WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Hero's in the World

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This post is dedicated WikiLeaks and it's founder Julian Assange, the World needs more hero's like Mr.Assange! For those who don't know about WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, you really need to pull your head out of your ass and put that beer down and quit watching Fox news.

In a nut shell Julian Assange is showing the World and with proof just how corrupt the U.S. Government is. Julian Assange has bigger balls then any of you out there! Julian Assange is a dead man walking and he knows this. People want him dead and they make no point in keeping it a secret.



Below is a video of Julian Assange explaining why he has put his life on the line, as well as the latest stories about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and the current websites to view WikiLeaks. If they ever find the persons or the group that has been trying to "attack" WikiLeaks and shut them down, I say round everyone of their family members up and shoot them in the head.



List of mirror sites to Wikileaks can be found here: http://policecrimes.com/WikiLeaks_Mirror_Sites.html

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"Leaking the material is deplorable," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. "I agree with the Pentagon's assessment that the people at WikiLeaks could have blood on their hands."

"I don't know what the cables may say but it's just a -- we're at war. I mean the world is getting dangerous by the day and the people who do this are really low on the food chain as far as I'm concerned. If you can prosecute them, let's try."

Sen. Clair McCaskill (D-MO) agreed. "Lindsey's right," she said. "The people who are leaking these documents need a gut check about their patriotism and I think they're enjoying the attention they're getting but, frankly, it's coming at a very high price in terms of protecting our men and women in uniform."

"I hope that we can figure out where this is coming from and go after them with the force of law," McCaskill said.

Also appearing on Fox News Sunday, former State Department official Liz Cheney called for the government to go after the leakers.

"I think, once again, the government of Iceland ought to shut down that [WikiLeaks] website," Cheney said. "I think they ought to stop allowing the stuff to come out of the website in Iceland. I think that the administration ought to be focused very much on prosecuting those responsible."

The State Department sent a letter Saturday to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asking him to halt the leaks.

Publication of documents of this nature at a minimum would:

* Place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals -- from journalists to human rights activists and bloggers to soldiers to individuals providing information to further peace and security;

* Place at risk on-going military operations, including operations to stop terrorists, traffickers in human beings and illicit arms, violent criminal enterprises and other actors that threaten global security; and,

* Place at risk on-going cooperation between countries - partners, allies and common stakeholders -- to confront common challenges from terrorism to pandemic diseases to nuclear proliferation that threaten global stability.

"Despite your stated desire to protect those lives, you have done the opposite and endangered the lives of countless individuals. You have undermined your stated objective by disseminating this material widely, without redaction, and without regard to the security and sanctity of the lives your actions endanger," State Department legal advisor Harold Hongju Koh wrote.

"If you are genuinely interested in seeking to stop the damage from your actions, you should: 1) ensure WikiLeaks ceases publishing any and all such materials; 2) ensure WikiLeaks returns any and all classified U.S. Government material in its possession; and 3) remove and destroy all records of this material from WikiLeaks' databases."

Assange told reporters Sunday that Washington had "contacted the governments of almost every nation on earth to brief them about what some of these embarrassing revelations will do."

"They're in a rather unusual difficult position where it is not sure precisely what is going to be revealed," he said.

WikiLeaks tweeted Sunday that their website was under a "mass distributed denial of service attack."

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"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) "I agree with the Pentagon's assessment that the people at WikiLeaks could have blood on their hands." I don't know what the cables may say but it's just a -- we're at war. "

Senator Lindsey Graham what War are you speaking of? Government officials that lie to the public should be hung, that's my personal opinion not sure about anyone else? Our troops are in two countries right now NOT at War, but as a "police action." Show me a family of a soldier that gets killed today in Iraq or Afghanistan that gets "war death benefits," You won't because the United States isn't at War with anyone. Don't believe me, go ask some families of soldiers that have got killed since President Bush "ended the War on that battleship that day."

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THE world's most notorious whistleblower Julian Assange has broken from hiding in London to reveal his next target is big business and the unveiling of corporate secrets.

The Wikileaks chief this week created a diplomatic relations nightmare by releasing 251,287 confidential US Embassy cables.

The website creator further enraged the US, UK and Australian governments earlier this year when he unleashed a trove of Afghan and Iraq war documents.

Now, the 39-year-old former computer hacker said, he will expose global corporations.

Speaking from his hideout in a London flat, Assange said a new haul of secret documents, about half of which relate to the private sector, would be released early next year.

Wikileak's next target will be a major American bank, he said.

"It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms," he told Forbes magazine, adding: "For this, there's only one similar example.

"It's like the Enron emails."

