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Senators unveil anti-WikiLeaks bill
Topic Started: Dec 5 2010, 08:01 PM (645 Views)
JFK
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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/131885-senators-unveil-anti-wikileaks-legislation

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Senators unveil anti-WikiLeaks bill
By Gautham Nagesh - 12/03/10 12:45 PM ET

Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill Thursday aimed at stopping WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants.

Ensign accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his "cronies" of hindering America's war efforts and creating a "hit list" for U.S. enemies by outing intelligence sources.

“Our sources are bravely risking their lives when they stand up against the tyranny of al Qaeda, the Taliban and murderous regimes, and I simply will not stand idly by as they become death targets because of Julian Assange," Ensign said. "Let me be very clear, WikiLeaks is not a whistleblower website and Assange is not a journalist.”

Assange has been under fire in recent weeks thanks to his site's dissemination of thousands of classified diplomatic cables, some of which have proved embarrassing to the Obama administration because of their frank tone. Attorney General Eric Holder recently pledged to close gaps in the law that allow sites like WikiLeaks to continue to operate.

The Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act (SHIELD) would give the government the flexibility to pursue Assange for allegedly outing confidential U.S. informants. Brown said the law would prevent anyone from compromising national security in a similar manner, while Lieberman said its passage was essential to restore the international diplomatic community's faith in the U.S.

"Our foreign representatives, allies and intelligence sources must have the clear assurance that their lives will not be endangered by those with opposing agendas, whether they are Americans or not, and our government must make it clear that revealing the identities of these individuals will not be tolerated," Lieberman said.

Earlier this week, Lieberman reportedly convinced Amazon.com to stop hosting WikiLeaks, forcing the website to relocate to Switzerland.

Amazon denied government pressure influenced the decision, which they attributed to WikiLeaks's violating the company's terms of service and putting innocent lives at risk.

"It’s clear that WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content," Amazon said in a statement. "Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren’t putting innocent people in jeopardy."

WikiLeaks responded on Twitter by calling Amazon cowardly and dishonest.

"Amazon's press release does not accord with the facts on public record. It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie about it."

Assange is also currently facing a warrant in Sweden concerning accusations of sexual assault of two young women. Assange has said the encounters were consensual and has called the investigation an international plot to stop WikiLeaks.

A well-known recluse, Assange has gone underground, only resurfacing to conduct remote interviews with the press.


I hope they do arrest Julian Assange... I am eagerly awaiting the decryption keys for this 1.4 Gb "insurance.aes256" file. :D
Edited by JFK, Dec 5 2010, 08:03 PM.
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The only thing it does is make certain that this law and treaties are in accordance with the law of the United States and allies. I doubt the allies would even begin to follow such an ass-humping as Liberman has created here. Notice the two signatories are also Republican.
Edited by mynameis, Dec 5 2010, 08:56 PM.
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Yeah, well Clinton is also raising a stink... But some of her cables are rather damning. :)
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JFK
Dec 5 2010, 09:18 PM
Yeah, well Clinton is also raising a stink... But some of her cables are rather damning. :)
Do you mean her full-spectrum surveillance of diplomats?
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mynameis
Dec 5 2010, 09:28 PM
Do you mean her full-spectrum surveillance of diplomats?
Amongst other things...

WTH ?? the # of cables released just went from 929 to 842. :hmmm:

Either way, just over 1/4 of a million to go. :D
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Michal

I really do not know what is this rumble against WIKILEAKS and Julian Assange all about. The confusion in the media lasted for a day or two, everybody realized that the documents revealed are just a grapevine and left the topic behind ... at least this is what we have got in Europe ... simply no one cares ... honestly I do not know why the level of anger is so high against Assange as long as the latest leak appeared to be a storm in the teapot.

Is it different in US?
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Michal, on the wikileaks site it currently says this :
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Currently released so far... 931 / 251,287

These are cables between governmental representives and is the basis of political policy making around the globe.
The release goes back as far as 1966.
There are over a quarter of a million of these yet to be released.

The furor surrounds the fact that the politicians are scared that their packs of lies which got them to where they are today is being unraveled by this release...

And yes, the "sheeple" simply do not care.
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Michal

I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing, which is political reports from numerous US diplomats from around the world. If this is what it is then I think the value of the info is equal to grapevine ...

maybe some WikiLeaks'es releases are of substantial nature, but not this (particular) one ...
Edited by Michal, Dec 6 2010, 09:05 AM.
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Have you even looked at those cables ?
Or have you just been reading the news about them ?
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Quite. I honestly don't buy the whole poison pill blackmail that Assange says exists. I have my own speculation that the control freaks are rich and elite. In other words, they're not having as much fun as you are and are going to use their jackboots to stop you from having more fun than themselves. It's like monopoly, I'll give you an example:

Online Gambling & Broken Government


I think people are too stupid to think on this much and level the playing field. One modicum of opinion from an associate says that the people will not even rise up to force a minimum wage of thirty dollars and hour or raise the tax on the rich with import tariffs. If this were the case then at least there can be one breadwinner in a household all the time in a bad economy. All this money is fiat, so it is only worth using to prepare for the worst or self-improvement. You can't take it with you only pass the debt onto someone else through lending and interest. Well what are the options left if they don't? I suppose we could always eat the rich?

They want the silence to keep their ugly attempts at holding a monopoly secret. Monopoly money controls the lobby money gained in wars for the benefit of politicians to get them to vote in their interests. The rich buys the votes and citizens die.
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JFK
Dec 6 2010, 10:20 AM
Have you even looked at those cables ?
Or have you just been reading the news about them ?
ok, true, I did not read the very documents. I only listened to the news and they focused on the grapevine only ...
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Julian Assange arrested in London by Interpol.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110
Edited by mynameis, Dec 7 2010, 07:32 AM.
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