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Wikileaks Endangers Lives

11:25 am EST August 30th, 2011 | News | 23 Comments

The good guys, my ass.

In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November.

A sampling of the documents showed that the newly published cables included the names of some people who had spoken confidentially to American diplomats and whose identities were marked in the cables with the warning “strictly protect.”

State Department officials and human rights activists have been concerned that such diplomatic sources, including activists, journalists and academics in authoritarian countries, could face reprisals, including dismissal from their jobs, prosecution or violence.

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Wikileaks Gitmo Documents

9:20 am EST April 25th, 2011 | News | 31 Comments

Even if the documents released about Gitmo by Wikileaks provide more illumination, it doesn’t change the fact that they were released illegally. I don’t understand why some people can’t see that.

No matter how much good Bradley Manning thought he was doing — he broke the law.

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Julian Assange Extradition To Sweden Ordered

6:56 am EST February 24th, 2011 | Crime | Comments Off

British judge Howard Riddle has ordered that Julian Assange be extradited to Sweden to face charges of rape and sexual assault. Assange is expected to appeal.

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Accusations Vs Assange Are “Rape-Rape”*

7:40 pm EST December 16th, 2010 | Crime | 11 Comments

Via Andrew Sullivan, these are the charges versus Assange:

Used his body weight to hold down Miss A in a sexual manner.

Had unprotected sex with Miss A when she had insisted on him using a condom.

Molested Miss A “in a way designed to violate her sexual integrity”.

Had unprotected sex with Miss W while she was asleep.

*The headline is a reference to Whoopi Goldberg’s distasteful comments on rapist Roman Polanski.

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Feds Looking Into Conspiracy Charges For Julian Assange

9:16 pm EST December 15th, 2010 | News | 25 Comments

The NY Times has the scoop:

Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts with an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the information.

Justice Department officials are trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped the analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, to extract classified military and State Department files from a government computer system. If he did so, they believe they could charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them.

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Sweet Jesus, Wikileaks Sucks

11:21 am EST November 29th, 2010 | National Security | 35 Comments

I don’t think designating Wikileaks as a terrorist organization is quite sane, but overall what a horrible organization this is. The leaked info shows – in my view – that behind closed doors we’re still negotiating pretty honestly with the world, despite all the ways we could go forward. Wikileaks, again, is playing God, making the revelation of this material some sort of morality play.

Unlike the previous releases, there’s no actual crime or abuses being reported here, just Wikileaks – particularly Assange – getting jollies off by trying to make America look bad.

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Julian Assange Facing Wikileaks Revolt Over Endangering Collaborators/Informants

10:03 pm EST September 27th, 2010 | National Security | 3 Comments

What a guy.

Key members of WikiLeaks were angered to learn last month that Assange had secretly provided media outlets with embargoed access to the vast database, under an arrangement similar to the one WikiLeaks made with three newspapers that released documents from the Afghanistan war in July. WikiLeaks is set to release the Iraq trove on Oct. 18, according to ex-staffers — far too early, in the view of some of them, to properly redact the names of U.S. collaborators and informants in Iraq.

‘I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest. If you have a problem with me, piss off.’

“The release date which was established was completely unrealistic,” says 25-year-old Herbert Snorrason, an Icelandic university student who until recently helped manage WikiLeaks’ secure chat room. “We found out that the level of redactions performed on the Afghanistan documents was not sufficient. I announced that if the next batch did not receive full attention, I would not be willing to cooperate.”

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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Charged With Rape, Molestation In Sweden

8:00 am EST August 21st, 2010 | News | 59 Comments

UPDATE: Apparently now the rape charge has been dropped, though the molestation complaint is still pending…

Hm.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose whistle-blowing website caused uproar last month with a leak of secret U.S. military files on Afghanistan, has been charged in Sweden with rape and molestation, the National Prosecutor’s Office said on Saturday.

Assange was quoted by a Swedish daily as denying the allegations.

Assange, an Australian, was in Sweden last week to discuss his work and defend his intent to publish further documents on the war in Afghanistan. He has close ties with the Nordic country, where WikiLeaks has said it keeps some of its servers.

‘We can confirm that he’s wanted. He was charged last night — the allegation is suspected rape,’ said Karin Rosander, Director of Communications at the National Prosecutor’s office.

‘One is rape and one is molestation,’ she said, without giving details.

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Wikileaks Gives Taliban Hitlist Of Afghan Collaborators

8:49 am EST August 3rd, 2010 | Foreign Policy | 7 Comments

Heck of a job, Julian Assange. Your move is getting more Afghans killed.

After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to ‘punish’ any Afghan listed as having ‘collaborated’ with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen.

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Wikileaks Puts Afghan Informants In Danger

10:51 am EST July 28th, 2010 | Media | 22 Comments

Great.

Hundreds of Afghan civilians who worked as informants for the U.S. military have been put at risk by WikiLeaks’ publication of more than 90,000 classified intelligence reports which name and in many cases locate the individuals, The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.

The article says, in spite of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s claim that sensitive information had been removed from the leaked documents, that reporters scanning the reports for just a couple hours found hundreds of Afghan names mentioned as aiding the U.S.-led war effort.

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