Assange also said he was sitting on a haul of damaging data on pharmaceutical, finance and energy companies.

He had information on everything from BP to an Albanian oil firm that attempted to sabotage competitors wells, he said.

"You could call it the ecosystem of corruption," he said.

The North Queensland born activist said as his profile grew the secrets fed to Wikileaks expanded.

"These megaleaks . . . they're an important phenomenon.

And they're only going to increase," he said.

The constant scandal-causing exposures are motivated by "pain for the guilty", he said.

Speaking from a room packed with computers and programmers, with wires trailing across the floor, Assange yesterday told the The Times why he had unleashed the latest Wikileaks deluge.

"You only live once, why not do something worthwhile?" Assange said.

"The cables cover serious issues for every country in the world with a US diplomatic presence.

"In as far as knowledge about what is truly going on in the world can influence our decisions, this material must result in political change and reform."

Later yesterday he spoke via a computer from what looked like an apartment with a lamp and painting.

He said the US government was "trying to make it as hard for us as possible to publish responsibly in the hope that it can get us to not publish anything at all".

The 39-year-old said he was constantly "being tracked" and changed his hair regularly to elude recognition.

He is being sheltered by high profile friends, and constantly moves, sleeping on couches and in attics.

Assange fears arrest and is wanted by Interpol to face rape allegations in Sweden.

He has denied the claims, saying they are part of a smear campaign to discredit him.

Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland instructed Federal Police to investigate Assange and said he possibly faced arrest and the removal of his passport if he entered Australia.

Looking significantly tired, puffy and pale yesterday, life on the run has clearly taken its toll on Assange.

He said he recently suffered the flu and was unused to the lack of sunlight in England.

"We're like a traveling production company; everyone moves somewhere, and we put on a production," he said.

"We haven't had any rest since April."

Mr McClelland said yesterday the Australian Federal Police is examining whether revealing 250,000 confidential diplomatic cables could be criminal.

The Government's anger at Assange followed the release on the whistleblower website of secret cables between US diplomats and their allies in Canberra, which revealed that Australians who have "disappeared" in the Middle East have been identified by US authorities and branded as potential terrorists.

Assange was still drip-feeding the classified documents out via his website last night, with the contents of 933 cables from the US embassy in Canberra, 75 from the Melbourne consulate, 12 from the Sydney consulate and 11 from Perth still to be revealed.

The cables, believed to go back to 2005, involve Australia's contact with the US on sensitive topics including terrorism, intelligence, arms control and military operations.

The Australian Government was forewarned about the contents of some of the sensitive material and Mr McClelland said some of the documents could be prejudicial to Australia's national security interests.

"Obviously, I have certain responsibilities in respect to domestic national security considerations, but clearly I won't obviously telegraph what those documents may be," Mr McClelland said.

"But certainly the release of those documents, on our assessment, could be prejudicial to Australia's national security interests."

Asked whether Assange was now the most wanted man in Australia, Mr McClelland said: "Well, again, certainly from Australia's point of view, we think there are potentially a number of criminal laws that could have been breached by the release of this information.

"The Australian Federal Police are looking at that.

"I don't want to pre-empt the outcome of that advice."

He confirmed US authorities were also looking at the possibility of laying criminal or homeland security charges against Assange.


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/f ... 5962949289

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WikiLeaks to target major U.S. bank next: report

WikiLeaks plans to relase thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank in early 2011, Forbes magazine reported on Monday.

Julian Assange, the founder of the self-proclaimed whistleblower website, told Forbes: “We have one related to a bank coming up, that’s a megaleak.

“It’s not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it’s either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it.” He compared the planned release to emails unveiled after the collapse of energy giant Enron Corp.

The website’s latest expose was the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. documents Sunday, which exposed years of diplomatic communications and provided candid assessments of world leaders.

“You could call it the ecosystem of corruption,” Assange told Forbes during an interview in London, but refused to provide details about the bank.

“It’s also all the regular decision making that turns a blind eye to and supports unethical practices: The oversight that’s not done, the priorities of executives, how they think they’re fulfilling their own self-interest.” Forbes, which described Assange as a moral ideologue, a champion of openness and a control freak, said he pondered on a “cute name” for these “big-package releases,” finally settling for “megaleaks.” “These megaleaks ... they’re an important phenomenon. And they’re only going to increase,” he claimed.

The site that first went public in late 2006 is by now used to making headlines the world over -- first with the release in July of 92,000 secret documents that detailed six years of the war in Afghanistan; next in October after publishing nearly 400,000 classified U.S. military documents related to the war in Iraq; and on Sunday with the leak of more than a quarter million documents detailing communications between the State Department in Washington and more than 270 worldwide outposts.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/internatio ... epage=true

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WikiLeaks to target Mexico, narcotics

WikiLeaks, a whistleblowing online site, obtained 2,836 U.S. documents related to Mexico and 8,324 documents related to narcotics -- both areas of great interest to the border region.

