Posts Tagged ‘assange’

Posted on December 14, 2010 - by Venik

Holbrooke’s Dead

One of America’s preeminent diplomats (a title not hard to attain, judging by the Wikileaks’ publications), former VP of a leading private equity firm Perseus LLC, and former board member of AIG died at the age of 69 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm after a meeting with Secretary Clinton. Evil tongues claim Wikileaks was the [...]

Posted on December 11, 2010 - by Venik

Nothing Odd

A couple of days ago Claes Borgström (thank God I am not Swedish), the lawyer representing Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén in the sex case against Julian Assange, decided to explain some of the more obvious discrepancies in his clients’ version of events. Normally, this is what a good lawyer would be expected to do [...]

Posted on December 9, 2010 - by Venik

WikiDefendors

Today Wikileaks and Julian Assange gained two new influential supporters: the UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay and her nemesis the Batman (aka Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin). Putin’s vocal support of Julian Assange comes a day after a member of Medvedev’s administration suggested Assange should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. “When asked [...]