Gravel considering Obama primary challenge, calls for new 9/11 investigation

Gravel considering Obama primary challenge, calls for new 9/11 investigation (Daily Caller)
Former Alaska Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential Candidate Mike Gravel told The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview that he is mulling a primary challenge to President Barack Obama in 2012. In an e-mail exchange arranged by his daughter, TheDC asked Gravel if he was considering a run for president in 2012 and if he is specifically considering a primary challenge to President Obama. He replied, “Both are possible.” Progressives who view President Obama’s recent tax co...

Gravel mulls primary challenge to Obama in '12
Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel is contemplating a primary challenge to President Obama. Gravel, who ran for president in 2008, won't rule out a primary challenge to Obama in 2012. "Both are possible," he told the Daily Caller. Obama has been taking heat recently from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which was angered by his Compromise with the GOP over extensions of the Bush-era Tax Rates for top income earners.  While Gravel mulls his challenge, he made it clear he doesn't think S...

US Eyes Espionage Act Charges Against Assange
The Espionage Act of 1917 may face its first serious charge and by extension serious challenge in years, as lawyers for Julian Assange say that the US is preparing to indict the Whistleblower under the act. The act was originally used to arrest antiwar Activists during World War 1, and later to censor criticism of the war during World War 2. The court rulings at the time determined that the act could be used to restrict any political expression that the government considered a “clear and...

Ron Pauls Passionate Defense Of Julian Assange And WikiLeaks On House Floor
Ron Paul is nothing if not an conservative iconoclast. The Texas Republican House Representative, with deep Libertarian roots is taking a counter-intuitive departure from the traditional and established GOP Rhetoric on the issue of Wikileaks. In an impassioned Speech on the U.S. House floor, Paul likened the attack on Julian Assange to “killing the messenger for bringing bad news” before providing nine provocative questions for Americans to consider. Mr. Paul concluded his Speech wi...

Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
The main players in releasing the Pentagon Papers were Daniel Ellsberg and Senator Mike Gravel. Ellsberg is, of course, the former Military analyst and famed Whistleblower who smuggled the Pentagon Papers out of the Rand Corporation. Senator Gravel is the person who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. This act made the papers public record, so that they could not be censored by the government. Ellsberg and Gravel are receiving a lot of media attention right now for their s...

Great News: Potential Obama Primary Challenger Steps Forward
The man we've all been waiting for.Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel is contemplating a primary challenge to President Obama. Gravel, who ran for president in 2008, won't rule out a primary challenge to Obama in 2012. "Both are possible," he told the Daily Caller. Obama has been taking heat recently from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which was angered by his Compromise with the GOP over extensions of the Bush-era Tax Rates for top income earners. While Gravel mulls his challenge, he ...

Watch: Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks
The Atlantic Wire reports: Distancing himself from Republican Party orthodoxy (as he’s prone to doing), Texas Congressman Ron Paul gave a rousing Speech on the U.S. House floor in support of Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. “Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?” asked Paul. He went on to compare Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers, explaining how both exposed American wars that wer...

Rep. Peter King On Fox: Prosecute The New York Times Over WikiLeaks
New York Congressman Peter King believes the Obama Administration has a “liberal ideological bias” that keeps them from protecting the nation by going after the people who do it harm-like The New York Times. Talking today on Fox News, King said the first priority is to go after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But after that, King said he’d urge prosecution of the Times. LEE: Some people look at Julian Assange as a freedom fighter, somebody that’s providing informa...

Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks On House Floor (VIDEO)
In the wake of the recent Wikileaks document dump, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), the self-styled Libertarian crusader who's spent the past half-decade building up a massive Grassroots following, has emerged as a principal voice in support of the transparency that Wikileaks has provided. In a Speech on the House floor yesterday, Paul held forth at length on the Controversy. Others may disagree, but I don't read Paul's remarks as a defense of Julian Assange specifically -- Assange is only m...

Civil Beat: Internet Press Vulnerable After WikiLeaks
Some things truly haven't been seen before. Wikileaks might be one of them. It's hard to believe that the Founding Fathers could have ever imagined the possibilities of the Internet or a Journalist like Julian Assange when they crafted the First Amendment. If they were with us today they might well say they knew publishers they despised as much as some of our leaders today apparently do the editor-in-chief of the notorious website. Yet the angry words of government officials and the swirling s...

Operation Payback: All-Out Cyberwar, Prankster Kids, or Both? (The Atlantic Wire)
WASHINGTON, DC – As Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sits in a U.K. Prison awaiting a hearing on possible Extradition to Sweden on Rape charges, an informal network of Hackers sympathetic to Wikileaks have struck out against groups they say have wronged Wikileaks or Assange. By launching Denial-of-Service attacks, they have temporarily disabled the websites of Visa, PostFinance, MasterCard, and Sarah Palin's PAC. The efforts appear to be coordinated by the online group "Anonymous" and or...

WikiLeaks keeps on publishing despite arrest
Julian Assange through his Wikileaks website promises greater government transparency. But his document dumps have angered officials around the world. US Senator Joseph Lieberman has pressured Internet companies to withdraw their services from WikiLeaks. Rather than protect Internet freedom, Amazon and PayPal have willingly complied with US demands. Assange is the subject of death threats. Some government officials say he should be assassinated. Sarah Palin said he should be hunted down like a ...