However, the public will have to wait to learn what most of those cables contain because WikiLeaks does not plan to release all 251,287 of its leaked documents at once.

The site is coordinating the release of documents, mostly U.S. diplomatic cables, with selected major U.S. and international media partners. As of Monday, only 272 cables had been released.

The first leaked documents about drugs alleges that a relative of a high-level Afghanistan official was suspected of having links with drug lords who are involved in the opium trade, and the U.S. government ignored the information to avoid disrupting its relations with the Afghan government.

Another cable that mentions narcotics alleges that Brazil's federal police, acting on U.S. tips, arrested suspected terrorists but charged them with drug-related crimes to deflect attention from counterterrorist operations.

The Brazilian government has denied this, according to WikiLeaks.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a news conference Monday in Washington that she would not comment on the contents of the leaked documents.

"There have been examples in history in which official conduct has been made public in the name of exposing wrongdoing or misconduct," Clinton said. "This is not one of those cases. In contrast, what

being put on display in this cache of documents is the fact that American diplomats are doing the work we expect them to do. They are helping identify and prevent conflicts before they start.

"The work of our diplomats doesn't just benefit Americans, but also billions of others around the globe. In addition to endangering particular individuals, disclosures like these tear at the fabric of the proper function of responsible government."

Several experts believe the leaked documents will not necessarily endanger anyone.

Bill Weaver, a UTEP professor and former adviser to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, and Keith Yearman, a College of DuPage professor in Glen Ellyn, Ill., said the documents released so far are not too different from what the public can obtain through the Freedom of Information Act.

The main difference is that while many of the WikiLeaks documents are recent, it often takes decades for the U.S. government to declassify and disclose its diplomatic cables.

"The issue is over whether WikiLeaks is a responsible whistleblowing outfit is a legitimate concern," said Weaver, a former intelligence analyst. "But, the documents are not particularly sensitive or anything that jeopardizes sources or methods. For example, they don't come from the National Security Agency.

"It is also well known that the government tends to overclassify documents. The main value of the documents will be for academics and historians."

Most of the disclosures -- candid comments by diplomats about heads of office in other countries -- have been of an embarrassing nature.

Yearman, whose research areas include Latin America and Africa, brought students to the border for field research before the drug violence erupted.

"The amount of material that has come out is staggering," Yearman said. "Typically, the State Department releases very few documents and they are highly censored. To have something very current represents a gold mine for researchers. You get to see the political mindset and behind-the-scenes strategies of governments."

Yearman said he disagrees with critics who condemned publishing the leaked documents.

"It the ultimate form of government transparency, and I am for honest and open government," he said.

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WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange-WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world

Interpol wanted notice for Julian Assange

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.

Assange's details were also added to Interpol's worldwide wanted list. Dated 30 November, the entry reads: "sex crimes" and says the warrant has been issued by the international public prosecution office in Gothenburg, Sweden. "If you have any information contact your national or local police." It reads: "Wanted: Assange, Julian Paul," and gives his birthplace as Townsville, Australia.

Friends said earlier that Assange was in a buoyant mood, however, despite the palpable fury emanating from Washington over the decision by WikiLeaks to start publishing more than a quarter of a million mainly classified US cables. He was said to be at a secret location somewhere outside London, along with fellow hackers and WikiLeaks enthusiasts.

In contrast to previous WikiLeaks releases, Assange has, on this occasion, kept a relatively low profile. His attempt to give an interview to Sky News via Skype was thwarted today by a faulty internet connection.

But he was able to give an interview to Time magazine in which he called for Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, to resign. "She should resign, if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering US diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations, in violation of the international covenants to which the US has signed up. Yes, she should resign over that," he said.

Assange's reluctance to emerge in public is understandable. It comes amid a rapid narrowing of his options. Several countries are currently either taking – or actively considering – aggressive legal moves against him. This lengthening list includes Sweden, Australia and now the US – but so far as can be made out, not Britain.

The US attorney general, Eric Holder, announced yesterday that the justice department and Pentagon are conducting "an active, ongoing criminal investigation" into the latest Assange-facilitated leak under Washington's Espionage Act.

It was not immediately clear whether Holder was referring to Bradley Manning, the dissident US private suspected of being the original source of the leak, or Assange. The inquiry by US federal authorities is made tricky by Assange's citizenship – he is Australian – and the antediluvian nature of the law's pre-internet-era 1917 statutes.

