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WikiLeaks Seeks Protection in Sweden
The Swedish Wire ^ | Sunday, August 15, 2010 | Johan Nylander

Posted on 08/15/2010 8:18:39 AM PDT by kristinn

Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, will apply for Swedish publishing licence. That would give the website protection under the Scandinavian country's whistleblower protection laws.

"We're dealing with organizations that don't obey the law. We're dealing with intelligence agencies," Julian Assange told news agency TT.

The WikiLeaks founder vowed Saturday to publish the last batch of secret documents on the Afghan war in "a couple of weeks", despite Pentagon pleas they would put further lives at risk.

The website’s server is located in Sweden and the organization passes information via Sweden to protect sources. Sweden has a strong tradition of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Protection of journalistic sources in Sweden is very strong.

"Sweden is vital for our work. We have had long-term support from the Swedish people and the Swedish legal system. Our servers were initially based in the United States and moved to Sweden early on in 2007," he told the newswire.

"There's actually a small industry in Sweden; a new sort of refugee exists in the world, which is publishers. It is I think something for Swedes to be quite proud of: that they are facilitating a strong and free press," he said.

But as the website has no licence to publish material in Sweden, and therefore placing the server in Sweden does not give WikiLeaks automatic protection.

(Excerpt) Read more at swedishwire.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: julianassange; wikileaks
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1 posted on 08/15/2010 8:18:42 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

He better find somewhere else.
In the past, Sweden has deported internet threats like this to America.

Of course that was with considerable pressure which may be in doubt under the big Obama Hussein.


2 posted on 08/15/2010 8:21:13 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: kristinn

lets publish all intel on this bozo, including home address, boyfriends info etc. If some pissed off afgan kills him, so be it.


3 posted on 08/15/2010 8:23:19 AM PDT by heiss
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To: kristinn

He is a hero same as Deepthroat. Don’t we want a check and balance on spooks? You know the US govt would kill him with out arrest or trial if it could, what more do you need?


4 posted on 08/15/2010 8:24:21 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: kristinn
Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

As if it's some virtuous anti-crime/public service site.

5 posted on 08/15/2010 8:25:29 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: kristinn

And I don’t for one minute buy the story that is a private in the Army, what horesh*t. You know it is some big spy and there is another game going on here.


6 posted on 08/15/2010 8:25:49 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: kristinn
Look at the bang up job they did for Pirate Bay...

Julian you little POS, you are discovering that you don't have very many true friends...Even the Human Rights folks have turned against you.


7 posted on 08/15/2010 8:27:45 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: darkwing104

A little fag boy could not be behind this. It is way bigger than that.


8 posted on 08/15/2010 8:28:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: kristinn

Why is this guy still walking around ?


9 posted on 08/15/2010 8:31:07 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: yldstrk
With a little complacency and a little time it is a hell of a lot easier than you think. He only managed to download from a Sercret Level Server, Thank God he didn't have access to the Top Secret stuff.

I don't believed he acted alone. The compter he used will be used against him in during the trial...Howere he was a conduit to get the info to WikiLeaks.


10 posted on 08/15/2010 8:33:46 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: kristinn

This little fag needs to meet his Maker. In the good old days the CIA would have had a chat with him even before he released anything....and explained the facts of life to him and his associates


11 posted on 08/15/2010 8:37:10 AM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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To: yldstrk
You know the US govt would kill him with out arrest or trial if it could.

Kill who? The US has the leaker in hand and is getting ready to give him a trial.

12 posted on 08/15/2010 8:37:26 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: kristinn

Time for the CIA to visit this clown in the middle of the night.


13 posted on 08/15/2010 8:37:44 AM PDT by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: bill1952
Sweden's pro-Soviet premiere Olaf Palme was assassinated by someone ~ most likely for that reason.

They never caught the killer (although they prosecuted, and later released a guy who didn't do it).

Why does Assange think he can get protection in Sweden ~ it's more likely he'll be walking down a peaceful street at night and BANG. The Swedes will never catch the killer.

14 posted on 08/15/2010 8:38:44 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: OldNavyVet

US gov’t has some fall guy private in hand and getting ready to give him a trial to cover their own tracks.


15 posted on 08/15/2010 8:39:42 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: darkwing104
I don't believed he acted alone. The compter he used will be used against him in during the trial...Howere he was a conduit to get the info to WikiLeaks.

How do you try a man who lives in Sweden and post on line?

You either eliminate him or snatch him .

16 posted on 08/15/2010 8:40:48 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: kristinn
"We're dealing with organizations that don't obey the law."

...says the one breaking the law.

17 posted on 08/15/2010 8:42:28 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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How do you try a man who lives in Sweden and post on line?

We were talking about Pfc Bradly Manning. The suspect who is believed to have downloaded the material leaked to WikiLeaks.


18 posted on 08/15/2010 8:44:43 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: OrangeHoof

You are being stupid and obtuse. Once the new stuff is released, it will show how corrupt and out of control the Obambi government is, that is what is happening.


19 posted on 08/15/2010 8:46:34 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: kristinn
The Obama administration is filled with like minded anti-military, anti-war,Bush hating radicals including the Organizer in Chief himself. The false umbrage and muted protestations tell all.They are complicit by their inaction in these leaks.
20 posted on 08/15/2010 8:50:00 AM PDT by Apercu ("A man's character is hs fate" - Heraclitus)
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