Ron Bonjean: GOP Needs to 'Stick to Principles'
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall on the preparations Edwards made for her Children. Julian Assange remains in custody in London on Sexual Assault charges. Talk Show host gets emotional in interview with Barbara Walters. Thousands of Students took to the streets to Protest Tuition hikes. Supporters hack companies trying to cut off Wikileaks. ...

Ron Paul Vigorously Defends WikiLeaks
Source: National Journal Distancing himself from Republican Party orthodoxy (as he's prone to doing), Texas Congressman Ron Paul gave a rousing Speech on the U.S. House floor in support of Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. "Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?" asked Paul. He went on to compare Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers, explaining how both exposed American wars that were based on "lies." He ...

Lula defends Wikileaks' Assange
He also criticised other governments for failing to condemn the arrest. Mr Assange was detained in the UK on Tuesday over alleged sex offences in Sweden. "They have arrested him and I don't hear so much as a single Protest for freedom of expression", President Lula said at a public event in Brasilia. The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has also criticised Mr Assange's arrest, saying it contradicted the West's avowed democratic values. "Why is Mr Assange in ...

Assange’s Hideout: Journalist Club
America's enemies certainly find undignified places to hide. Remember Saddam Hussein's spider hole? Julian Assange found a still more unsavory sanctuary — a British club for Journalists: The Frontline Club in London is the kind of place where war correspondents and investigative reporters mingle with admirers and wannabes, fired by a shared passion for exposing government spin, revealing the truth — and fine dining. So when Wikileaks founder Julian Assange found himself at the center...

Former WikiLeaks worker: rival site under way
© The Associated Press A man holds up a sign as Protesters gather in support of Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange, in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. WikiLeaks' extensive releases of secret U.S. diplomatic cables have embarrassed U.S. allies, angered rivals, and reopened old wounds across the world. U.S. officials in Washington say other countries have curtailed their dealings with the U.S. government because of WikiLeaks' actions. Wikileaks soon won't be the only secret-spilling ga...

Diane Francis: WikiLeaks Is the New Journalism
"Operation Payback" is looking more like the sequel to Revenge of the Nerds. This week, cyber attacks were mounted by pro-WikiLeaks digital Soldiers against MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and other companies for terminating Wikileaks accounts or pulling the plug on services. The damage appears to be minimal, but it may not be the next time. Collaboration plus transparency are watchwords in the lexicon of the Digital Commons, as it is known. For governments, businesses and individuals there are fewer...

Former Wikileaks Employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg to Publish Tell-All Book
(Dec. 10) -- Julian Assange's former second-in-command at Wikileaks is due to publish a tell-all book on the whistle-blowing website. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, former spokesman for the online organization, will release "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time at the World's Most Dangerous Website" in Germany in January, The Guardian reported. Publisher Econ Verlag said the book will "tell the story of Wikileaks as it has not yet been heard," The Guardian said. Former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg i...

Saudi pro-democracy group plans first sit-in
CAIRO - A Saudi pro-democracy group is planning the kingdom's first sit-in Protest this month to demand radical political reforms, a constitution and Elections. The gathering is unlikely to be approved as public protests are almost unheard of in Saudi Arabia, partly because the government actively prevents them. A small group of women who in 1990 drove through Riyadh to Protest the ban on women drivers were promptly arrested. Mohammad Alqahtani, the head of the Saudi Civil and Political Ri...

Feel the Gravmentum
Are we really going to have to spend the next year hearing about possible primary challengers for Obama? Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-AK), who ran for president in 2008, told the Daily Caller that he is mulling a primary challenge to President Obama in 2012. And what better way to launch a Democratic presidential bid than by announcing it in the Carlsonington Post? The good news is that Gravel lacks the gravitas of Donald Trump and Ross Perot, so he’s not taken seriously by the media. ...

Putin Slams US for Wikileaks Assange Arrest (Video)
Vlad Putin slammed Western hypocrisy over the arrest this week of Julian Assange. Vlad Putin slammed the West for arresting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week. The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for sexual misconduct illustrates the hypocrisy of the West about Democracy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says. In the strongest comments to come out of Russia in the latest WikiLeaks saga, Putin also took aim at the U.S. for the cables, some of which had derided Russia a &...

Wikileaks Protests Start in Australia
Dec. 10, 2010 Wikileaks Protests start in Australia and kicking off in Melbourne is just the beginning of a world wide support new network of people since the last release of documents. Wikileaks the whistle blower website has been cyber attacked, its’ payment system for donations stripped, its hosting service cancelled, and its founder thrown in jail all from the efforts of the US State Department. Even the US government forbids its employees from reading the Wikileaks cable releases of l...

The Limits Of Anonymous
Babbage chats with members of Anonymous, a group currently launching Denial-of-Service attacks in support of Julian Assange: Anons do understand their limitations. The ones I talked to know that to take down a Swedish prosecutor's website does not halt the prosecution in Sweden. They described their motivations, variously, as trying “to raise awareness”, “to show the prosecutor that we have the ability to act” and “damage and attention”. This is all that a Denial-of

Filming the student fees protests
Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, react as the royal car is attacked by Protesters in London. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP The moment the cameras captured Camilla's shocked face, the defining image of yesterday's Protest was decided. There is sense of inevitability in the way these events are covered. The broadcasters get the helicopters up, send out the camera crews to join the Amateurs and pro-demo snappers at all the flashpoints, where they form part of a three-way dance with the protes...