According to the Washington Post, no charges against anyone from WikiLeaks are imminent. But asked how the US could prosecute Assange, a non-US citizen, Holder struck an ominous note. "Let me be clear. This is not sabre-rattling," he said, vowing to swiftly "close the gaps" in current US legislation.

But Assange's most pressing headache is Sweden. Swedish prosecutors have issued an international and European arrest warrant (EAW) for him in connection with rape allegations, and the warrant has been upheld by a Swedish appeal court.

Assange strongly denies any wrongdoing but admits having unprotected but consensual encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August.

Mark Stephens, his London-based lawyer, has described the allegations as "false and without basis", adding that they amount to persecution as part of a cynical smear campaign.

Nonetheless, the Swedes appear determined to force Assange back to Sweden for questioning. Stockholm's director of public prosecutions, Marianne Ny, said last month: "So far, we have not been able to meet with him to accomplish the interrogation."

Assange contests this too. But if he declines to return to Sweden voluntarily, and the UK decides to enforce Sweden's arrest warrant, things may get tricky. Some friends believe Assange's best strategy is not to go to ground but to get on a plane to Sweden and face down his accusers.

Stephens, moreover, says that the Swedish attempts to extradite Assange have no legal force. So far he has not been charged, Stephens says – an essential precondition for a valid European arrest warrant.

Under the EAW scheme, which allows for fast-tracked extradition between EU member states, a warrant must indicate a formal charge in order to be validated, and must be served on the person accused.

"Julian Assange has never been charged by Swedish prosecutors. He is formally wanted as a witness," Stephens told the Guardian today.

"All we have is an English translation of what's being reported in the media. The Swedish authorities have not met their obligations under domestic and European law to communicate the nature of the allegations against him in a language that he understands, and the evidence against him."

Assange's legal team are challenging the warrant in Sweden's supreme court. They are optimistic: a previous appeal was partially successful in limiting the grounds on which the warrant was issued.

Today a spokesman for Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency, which is responsible for validating extradition requests, would not confirm or deny receipt of a European arrest warrant for Assange's extradition.

Assange has previously suggested he might find sanctuary in Switzerland. More promising perhaps is Ecuador, whose leftist government unexpectedly offered him asylum on Monday.

"We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions," Ecuador's foreign minister, Kintto Lucas, said.

At the very least, Ecuador could offer Assange a new passport. He might need one. Yesterday Australia's attorney general, Robert McClelland, said Australian police were also investigating whether any Australian laws had been broken by the latest WikiLeaks release.

In reality, Assange's predicament may not be as hopeless as it seems. The US would be hard pressed to make charges against him stick, experts suggest.

"There have been so few cases under the Espionage Act, you can put them on one hand," said David Banisar, senior legal counsel for the campaigning group Article 19 and an expert on free speech in the US. "There is the practical problem that most of the information published by WikiLeaks wasn't secret. Then there is the debate about whether the documents were properly classified – there are detailed rules in the US about what can and cannot be classified."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/no ... an-assange

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One has to wonder how much the CIA and Obama are paying these two bitches?

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Ecuador invites WikiLeaks's Assange to give classes

Ecuador on Tuesday invited the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website to train Ecuadorean researchers, days after the site caused an international uproar by releasing sensitive U.S. documents.

Julian Assange, the 39-year-old Australian at the center of the scandal, could work freely in Ecuador and was welcome to seek residence as well, the Foreign Ministry said.

The South American country is part of a leftist bloc of governments in South America, including Venezuela and Bolivia, that have been highly critical of U.S. policy in the region.

More than 250,000 State Department cables were obtained by WikiLeaks and given to media groups, which began publishing stories on Sunday exposing the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy, including candid and embarrassing assessments of world leaders.

WikiLeaks previously had released U.S. documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The recent batch of leaked cables show U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton questioned the mental health of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, asking diplomats to find out if she was under medication.

"The government ... invites Julian Assange to show information related to Latin American countries," the Ecuadorean statement said. "The objective would be to see this information first hand."

"Assange could do investigative work and train researchers in Ecuador," it said.

Assange's whereabouts are not known and he is believed to move from country to country. He had been seeking residency in Sweden but is now wanted there on sexual abuse charges that the former hacker says are part of a conspiracy against him.

Ecuadorean Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas told local media the government was attempting to get in touch with Assange to invite him to the country.

"We are inviting him to give conferences and, if he wants, we have offered him Ecuadorean residency," Lucas told local media. The Foreign Ministry said any request for residency would be considered under the normal rules of the country.

