US diplomatic cables to be dropped by wikileaks; US doing pre-emptive damage control

[aurik]

Despite the politicians doomsaying at the time, the pentagon came to the conclusion that the Afghanistan leaks didn't actually cause any harm.

[aduidarnenye]

Despite the politicians doomsaying at the time, the pentagon came to the conclusion that the Afghanistan leaks didn't actually cause any harm.

I suspected as much.

[notorious bum]

I wonder what kind of response we'll get when the upcoming BoA files get released. I hope it will be something of epic proportions and, in a perfect world, possible criminal offenses uncovered and brought to justice.

"People say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not."-some schmuck

[Mistress Stowastiq]

More about the Ron Paul article that Demo linked a few posts back:
2010-12-03: Rep. Ron Paul defends WikiLeaks
Submitted by admin on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 04:02


Very shocked to read that a broken condom results in what it says below.

http://wlcentral.org/node/480

2010-12-04: NSW Supreme Court solicitor: Letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Submitted by admin on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 04:09


By Peter Kemp, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW, on 2010-12-04

Dear Prime Minister
From the Sydney Morning Herald I note you made a comment of "illegal" on the matter of Mr Assange in relation to the ongoing leaks of US diplomatic cables.

Previously your colleague and Attorney General the Honourable McClelland announced an investigation of possible criminality by Mr Assange.

As a lawyer and citizen I find this most disturbing, particularly so when a brief perusal of the Commonwealth Criminal Code shows that liability arises under the Espionage provisions, for example, only when it is the Commonwealth's "secrets" that are disclosed and that there must be intent to damage the Commonwealth.

Likewise under Treason law, there must be an intent to assist an enemy. Clearly, and reinforced by publicly available material such as Professor Saul's excellent article:
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/soc...201-18glc.html
...Julian Assange has almost certainly committed no crime under Australian law in relation to his involvement in Wikileaks.

I join with Professor Saul also in asking you Prime Minister why has there been no public complaint to the US about both Secretaries of State Condaleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton being in major breach of International law ie UN Covenants, by making orders to spy on UN personnel, including the Secretary General, to include theft of their credit card details and communication passwords. Perhaps the Attorney General should investigate this clear prima facie evidence of crime (likely against Australian diplomats as well), rather than he attempts to prosecute the messenger of those crimes.

It is also disturbing that no Australian official has castigated Sweden for the shameful treatment Mr Assange has received ie his human rights abused, in that he has not been charged and served with papers in the English language regarding the evidence against him of alleged sexual offences. This is contrary to Article 6 of the European Covenant on Human Rights to which Sweden is a signatory nation.

Those offences remain unclear and the Swedish prosecutor Ms Ny appears to be making up the law as she wants. It appears now, by Ms Ny's interpretation that when consensual sex occurs but if a condom breaks, the male party is liable to 2 years imprisonment for sexual assault. All this information is publicly available.

An Australian citizen is apparently being singled out for "special treatment" Prime Minister. There are legitimate concerns among citizens here that his treatment by the Swedes is connected to US interests which are against the activities of Wikileaks, and you will note the strident, outrageous (and illegal) calls inciting violence against him in the US in demands for his assassination, by senior influential US politicians.

Granted that in western political circles, Mr Assange is not flavour of the month, but what he is doing in my opinion, and in the opinion of many here and abroad, is vitally necessary to expose American foreign policy failures and potential war crimes and crimes against humanity--not for the purpose of damaging US interests but to make them accountable.

While we have close and a good relationship with the US, there is no doubt that US influence and power is declining. That we appear to be still posturing, (given that declining power and a new paradigm of privately enforced accountability) to the US on the issue of Wikileaks is, Prime Minister, deeply disappointing.

Yours Faithfully
Peter Kemp.

(Readers are encouraged contact the Australian Prime Minister here: http://www.pm.gov.au/PM_Connect/Email_your_PM)

http://wlcentral.org/node/482

2010-12-04: Censorship watch: PayPal terminates WikiLeaks services
Submitted by admin on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 05:01
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PayPal joined Moneybookers, Amazon, Tableau and EveryDNS in cancelling services for WikiLeaks.

In a statement posted on its website, the company wrote: "PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We’ve notified the account holder of this action."

Daniel Ellsberg and many WikiLeaks supporters have called for a boycott of Amazon. PayPal may be next.

There are many other ways for supporters of truth and free speech to contribute to WikiLeaks, and we would like to encourage you to do so: http://213.251.145.96/support.html

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

This is pretty funny coming from the guy who has posted a books worth of typing from the rage he has that a tv show is fucking up his favorite comic book storyline.

I'm the Julian Assange of zombie adaptations, and I don't use condoms either

[Senoska]

I'm retarded. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

[Olo401]

I know Im about 1 month too late, but just chiming in on the arrest warrent from us (sweden), the majority of the swedish press is under the impression that the swedish secret police (SÄPO) hooked him up with 2 of their informants, gave him a good time, and then filed a bogus charge, thus warranting for his arrest. Like its a big surprise the swedish government is licking US balls.

