Wikileaks founder possibly on the run.

Biggins

Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: "Assange is in Some Danger." (This story has been updated to reflect new developments on Assange's whereabouts, including the cancelation of a scheduled appearance in Las Vegas.)
Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.
The officials acknowledge that even if they found the website founder, Julian Assange, it is not clear what they could do to block publication of the cables on Wikileaks, which is nominally based on a server in Sweden and bills itself as a champion of whistleblowers.

“We’d like to know where he is; we’d like his cooperation in this,” one U.S. official said of Assange.

Story continues here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-10/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hunted-by-pentagon-over-massive-leak/

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Well if he was to turn up at my door, he'd have a place to hide.
Would fellow board members offer him a place to hide?

squod

I'd offer him a fuhken haircut TBH

Biggins

squod wrote: »

I'd offer him a fuhken haircut TBH

:pac:

True that!

javaboy

This man has been assigned to lead the hunt:
http://www.thebluegrassspecial.com/archive/2010/april10/imagesapril10/Al-Powell.jpg

Micky Dolenz

I might watch his back, who's asking?

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The_Minister

TBH, sometimes super-secret State documents should stay secret.


Who knows what could be in those documents?


I wouldn't help him until I knew more.

bluto63

The_Minister wrote: »

TBH, sometimes super-secret State documents should stay secret.


Who knows what could be in those documents?


I wouldn't help him until I knew more.

Agreed. There's needs to be a certain level of discretion in certain matters.

Coriolanus

The_Minister wrote: »

Who knows what could be in those documents?

Probably just details of who killed JFK, sooo last century.

Tbh, I've a bit of respect for Wikileaks. I haven't seen anything released from them that was just "just" for the sake of releasing it. It is usually stuff that's being covered up etc.
So yes, these might be top secret stuffs, but odds are good that if it's stuff he's considering releasing, then it's stuff that should be released. He's not so stupid as to start posting locs to nuclear arms caches, or shift timetables for Basra Inf movements or anything.

IM0

I thought this was a thread on the inventor of wikipedia finally being targeted for a witch hunt for a all the rubbish that is written on wikipedia and passed of as fact.

Gummy Panda

dr gonzo

Nevore wrote: »

Tbh, I've a bit of respect for Wikileaks. I haven't seen anything released from them that was just "just" for the sake of releasing it. It is usually stuff that's being covered up etc.

Agreed, wikileaks has never seemed gratuitous, anything ive read has never seemed like its been put up merely because it is secret and they have access to it. I know theres an apparent security risk here but ive a funny feeling that its not American lives the pentagon is worried about so much as American opinions of them.

Lone Stone

Hmmm i wonder what it is :eek:

Another plot perhaps ? by the dastardly albino to undermine the united state's of america !!! DEATH TO ALL ALBINO'S huaalLLAAHhh LA LA gurble gurble

generalmiaow

me@ucd wrote: »

I thought this was a thread on the inventor of wikipedia finally being targeted for a witch hunt for a all the rubbish that is written on wikipedia and passed of as fact.

if that were the case everyone who ever posted on AH would have been executed years ago

The Minister wrote:

TBH, sometimes super-secret State documents should stay secret.


Who knows what could be in those documents?

here let me help you

Edit: not trying to be a gob****e. if you're referring to the documents about to be released, of course they are not online yet and I apologise

CHD

I hope its about aliens

sponsoredwalk

Biggins wrote: »

Well if he was to turn up at my door, he'd have a place to hide.
Would fellow board members offer him a place to hide?

Before I even finished reading the piece that thought came into my mind, definitely.

This is what happens to someone who tells the truth, the hoops he is jumping through are ridiculous.

That video you posted of the helicopter incident, the wikileaks people have arranged legal protection for the guy who released the video, I don't see how to fault them for showing criminal activities of our leaders...

helios12

I'd buy him a pint, wikileaks is one of the last pieces of real journalism around these days.

CHD

helios12 wrote: »

I'd buy him a pint, wikileaks is one of the last pieces of real journalism around these days.

Bet he'd be locked after a pint.

Biggins

Mail version of the same story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286088/Pentagon-hunts-Wikileaks-founder-bid-stop-website-publishing-leaked-sensitive-documents.html

Most of the items on his site are only put up to expose the many lies being told to the public.
Be it from the antics of the Icelandic banks and the documents that showed what they were really up to before the rest of the world caught on, to what the American government (under Bush alone) was saying/doing and then the actual truth being something different.

The man has done the public many great services, in many countries.
Now he is a hunted man because some Americans are afraid more of their lies might be exposed - well I for one hope they fail in finding him. I'm damn sure however that they are secretly in the background frantically with agents, out sourcing all leads possible to get their target.

Thats the American agencies/government for you!

dr gonzo

The US have special & intelligence operators working in 75 countries(publicly). Unfortunately i think its fair to say that if the yanks want him they could get him with little or no difficulty.

pwd

I would tell him that he was in Ireland, and not "Island."

wikileaks wrote:

The UK manual details British counter-insurgency operations in a number of conflicts, including Northern Island

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_Counter_Insurgency_Operations_Doctrine_2007

Misty Chaos

Hope he makes it out OK. Who knows what the American government would do to him if they caught him.

I'm serious, I don't see torture being beyond them in this situation if this is the case. Just saying.

Yakult

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myeK-f0XUvg

relevent.

recylingbin

Lone Stone wrote: »

Hmmm i wonder what it is :eek:

Word on the street is that the documents reveal the difference between butter and I Can't Belive It's Not Butter!

Could be very dangerous in the wrong hands. I'm with the pentagon on this one.

Manic Moran

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

the wikileaks people have arranged legal protection for the guy who released the video, I don't see how to fault them for showing criminal activities of our leaders...

As a serving soldier, SPC Manning automatically is assigned a defence laywer from JAG Corps for his presumably forthcoming court-martial. Not that civilians can't represent clients in courts-martial, but it's certainly a risky proposition. Civilian and military law are not entirely analagous.

I'm not sure what the US could do with the Wikileaks head if they caught up with him, though. Journalists have some pretty hefty protections. The sources, however, less so, so maybe they're planning to use him as a means to an end.

NTM