The U.S. State Department has cut off a military computer network from its database of diplomatic cables due to the uproar, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the system was the U.S. military's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, known as SIPRNet, believed to have been the ultimate source for the cables obtained by the whistleblower website.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AT66820101130

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Who Should Really be assassinated Mr. Stephen Harper? Not Julian Assange but perhaps you?

Leading US political figures have called for the death penalty to be imposed on the person who leaked sensitive documents to whistle-blower website WikiLeaks as anger intensified against those responsible for the international relations crisis.

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and ex-Pentagon official KT McFarland were among those claiming the guilty party should face execution for putting national security at risk by leaking the inflammatory information.

Mr Huckabee, who is believed to be ready to renew his candidacy for the next presidential election, said responsible for the leak should be sentenced to death.

He said: "They've put American lives at risk ... They put relationships that will take decades to rebuild at risk. They knew full well that they were handling sensitive documents, they were entrusted.

"Any lives they endangered, they're personally responsible for and the blood is on their hands."

KT McFarland, who held national security posts under the Nixon, Ford and Reagan governments, backed the calls, saying Private Bradley Manning – the chief suspect of leaking the files – should face treason charges and possible execution.

Pvt Manning, who is in prison accused of passing a quarter of a million sensitive papers to WikiLeaks, is currently charged with transferring classified data and "delivering national defence information to an unauthorised source".

Writing on the Fox News website, Ms McFarland said: "It's time to up the charges. Let's charge him and try him for treason. If he's found guilty, he should be executed."

She also called for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face terror charges, claiming: "He's waging cyberwar on the United States and the global world order. Mr. Assange and his fellow hackers are terrorists and should be prosecuted as such."

The comments came as a former adviser to Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, suggested a different solution to the international diplomatic crisis – assassinating Mr Assange.

Prof Tom Flanagan said Barack Obama should "put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something" to rid the world of Mr Assange.

As the anchor on the CBC news programme warned him that his comments were "pretty harsh stuff", Prof Flanagan responded that he was "feeling very manly today".

He rounded off his interview by claiming the leak of the documents could "conceivably lead to war," adding: "I wouldn't feel unhappy if Assange disappeared."

Prof Flanagan was speaking on Tuesday evening, after the second day of WikiLeaks revelations from US State Department documents.

Interpol has issued a "Red Notice" alert for Mr Assange, in relation to two rape charges issued by Swedish police.

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Obama White House pressured Spain to drop Bush torture prosecution, leaked cable shows

The Obama administration went to the mat to defend its predecessors from a torture prosecution in Spain last year, a leaked State Department cable shows.

The cable, released by WikiLeaks this week, shows that senior US diplomats teamed with Republican lawmakers -- including a former Republican Party chairman -- to put pressure on Spanish officials to drop a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques."

In the spring of 2009, Spanish Judge Balthasar Garzon launched an inquiry into six Bush officials linked to the torture policy. They were then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Cheney adviser David Addington; Pentagon lawyer William Haynes; Pentagon official Douglas Feith; and Jay Bybee and John Yoo from the Office of Legal Counsel.

According to Mother Jones' David Corn, US officials began to put pressure on Spain almost as soon as the probe was announced.

Soon after the request was made, the US embassy in Madrid began tracking the matter. On April 1, embassy officials spoke with chief prosecutor Javier Zaragoza, who indicated that he was not pleased to have been handed this case, but he believed that the complaint appeared to be well-documented and he'd have to pursue it. Around that time, the acting deputy chief of the US embassy talked to the chief of staff for Spain's foreign minister and a senior official in the Spanish Ministry of Justice to convey, as the cable says, "that this was a very serious matter for the [US government]." The two Spaniards "expressed their concern at the case but stressed the independence of the Spanish judiciary."

Corn reports that Mel Martinez, an ex-Republican Party chairman, along with a US embassy charge d'affaires, met with Spanish Foreign Minister Angel Lossada to discuss the prosecution. They reportedly told the foreign minister that the case "would have an enormous impact" on US-Spanish relations.

"Here was a former head of the GOP and a representative of a new Democratic administration (headed by a president who had decried the Bush-Cheney administration's use of torture) jointly applying pressure on Spain to kill the investigation of the former Bush officials," writes Corn. "[A]s this WikiLeaks-released cable shows, Gonzales, Haynes, Feith, Bybee, Addington, and Yoo owed Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thank-you notes."

Judge Garzon's probe was eventually handed over to another judge, who has effectively left the case languishing. Human rights lawyer and Harper's writer Scott Horton said in an interview that Judge Garzon is now the target of an ethics probe in Spain.

"It becomes clear from these cables that Spanish authorities and US diplomats agreed to use this as a procedure to remove him from handling the Guantánamo torture cases, which is just astonishing," Horton told DemocracyNow's Amy Goodman.

