Posted on 11/30/2010 3:51:07 PM PST by cruise_missile
Until now, Julian Assange has selected his adversaries rather well. Despite humiliating the Obama administration three times, the White House has done little except announce a preliminary probe into potential criminal charges against Assange and his team at Wikileaks. The Daily Beast reports that when it came to Assange’s next adversary, he may have chosen … poorly:
The Russians, under the leadership of former KGB officer Vladimir Putin, have not blanched at, well, much of anything. The death of Alexander Litvinenko from a slow-acting poison is widely believed to have been an assassination conducted by the FSB. The poisoning of Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko in the Orange Revolution was similarly suspicious, and dissident Boris Berezovsky survived at least one attempt on his life as well. That problem may be more acute for the people who supplied Assange with the data rather than Assange himself. The FSB has restrained itself mainly to attacking Russian expatriates rather than Westerners, but as the DB reports, Wikileaks almost certainly got whatever they have through that route, especially from the super-rich Russian industrialists that had to flee after Putin took power. Given Assange’s predilection for releasing information in its raw form, the FSB will likely have little problem finding the sources of the data and making sure that they won’t give Assange anything else ever.
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Somebody needs to check Cheney's bunker to see if ASSange is in that *undisclosed* location.
And there was another guy who fell from the sixth floor or something.
Interesting. Speculation is that the next dump is going to target B of A. Wonder why the Russians are so worried about that one?
If the Russians are hacked off, I expect to see a news report of Assange found in some alley with a “self inflicted” bullet hole at the base of his skull.
Buh-bye, ASSange!
If the Russians are hacked off, I expect to see a news report of Assange found in some alley with a “THREE self inflicted” bullet holeS at the base of his skull.
Fixed it.
Somewhere there is a glowing syringe with Julian’s name on it—in Cyrillac.
Thallium cocktail. ;-)
It’s a damn shame we have to rely on the Russians for the correct response to this idiot.
The Wikileaks website is superfluous when you have the New York Times as your publisher.Now if only Putin can figure out how to put the NYT in permanent unavailability mode.
“One thing about the Russians, they don’t mess around when it comes to this stuff.”
In particular, their “Catch and Release” program for Somali hijackers is the envy of the world. They surrender to the Russians something like 1000 miles off the African coast. The Russians, being the humanitarians that they are, remove their fuel, communications equipment and weapons (to make sure that they no longer threaten others)...and like good liberals, liberate them.
It is understood that they last a day or two out there.
Easy solution for pirates out there - respect the Russian flag.
Maybe Putin's decided to take us under his wing until we can get a President strong enough to protect us...
Yeah, I noticed that too...
Maybe. But there's been an awful lot of botnets who's C&C points back to former Russian republics, and they've stolen a lot of identities and credit card numbers and stolen and laundered a lot of money in the last few years. Word is the Russian mafia is the brains behind it, and that they have connections pretty high up in the Russian government.
Gotta wonder if there might not be a connection there somewhere.
Unlike Western softies, the Russians don’t fool around with this sort of nonsense - and in this case, one finds oneself wishing them well.
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