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Obama official likely lied to the press
Here's a catch from Politico's Josh Gerstein that deserves more attention: the top spokesman for the State Department told reporters last December that the United States was not involved in any Military operations in Yemen. But a Wikileaks cable shows that just two days later the Military launched Missile Strikes in Yemen that reportedly killed dozens of civilians -- the sort of action that take presumably takes a lot more than two days to plan. In other words, the official, Assistant Secre...

U.S. denounces WikiLeaks' release of list of crucial overseas facilities
Reporting from Washington — U.S. officials on Monday denounced a Wikileaks posting that catalogs hundreds of crucial overseas facilities that, if attacked by Terrorists, could harm American interests — including Vaccine makers, undersea communications cables and mines that supply key metals. Officials said the Internet posting of the list — compiled by the Department of Homeland Security with the assistance of the State Department and other government departments — thr...

U.S.: WikiLeaks Has Hurt U.S. Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON — Foreign powers are pulling back from their dealings with the U.S. government since hundreds of classified diplomatic cables wound up on the Internet, State and Defense Department officials said Tuesday. The document dump by Wikileaks included detailed and blunt exchanges between foreign and U.S. officials on such politically sensitive matters as a top-secret U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen. The Obama Administration has decried the release of the classified documents as crimin...

The Calls For Julian Assanges Death Need To Stop
Ever since the Wikileaks Controversy hit the national spotlight it seems as though politicians, particularly those on the right, are intent on outdoing one another in attacking Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Republican Rep. Peter King called Assange a Terrorist. Newt Gingrich called Assange an “Enemy Combatant.” Sarah Palin wondered why, upon the Federal Government’s learning of Wikileaks, Assange wasn’t “pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Talib...

The U.S.'s legal options against WikiLeaks, Julian Assange
What did Attorney General Eric Holder mean when he said Monday that "there are other statutes, other tools that we have at our disposal," beyond the laws against Espionage, that could be used to prosecute Julian Assange? For one thing, government officials say, the Justice Department is considering whether a federal law dealing with theft of government property would apply. Part of that statute makes it a crime to receive or keep property that's known to have been stolen. The law applies to anyo...

State to host celebration of digital information openness
Before the Wikileaks crisis, the State Department began a new initiative called "21st Century Statecraft", which includes a drive to expand openness and combat government Censorship in cyberspace. As part of that initiative, the State Department announced on Tuesday that it will host UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, meant to champion the free flow of information on the Internet. The event will be held at the Newseum in Washington from May 1 to 3, and the th...

WikiLeaks reveals potential targets for terrorists
In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information yet revealed by Wikileaks, the website has put out a secret cable listing sites worldwide that the United States considers critical to its National Security. U.S. officials said the leak amounts to giving a Hit List to Terrorists. Among the locations cited in the diplomatic cable from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are undersea communications lines, mines, antivenin factories, and suppliers of food and Manufacturing materials...

Wikileaks May Not Be Trending on Twitter, but 'Assange Arrested' Is - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Following days of speculation that Twitter was somehow keeping Wikileaks and/or Cablegate off the site's "trending topics" list, a Wikileaks-related keyword has, in fact, popped up. After Julian Assange was arrested by British Police as a result of a Sexual Assault charge in Sweden, "Assange Arrested" made the worldwide trending topics list and remains there as of 12:13pm Eastern. (More on the arrest here.) It's not the most flattering mention, but is certainly related to Wikileaks. So, why a...

Joe Lieberman Freedom Fighter
Freedom Fighter by digby And by that, I don't mean he's fighting for it: Joe Lieberman, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee, told Fox News: "To me the New York Times has committed at least an act of, at best, bad Citizenship, but whether they have committed a crime is a matter of discussion for the Justice Department." Lieberman also said that the department of justice should indict Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, under the 1917 Espionage Act and try to extradite him...

Lieberman: NYT May Have Committed Crime By Publishing Wikileaks Cables
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who has become one of the most vocal critics of Wikileaks, said today that while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is definitely guilty of Crimes, the New York Times may also have broken the law by posting some of those diplomatic cables. "To me, the New York Times has committed at least an act of bad Citizenship," Lieberman said on Fox News today. "Whether they've committed a crime, I think that bears very intensive inquiry by the Justice Department." Lieberman ack...

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With Julian Assange in jail, the State Department steps up its Wikileaks counteroffensive. Howard Kurtz talks to State brass about his motive and why he should be considered dangerous. ...

Wikileaks releases US list of potential terror targets
Wikileaks released to the public another State Department cable on Monday revealing the US government's efforts to compile a list of potential global terror targets that, if attacked, could harm US National Security. The transmission cable describes a 2009 effort by State Department officials across the globe to ascertain the presence of sensitive infrastructure targets in their host countries and update a 2008 list of sites outside the US, "whose loss could critically impact the Public Health, ...

