Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange

"Many Arab officials are US spies in their own countries"
"... Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview wh...

Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA
Source: CBS Less than 2,000 of the purported 250,000 diplomatic cables in Wikileaks possession have been made public. There has been plenty of speculation as to what's left, since the revelations thus far have been a broad mix of both gossipy and inflammatory information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Al Jazeera network Wednesday that some of things he is holding back could be downright explosive, reports the Emptywheel website. Assange said: "Top Officials in several Arab countries have...

Assange Alerts His Hostages
Remember how I suggested that Obama was establishing a practice of only making deals with people-whether they be Republicans or Democrats-who take hostages? Well, Julian Assange just made it clear who his hostages are: Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing...

If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepared to out CIA-linked Arab leaders
Source: Raw Story Middle Eastern leaders who've become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could face severe retribution from their local populations if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is killed or jailed for a lengthy amount of time. That's because, in a recent interview with Arabic news network Al Jazeera, Assange allegedly warned that he had a document which reveals the identities of officials who voluntarily cultivated relationships with the CIA. "These officials are spie...

More Assange
Nick Davies of The Guardian: Jagger also insists that she has a right to know who leaked the file to the Guardian and says that the leak was part of “an obvious effort to conduct a smear campaign” against Assange. Setting aside for a moment the head-splitting hypocrisy that a supporter of Wikileaks wants to hunt down the source of a leak, there are two similar problems with this claim. First, Jagger has no idea who leaked that file (and made no attempt to find out). Second, if she ...

FLASHBACK: 9/11 Skeptics Say Julian Assange Being Manipulated by the CIA
© unknown Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks Various 9/11 Truthers are changing their previously positive opinion of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. He is now being disowned by this clique and even being regarded as a paid agent. Regular readers of the press will be aware that supporters of recent decisions by Wikileaks and Julian Assange to publish thousands of classified documents concerning American Military and intelligence activities - much to the ire of American authorities - somet...

Gilad Atzmon: Wikileaks and Israel
© unknown Julian Assange 'Wikileaks to publish Israel files on Second Lebanon War, Dubai Assassination' Julian Assange said today that thousands of documents related to Israel are due to be released over next six months. Assange admitted also that so far only 2% of the Wikileaks released documents related to Israel were picked by the Western Mainstream Media, something to do with 'sensitivities' of the Jewish communities in France, Germany, Britain and the USA. I guess that more than e...

Julian Assange, My Parents and the Espionage Act of 1917
In my parents' case the only evidence presented against my mother was David and Ruth Greenglasses' Testimony that she was present at a critical Espionage meeting and typed up David's handwritten description of a sketch. Although this Testimony has since been shown to be false, even if it were true, it would mean that the government of the United States executed someone for typing. But the reach of "Conspiracy" is even more insidious. It means that ANYONE with whom my parents could have discuss...

WikiLeaks Cables: Test Your 'Cablegate' Knowledge Here (QUIZ)
As Wikileaks continues to release a steady stream of confidential documents from the U.S. State Department, the ensuing "Cablegate" Scandal continues to dominate the headlines. From churlish assessments of various world leaders, less-than-savory details on The Pope and even a Tabloid-like dish on a handful of Hollywood stars, the release seems to be affecting everyone. Maligned by some and adored by others, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has become a bit of a celebrity in his own right. In...

Jonathan Weiler: Bradley Manning: Political Prisoner?
In a recent New Yorker column, titled "Gulag Lite," David Remnick, makes the case that the former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Political Prisoner. Nothing gets old Russia hands like Remnick more excited than the opportunity to moralize about Russian political malfeasance -- it's a particularly satisfying itch to scratch. But this isn't a hard case to make: There is little doubt that the former chairman of Yukos oil has been the Victim of selective prosecution. He's already been in ...

WikiLeaks News Story of the Year
Read Nick Gillespie's essay, "The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide." The key point is that unlike the umpteen other purported "game-changing" news stories, WikiLeaks is genuinely new. And Gillespie argues the frequently heard point that WikiLeaks' impact goes far beyond one individual, such as Julian Assange. Beside that though is to what effect? What's the utility beyond the crazed Anarchist's dream of sowing mayhem and destroying state operations, if not the state. We get tha...

What's in the Manning/Lamo WikiLeaks Chat Logs?
Glenn Greenwald has been warring with Wired over Wired's supposed responsibility to release more of the chat logs between arrested-but-not-convicted alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the man to whom he supposedly confessed his Crime and who turned him in. Here is Wired explaining why they have released all they ought, and why Greenwald is a hypocrite, a bad Journalist, and any number of other yucky things. Here is Greenwald's response to Wired (including suggestive accusations...

WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from U.S. cables on Wikileaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The Activists, acting under the name Anonymous, said in a statement on their website: "We are targeting Mugabe and his regime in the ZANU-PF who have outlawed the free press and threaten to sue anyone publishing WikiLeaks." The Zimbabwean government web portal www.gta.gov.zw was unreachable on Thursda...

