The Wikileaks Situation

[O.Man]

after scrutiny of amazons response

''It doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Regarding owning the rights to the data, US government documents are not copyrighted.

Regarding the assertion that "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 evidence suggests otherwise.

Only a small fraction of the cables have been published by Wikileaks thus far, and they include redactions.''

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon/

time to cancel amazon

[DRC]

Paypal have locked off donation services through their site...

[Guest Yilmaz]

i wish i were as enlightened as some of you

[Guest Esquilax]

i wish i were as enlightened as some of you

There's still time, bro

There's still time.

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/04/wikileaks-cables-google-china-hacking

sayin China was behind the Google hacking earlier this year

lol @ clinton, backin Google with all that talk then sayin Amazon n Paypal shouldnt work with wikileaks

everyones contradicting themselves these days

[Guest faze]

http://wlcentral.org/

[Guest faze]

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, lawyer Mark Stephens said:

"In Sweden it's quite bizarre though, because the chief prosecutor, the director of public prosecution in Sweden dropped the entire case against him, saying there was absolutely nothing for him to face, back in September. And then, a few weeks ago, after the intervention of a Swedish politician, a new prosecutor, not in Stockholm, where Julian and these women had been, but in Gothenburg, began a new case, which of course has resulted in these warrants and of course the Interpol red notice being put out across this week.

It does seem to be a political stunt, I mean, I have, and his Swedish lawyer, have been trying to get in touch with the prosecutors since August. Now, usually, it's the prosecutor who does the pursuing, not the pursued. And in this particular case, Julian Assange has tried to vindicate himself, has tried to meet with the prosecutors, to have his good name restored."

He remarked that "A warrant was issued on Thursday by reports. We've asked for it. We've been ignored at this point," adding that "He's only wanted for interview, why not have that interview by consent, rather than this show trial?"

He also talked about the calls for assassination coming from "credible sources around the world," and particularly the United States, including people as high up as Sarah Palin. He said that Julian Assange would certainly fight deportation to Sweden on the grounds that it could lead to him being handed over to the US, where senior politicians have called for him to be executed.

Stephens added: "I'm really rather worried by the political motivations that appear to be behind this (the Sweden case). It doesn't escape my attention that Sweden was one of those lickspittle states which used its resources and its facilities for rendition flights."

(You can watch part of the BBC interview here. The full interview is available on BBC's iPlayer for UK audiences only.)

Swedish attorney Björn Hurtig echoed the same concerns: Reuters: "I have seen the documents, and I can't say that I think it is a set-up by the CIA or something. But I suspect that there is someone else who is pushing Sweden to (take) these most unproportional measures that they are doing right now, and is pushing Sweden to push Interpol to make this arrest warrant public. I think somebody has an interest in getting Julian to Sweden and maybe asking for him to be extradited to another country (from there)."

In an earlier statement to the press, Mark Stephens wrote:

"Mr. Assange has repeatedly sought meetings with the Prosecutrix - both in Sweden and subsequently - in order to answer her questions and clear his name. It is relevant that Mr. Assange sought permission from the Prosecutrix to leave Sweden and she gave him her permission. Since leaving Sweden Mr. Assange has continued to seek meetings with the Prosecutrix, but his requests have either been ignored or met with a refusal."

"Bizarrely, the Prosecutrix - having ignored or rejected those offers of voluntary cooperation - instead sought an arrest warrant to have Mr. Assange held incommunicado without giving his Swedish lawyer sufficient notice, access to evidence or information to take proper instructions from Mr. Assange. This action is all the more peculiar as she has not even issued a formal summons for his interrogation or brought charges against Mr. Assange," the statement added.

"Since the rape charge has been dropped, the current allegation he faces does not - as a matter of Swedish law - justify an arrest warrant for Mr. Assange. The sole ground for the warrant is the Prosecutor's blatantly false allegation that he is on the run from justice: he left Sweden lawfully and has offered himself for questioning," Stephens said.

"At this point in time we have no evidence pointing to a link between these allegations from August and the issue of the Interpol alert just two days after the WikiLeaks first release of US diplomatic cables. However, it is highly unusual for a red notice warrant to be issued in relation to the allegations reported as having been made, since Swedish law does not require custodial orders in relation to the allegation - indeed to our knowledge this is a unique action by the Swedish prosecuting authorities in applying for a red notice on the basis of these allegations," Stephens’ statement concluded.

