AP – The accelerated public disclosure of tens of thousands of previously unreleased State Department cables by the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy organization has raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential U.S. embassy sources and is proving a source of fresh diplomatic setbacks and embarrassment for the Obama administration, current and former American officials said Tuesday.
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A nice background report on the WikiLeaks Guantanamo files, at Los Angeles Times : The documents are part of thousands of pages of Pentagon dossiers that describe how the detainees were captured, the nature of their alleged crimes and what they had told interrogators — often under duress — in interviews between 2002 and 2008. In all, there are 779 total documents that are in the process of being released. The files are officially titled Detainee Assessment Briefs. In the Daniel Pearl slaying, according to the newly released material, Sayf al-Adl, a former top Al Qaeda military commander, was outspoken in cautioning Mohammed against killing the reporter. But Mohammed turned for guidance to another Al Qaeda leader, identified as Sharif al-Masri, the group’s chief financial officer, and the two of them “disagreed with Adl on this point.” Next, “Pearl was taken to the house of Al Qaeda’s finance chief in Pakistan, Saud Memon, and murdered” there. Mohammed boasted in the documents that the “planes operation” of Sept. 11 was his “dream and life’s work.” A Pakistani raised in Kuwait, he was captured in March 2003, totally disheveled but wearing a ring and a Casio wristwatch, and later was forced to undergo 183 separate water-boarding treatments to get him to talk. He described a plan to build remote-controlled firing devices disguised as Sega video game cartridges. He began preparations for bombing “the tallest building in California” — presumably the Library Tower (now the U.S. Bank tower) in Los Angeles, “using at least two separate shoe bombs to gain access to the cockpit.” He wanted to hit CIA and FBI headquarters and nuclear power plants, hack into U.S. bank computers and hijack U.S. cargo planes. He discussed a series of natural gas explosions he wanted to perpetrate in Chicago and researched “the feasibility of an operation to set fire to a hotel or gas station” there. More at the link above. RELATED : At Telegraph UK , ” WikiLeaks: Guantánamo Bay terrorists radicalised in London to attack Western target ,” and ” WikiLeaks: leaked files accuse BBC of being part of a ‘possible propaganda media network .” No surprise there. Next we’ll see files showing NYT as part of a propaganda media network, etc.
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Activists trying to build sympathy for the Army private accused in the WikiLeaks case made a splash by confronting President Barack Obama with a song of protest at a fund-raiser they had paid more than $100,000 to attend.
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Reuters – The Obama administration, under criticism for its treatment of the U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website, is transferring the detainee to a Kansas jail.
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Reuters – The Obama administration, under criticism for its treatment of the U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website, is transferring the detainee to a Kansas jail.
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This is from the Heritage Foundation, discussing David Rivkin, lead attorney in the multi-state lawsuit challenging Obamacare, ” Lead Lawyer Challenging Obamacare Under Cyber Attack .” Rivkin’s come under a vicious denial-of-service attack from hacktivists in the WikiLeaks mold. As we’ve seen around here, communists and progressives (and faux -conservative pedophiles) can’t win in the realm of ideas, so they resort to thuggery and intimidation. More on this later …
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Conservatives Don’t Need to Cheat or Break the Law to Win the War of Ideas.
The surprise of the century, no doubt. At Time , ” Courtroom Conflict “: The extradition hearings in London Monday of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange drips with intrigue: a mysterious Australian hacker accused of sex crimes by two Swedish women. Now add this to the mix: Monday, a retired female judge accused the female Swedish prosecutor attempting to extradite Assange of having a “biased view” against men. As part of the two-day hearing to determine whether Assange should be taken to Sweden to face sex-crimes charges, retired Swedish appeal court judge Brita Sundberg-Weitman launched an outspoken attack on Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny. Sundberg-Weitman was flown to London by Assange’s legal team to give evidence supporting their argument that Assange’s extradition would be a “flagrant denial of justice”. They got their money’s worth, as Sundberg-Weitman a published academic and associate professor at Stockholm University, accused Ny of having a “rather biased view against men,” according to an account by Britain’s Press Assocation. More at the link above, and at Telegraph UK , ” Julian Assange extradition hearing: Swedish prosecutor ‘is biased against men’: Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, is the victim of a “malicious” attempt to extradite him by a Swedish prosecutor who is “biased against men”, a court has been told .” I’ve been meaning to update my reporting on this, but once Phyllis Chesler weighed in I paused it bit to think it through. See, ” NewsReal Faux Feminist Naomi Wolf Joins Assange in Crusade to Bring Down America .” I still might have some commentary, perhaps reconciling the dual strands of feminism animating the case.
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AP – Investigative documents in the WikiLeaks probe spilled out into the public domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama administration’s determination to assemble a criminal case no matter how long it takes and how far afield authorities have to go.
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I saw this on Twitter last night, and no denying her updates are fascinating ( here , for example). So is her homepage . She’s a political radical and former WikiLeaks activist who co-produced the “Collateral Damage” propaganda video, and a Member of the Icelandic Parliament now in the spotlight during the latest turn in the ongoing WikiLeaks investigation See NYT , ” U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Over WikiLeaks Supporters ” (and Memeorandum ): The move to get the information from five prominent figures tied to the group was revealed late Friday when Birgitta Jonsdottir, a former WikiLeaks activist who is also a member of Iceland’s Parliament, said she had received a notification of the subpoena from the social networking site Twitter. The United States government, she said in a subsequent message, “wants to know about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?” The subpoena, obtained by the Web site Salon.com, was issued by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on Dec. 14 and asks for the complete account information of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the United States Army intelligence specialist awaiting a military court martial under suspicion of leaking materials to WikiLeaks, as well as Ms. Jonsdottir, Mr. Assange, and two computer programmers, Rop Gonggrijp and Jacob Appelbaum. That information includes addresses, screen names, telephone numbers, and credit card and bank account numbers. But the subpoena does not ask for the content of private messages sent using Twitter. It was unsealed, allowing Twitter to inform those concerned, on Jan. 5. RELATED : From Jónsdóttir last January, ” A Call to the People of the World to Support Iceland Against the Financial Blackmail of the British and Dutch Governments and the IMF .”
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