Posted on 01/30/2011 4:36:27 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday detailed a plan to release a deluge of secret documents should the whistleblower website be permanently shut down. In an exclusive interview with CBS News's "60 Minutes," Assange said his group had a "system whereby we distribute encrypted backups of things we have yet to publish."
"There are backups distributed amongst many, many people, 100,000 people, and all we need to do is give them an encrypted key and they will be able to continue on," he said.
The WikiLeaks founder, who is currently under US criminal investigation over the leaking of hundreds of thousands of secret military reports and diplomatic cables, said the key would only be released as a last resort.
"If a number of people were imprisoned or assassinated, then we would feel that we could not go on, and other people would have to take over our work, and we would release the keys," he said.
In the same interview the 39-year-old Australian denied he was motivated by anti-Americanism or other political agendas, describing his group as "free press activists."
"It's not about saving the whales. It's about giving people the information they need to support whaling or not support whaling," he said.
"That is the raw ingredient that is needed to make a just and civil society. And without that you're just sailing in the dark."
Assange refused to discuss the Swedish sex crimes allegations that have him largely confined to a house in the British countryside on bail pending extradition proceedings, and he refused to discuss future publishing plans.
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Make my day, Assange.
That would be a truly dumb move - dumping everything you’ve got. Once it’s gone, it’s gone, and whatever short-term effect it might have will quickly be washed out.
Oh boy. Drama queen. Do it already. Publish the stuff already.
Maybe he can tell us what O’s admin is doing behind the scenes regarding Egypt.................
Anybody have a target to put on his back! Where is our CIA.
bttt
I wanna go on record here as being in agreement with Col. Ralph Peters, who not too long ago said Assange should be killed for releasing information that helped America’s enemies.
To geeks: is the key 256 bits long? When they say that 256 bit encryption it’s unbreakable, do they mean that only if the key is 256 bits long?
Why is any network giving this traitor air time? He should be in jail.
Who did the releases help? I consider the US government to be the biggest threat and enemy of the liberty, prosperity, safety, and freedom of the American people seeing as how they’ve done more damage to those things than any collection of 19 raghead terrorists flying planes into buildings could ever dream of doing.
Traitor? He's an Australian. He's been in the UK. He's not an American. Oh boy.
He represents himself as a whistle-blower but this threat reveals him as the blackmailer he really is.
At some point, Julian has to be taken out.
That moron has enjoyed his 30 minutes of fame courtesy of a fag traitor within our military.
He should now go die in a fire, or something. I suspect he’s ‘out of bullets’, so now he’s just running his mouth for publicity.
I always wanted to know who really killed JFK.
I hate to see it come to that, but in this case, I agree. It's a one-man act of war.
This disgusting puke needs to be “ended”. I suspect the bell is already tolling for him.
Doesn't seem to have a noble cause.
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