alienate his base of young supporters who object to the growing Surveillance State...
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6 May 2013

The Death of Truth

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, and then-Sen. Christopher S. Bond, a Republican, said in a joint letter to the U.S. attorney general calling for Assange s prosecution: "If Mr. Assange and his possible accomplices cannot be charged under the Espionage Act (or any other applicable statute), please know that we stand ready and willing to support your efforts to close those gaps in the law, as you also mentioned."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, and then-Sen. Christopher S. Bond, a Republican, said in a joint letter to the U.S....
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1 Feb 2013

Julian Assange speech that was censored by the Oxford Union

In an attempt to highlight the importance of whistleblowers, Julian Assange chose to have WikiLeaks' Collateral Murder footage as background for his speech at the Sam Adams Awards, an award dedicated to whistleblowers.
In an attempt to highlight the importance of whistleblowers, Julian Assange chose to have WikiLeaks' Collateral Murder...
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28 Nov 2012

European Commission enabling blockade of WikiLeaks by US hard-right Lieberman King, contrary to European Parliament’s wishes

European Commission documents released today by WikiLeaks show that hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks. In the heavily redacted documents, MasterCard Europe admits that Senator Joseph Lieberman and Congressman Peter T. King both "had conversations" with MasterCard in the United States. Lieberman, the chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, boasted of instigating Amazon's cutting of service to WikiLeaks - an action condemned by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers on 7 December 2011.
European Commission documents released today by WikiLeaks show that hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the...
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23 Apr 2012

Jennifer Robinson Scandal: Was the Wikileaks Lawyer Detained For Political Reasons

An illegitimate immigration incident involving Jennifer Robinson, the Australian lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, occurred at London's Heathrow Airport late on April 18. Jennifer Robinson was informed that she could not board a plane to Australia until she was cleared by the Australian High Commission. Using Twitter, she informed her followers: "Just delayed from checking in at LHR because I'm apparently 'inhibited' - requiring approval from Australia House to travel." Robinson added that an immigration security guard told her: "You must have done something controversial because we have to phone the embassy."
An illegitimate immigration incident involving Jennifer Robinson, the Australian lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian...
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23 Apr 2012

Is America a Free Country?

The "war on terrorism" has inaugurated a new era in the American polity, a sea-change that has not only threatened to overturn traditional limits on government power but also corrupted the political culture - and opened the way to the terminal crisis of the Constitution.
The "war on terrorism" has inaugurated a new era in the American polity, a sea-change that has not only threatened to...
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23 Apr 2012

The Making of a Cyber-Libertarian

If you're a graduating senior worrying whether there s life after BU, David House can reassure you on that score. In just the two years since putting the Charles River in his rearview mirror, he has befriended an internationally famous prisoner, talked on TV about their meetings, been interrogated by federal agents, had his laptop seized by the U.S. government, and sued the government over said seizure. Here s the how-to manual for arranging this perils-of-Pauline existence: step one, major in computer science, as did House (CAS'10). Step two, cofound a website and name it the Bradley Manning Support Network.
If you're a graduating senior worrying whether there s life after BU, David House can reassure you on that score. In...
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2 Mar 2012

WikiLeaks vs. Stratfor Pursue the Truth, Not Its Messenger

WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group "Anonymous," which took credit for obtaining more than 5 million emails from Stratfor s servers. Anonymous obtained the material on Dec. 24, 2011, and provided it to WikiLeaks, which in turn partnered with 25 media organizations globally to analyze the emails and publish them.
WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private...
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4 Jan 2012

Left and right, Congress resists the Stop Online Piracy Act – Stop Online Piracy Act

Where SOPA aims to empower the Justice Department to go after websites that allegedly infringe on copyright, and doing it on the Internet s domain name layer, OPEN goes another route: strictly limiting the bill to foreign sites, setting up the International Trade Commission as the enforcer, and focusing on a "follow the money" approach, as in using digital payment systems as the choke points on targeted sites, a mechanism that has worked to thwart the WikiLeaks movement.
Where SOPA aims to empower the Justice Department to go after websites that allegedly infringe on copyright, and doing...
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16 Sep 2011

Morocco: Multiple Arrests Against Activists

The arrest, according to his friends and supporters, might be related to a Facebook group, Wikileaks Fnidaq, Mohamed founded and where he published documents allegedly exposing corruption within the local administration. Mohamed was accused of drug trafficking but a group of bloggers and online activists say the accusation is baseless.
The arrest, according to his friends and supporters, might be related to a Facebook group, Wikileaks Fnidaq, Mohamed...
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30 Jul 2011

