Well he is screwed then!

In an interview last week, a New York Times journalist said that the State Department redacted the Wiki Leaks documents, before they were published and they sent the redacted documents back to Wiki Leaks for inclusion on the web site... Now the US has set up the WTF (Wikileaks Task Force) to look into the matter.

It sounds weirder and weirder every day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12079794

It's amazing that excuse hasn't been used more widely actually... and lol at the 'drug burning'

If that is the case. then the chances of him getting tried in the US look very slim.

FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation

Authorities in the US and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this month.

In documents posted to the Smoking Gun website, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation describes the complex path its investigation has taken as it has searched for the computers that served as a central meeting point for the attacks.

After Germany's Federal Criminal Police raided service provider Host Europe, they linked one of he IRC servers to Dallas's Tailor Made Services, the documents state. Two hard drives were seized from Dallas's Tailor Made Services on Dec. 16, the Smoking Gun reports. Another IRC server has been traced to Fremont, California's Hurricane Electric.

Neither Hurricane Electric nor Tailor Made Services could be reached immediately for comment on Thursday.

The early-December attacks were part of a grassroots campaign called "Operation Payback", which tried to put pressure on companies that had severed relations with WikiLeaks after it began publishing classified US Department of State cables. Operation Payback is the work of a group called Anonymous, which has launched similar attacks against the Church of Scientology and the Motion Picture Association of America in the past.

The attacks were strong, but minimally disruptive. They knocked websites offline, but they didn't touch any of the target's back-end transaction processing systems. They also garnered a lot of publicity for Anonymous.

Ringleaders urged volunteers to download software that flooded websites with useless internet traffic, ultimately causing may of them to come grinding to a stop. Other victims included the websites of WikiLeaks critic Sarah Palin and the Swedish Prosecutor's Office, which is pursuing sex charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The FBI investigation centres on the IRC servers, used to coordinate the attacks. The FBI initiated the investigation on Dec. 9 after PayPal provided them with the Internet Protocol addresses of eight IRC servers used in by the group.

On Dec. 9, Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the attacks.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.c ... ID=3254762

An interesting piece on the whole thing in this months FT - Clicky.

Really enjoyed that, thanks

Yes it was interesting. I am not a great believer of conspiracy theories. Much can be explained by simple cock up and cover up.

So Who Else Did The Government Demand Info From In The Wikileaks Investigation?

from the and-why-didn't-they-fight-it? dept

We've already pointed out that Twitter deserves serious praise for standing up to the government's gag order on an information request for some folks associated with Wikileaks. Others noticed the same thing. As Ryan Singel at Wired noted, Twitter beta tested a spine, and that sort of response should be standard. Singel (and some of our own commenters) also pointed out that Twitter was following in the footsteps of Nicholas Merrill, the head of Calyx Internet Access. Merrill, famously, fought a gag order on a National Security Letter he received from the FBI.

Still, as we pointed out in our original post on this, it should make you wonder who else got these gagged data requests from the feds and just rolled over and handed over the info. It appears that others are wondering this as well. There's quite a bit of speculation that both Facebook and Google likely received similar court orders (with similar gags included), and of course neither company will comment. Hopefully, in the future, they'll recognize from Twitter's lead that it's not just possible to stand up to these requests, but it's also a damn good idea.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201101 ... tion.shtml

That's the first I'd heard of it


Rep. Peter King Wants Treasury Dept. To Put Wikileaks On Terrorist List

from the overreact-much? dept

Apparently Rep. Peter King is in a competition with Senator Joe Lieberman to see who can overreact more to Wikileaks. It seems like a neck-and-neck competition, with Peter King's brand of craziness potentially taking the lead. King, of course, was the guy who insisted that Wikileaks should be declared a terrorist organization and claimed (with nothing whatsoever to back this up) that the cable leak was worse than a military attack. His latest move is to ask Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to add Wikileaks to the Treasury Department's "Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List," which is usually used to designate terrorist and organized crime operations.

So while Lieberman merely used political pressure to get companies to block or censor Wikileaks, King wants it to become official government policy that no US companies or individuals should be doing anything with Wikileaks. Overreact much?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201101 ... list.shtml

This is Peter King with some beardy bloke:



I know what list I'd like to see King on...

The wikileaks disclosures from the diplomatic cables were embarrassing, though the over reaction from some quarters is hysterical.

As good a reason as any that they should continue

Assange vows to drop 'insurance' files on Rupert Murdoch

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he has a trove of private documents on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp empire and is prepared to release them in the event the whistle-blower website is taken down.

“If something happens to me or to WikiLeaks, 'insurance' files will be released,” he told The New Statesman. “There are 504 US embassy cables on one broadcasting organisation and there are cables on Murdoch and News Corp.”

The comments came a day after Assange told journalists in the UK that WikiLeaks planned to step up the publication of confidential US diplomatic cables following a lull in late December. The site will also move ahead with plans to publish tens of thousands of confidential documents depicting an “ecosystem of corruption” at Bank of America, CNBC reported.

Assange said WikiLeaks is mirrored on more than 2,000 websites.

Meanwhile, WikiLeaks supporter Jacob Appelbaum said in a series of tweets he was detained for about 30 minutes by US customs officials earlier this week upon his return from Iceland.

“I was detained, searched, and CPB did attempt to question me about the nature of my vacation upon landing in Seattle,” he wrote in one dispatch, in an apparent reference to the US Customs and Border Protection. “The CPB specifically wanted laptops and cell phones and were visibly unhappy when they discovered nothing of the sort. I did however have a few USB thumb drives with a copy of the Bill of Rights encoded into the block device. They were unable to copy it.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/12 ... nce_files/

Release them anyway!

Yes do. I would like to see an end to the hold that Murdoch has over the government. Hopefully there will be enough to have him locked up.

WikiLeaks hits out over 'terror list' threat

WikiLeaks has hit out over US proposals to place the site in the same international pariah category as terrorists.

Earlier this week the US House Committee on Homeland Security said it hoped to “strangle the viability” out of the site by placing it on an “enemies list” usually reserved for terrorists and rogue nation states.

According to WikiLeaks, being placed on the "Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List" would criminalise any US companies that dealt with WikiLeaks or its editor Julian Assange.

“The Homeland Security Committee wants to put a Cuban style trade embargo around the truth,” said Assange.

“WikiLeaks is a publishing organisation. There is no allegation by the US Government that WikiLeaks has hurt anyone as a result of anything it has published. WikiLeaks has 'terrorised' politicians, but that doesn’t mean we are 'terrorists' — it means we doing our job.”

The comments came in response to security officials trying to close the stable door on the fallout from leaks including Iraq War files and the embassy cables.

"The US Government simply cannot continue its ineffective piecemeal approach of responding in the aftermath of WikiLeaks’ damage," committee chairman Peter King said. "The Government should be making every effort to strangle the viability of Assange’s organisation."

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/364378/wiki ... ist-threat

The more this continues, the more obvious it will be to the world that America is the most frightening arrogant terrorist regime in the world. Hopefully if it continues, even people in Texas will start to understand...