Horton, who was among the first in the US to report on the existence of the Spanish investigation, says the cables show that the then-US ambassador to Spain, Eduardo Aguirre, had far too much access to the inner workings of the Spanish judiciary than a foreign diplomat should.

"We see in these cables he has been briefed in tremendous detail about everything that’s going on in these courts, which means he has sources of information that evidently include either judges or prosecutors or potentially both, and he’s actively involved in strategies to shut down these investigations. Now, if that were going on in the United States right now, a foreign ambassador were doing such thing, the foreign ambassador would probably, in short order, be invited to leave," Horton said.

He notes in an article that Spain has been in a furor for three days over the revelations.

The revelations have "created deep concern about the independence of judges in Spain and the manipulation of the entire criminal justice system by a foreign power," Horton writes.

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Julian being charged for not "pulling out" during sex, not rape.

Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for "sex crimes".

Everyone assumed it was for rape.

But it turns out it was for violating an obscure Swedish law against having sex without a condom.

As Newsweek wrote in August:

A Swedish lawyer representing two women whose allegations triggered a sexual-misconduct investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has given [Newsweek column] Declassified the first on-the-record confirmation of the allegations that led to the issuance—and then rapid cancellation—of a warrant on a rape charge and to a parallel investigation into alleged “molestation." Claes Borgstrom of the Stockholm law firm Borgstrom and Bostrom, who is representing two women who said they had sexual relationships with Assange, said his clients complained to the police of Assange's reluctance to use condoms and unwillingness to be tested for sexually transmitted disease.

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Borgstrom said that specific details about the the allegations had not yet appeared in Swedish media. But he acknowledged that the principal concern the women had about Assange’s behavior—which they reported to police in person—related to his lack of interest in using condoms and his refusal to undergo testing, at the women’s request, for sexually transmitted disease. A detailed, chronological account of the women’s alleged encounters with Assange—which in both cases began with consensual sexual contact but later included what the women claimed was nonconsensual sex, in which Assange didn’t use a condom—was published on Tuesday by The Guardian; a Declassified item included a more explicit reference than The Guardian to Assange’s declining to submit to medical tests.

Similarly, the Daily Mail reported in August:

'When they got back they had sexual relations, but there was a problem with the condom - it had split.

'She seemed to think that he had done this deliberately but he insisted that it was an accident.’

Whatever her views about the incident, she appeared relaxed and untroubled at the seminar the next day where Assange met Woman B, another pretty blonde, also in her 20s, but younger than Woman A.
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The [second] woman admitted trying to engage her hero in conversation.

Assange seemed pleased to have such an ardent admirer fawning over him and, she said, would look at her ‘now and then’. Eventually he took a closer interest.
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What he did not tell her was that the party was being hosted by the woman he had slept with two nights before and whose bed he would probably be sleeping in that night.
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‘The passion and attraction seemed to have disappeared,’ she said.

Most of what then followed has been blacked out in her statement, except for: ‘It felt boring and like an everyday thing.’

One source close to the investigation said the woman had insisted he wear a condom, but the following morning he made love to her without one.
This was the basis for the rape charge. But after the event she seemed unruffled enough to go out to buy food for his breakfast.

Today, a former attorney for Assange - James D. Catlin - has confirmed that the charges are for having sex without using a condom. He notes that:

The consent of both women to sex with Assange has been confirmed by prosecutors.

He also accuses the prosecutors of "making it up as they go along", and said that Sweden's justice system is destined to become "the laughingstock of the world" for pursuing the case against Assange.

And Assange's current London attorney - Mark Stephens - told AOL news that he doesn't even know what the charges against Assange are, but that they are not rape:

Stephens, told AOL News today that Swedish prosecutors told him that Assange is wanted not for allegations of rape, as previously reported, but for something called "sex by surprise," which he said involves a fine of 5,000 kronor or about $715.

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"We don't even know what 'sex by surprise' even means, and they haven't told us," Stephens said, just hours after Sweden's Supreme Court rejected Assange's bid to prevent an arrest order from being issued against him on allegations of sex crimes.

"Whatever 'sex by surprise' is, it's only a offense in Sweden -- not in the U.K. or the U.S. or even Ibiza," Stephens said. "I feel as if I'm in a surreal Swedish movie being threatened by bizarre trolls. The prosecutor has not asked to see Julian, never asked to interview him, and he hasn't been charged with anything. He's been told he's wanted for questioning, but he doesn't know the nature of the allegations against him."

