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Julian Assange: U.S. must renounce WikiLeaks witch hunt
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday made his first public appearance in two months, urging President Barack Obama “to do the right thing.” The head of the anti-secrecy website has fought for two years against his extradition to Sweden, where he’s wanted for questioning in relation to allegations of sexual…
Assange case a contrast to Ecuador’s embattled media
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has found an unlikely ally in Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who defends the document-leaking website while cracking down on media in his own country, experts say. On Thursday Correa granted asylum to Assange, who has taken shelter at the Ecuadoran embassy in London to avoid extradition…
With Assange inside, police guard Ecuador embassy
Julian Assange remained holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy on Friday with police guarding its exits, as Britain’s government warned that the diplomatic row over the WikiLeaks founder could go on for years. Ecuador granted asylum on Thursday to Assange — whose website enraged the United States by publishing a…
U.S. denies seeking to ‘persecute’ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
WASHINGTON — The United States said Thursday it was had no intention of “persecuting” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and denied charges that it was pressuring Britain to seize him. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland declined comment on Ecuador’s offer of asylum to Assange but rejected assertions by WikiLeaks and Quito…
Wikileaks says British raid threat ‘hostile, extreme’
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks on Thursday condemned a British threat to raid the Ecuador embassy in London where its founder is holed up as a “hostile and extreme” assault on asylum-seekers. “WikiLeaks condemns in the strongest possible terms the UK’s resort to intimidation,” it said in a statement. “A threat of…
MIT scientist David House: Assange’s actions ‘put WikiLeaks supporters at risk’
Julian Assange has lost another of his dwindling band of loyal supporters. David House, one of very few people to have met both Assange and the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, has denounced the WikiLeaks founder in a blaze of excoriating tweets. House, a computer scientist based at MIT in Cambridge,…
Fake Bill Keller column fools journalists and mocks Times’ WikiLeaks coverage
Bill Keller, the New York Times columnist who edited the paper through the WikiLeaks saga, is not a man usually fond of hyperbole. So when he came to post on Sunday morning a tweet all in caps, his 40,000 Twitter followers sat up and listened: The fake in question was…
Celebrated Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon to head Julian Assange’s legal team
Famous Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon will lead the legal team representing WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the whistleblower website announced on Tuesday. Assange is currently at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, seeking political asylum in the Latin American country, after losing his legal battle to avoid extradition…
Effect of leaks not relevant for Bradley Manning trial: judge
FORT MEADE, Maryland — A US military judge ruled Thursday that WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning will not be allowed to cite evidence at his trial alleging he caused no serious harm to the United States when he released a massive trove of secret government documents. In a major setback for…
Syria’s Assad emailed sexist jokes: WikiLeaks
PARIS — Hundreds of emails purportedly written by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad show he sent several sexist or irreverant messages in the months before the ongoing Syrian uprising began. The French website owni.fr on Thursday published extracts from the latest cache of Syrian documents made avaiable by WikiLeaks, which on…
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