Lulzsec’s Topiary and the Shetland Islands

On Wednesday the 27th of July the Metropolitan Police issued a press release stating that an 18 year old man had been arrested at a residential address on the Shetland Islands. The reason for his arrest is described as follows: "He is believed to be linked to a continuing international investigation into the criminal activity of the so-called "hacktivist" groups Anonymous and LulzSec, and allegedly uses the online nickname "Topiary" which is presented as the spokesperson for the groups."
On Wednesday the 27th of July the Metropolitan Police issued a press release stating that an 18 year old man had been...
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1 Jul 2011

Big bank censorship of Wikileaks

Since December 2010, five major US financial institutions: VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union, and the Bank of America have been trying to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington.
Since December 2010, five major US financial institutions: VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union, and the Bank of...
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17 Jun 2011

Julian Assange: Detention ‘An Impediment’ To WikiLeaks Work

After six months under virtual house arrest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acknowledged Thursday that his detention is hampering the work of the secret-spilling site. His supporters accused Britain of subjecting him to "excessive and dehumanizing" treatment.
After six months under virtual house arrest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acknowledged Thursday that his detention...
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15 Jun 2011

Grand Jury Meets to Question WikiLeaks Supporters ‘Do You or Have You Ever Worked for WikiLeaks ‘

A federal grand jury empanelled to investigate WikiLeaks meets again in Alexandria, Virginia today. David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, is expected to appear before the grand jury. He and others in the Greater Boston area have been subjected to this process, which seeks to embroil them in espionage charges for being linked to WikiLeaks
A federal grand jury empanelled to investigate WikiLeaks meets again in Alexandria, Virginia today. David House,...
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9 Jun 2011

New Subpoenas Issued in WikiLeaks Grand Jury Investigation: Time for a Political Support Committee

The grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks has widened. A subpoena has been issued to David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. Manning s ex-boyfriend, Tyler Watkins, who recently appeared in PBS Frontline s 'WikiSecrets' documentary, and Nadia Heninger, who has done work with WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum (someone whose Twitter user data has been subpoenaed by the government), have each been served with a subpoena
The grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks has widened. A subpoena has been issued to David House, co-founder of the...
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18 Apr 2011

Shadowy figures play with real lives in

We are extremely concerned that lives are endangered as a result of this article based on WikiLeaks," a senior Obama administration official told Fox News Monday morning. "The concern regards what (the) Syrians might do to those that work for (Barada), given that (Assad and his security forces) are prone to crack down and could well use this as an excuse -- blaming it on foreigners."
We are extremely concerned that lives are endangered as a result of this article based on WikiLeaks," a senior Obama...
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13 Feb 2011

A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters

Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available online, suggesting various ways companies can help undermine the whistle-blowing website as it prepares to release material that could prove damaging to Bank of America and other financial entities
Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available...
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11 Feb 2011

The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters

Last week, Aaron Barr, a top executive at computer security firm HB Gary, boasted to the Financial Times that his firm had infiltrated and begun to expose Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers that had launched cyber attacks on companies terminating services to the whistleblowing site (such as Paypal, MasterCard, Visa, Amazon and others).  In retaliation, Anonymous hacked into the email accounts of HB Gary, published 50,000 of their emails online, and also hacked Barr's Twitter and other online accounts. 
Last week, Aaron Barr, a top executive at computer security firm HB Gary, boasted to the Financial Times that his firm...
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9 Feb 2011

NYT’s Keller Disparages Assange

Someone should count how many disparaging descriptions Keller slips in about Assange s personal appearance and ask how that s important to the issues of the factually-verified documentation that WikiLeaks has revealed relating to war crimes, civilian killings, deceitful foreign policies and major frauds.
Someone should count how many disparaging descriptions Keller slips in about Assange s personal appearance and ask how...
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24 Jan 2011

Goal of Quantico Incident Was To Abuse Bradley Manning and Intimidate David House

Everyone but David has stopped coming to see Bradley, and it takes a lot of courage to do what David is doing. It s a very intimidating situation. So I try to support him by giving him a place to stay and driving him to the base when he comes to town. That s really my only involvement
Everyone but David has stopped coming to see Bradley, and it takes a lot of courage to do what David is doing. It s a...
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20 Jan 2011

Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks

Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the same playbook: it manufactures falsehoods about them, baselessly warns that they pose Grave Dangers and are severely harming our National Security, peppers all that with personality smears to render the targeted individuals repellent on a personal level, and feeds it all to the establishment American media, which then dutifully amplifies and mindlessly disseminates it all.
Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the...
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10 Jan 2011

