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This is hugely damning against Manning and maybe Assange too. Even worse for Manning, in a chat with someone else, he admitted leaking the Apache attack video. The data was in unallocated sectors. The logs had been deleted and someone had used security software to overwrite the unallocated sectors, but only overwrote them once. This [...] U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Sounds like they have no case against Assange. And I suspect the reason they are refusing visitors to Manning [...] Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year. “We don’t want the bank to suffer unless it’s called for,” Assange told The Times. “But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations,” he said, [...] VP Biden says Assange is a “high tech terrorist.” Really? Terrorism is generally understood to include the deliberate targeting of civilians and noncombatants for death or injury. Thus, Assange is not even remotely a terrorist by any definition and Biden should be ashamed of himself, if he’s capable of it, which is doubtful. Plus, only [...] Then I guess they’ll have to indict the New York Times too. The US appears bound and determined to keep Wikileaks front page news for months to come. Meanwhile, former Wikileaks staff are starting OpenLeaks, which will vet leaked documents first and allow other publishers, like newspapers to review them too, before publishing them. [...] Josh Mull, in a post here and elsewhere, takes me slightly to task for saying Assange is engaging in asymmetrical warfare, because it’s not warfare at all and saying so will just provoke the government to retaliate. Point well taken, but when his supporters can take down major websites, even if the targets are [...] Anna Ardin, one of the two complainants in the rape and sexual assault case against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has left Sweden, and may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service and her own lawyer. The sooner this travesty and obviously politically-inspired arrest of Assange on ludicrous charges is ended, the better. [...] Surprisingly blunt words from a major ally. “Mr. Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the US diplomatic communications network. The Americans are responsible for that. The bad people in this little exercise are the people who gave the information to him, because they’re the people who breached the [...] That this is even a “crime” in Sweden is absurd. That country should hold its head in shame for such a demented law and for allowing itself to have Assange arrested on the word of a woman with serious CIA ties. What a coincidence. Links to our stories this weekend on Wikileaks, in case you missed them. The first two in particular are crucial. Wikileaks has a Doomsday option Assange sexual accuser has anti-Castro ties – and worse Assange: “Geopolitics will be separated into pre and post Cablegate” Wikileaks, the end of the open internet, and [...] |  | ||||
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