Sounds like a job for...

http://mugsysrapsheet.com/4blog/okeefe_and_giles.jpg

[notorious bum]

@wikileaks
WikiLeaks
We will not be censored: WikiLeaks now running in over 208 locations http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

rofl

[Kerberoz]

I lol'd at wikileaks.tard.is

[Mistress Stowastiq]

From the UK Andrew Marr Show:
Transcript: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ow/9258262.stm "On Sunday 5th December Andrew Marr interviewed Mark Stephens, the solicitor for Julian Assange, wikileaks founder."

Youtube video of Andrew Marr Show interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIgcKC-b_FA&fmt=18 "Julian Assange's lawyer on bullsh1t charges and Wikileaks (05Dec10)"


Older Ignite vid of presentation at Foo Camp by WL volunteer/Tor project, Jacob Applebaum: "Anonymity and Circumvention in The Age of Surveillance". Jacob Appelbaum Presents Anonymity and Circumvention in The Age of Surveillance at Foo Camp 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBldkymPi4&fmt=18

[Tyche]

Seems relevant.

http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy...-has-cia-ties/

Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Saturday December 4, 2010 9:20 pm
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Yesterday Alexander Cockburn reminded us of the news Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett broke at Counterpunch in September. Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder of seventy three Cubans on an airliner he was involved in blowing up.

Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups. She published her anti-Castro diatribes (see here and here) in the Swedish-language publication Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de Cuba. From Oslo, Professor Michael Seltzer points out that this periodical is the product of a well-financed anti-Castro organization in Sweden. He further notes that the group is connected with Union Liberal Cubana led by Carlos Alberto Montaner whose CIA ties were exposed here.

Quelle surprise, no? Shamir and Bennett went on to write about Ardin’s history in Cuba with a US funded group openly supported by a real terrorist: Luis Posada Carriles.

In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White). This group receives US government funds and the convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a friend and supporter. Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo as saying that “the so-called Ladies in White defend the terrorism of the United States.”

Who is Luis Posada Carriles? He’s a mass murderer, and former CIA agent. . . .

Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) (nicknamed Bambi by some Cuban exiles)[1] is a Cuban-born Venezuelan anti-communist extremist. A former Central Intelligence Agency agent,[2] Posada has been convicted in absentia of involvement in various terrorist attacks and plots in the Americas, including: involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed seventy-three people;[3][4] admitted involvement in a string of bombings in 1997 targeting fashionable Cuban hotels and nightspots;[5][6][7] involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion; [and] involvement in the Iran-Contra affair…

Luis Posada Carriles is so evil that even the Bush administration wanted him behind bars:

In 2005, Posada was held by U.S. authorities in Texas on the charge of illegal presence on national territory before the charges were dismissed on May 8, 2007. On September 28, 2005 a U.S. immigration judge ruled that Posada cannot be deported, finding that he faces the threat of torture in Venezuela.[11] His release on bail on April 19, 2007 had elicited angry reactions from the Cuban and Venezuelan governments.[12] The U.S. Justice Department had urged the court to keep him in jail because he was “an admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks”, a flight risk and a danger to the community.[7]

Who is Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden? She’s a gender equity officer at Uppsula University – who chose to associate with a US funded group openly supported by a convicted terrorist and mass murderer. She just happens to have her work published by a very well funded group connected with Union Liberal Cubana – whose leader, Carlos Alberto Montaner, in turn just happened to pop up on right wing Colombian TV a few hours after the right-wing coup in Honduras. Where he joined the leader of the failed coup in Ecuador to savage Correa, the target of the coup. Montnaner also just happened to vociferously support the violent coup in Honduras, and chose to show up to sing the praises of the Honduran junta. Jean-Guy Allard, a retired Canadian journalist who now writes for Cuba’s Gramma, captured the moment

A strange pair appeared on NTN 24, the right-wing Colombian television channel aligned to the Fox Broadcasting Company the U.S. A few hours after the coup attempt in Quito, Ecuador, CIA agent Carlos Alberto Montaner, a fugitive from Cuban justice for acts of terrorism, joined with one of the leaders of the failed Ecuadorian coup, ex-Lieutenant Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez, to attack President Rafael Correa…
On the margin of his media news shows, Montaner’s is known for his fanatic support of the most extreme elements of the Cuban-American mafia.
Last year, in the wake of the coup d’état against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, June 28, he became an fervent supporter of the dictator Roberto Micheletti, along with U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and another Cuban-American terrorist and CIA collaborator, Armando Valladares.
Montaner showed up repeatedly in Tegucigalpa to “defend human rights,” and at the same time to applaud the fascist Honduran regime when it unleashed its police on demonstrations by the National Resistance Front.