"We are also investigating whether the Prosecutor's application to have Mr. Assange held incommunicado without access to lawyers, visitors or other prisoners - again a unique request - is in any way linked to this matter and the recent, rather bellicose US statements of an intention to prosecute Mr. Assange."

In an interview with Sweden's TV4, prosecutor Marianne Ny has categorically refused to meet with Julian Assange in the UK, despite repeated offers from Assange's lawyers, reports Expressen.

Update 1: Jennifer Robinson and Mark Stephens told The Guardian that they had been watched by people parked outside their houses for the past week.

"I've noticed people consistently sitting outside my house in the same cars with newspapers," said Robinson. "I probably noticed certain things a week ago, but mostly it's been the last three or four days."

Stephens said he, too, had had his home watched. Asked who he thought was monitoring him, he said: "The security services."

Robinson said the legal team was also experiencing "other forms of pressure" from Washington," including an inappropriate attempt by the State Department to "elide client and lawyer" in correspondence: "It's quite a serious situation," she said, adding that, according to the UN's Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, governments should ensure that lawyers "are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference" and that "lawyers shall not be identified with their clients or their clients' causes as a result of discharging their functions."

when this has played out ina few years its going to make one sick movie

[Guest Yilmaz]

i wish i were as enlightened as some of you

There's still time, bro

There's still time.

thanks brah

in between u looking for work and sh*t, i hope u can help me do this

[Guest Esquilax]

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[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

Wikileaks: Swiss bank freezes Julian Assange's account

The Swiss post office's bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

The whistle-blowing website says the freeze includes a defence fund and personal assets worth 31,000 euros.

Wikileaks has published hundreds of secret US diplomatic cables, angering the US government and triggering moves by several companies including PayPal and Amazon to end their services.

Meanwhile, a warrant for Mr Assange's arrest has reached the UK authorities.

Sources have told the BBC that the European Arrest Warrant for Mr Assange arrived on Monday afternoon.

Swedish prosecutors want to question Mr Assange in connection with allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, which he denies.

He is believed to be in hiding somewhere in south-east England. Once the police have located him, he would be expected to appear at a magistrate's court within 24 hours, pending extradition to Sweden, says the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner.

Setbacks for Wikileaks

Sweden first issued an arrest warrant for Mr Assange on 18 November but it was invalidated by a procedural error. A new warrant was issued on 2 December.

full story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11929034

deep. 31k doe, man was eating nice

[Guest Rorschach]

Pleasing to see the people who protected Nazi gold have frozen his accounts based on shite

>>>>>being blackballed

its a serious ting boy

[djbmc]

Pleasing to see the people who protected Nazi gold have frozen his accounts based on shite

>>>>>being blackballed

its a serious ting boy

i've never known someone to be hunted so doggedly for an ALLEGED sexual offence, i wish the cables regarding the leaks of the cables would leak, i imagine there's sum hilarious ones in there.

[MARVELL]

assange and the authorities are on bbm laughing at everyone

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

lmao that would be a f*ckin par

but real talk, bare hypocracy, havent they still got that NAzi gold n the art they looted?

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

lol Americans are NOT on it

(hope u can read it, the ting came out f*cked up n im not doin it again cos theres like 300 replies now)

[Guest Esquilax]

Always chicks that come with the dumbest comments....

[YesWeCain]

from time obama condones government to have facebook you know he's out of his depth

[Guest Loso]

i hate chicks sometimes

[Grafter]

i hate chicks sometimes

theres no such thing as a half way poof

[Guest Esquilax]

Hating the inanity and crass comments that women seem unable to keep to themselves is the reason why they generally get no ratings from anyone

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

init, dnt even know when they invented ovens with internet

[O.Man]

nothing is what it seems.

we have many moves to catch up on.

Thun whats your take on wikileaks/assange?

i know you're thinking

[Guest Rorschach]

I feel we shouldn't have a en masse thread for this, it somewhat dilutes the news

Why is wikileaks a good thing again?

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, and a victim of so-called "extraordinary rendition." He was a car salesman in Germany, a father of six. The CIA kidnapped him by mistake (his name sounds and looks identical to that of an actual terror suspect), and sent off to receive months of torture in Afghanistan.

When the CIA realized he was innocent, he was flown to Albania and dumped on a back road without so much as an apology.

thats f*cked, i dont see why people dont want stuff like this to come out

[O.Man]

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