Curiouser and curiouser... Leakers leaking to the leaker

The Telegraph
Nov 30, 2010

Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder fears he could be arrested

Hmm. I don't get that off of Ali. While she prefers Oz to all other lands of her experience, what of that? It is unremarkable -- many Americans who have experience of Australia can certainly understand why she might. At its worst Oz may be a tetch flyblown and has some very unsympathetic reptiles here and there (some of them hanging around in the boozers going from twolegged to legless), but it's no pesthole.

I don't think he is making Australians look bad any more than Bush makes all Americans look bad. But I would be interested in what their government thinks about it and if they would have any suggestions on how to stop him.

Well, we have a limit of two terms as president, so, we got that going for us, which is nice.

We survived him, we'll survive this guy too.

Complete and Utter Bullshit. :lame:

This is going to put some people's tail in a twist...

OneIndia News
WikiLeaks founder Assange asks Hillary to resign

If that is proven she will probably have no choice.

Nonsense, she told them to do, or failed to tell them not to do, what every other embassy has been doing since embassies were invented. Anyone who's been paying attention in this country, has know that since the height of cold war, and anyone that read up on international relations long before that.

If I could catch him to tell him so, I'd be doing better than the AFP, so not much chance of that happening I'm afraid.

I thought you might have grown up a bit by now.

Since you obviously have been missing me, the reason I've not been around to comment is because there has been a death in my family and it has certainly taken precendence over the likes of Mr Assange and yourself.

That's pretty much all true UG. And I certainly don't get any glee out of seeing the US look bad. I suppose there are those who obviously will never believe that even though quite clearly, even in this little space, I have American friends. Why would I measure them all the same? There are arseholes in America that's for sure, but there are plenty of pretty special people too.

Our government is just as eager to catch him as yours is Merc. He's causing all sorts of headaches for those in power.

Agreed!

He's in England, they'll take anybody.;)

Yeah, it's my understanding that the hunt is in the hands of interpol now.

One question I did wonder about are his actions being labled (by the US) as treason. If he's not a citizen of the US, doesn't that mean the crime must fall under some other lable? I agree he's not helping anyone much with the sort of leaks he's responsible for, but it'd seem to me that the worst the US could get him for are computer crimes.

I don't know much about the law though, but I did wonder.

Or espionage? I think the treason was referring to the soldier that stole the information, and treasonous for the act. At least that's the way I read it, but journalists and bloggers have been throwing so much shit around it's hard to tell who said what.

funny how old sweetie pie pants showed up just when she did...weird.

I think that is the route to go, co-conspirator in an act of espionage. Treason is only for American citizens and has some pretty high benchmarks as defined in law. I was listening to a talking head on NPR yesterday about this very subject. It was pretty interesting.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...ge-act-charges

The only time I think people are gleefully sucking up bad news about the U.S. is when they constantly say, 'you merkin's' more than they address any one person. Leads me to think they don't see individuals, but a whole cast of people not up to their level. I don't see that in Ali.