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MADRID — President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday. "The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the US is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law. The order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval," Julian Assange told Spanish daily El Pais. "Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order...

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is taking a stand as one of Julian Assange’s few defenders in Washington, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder should get the same protections as the media. Attorney General Eric Holder said this week that the Justice Department is examining whether Assange can be charged with a crime for posting hundreds of thousands of leaked government intelligence documents and diplomatic cables. Many Republicans have gone even further in their attacks on Assange, especially former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee, who said this week that the source who leaked to the WikiLeaks founder should be tried for treason...

I am not a Democrat, never have been; never liked Hillary Clinton, still don't. But in one regard, she deserves respect for at least trying to protect America's interests. I find the current Democratic Party at best despicable, and at worst anti-American, with an agenda that is antithetical to what this country was founded upon. But after reading the WikiLeaks regarding the State Department and Hillary Clinton, bravo for her. Bravo for Hillary Clinton. What the WikiLeaks revealed was that she has done what should be expected from the Secretary of State regarding national security. Hopefully there were more justifiably...

....According to Wikileaks investigative editor Julian Assange, Wikileaks received the Palin e-mail photos from a confidential source. The screenshots include sample e-mails, lists of inbox headers, and a couple of photos of Palin's children. In its summary of the Palin screenshots, Wikileaks points to several e-mails from state officials as well as subject lines covering topics ranging from appellate court nominations to the Department of Public Safety. The precise content of those e-mails is unknown, as access to the account was shut down when Yahoo noticed the unusual password activity. Assange defended Wikileaks' publication of the private photographs of Palin's...

Bank of America has set up a swat team to combat Wikileaks in case it is, as suspected, the target of the next leak, says Charlie Gasparino. The FOXBusiness news reporter just tweeted: Bank of America sets up Legal Swat team to combat Wikileaks in case it is the target. If the rumors are true, Bank of America may really need it. Earlier this week, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said the leak could "take down one or two banks."

While appearing on Fox and Friends, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said they aren’t scared of Wikileaks because it’s “only one guy with one website” and that our foreign policy is stronger than that. “Let’s not be scared of one guy with a laptop”, Gibbs added.

CNN) -- Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed. The Stockholm Criminal Court two weeks ago issued an international arrest warrant for Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force in August incidents. Sweden asked Interpol, the international police organization, to post a "Red Notice" after a judge approved a motion to bring him into custody. The "Red Notice" is not an international arrest warrant. It is an advisory and request,...

Experts say that in addition to protections for free speech, there are difficulties with proving leaked documents are classified, under a US government executive order which sets limits on documents that can be properly termed as classified documents. However, if charges are made against Julian Assange under the law in the US, then he would face extradition under the controversial UK-US extradition treaty, which provides special measures for extraditions between the two countries.

In his interview with Forbes, Julian Assange confirmed that the next Wikileaks dump is going to target big business. Obviously, we can barely contain ourselves. We don't know much, but we do know its a U.S bank, and we do know Assange thinks what he has could destroy at least two major financial insitutions. From Forbes: F: Is it a U.S. bank? JA: Yes, it’s a U.S. bank. F: One that still exists? JA: Yes, a big U.S. bank. F: The biggest U.S. bank? JA: No comment. F: So do you have very high impact corporate stuff to release then?...

<p>The latest WikiLeaks trove raises once more the following two issues — the circumstances of the release of classified documents and their contents. We won’t know the full extent of the diplomatic archives for days, but so far the particulars seem as embarrassing as they are underwhelming.</p>

RUSH: Everybody is freaking out over this WikiLeaks stuff. And, frankly, the WikiLeaks guy bugs me because he looks like a waif. He looks like he ought to be in a Peter Pan stage play rather than on the world stage affecting things. He's a little wuss, Julian Assange. Need to find this guy and string him up. Frankly, I find what's in this stuff interesting. I think it's more interesting than the news the networks come up with each and every day. Give me more of this stuff. For example, we have learned that the Saudis, our friends the...

(Nov. 18) -- A Swedish prosecutor requested an arrest warrant today for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who's being investigated for rape, sexual molestation and coercion -- allegations he denies. Two Swedish women who volunteered with WikiLeaks have both accused Assange of rape and sexual assault during meetings that took place in late summer. Assange, 39, says his relations with both women were consensual. He's also called their claims "dirty tricks" by the Pentagon and part of a "legal circus" in Sweden, where he sought to set up a base for WikiLeaks where the whistle-blower site would be shielded from prosecution...

STOCKHOLM – Swedish prosecutors say they will seek an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a rape investigation. The announcement came after a Stockholm court approved their request to detain Assange for questioning in the case, which stems from his encounters with two Swedish women in August

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has said that he intends to sue the Swedish state over the handling of rape allegations against him by the Swedish Prosecution Authority (Åklagarmyndigheten). "I plan to sue, several different lawyers have advised me to sue," Assange told the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) daily. Assange told the newspaper that he plans to sue for damages for what he considers to be "legal mistakes" directed against him. "I am very disappointed at the Swedish authorities," the Australian told SvD. While visiting Sweden in August, Assange was the subject of rape and molestation allegations from two women. An arrest...

WikiLeaks' Selective MoralityDespite its claims of uncovering bad behavior by governments around the world, WikiLeaks chiefly targets the U.S. military. There has never been anything quite like WikiLeaks in American military history. We are engaged in a great experiment to see whether the U.S. military can still persist in a conflict when it knows that any and all of its private communications can become public — and will be selectively aired and hyped by people with a preconceived bias against it. Had the public known in real time from periodic media leaks about operational disasters surrounding the planning for the...

In addition to facilitating the largest military leak in U.S. history yesterday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a petulant man-child. Watch him walk out of a CNN interview when talk turned to his pending Swedish rape case. (Snip to video clip) (Things start to go sour around 2:35) When the interviewer presses Assange about the rape and sexual molestation charges against him, Assange cooks up some of those Mission:Impossible rhetorical flourishes he's known for: It's completely disgusting, Atika. I'm going to walk if you're going to contaminate us revealing the deaths of 104,000 people with attacks against my person. Sorry,...

(Newser) -- WikiLeaks funding has been cut off thanks to what Julian Assange calls financial warfare by the US government. In an email to Assange, Moneybookers, the company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, said it was closing WikiLeaks' account "following the recent publicity and subsequent addition of the WikiLeaks entity to blacklists in Australia and watchlists in the USA." Moneybookers' decision came on Aug. 13, just days after the Pentagon publicly threatened reprisals against WikiLeaks. Moneybookers tells the Guardian that it "never had any request, inquiry, or correspondence from any authority regarding this former customer," but couldn't explain how that...

STOCKHOLM — A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other. Assange has denied the allegations and suggested they are part of a smear campaign by opponents of WikiLeaks — an online whistle-blower that has angered Washington by publishing thousands of leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The case was dismissed last week by Eva Finne, chief prosecutor in Stockholm, who overruled a lower-ranked prosecutor and said there was no reason to suspect that...

New York, Aug.28 (ANI): Rape charges filed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must be reinstated for sexually assaulting two Swedish women, said their lawyer. "I have appealed the decision of the prosecutor," the New York Post quoted lawyer Claes Borgstroem, as saying after Swedish prosecutor Eva Finne withdrew a rape charge against Assange last Saturday, just hours after an arrest warrant was issued for him. Finne said "new information" warranted such a move.

(The article and other links, see below, are all in Swedish. So far international media has not reacted. But it will not be long....) Julian Assange is wanted by Swedish police on probable grounds suspected of rape. Two women 20 and 30 years old contacted the police on Friday.