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Wikileaks Drama
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Wed Dec 8, 2010 @ 8:56pm |
 Coolness: 107040 | A lot has gone down since I last checked, providers are dropping the site, Julian Assange is accused of rape in Sweden...
WikiLeaks Server Goes Down, Swiss Say by John Heilprin GENEVA -- WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange turned increasingly to Switzerland on Sunday, dodging a barrage of threats online and in the real world to keep access to a trove of U.S. State Department cables under a Swiss Web address. The elusive founder of the website WikiLeaks said he faced "hundreds of death threats." The site hinged on the Swiss Pirate Party's wikileaks.ch Web address, though the main server in France went offline, leaving the site reachable through a Swedish server. That site showed Assange had begun seeking donations to an account under his name through the Swiss postal system in Berne, the Swiss capital. He lost a major source of revenue when the online payment service provider PayPal cut off the WikiLeaks account over the weekend. PayPal, a subsidiary of U.S.-based online marketplace operator EBay Inc., said the WikiLeaks website, which specializes in disclosing confidential documents, was engaged in illegal activity. A spokesman for the financial services arm of Swiss Post told the respected Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag that it was reviewing its "relationship" with Assange, whose stated reason for opening the account was to have a residence in Geneva. French web hosting company OVH, which owns the server, didn't immediately respond to calls Sunday. France's Industry Minister Eric Besson had warned Friday that it was unacceptable to host a site that "violates the secret of diplomatic relations." The company said earlier that it had been hosting WikiLeaks since early Thursday, after a client asked for a "dedicated server with ... protection against attacks." The president of the Swiss Pirate Party, which controls the wikileaks.ch Web address, said he was in the process of pointing that domain name to a different server, apparently based in Sweden. The site also was still reachable through the numerical address of its Swedish server. And the party said it noticed an increasing number of supporters creating "mirrors" of the WikiLeaks site on their own servers, meaning that copies of the site would remain up and running even if WikiLeaks were somehow to lose its own site. "Even if you take down the server in Sweden, it's too late," Swiss Pirate Party Vice President Pascal Gloor told The Associated Press on Sunday. "There are hundreds of mirrors of WikiLeaks now," he said. "It's a test for Internet censorship. Can governments take something off the net? I think not. There are copies of the website everywhere." In a high-tech media building in Bienne, Switzerland, the party convened an impromptu news conference late Friday to say it had no special knowledge of Assange's whereabouts or ability to contact him, but had spoken with him weeks ago to help seek asylum in Switzerland. That was during Assange's visit to Geneva last month when he spoke to reporters at the United Nations. Starting Friday, the Swiss Web address wikileaks.ch became the site's main access point after EveryDNS, a company based in Manchester, New Hampshire, stopped accepting traffic to the site's principal address - [ wikileaks.org ] - saying cyber attacks threatened the rest of its network. Amazon stopped hosting WikiLeaks' Web site and governments and hackers were continuing to go after the organization. News media reports were filled with stories about the hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, which is coming under intense legal pressure in several countries, including the United States. In an online chat with El Pais in Spain, Assange said the hunt for him was tough. He remains free while his website spews daily embarrassment and potential diplomatic damage to the U.S. "We have hundreds of specific death threats from U.S. military militants. That is not unusual, and we have become practiced from past experiences at ignoring such threats from Islamic extremists, African kleptocrats and so on," he said. "Recently the situation has changed with these threats now extending out to our lawyers and my children," he added. "However, it is the specific calls from the elites of U.S. society for our assassination, kidnapping and execution that is more concerning." Assange, who is now in Britain, according to his British lawyer, is wanted in Sweden to face allegations of sexual offenses against two women, charges he denies, but the United States has not lodged any charges against him. Nor has Britain. In the Swedish case, Assange is the target of a European extradition process which normally takes months to produce an arrest. [ www.commondreams.org ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» MolocH replied on Wed Dec 8, 2010 @ 11:20pm |
 Coolness: 227200 | Damn.
With all that stink beeing stirred, I just can't help but shit my pants at the actual issues we're beeing diverted from. Is that me being paranoid? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DynV replied on Thu Dec 9, 2010 @ 12:26pm |
 Coolness: 109730 | Originally Posted By MOLOCH
I just can't help but shit my pants at the actual issues we're beeing diverted from. You mean governments creating false arrest reasons or attempting assassination for something that wasn't really about national security (embarrassment isn't risking lives) ? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» MolocH replied on Thu Dec 9, 2010 @ 12:29pm |
| Coolness: 227200 | Originally Posted By DYNV
You mean governments creating false arrest reasons or attempting assassination for something that wasn't really about national security (embarrassment isn't risking lives) ? Nah, more about the shit we DON'T hear about. I noticed that well, the bigger the diversion, the worse was the coverup. And that friggin Wiki-Leaks drama, well, that's pretty big. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Dec 11, 2010 @ 6:52pm |
| Coolness: 107040 | Julian Assange's Lawyers Warn of Imminent US Charges
Legal team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Washington plans to invoke Espionage Act to indict their client by Steven Morris The US may be about to press charges against Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, one of his lawyers said today. Jennifer Robinson said an indictment of her client under the US's Espionage Act was imminent. She said her team had heard from "several different US lawyers rumours that an indictment was on its way or had happened already, but we don't know". According to some reports, Washington is seeking to prosecute Assange under the 1917 act, which was used unsuccessfully to try to gag the New York Times when it published the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s. Robinson said Assange's team did not believe the US had grounds to prosecute him but understood that Washington was "looking closely at other charges, such as computer charges, so we have one eye on it". Assange is in Wandsworth prison in south London after being refused bail on Tuesday. Sweden is seeking his extradition over allegations of sexual assault. Speaking to ABC News, Robinson said she did not believe the Espionage Act applied to Assange, adding: "In any event he's entitled to first amendment protection as publisher of WikiLeaks and any prosecution under the Espionage Act would in my view be unconstitutional and puts at risk all media organisations in the US." Robinson said Assange was being held in solitary confinement in London with restricted access to a phone and his lawyers. "This means he is under significant surveillance but also means he has more restrictive conditions than other prisoners. Considering the circumstances he was incredibly positive and upbeat." Earlier this week, the US attorney general, Eric Holder, said the United States had been put at risk by the flood of confidential diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks and he authorised a criminal investigation. Holder said: "The lives of people who work for the American people has been put at risk; the American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that are, I believe, arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way. We are doing everything that we can. "We have a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature. I authorised just last week a number of things to be done so that we can hopefully get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable, as they should be." In a letter to the Guardian today, prominent supporters including John Pilger, Terry Jones, Miriam Margolyes and AL Kennedy called for Assange's release. "We protest at the attacks on WikiLeaks and, in particular, on Julian Assange ," they wrote, adding that the leaks have "assisted democracy in revealing the real views of our governments over a range of issues". © 2010 Guardian News and Media Limited |
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