The strange tale of Assange's brief flings with two Swedish women during a three-day period in mid-August -- and decisions by three different prosecutors to first dismiss rape allegations made by the women and then re-open the case -- has more twists, turns and conspiracy theories than any of [Swedish novelist] Stieg Larsson's best-sellers.

So Assange might be a cad for sleeping with 2 women within a couple of days, and he might be irresponsible for having sex without a condom and then failing to submit to HIV tests afterwards.

But he has not been accused of rape under any traditional meaning of that term.

Of course, this wouldn't be so surreal if the Department of Justice hadn't launched a criminal probe of Wiklileaks, Assange didn't face potential espionage charges, representative Peter King wasn't asking that Wikileaks be designated a foreign terrorist organization like Al Qaeda, and some people hadn't called for Assange's assassination (and see this, this and this).

Indeed, Reuters provides some bizarre details courtesy of Assange's current lawyer:

Tuesday, international police agency Interpol said it had issued a "red notice" which allows arrest warrants issued by national police authorities to be circulated to other countries to facilitate arrests and help possible extradition.

"There is no arrest warrant against him. There was an Interpol red notice, which is not a warrant, alerting authorities to monitor his movements," Stephens told Reuters.

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"We are in this position where we have never been told what the allegations are against him, we do know that he hasn't been charged, we do know that he has only been asked for as a witness," he said.

"We know that ... the offence is one of 'sex by surprise', which is not an offence known in England. He has not been given the evidence against him."
Stephens said Assange was willing to meet Swedish prosecutors but they did not want to meet him.

"We are in a very, very surreal situation at the moment it's like a Swedish fairytale."

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WikiLeaks accuses ‘cowardly’ Amazon of lying

WikiLeaks lashed out at Amazon on Friday for kicking the whistleblower website off its servers, accusing the US company of lying and being "cowardly."

The accusations came after Amazon broke days of silence and provided its first explanation for its decision to no longer provide Web-hosting services to WikiLeaks.org.

Amazon Web Services, in a statement on its website, said it cut off WikiLeaks because it had violated the company's terms of service and not because of any government pressure.

WikiLeaks fired back at Amazon with a message on its Twitter feed. "Amazon's press release does not accord with the facts on public record. It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie about it," WikiLeaks said.

Amazon is best known as an online retailer but it is also a major provider of Web-hosting services, renting out space on its computer servers to customers around the world.

In its statement, the Seattle-based Amazon said "there have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate."

"There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDoS attacks," the company said in a reference to distributed denial of service attacks on the WikiLeaks website.

"That too is inaccurate," Amazon said. "There were indeed large-scale DDoS attacks, but they were successfully defended against."

DDoS attacks occur when legions of zombie computers, machines infected with viruses, are commanded to simultaneously visit a website.

Amazon said Amazon Web Services rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis and does not pre-screen its customers.

"But it does have terms of service that must be followed," the company said. "WikiLeaks was not following them."

Amazon's terms state that customers must "control all of the rights to the content" stored on its servers and that the content "will not cause injury to any person or entity."

"It's clear that WikiLeaks doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content," Amazon said.

"Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy," the company said.

"Human rights organizations have in fact written to WikiLeaks asking them to exercise caution and not release the names or identities of human rights defenders who might be persecuted by their governments," it said.

Some of the data stored by customers on Amazon's servers is controversial "and that's perfectly fine," the company said.

"But when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere," Amazon said.

EveryDNS.net, the US firm that had been hosting the WikiLeaks.org domain name, pulled the plug on the website late Thursday, saying the cyberattacks were threatening its other clients.

WikiLeaks was offline for several hours but reappeared on Friday with a new Swiss domain name, WikiLeaks.ch.

Another US company, Tableau Software, cut off the whistleblower website on Wednesday citing a violation of its terms of service. Tableau Software was being used by WikiLeaks to create charts of its cache of secret US diplomatic cables.

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WikiLeaks has been fighting a multifront battle to keep its explosive cache of leaked State Department cables available online. Since the material came online Sunday, hackers have been trying to take down the WikiLeaks site, while U.S. political leaders have applied pressure on companies to remove the data clearinghouse's files from their servers.

The New York Times reports that EveryDNS.net, a U.S.-based domain name provider, has now cut off its service to WikiLeaks. With Wikileaks.org currently down, the organization registered Wikileaks.ch in Switzerland. It was registered, the Times reports, by "the Swiss branch of the Swedish Pirate Party, a political organization that has "previously worked with" WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange. For now, that address is working.

WikiLeaks continues to keep files on the servers of Swedish company Bahnhof. Last night, CNN looked at Bahnhof's Cold War-era bunker, which the company's chief executive said was inspired by "science fiction and James Bond movies."

But will Bahnhof also fold under similar pressure?

