Posted on 11/30/2010 4:17:43 PM PST by Starman417
Will someone finally do something to stop Julian Assange and his Wikileaks?
We know Obama, being as weak kneed as a 90 year old grandmother, won't but it appears the Russians will. According to Philip Shenon the Russians are pissed and are about to do something about it:
American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistleblowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down: the Russian government. As U.S. officials struggle to control damage from the secret cables exposed by Wikileaks, Russia is planning to block a similar dump about the Kremlin.National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government’s eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country’s domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.
~~~Assange has courted attacks from the Russian government, telling a reporter from the pro-government daily newspaper Izvestia last month that WikiLeaks had obtained damaging information “about Russia, about your government and businessmen” and “we will publish these materials soon.” Another WikiLeaks spokesman was quoted as describing the Russian government as “despotic.”
~~~Russian intelligence agencies have suggested, none too subtly, that WikiLeaks could be destroyed through cyberwarfare methods if the whistleblowing site did begin to create trouble in Moscow. Last month, the Russian news agency Life News quoted an official from the FSB’s Center for Information Security as saying that the government would be capable of organizing “the right team” to target WikiLeaks and “shut it down forever.”
And within an hour of this report the Wikileak site was brought down:
The WikiLeaks website said it came under a forceful Internet-based attack on Tuesday morning, making some of the content, including the controversial “Cablegate” documents, inaccessible for hours to users in the U.S. and Europe.The site appears to have responded by switching its main hosting base from Sweden to the U.S., making it available again.
~~~“We are currently under a DDOS attack,” according to one tweet early Tuesday. Shortly after 9 a.m., another tweet was sent, saying, “DDOS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.”
~~~.... According to a study by Internet security company Arbor Networks, the average denial of service attack over the past year was 349 megabits per second, 28 times slower than the stream Wikileaks reported.
The question is, will they stop at cyber attacks? Putin has friends in organized crime, wealthy and powerful friends, and I'm sure they can get it done. Or will the Russian FSB do it themselves?
I know...sounds like a movie, but don't discount it. Assange has the arrogance, narcissism, and stupidity to follow through with his threats and the Russians won't have any of it I'm thinking. Even now he is lecturing Hillary Clinton to resign:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Assange may get a polonium-colada.
The Russkies have no problem with hunting this POS down and killing him like the dog that he is. (Sorry if I dissed anybody’s good dawg out there!)
Dead man walking.
Damn.....this boy is stupider than I thought. He actually dared Russia (i.e., Putin) do "do something about it"?
Talk about infantile arrogance and naivete.
Methinks this fool's days are numbered.
Something to think about?
“He” is the muslim. This is not Julian Assange - he is just a stooge. They just nuked Hillary.
Maybe the Russians will save America instead of the drooling locals who watch Dancing with The Stars, ball games, “stupid white man” commercials and other crap on the flat screen HD propaganda box.
This little queer should be flogged! I hope Russia puts the fear of God into him...
Dumb eh? If you are going to release info that is negative about the Russians, you do it, making sure it be can't traced back to you. Then, YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
I think the soon to be dead fairy boy is a very poor poker player.
Will the Russians just go after Assange, or will they make it a point to make an example of the people who are harboring him in the bargain?
Yep... Very interesting that he’s bullying the wrong country, and it’s Russia.
“We know Obama, being as weak kneed as a 90 year old grandmother....”
He is the one behind it. It is going to be now 24x7x365 disinformation, leaks and constant nonsense to keep the populace confused and fearful.
He also took out Hillary. The clintons have been punked.
(Sorry if I dissed anybody’s good dawg out there!)
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Shoot, my dogs read that and they’re on the phone to ACLU as I type. Just thought I should give you a heads up.
I think he has made his last tweet.
Does anyone remember the photo-shopped picture of Obama and Putin in a poster celebrating April 30 in Amsterdam as the “Best Party In The World”? It showed the two of them strolling down the street wearing “ I’m drunk” t-shirts. Putin released a statement saying he was not pleased— the poster was immediately changed to just Obama. Obama released a statement saying he was not pleased— the poster continued to show just Obama. Some have the clout, some don’t.
Assange better pray that Interpol picks him up before the Russians do.
I wish the Russians all the luck in the world, and much success in taking it — and him — down. I am just beside myself with anger and shame at the way the weaklings and idiots and deliberate traitors in our government have dealt with this. That guy and his website should have been out of circulation a week after we knew what he was up to.
I would watch out for any Sushi I eat in the future Julian....Might end up with a Polonium Roll! The ruskies don’t fool around like Obama does.....
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