Posts Tagged ‘WikiLeaks’
Posted on January 28, 2011 - by Venik
FBI Rushes to VISA’s Defense
The FBI has announced that it executed 40 search warrants for suspected members of the Anonymous international hacktivist group known for its actions in of Wikileaks. Police in the UK has arrested five suspected members of the group. Anonymous is credited with the successful attacks against VISA and MasterCard payment systems late last year after [...]
Posted on December 20, 2010 - by Venik
Conspiracy Theory
I am at work, filling my office with clouds of cigar smoke and reading Jim Goad’s “Julian Assange’s Honey Trap: That’s Rape in Sweden“, perhaps the most entertaining account to date of Assange’s Stockholm adventure. And a seemingly redundant question popped into my head: why exactly did Assange go to Sweden? I know, he went [...]
Posted on December 16, 2010 - by Venik
Sweden Wants Out
Swedish prosecutors investigating Julian Assange told reporters that they were not involved in the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision to appeal an earlier decision by a judge at City of Westminster magistrates court granting Assange bail. “Karin Rosander, director of communications for Sweden’s prosecutor’s office, told the Guardian: “The decision was made by the British prosecutor. [...]
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 [...]
Posted on December 7, 2010 - by Venik
PayPal dumps Wikileaks
As you already know, PayPal stopped accepting charitable donations for Wikileaks. The Guardian reported that PayPal froze about eighty thousand dollars donated to Wikileaks via PayPal Donations service. So far PayPal has refused to release the funds, nor has it issued refunds to its customers who donated the money. I know this because I donated [...]
Posted on December 6, 2010 - by Venik
Low Hanging Fruit
The US government is pressuring Assange, his co-workers, Internet service providers, house pets, and even his lawyers. Ignoring the obvious illegality of this tactic, the more important question is: what exactly is the Department of State hoping to accomplish by harassing Wikileaks? The cat is out of the bag, the worms are out of the can. The entire collection of 250,000-some US embassy cables has already been widely distributed among leading newspapers and private citizens in various countries.
Posted on December 4, 2010 - by Venik
US Embassy Cables: Amateur Hour
By shining the light on the kindergarten that is the US Foreign Service, Wikileaks has effectively put an end to US diplomatic activities worldwide. No amount of damage control by the Department of State will turn the clock back and give back American diplomats the respect they lost. It will have to be earned from scratch over the coming years and decades. Short of a major asteroid impact, this leak of embassy cables is the most damaging thing that could have hit America’s national interests.
Posted on July 27, 2010 - by Venik
The Biggest Secret
While the US Army is revving up its investigation of Bradley Manning, those of us with a gift for diagonal reading are sure to be very busy for the next couple of weeks. However, I think it is safe to say that the Afghan war’s two biggest “secrets” have been sufficiently exposed. And they are [...]
