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Wikileaks - It's time to open the archives

Anyway.

A Swedish politician having given the US the opportunity to change the story from US diplomacy to Assange...

What we need now are the US diplomatic cables with instructions on how to help get Assange.

Please?
 
Lock&Light said:
Columbia University seems to have reversed itself.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/columbia-wikileaks-policy/
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SIPA Professor Gary Sick, the prominent Middle East expert who served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, went even further in repudiating the memo.

“If anyone is a master’s student in international relations and they haven’t heard of WikiLeaks and gone looking for the documents that relate to their area of study, then they don’t deserve to be a graduate student in international relations,
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Fair point.
 
Crispy said:
"By appointment" apparently. This mean he went quietly?
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It means the police phoned him and arranged a time for him to present himself at a designated police station. No screaming sirens and handcuffs. It's what the police do every day when they wish to interview people under caution.
 
Now that they've frozen WL and JA's accounts does anyone have any idea of a safe route for donating (for his defence fund, etc.)? I don't particularly want to chuck some money their way only to see it whisked away.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
It means the police phoned him and arranged a time for him to present himself at a designated police station. No screaming sirens and handcuffs. It's what the police do every day when they wish to interview people under caution.
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His lawyers negotiated it.
 
Regarding the Time Person of the Year...

Shouldn't it be "Julian Assange and Bradley Manning" or "Julian Assange & Unnamed Leaker".

Seeing how Bradley Manning did the tricky and life sacrificing bit, bit of a nob for blabbing about it though but nevermind.
 
Mr Assange is due to appear at City of Westminster magistrates' court today, at around 14:00 GMT.

A Wikileaks spokesman told the Press Association that the arrest would in no way obstruct the release of US cable documents and that the organisation would continue to function from London and elsewhere.

A little while later, Wikileaks tweeted: "Today's actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won't affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal."
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source

"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."
 
http:// torrents.thepiratebay.org/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance.5723136.TPB.torrent
torrents.thepiratebay.org
the insurance.....
 
What do people think about the argument that wikileaks can be self-defeating.

I.e. it's ethos is to encourage culture of disclosure through offering leakers anonymity but that this might also discourage any culture of disclosure amongst its targets.
 
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