Government-created climate of fear

One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the Pentagon was waging on it (as evidenced by its classified 2008 report branding the website an enemy and planning how to destroy it).
One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the...
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10 Jan 2011

US subpoenas Twitter, seeking information on WikiLeaks’ 635,561 followers

A Dutch investigative journalist blasted the US Department of Justice for requesting information on everyone following WikiLeaks' Twitter account and everyone they follow. Which would include Raw Story. The US Department of Justice subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter in December in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation of the secrets outlet.
A Dutch investigative journalist blasted the US Department of Justice for requesting information on everyone following...
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29 Dec 2010

Floyd Abrams whizzes on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

Did an imposter steal Floyd Abrams' identity and use it to sell an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal? That's the only explanation I can come up with after reading the First Amendment litigator's wacky battering of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange ("Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers").
Did an imposter steal Floyd Abrams' identity and use it to sell an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal? That's the only...
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28 Dec 2010

The merger of journalists and government officials

Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he "boasted" in an Internet chat -- with convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo -- of leaking to WikiLeaks the now famous Apache Helicopter attack video, a yet-to-be-published video of a civilian-killing air attack in Afghanistan, and "hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records."
Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been...
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23 Dec 2010

What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet

The Wikileaks furor shows us that these institutions of power are slowly and surely taking control of the key junctures of the Internet. As a mere quasi-public sphere, the Internet is somewhat akin to shopping malls, which seem like public spaces but in which the rights of citizens are restricted, as they are in fact private. If you think the freedom of the Internet could never be taken back, I implore you to read the history of radio. Technologies that start out as peer-to-peer and citizen-driven can be and have been taken over by corporate and state power
The Wikileaks furor shows us that these institutions of power are slowly and surely taking control of the key junctures...
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19 Dec 2010

Unsolicited advice for President Obama

All governments prefer to keep certain secrets and, in an ideal situation, everyone is on board with every decision. The WikiLeaks situation clearly cracked open and shared information we preferred to keep secret, resulting, in my opinion, a blow to current open government efforts. While illegally obtained and distributed the fact that the information is out there for citizens of the world to read is indisputable.
All governments prefer to keep certain secrets and, in an ideal situation, everyone is on board with every decision. The...
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18 Dec 2010

Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs because the government and establishment media are jointly manufacturing and disseminating an endless stream of fear-mongering falsehoods designed to depict them as scary villains threatening the security of The American People and who must therefore be stopped at any cost.
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs because the government and establishment media are jointly...
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18 Dec 2010

2010-12-17 Australian Federal Police Assange Has Committed No Crime Under Australian Law

As the Australian Federal Police inquiry announced its finding that neither Julian Assange nor Wikileaks have broken any Australian laws, the Australian Labor Party finds its public support slipping. According to an article in The Age, the opposition has overtaken the government for the first time since the federal election in August. Support for the coalition is up four per cent since the start of December, and support for the government is down four per cent. According to The Age
As the Australian Federal Police inquiry announced its finding that neither Julian Assange nor Wikileaks have broken any...
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16 Dec 2010

Getting to Assange through Manning

In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Federal investigators are "are looking for evidence of any collusion" between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning -- "trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped" the Army Private leak the documents -- and then "charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them." To achieve this, it is particularly important to "persuade Private Manning to testify against Mr. Assange." I want to make two points about this.
In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally...
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16 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks and the Power of Truth

It might strike some people as more than a touch ironic that Official Washington, which has been responsible for incalculable bloodshed around the world, is justifying the assault on WikiLeaks out of a concern for people s lives, claiming that the disclosures put some U.S. allies and collaborators at risk.
It might strike some people as more than a touch ironic that Official Washington, which has been responsible for...
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14 Dec 2010

The War to Silence WikiLeaks

Much of the mainstream U.S. news media has sought to distance itself from WikiLeaks over its disclosure of classified records about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and various diplomatic initiatives. The argument goes that WikiLeaks is not a real journalistic entity and thus undeserving of legal protections covering real journalists.
Much of the mainstream U.S. news media has sought to distance itself from WikiLeaks over its disclosure of classified...
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7 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of sex by surprise.

Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in Sweden. Though the lawyer says he doesn't know what "sex by surprise" means, the Swedish prosecution office announced that they are charging Assange with "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion." These charges allegedly stem from consensual sexual encounters with two separate women that became nonconsensual at some point during the act. If this had happened in the United States, could Assange have been charged with a crime?
Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in...
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7 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of “sex by surprise.” Is that against the law in the United States?

Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in Sweden. Though the lawyer says he doesn't know what "sex by surprise" means, the Swedish prosecution office announced that they are charging Assange with  "rape, sexual molestation and  unlawful coercion." These charges allegedly stem from consensual sexual encounters with two separate women that became nonconsensual at some point during the act. If this had happened in the United States, could Assange have been charged with a crime?
Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in...
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7 Dec 2010

Lawyer for Assange Calls Swedish Case ‘Bonkers’

Mark Stephens, a British lawyer working for Julian Assange, said over the weekend that the prosecutor in Sweden who issued an arrest warrant for the WikiLeraks founder had acted unreasonably. He also told the Guardian that he and another lawyer defending Mr. Assange are apparently under surveillance by British authorities.
Mark Stephens, a British lawyer working for Julian Assange, said over the weekend that the prosecutor in Sweden who...
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7 Dec 2010

Threats made to son of wikileaks founder

Jennifer Robinson, one of the lawyers working to defend Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, spoke to Australia's ABC radio on Monday. Ms. Robinson called on authorities to investigate people who have made public calls for Mr. Assange's death and threats against his 20-year-old son. Earlier this year, Mr. Assange's son, Daniel, defended his father on his blog in response to a New York Post article based on comments he had posted on Twitter and Facebook about the charges against his father in Sweden.
Jennifer Robinson, one of the lawyers working to defend Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, spoke to Australia's ABC...
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4 Dec 2010

U.S. Congressman Calls For Execution Of Wikileaks Whistleblower

What should happen to PFC Bradley Manning, the young man now charged with the unauthorized access of and subsequently leaking of classified military information, namely the video that Wikileaks released under the title Collateral Murder ? Should the United States government execute him? If your name is Congressman Mike Rogers, then you believe that yes, the young man should be put to death.
What should happen to PFC Bradley Manning, the young man now charged with the unauthorized access of and subsequently...
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4 Dec 2010

Students Warned Not To Link To Or Even Read WikiLeaks If They Want A Federal Job. Is This Still America

Sure looks like a large and concerted intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks supporters. In addition to this, law students at Boston University were warned not to link to WikiLeaks, or even read it online, because it might keep them from getting a security clearance for a federal job.
Sure looks like a large and concerted intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks supporters. In addition to this, law...
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1 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks vs. The Empire

Leading US human rights lawyers Leonard Weinglass and Michael Ratner have joined the defense team for Julian Assange and Wikileaks. US officials are employing cyber-warfare and prosecutorial steps to deny any safe haven for the Wikileaks operation with a fervor comparable to their drone attacks on Al Qaeda havens in Pakistan and Yemen.
Leading US human rights lawyers Leonard Weinglass and Michael Ratner have joined the defense team for Julian Assange and...
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23 Sep 2010

WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture

According to conventional wisdom, the alleged protagonist is, of course, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the discussion of him has ranged from Raffi Khatchadourian's June portrait in The New Yorker, which makes Assange sound like a master spy in a John le Carr novel, to Tunku Varadarajan's epic ad hominem bloviation in The Daily Beast: "With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain."
According to conventional wisdom, the alleged protagonist is, of course, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the...
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24 Aug 2010

Swedish attorneys weigh in on Assange case

THE RAPE AND MOLESTATION charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which led to an arrest warrant in his name on Friday and its mysterious withdrawal on Saturday (I wrote about it here), continue to perplex Swedish society. The case is far from over, since Assange remains under investigation for molestation and has retained the services of the prominent Swedish lawyer and crime novelist Leif Silbersky.
THE RAPE AND MOLESTATION charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which led to an arrest warrant in his name on...
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21 Aug 2010

Swedes question rape accusations against Wikileaks founder

WHAT A SHOCK TO the global antiwar movement: Yesterday, the Swedish chief prosecutor announced that Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, which had recently leaked more than 91,000 classified documents to the press, had been accused of rape and molestation, and that a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
WHAT A SHOCK TO the global antiwar movement: Yesterday, the Swedish chief prosecutor announced that Julian Assange,...
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11 Jun 2010

Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder

Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who released the pentagon papers in 1971, appeared on MSNBC today with Dylan Ratigan. He said he fears for the safety of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, who is reportedly on the verge of leaking secret State Department cables. The Daily Beast reports that Assange is currently being sought by the Pentagon, and Ellsberg advises him not to reveal his whereabouts.
Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who released the pentagon papers in 1971, appeared on MSNBC today with...
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