Oh…and the “rape” charge that’s smeared Julian Assange’s name around the world? On Thursday James D. Catlin, the Melbourne barrister who represented Assange in London, wrote:

Apparently having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment of a minimum of two years for rape. That is the basis for a reinstitution of rape charges against WikiLeaks figurehead Julian Assange that is destined to make Sweden and its justice system the laughing stock of the world and dramatically damage its reputation as a model of modernity.
Sweden’s Public Prosecutor’s Office was embarrassed in August this year when it leaked to the media that it was seeking to arrest Assange for rape, then on the same day withdrew the arrest warrant because in its own words there was “no evidence”. The damage to Assange’s reputation is incalculable. More than three quarters of internet references to his name refer to rape. Now, three months on and three prosecutors later, the Swedes seem to be clear on their basis to proceed. Consensual sex that started out with a condom ended up without one, ergo, the sex was not consensual.

I’ve spent much of my professional life as a psychiatrist helping women (and men) who are survivors of sexual violence. Rape is a hideous crime. Yet in Assange’s case his alleged victim – the gender equity officer at Uppsala University – chose to throw a party for her alleged assailant – after they’d had the sex that even Swedish prosecutors concede was consensual. Barrister Caitlin again:

[The] phenomena of social networking through the internet and mobile phones constrains Swedish authorities from augmenting the evidence against Assange because it would look even less credible in the face of tweets by Anna Ardin and SMS texts by Sofia Wilén boasting of their respective conquests after the “crimes”.
In the case of Ardin it is clear that she has thrown a party in Assange’s honour at her flat after the “crime” and tweeted to her followers that she is with the “the world’s coolest smartest people, it’s amazing!”. Go on the internet and see for yourself. That Ardin has sought unsuccessfully to delete these exculpatory tweets from the public record should be a matter of grave concern. That she has published on the internet a guide on how to get revenge on cheating boyfriends ever graver. The exact content of Wilén’s mobile phone texts is not yet known but their bragging and exculpatory character has been confirmed by Swedish prosecutors. Neither Wilén’s nor Ardin’s texts complain of rape.

Small world, isn’t it? Julian Assange is the human face of Wikileaks – the organization that’s enabled whistle-blowers to reveal hideous war crimes and expose much of America’s foreign policy to the world.
He just happens to meet a Swedish woman who just happens to have been publishing her work in a well-funded anti-Castro group that just happens to have links with a group led by a man at least one journalist describes as an agent of the CIA: the violent secret arm of America’s foreign policy.
And she just happens to have been expelled from Cuba, which just happens to be the global symbol of successful defiance of American foreign policy.
And – despite her work in Sweden upholding the human right of gender equity – in Cuba she just happens to end up associating with a group openly supported by an admitted CIA agent who himself committed mass murder when he actively participated in the terrorist bombing of a jetliner carrying a Cuban sports team…an act that was of a piece with America’s secret foreign policy of violent attacks against Cuban state interests.
And now she just happens – after admittedly consensual sex – to have gone to Swedish authorities to report the sex ended without a condom…which just happens to be the pretext for Interpol to issue a “Red Notice” informing the world’s police forces of charges against Julian Assange.
Who just happens to be the man America’s political class – the people who run America’s foreign policy – have been trying to silence. And who happens to be the man some of them have been calling to have murdered.
With a lust for vengeance like that, one could be forgiven for concluding they’ve just happened to have taken a page from Anna’s revenge manual.

[Max™]

I'm sorry, all I saw when I first glanced was the names "Alexander Cockburn" and "Counterpunch" merged into "Alexander Cockpunch", and now I have to stop chortling before I can read.

[notorious bum]

After the bludgeoning use of "Just so happens!" I have a sudden urge to catch up on some episodes of House.

[Max™]

Then he could turn "It's not Lupus" into "It's not rape"!

[notorious bum]

I'm only up to season 4, but I'm pretty sure there was an episode where both of those phrases were used...

[Kerberoz]

Episode, or scene?

[BerenTebogo]

Seems relevant.

http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy...-has-cia-ties/

This is my shocked face.

[Athas]

So it seems the claims that these leaks have endangered lives have been vindicated somewhat with this latest release then?

[Uzor]

Speaking of the above article, there's also this one;

http://radsoft.net/news/20101001,01.shtml

Which proves that Anna Ardin, one of the women that accused him of rape, had a relationship with him and does this for revenge. Petty crimes such as rape has not warranted an international arrest order before, it's stupid the Assange case should lead to one.

Oh her blog, she also writes the following:

I've been thinking about some revenge over the last few days and came across a page which loosely translated is composed of the seven-point revenge instruction.

Revenge should never be directed against only one person, but also meet a certain action.

A good revenge is linked to what has been done against you. For example if you want revenge on someone who cheated or who dumped you, the punishment should have something to with the dating / sex / fidelity.

To continue the example above, you can ruin your victim's current relationship, fix so that his new partner is cheating or ensure that he gets a madwoman after him. Use your imagination!

Figure out how you can get revenge systematically. Perhaps a series of letters and photographs that may be new to believe that you have seen more than just a big lie on a single occasion?

[Kerberoz]

So it seems the claims that these leaks have endangered lives have been vindicated somewhat with this latest release then?

Not innocent lives.