Posted on 12/07/2010 2:55:28 AM PST by Jess Kitting
London (CNN) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant, London's Metropolitan Police said.
Assange was arrested at a London police station at 9:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. ET) and will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrate's Court later in the day, police said.
Swedish authorities had issued the warrant for Assange so they can talk to him about sex-crime allegations unrelated to WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of secret U.S. documents.
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Now the question is will he release the poison pill?
bttt
exactly, bammer got mad lastnight and basically gave them the go ahead
All those knowingly help this scumbag should be charged with espionage if not treason.
Difficult to prove. You can’t do him for treason because he is not a US citizen, and neither are a lot of the people helping him. Besides, its only espionage if the information is obtained illegally. If someone simply gives him information, you might be able to do THEM for treason and espionage, but he himself and most of wikileaks hasn’t actually broken any laws. This arrest warrant is on a separate charge.
They can’t be charged with espionage even if the poison pill leaks contain vital American intelligence info?
They can be charged. I just said it would be difficult to prove.
The fact that they’re arresting this guy on charges completely unrelated to anything involving WikiLeaks makes me wonder what’s going on behind the scenes here. For months now I’ve been saying the same thing you just posted . . . they can’t make a case against this guy for anything related to WikiLeaks.
This is not meant to comment on the wikileaks or, for that matter, on the substance of the sex-crime charges. Just an observation that the system finds a way to get people they want to get. Now are they pressing the sex-crime charges to stop the leaks? Naw, couldn't be.
Cyber leakers now have a place to go Web site says goal is better government
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Monday, January 22, 2007
Author: REBECCA CARR ; Cox Washington Bureau
Washington — Secretive governments may have met their nemesis.
A new online effort called Wikileaks seeks not only to archive hot tips and documents that reveal government corruption and questionable policies, but also to encourage them.
Asserting that leaking government information is the “most cost-effective means of promoting good government” around the world, Wikileaks is seeking any and all leaks.
Taking a page from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, an information respository and exchange maintained by its users, Wikileaks promises to be a vehicle for “untraceable mass document leaking and analysis,” according to its Web site. The focus is on releasing information in places not known for heralding the public’s right to know: China, Russia, Africa and the Middle East.
“But we also expect to be of assistance to those in the West who wish to reveal unethical behavior of their own governments and corporations,” the site states.
The need for a site where people can post information about government corruption without fear of reprisal is apparent, said Sue Dreyfus, an advisory board member. The site has not yet listed other board members, but it says it was founded and partly funded by dissidents, mathematicians and technologists across the globe.
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Well, this arrest warrant has been active for some time, but its kind of suspicious that its being pressed now. Even if this action is not politically motivated, it certainly LOOKS politically motivated, which is almost as bad.
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