Hackers are continuing their distributed denial of service attacks, and the official pressure from political leaders to evict the WikiLeaks files from other servers isn't letting up, either.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee, led by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn), successfully pushed Amazon.com to kick WikiLeaks off its servers on Wednesday. Some commentators were quick to criticize Lieberman's involvement as stepping over the line of his authority in an effort to squash free speech. Salon's Glenn Greenwald likened the senator to a "Chinese dictator."

Amazon Web Services, which doesn't prescreen customers who use their servers, claimed that the company wasn't bowing to political pressure. WikiLeaks, the company said, was removed because it violated terms of service by posting documents that it "doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to."

But WikiLeaks isn't buying the explanation and offered its own thoughts over Twitter: "Amazon's press release does not accord with the facts on public record. It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie about it."

Of course, the New York Times and other news organizations, have posted some of the documents obtained by WikiLeaks on their sites and haven't faced the same government pressure. WikiLeaks, in possession of 250,000 cables, has actually only published a small percentage of them so far.

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Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls for boycott of Amazon.com

The man responsible for what was once the largest amount of secret US government information ever leaked has called for free speech advocates to boycott online retailer Amazon.com over their removal of WikiLeaks from their cloud servers.

Saying that he's "disgusted" by Amazon claiming a violation of their terms of service for taking WikiLeaks offline, Daniel Ellsberg sent an open letter damning the company for capitulating to public and private sector officials who "aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing."

"For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over," he wrote. "I ask Amazon to terminate immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files and to send me no more notices."

He called for a broad and "immediate" boycott of the retailer.

"I hope that these others encourage their contact lists to do likewise and to let Amazon know exactly why they’re shifting their business. I’ve asked friends today to suggest alternatives, and I’ll be exploring service from Powell’s Books, Half-Price Books, Biblio and others."

Critics suggest that Amazon's move was effectively a corporation acting to silence free speech, and that were it being logically and ethically consistent, Amazon would have to apply the same standard to most major news publications that have covered the site's revelations.

After it's servers in Sweden came under a series of denial of service attacks, WikiLeaks.org temporarily moved it's home to Amazon's US-based server farm. After being contacted by members of Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) staff, Amazon took the site offline and said it's business arrangement with WikiLeaks hinged upon it not publishing any classified material.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his move to Amazon servers was a test of their commitment to freedom of speech. Following the take-down, he suggested if Amazon was "uncomfortable with the First Amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books."

WikiLeaks.org and a series of other domains were taken offline Thursday and Friday amid what one influential tech expert called "the first serious infowar." Facing continuing cyberattacks on WikiLeaks, new mirrors were popping up across Europe on Friday and the site was again available via an IP address in lieu of its DNS hosts jumping ship.

"So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying to explain its action openly," Ellsberg wrote. "This would be a good time for Amazon insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear–and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses–to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to sites like antiwar.com that have now appropriately ended their book-purchasing association with Amazon."

Ellsberg, who played an instrumental role in bringing about the end of America's war in Vietnam by leaking the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, has said in the past that he fears for the safety of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange.

The US Department of Justice said it was investigating the massive leak of State Department diplomatic cables that has fueled a media firestorm all week with no signs of letting up. A lone soldier, Private First Class Bradley Manning, stands accused of the leaks, but officials were still searching for any potential accomplices.

Assange said that if Manning indeed were the leak's source, he's an "unpralleled hero".

In the 1971 case of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg's prosecution was dismissed and a suit brought against The New York Times, which published the Pentagon Papers, ended in a Supreme Court decision upholding the freedom of the press.
















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Bill aimed at WikiLeaks introduced

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- A bill aimed at WikiLeaks that would allow U.S. authorities to go after its founder, Julian Assange, has been introduced in the Senate.

The Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act, which has the acronym SHIELD, is sponsored by Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., John Ensign, R-Nev., and Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., The Hill reported. They introduced the measure Thursday.

The senators say Assange has endangered the lives of confidential sources providing information to U.S. intelligence agencies.

"Our sources are bravely risking their lives when they stand up against the tyranny of al-Qaida, the Taliban and murderous regimes, and I simply will not stand idly by as they become death targets because of Julian Assange," Ensign said. "Let me be very clear, WikiLeaks is not a whistle-blower Web site and Assange is not a journalist."

The bill would make releasing the identities of informants to U.S. military or intelligence agencies a crime.


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I believe that We the People should pass a bill and remove Senators Scott Brown, John Ensign and Joe Lieberman and their families from this country. Americans don't like families or governments that work in secret. These 3 Senators are the same ones that voted to send your sons and daughters off to be killed over lies.