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[TheMercenary]

Poor fella....

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange fears death in a US jail

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...a-US-jail.html

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From the Washington Post of 31 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks cable dump reveals flaws of State Department's information-sharing tool

Net-Centric Diplomacy was launched in 2006 and tied into a giant Defense Department system known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRnet. Soon, nearly half a million government employees and contractors with security clearances could tap into the diplomatic cables from computer terminals around the globe.

The system had no means of monitoring who was reading those materials. Why they were reading. Reading was ongoing all over the world. Wikileaks documents are rumored to be from CDs burned in Kuwait.

No problem, they said in 2005 when they were installing this system. We can always trust our half million readers to be honest. Attitude of a government that also so feared terrorists hiding under every bed. Who kidnap people all over the world due to mythical fears. Why trust even Army privates with this nation's military and political secrets while inventing mythical WMDs? Does the word intelligence have relevance?

No wonder White House lawyers had to rewrite science papers. No wonder the politically chosen were so busy rewriting the Baghdad traffic codes while the city angered due to no nation building. They feared mythical Al Qaeda’s hiding everywhere. And had no idea what the word security meant. No wonder every light was flashing read, and they did nothing to avert 11 September. At what point is Wikileaks just another trophy of a wacko extremism government? Imagine what it will be like with Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell?

The common word is intelligence - as in brain matter for those who also contributed a record campaign fund to Christine O’Donnell. Who then used that money to pay rent on her apartment.

But those who love her also blame Wikileaks for what our government was doing in 2006. Every one of 500,000 people can be trusted becaue they were not Clinton's people.

[Lamplighter]

Assange is the mouse that scares all elephants

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/bu...ines&emc=tha25
Facing Threat From WikiLeaks, Bank Plays Defense
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Published: January 2, 2011

<snip>
it was nearly midnight at Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.,
but the bank’s counterespionage work was only just beginning.

A day earlier, on Nov. 29, the director of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange,
said in an interview that he intended to “take down” a major American bank and
reveal an “ecosystem of corruption” with a cache of data from an executive’s hard drive.

With Bank of America’s share price falling on the widely held suspicion that the hard drive was theirs,
the executives on the call concluded it was time to take action.

Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank of America officials, led by the chief risk officer,
Bruce R. Thompson, has been overseeing a broad internal investigation
— scouring thousands of documents in the event that they become public,
reviewing every case where a computer has gone missing and hunting for any sign
that its systems might have been compromised.

“This is a significant moment, and Bank of America has to get out in front of it,”
said Richard S. Levick, a veteran crisis communications expert.
“Corporate America needs to look at what happens here, and how Bank of America handles it.”

Last month, the bank bought up Web addresses that could prove embarrassing to the company
or its top executives in the event of a large-scale public assault,
but a spokesman for the bank said the move was unrelated to any possible leak.

Mr. Assange has never said explicitly that the data he possesses
comes from Bank of America, which is the nation’s largest bank,
though he did say that the disclosure would take place sometime early this year.

[Stormieweather]

Just goes to show that a clear conscience goes a long way.

Live so that you never mind having the corners of your existence illuminated.

[TheMercenary]

HAMMAMET, Tunisia — This ancient Mediterranean hamlet, advertised as the Tunisian St.-Tropez, has long been the favorite summer getaway of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his large extended family, many of whom have built vast beachfront mansions here with the wealth they have amassed during his years in power.

But their new and conspicuous riches, partly exposed in a detailed cable by the American ambassador and made public by WikiLeaks, have fueled an extraordinary extended uprising by Tunisians who blame corruption among the elite for the joblessness afflicting their country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/wo...a.html?_r=2&hp

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

Live so that you never mind having the corners of your existence illuminated.

So you don't support a right to privacy?

[TheMercenary]

This confirms they are an internet terrorist organization...

King wrote to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Wednesday asking him to add WikiLeaks and Assange to a list banning U.S. companies from conducting business with them.

"The U.S. government simply cannot continue its ineffective piecemeal approach of responding in the aftermath of Wikileaks’ damage. The Administration must act to disrupt the Wikileaks enterprise," King said.

"The U.S. government should be making every effort to strangle the viability of Assange’s organization.”

Several payment processing firms including Paypal, Visa and Mastercard have already cut off their business relationships with the site, reportedly due to pressure from U.S. officials. Those sites were targeted by the hacker group Anonymous in a series of retributive attacks dubbed "Operation Payback."

Assange appeared to offer a threat to King in his statement.

"WikiLeaks has 'terrorized' politicians from Kenya to Kansas over the last four years. Quite a few have lost office as a result," Assange said. "That doesn’t mean we are 'terrorists'—it means we doing our job. We intend to 'terrorize' Peter King, Hillary Clinton, corrupt CEOs and all the rest for many years to come, because that is what the people of the world demand."

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...for-us-embargo

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

This confirms they are an internet terrorist organization...

And so were the people who released the Pentagon papers.

[TheMercenary]

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More terrorism from those Wikileaks. Leaks told Tunisia how corrupt their leaders were. So the country rose up to drive out a dictator. More terrorism sponsored by those Wikileaks – according to TheMercenary.

[TheMercenary]

More on Tunisia.... Time will tell.

Tunisia Grows Up
Here's hoping the Jasmine Revolution improves upon the legacy of Habib Bourguiba, the nation's first president.

http://www.slate.com/id/2281450/?from=rss

[Stormieweather]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

So you don't support a right to privacy?

An elected government? No. Personal privacy, yes. Even then, I don't lie, cheat, steal, manipulate or kill just because no one will find out about it. I live in an honorable manner, one which I am proud of, and would be, even if the details were exposed to the world and my enemies. I fully expect my country and my leaders to do the same.

And yet, they continually fail to do so.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

And yet, they continually fail to do so.

Get use to it, it's not going to change anytime soon.

[Shawnee123]

Yeah, get some use out of it.