Leaked Cable Lists Sensitive Sites
WASHINGTON — A State Department cable released by Wikileaks provides a compendium of sites around the world — from hydroelectric dams in Canada to Vaccine producers in Denmark — that, if lost, might “critically impact” Public Health or the National Security of the United States. The release of the cable, part of the huge trove of documents made available by the organization, drew immediate criticism from officials who said that it could provide a target list for te...

WikiLeaks reveals US global interests list
Stumble This! WASHINGTON (AFP) - Wikileaks has divulged a secret list compiled by Washington of key infrastructure sites around the world that could pose a critical danger to US security if they come under Terrorist Attack. The newly released diplomatic cable is one of the most explosive yet out of many leaked by the whistle-blowing website that have heaped embarrassment on Washington and caused anger around the world. A State Department cable from February 2009 asked US missions to updat...

WikiLeaks: Vital Sites Vulnerable to Terrorism
Like this Story? Share it: Wikileaks released a secret State Department cable listing sites around the world vital to U.S. National Security, from mines in Africa to labs in Europe. David Martin reports on the latest details. Britain's Home Secretary called for a security review in light of the recent release of secret documents by the website WikiLeaks. Elizabeth Palmer reports on how the UK is handling Wikileaks and founder Julian Assange. (CBS) If Osama bin Laden, wherever he is, needed a "to...

State: Wikileaks release helps al-Qaida
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley condemned Wikileaks for providing "a group like al-Qaida," with "a targeting list" of U.S. strategic assets around the world. A State Department list of vital facilities, which Crowley refused to name in detail, is at the center of the Controversy over Wikileaks and its disclosure of secret American security documents. In February 2009, U.S. missions abroad provided the State Department with a list of strategic facilities whose loss could damage American ...

The Rape Of Wikileaks, Pt. II
Last week, we noted with disdain the fomenting governmental Jihad against Wikileaks ‘ front-man Julian Assange - who was conveniently accused of Rape just weeks after his website released a flood of classified Military documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the last seven days, the global assault on Assange and his website has intensified - just as Wikileaks was releasing nearly a quarter of a million diplomatic cables that indeed provided “an unprece...

State Dept denies warning students about WikiLeaks (AP)
WASHINGTON – The State Department on Tuesday denied that it has warned Students not to link to or post online comments about leaked diplomatic cables released by the Wikileaks website. Spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday the department had not issued any guidelines to Private Citizens on how to deal with the documents, which are still considered classified. He said department employees have been told not to download the material to their classified computer systems. He said that would cr...

State Dept denies warning students about WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON—The State Department on Tuesday denied that it has warned Students not to link to or post online comments about leaked diplomatic cables released by the Wikileaks website. Spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday the department had not issued any guidelines to Private Citizens on how to deal with the documents, which are still considered classified. He said department employees have been told not to download the material to their classified computer systems. He said that would creat...

Pentagon: WikiLeaks has hurt US foreign relations
WASHINGTON—Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan says there are indications of foreign powers "pulling back" from their dealings with the U.S. since hundreds of classified diplomatic cables wound up on the Internet. Lapan declined to cite any specific examples, including whether foreign officials have said they will no longer trust the U.S. with their secrets. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had told reporters last week he did not believe the release of diplomatic cables by the Wikileaks anti...

Lieberman: NYT may have committed crime by printing WikiLeaks docs
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the New York Times may have committed a Crime by publishing classified documents provided by Wikileaks and called for the Justice Department to investigate. "To me, New York Times has committed at least an act of bad Citizenship. And whether they've committed a crime, I think that bears very intensive inquiry by the Justice Department," Lieberman said when asked whether the Times could be charged for publishing the docume...

LeT planned to kill CM Modi using car: WikiLeaks
New Delhi, Dec 6: The United States diplomatic cables released by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks revealed that the Terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had planned an attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The LeT planed the plot to assassinate Narendra modi just seven months after 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attack. The plan was to kill Modi was described as "operations…involving a car" in the diplomatic cable sent from the office of the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The ca...

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British Court Refuses Bail for Assange
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now in British custody, and a London court has refused bail — so Assange will probably be in jail for several weeks. Gemma Lindfield, for the Swedish authorities, gave details of the allegations against Mr Assange. One of the charges is that he had unprotected sex with a woman, identified only as Miss A, when she insisted he use a Condom. Another is that he had unprotected sex with another woman, Miss W, while she was asleep. Mr Assange, who was accompan...

Julian Assange given consular help
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is receiving consular assistance from Australian authorities, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says. Mr Assange was denied bail at a London court on Tuesday after British Police arrested him on a Swedish warrant for suspected Sex Crimes. A spokeswoman for the department said on Wednesday that consular officers in the English capital were providing the Australian citizen with assistance. "The Australian Consul General in London spoke to Mr Assange by te...