Julian Assange, the Rosenberg Case and the Espionage Act of 1917
Rumors are swirling that the United States is preparing to indict Wikileaks leader Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. The modern version of that act states among many, many other things that: "Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States" causes the disclosure or publication of this material, could be subject to massive crim...

WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
LONDON | Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:10pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber Activists say they have brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the president's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a Wikileaks cable linking her with illicit diamond trading. President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from U.S. cables on Wikileaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The activists, acting under the name Anonymous, sai...

Montana's "Inquisition" and Wikileaks
So you are a little girl in grammar school in 1917. Your name is Christine Shupp and you live near Melville in Sweet Grass County. Every morning after the pledge of allegiance to the flag, the teacher makes you, alone, kneel down on the floor and kiss the flag. It is because you are German. You are a rancher in Rosebud County and you call WWI "a Millionaire's war" and you are dragged off by neighbors to jail. You're in a saloon and call war time food regulations "a big joke" and you are sentence...

Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical
One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek ​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, childlike old woman known as "Sook." They gallivant through the hills and dales together, buying whiskey and making fruitcase and chopping down their very own Christmas Tree. That kind of sums up how...

If Only WikiLeaks Existed Before the Iraq War Began: Die Zeit, Germany
Here’s an interesting question: would the release of internal White House documents before the Iraq War began have prevented the Bush Administration from going ahead with it? According to columnist Ulrich Ladurner of Germany’s Die Zeit, not only is it likely that the war would have been prevented - but Julian Assange may well have won the Nobel Peace Prize. For Die Zeit, Ulrich Ladurner writes in part: Julian Assange has been much reviled for his dogma that everything should b...

Bradley W. Bloch: How Is Leaking Like Getting a Job?
Noam Scheiber has a much-read piece at The New Republic positing that Wikileaks "will be the death of Big Business and Big Government." In short, the Thesis is that in the age of WikiLeaks, everyone is a potential leaker, and the larger the company or government agency, the more potential leakers it has. As tightening security is of limited effectiveness, there will be downward pressure on the size of organization so that they are: Small enough to avoid wide-scale alienation, which clearly exc...

Headline men
Some of the men who have made the headlines in 2010, left to right: Kiki, Wayne Bridge, Carlos Slim Helu, Tony Hayward (top), Danny Alexander, Nicholas Mahut, Julian Assange, Gareth Williams (middle), Walter Kasper, Luis Urzua, Edward Woollard, Eddie Afekafe (bottom). JANUARY An eight-year-old boy name Kiki provided one of those heart-rending moments that so often give relief from the misery of Natural Disasters. He was pulled from the ruins of a two-storey building that had been flattened in t...

Fox News Gets In The Holiday Spirit By Likening Ground Zero Imam To Al Qaeda
The imam of the proposed so-called Ground Zero Mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is going on a national speaking tour next month in order to, as the New York Times described it “promote the planned (Islamic cultural) center and to foster dialogue about Muslim life in America.” Apparently, the very thought has left Fox News pundits shaking in their boots. Rather than use the opportunity for a dialogue, they’ve jumped full-bore back into demonizing Imam Rauf. As Priscilla noted a few da...

FBI Raids Texas Business in Criminal Probe of Pro-Wikileaks DOS Attacks
The Smoking Gun has details on an FBI affidavit detailing their Criminal Investigation of ‘Operation Payback’, leading to a Raid on a Texas business called Tailor Made Services. DECEMBER 29—As part of an international Criminal Probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of Wikileaks, the FBI has raided a Texas business and seized a computer server that investigators believe was used to launch a massive electronic attack on PayPal, The Smo...

U.S. jobless claims hit lowest level in more than two-years
Reuters has compiled a multimedia showcase of some of 2010's top stories, including the BP Oil Spill, Korean tensions, the Earthquake in Haiti, violence in Greece, Pakistan floods, and the arrest of Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange. Video WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for Unemployment Benefits dropped more than expected last week to touch their Lowest Level in more than two years, suggesting the labor market recovery was gaining strength. Initial claims for state Unemployment... WASHINGTO...

Wise up to WikiLeaks, British govt warned
Britain's freedom of information Watchdog has warned government ministers that the Wikileaks revelations mean they can no longer assume they are operating in private. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said that rather than "clamming up", ministers needed to "wise up" to the fact that almost any official communication could potentially be made public. "We are strongly of the view that things should be published," he said, according to The Guardian newspaper on Friday. "Where you're open...

New Flurry of Baghdad Bombs Target Christians, Killing Two
Adding to the pressure on Iraq’s dwindling Christian minority, at least 10 bombing attacks were launched today in the capital city of Baghdad, killing two Christians and wounding at least 20 others. The bombs, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry, were planted near the homes of Christians. Officials say four additional bombs were defused before they were able to explode. So far there have been no arrests reported in relation to the strikes. Officials say the attacks were timed to ...