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Bradley Manning formally charged with 'aiding the enemy' by giving files to WikiLeaks

Agence France-Presse | National Post :: WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning was formally charged on Thursday ahead of a court-martial that could see the U.S. soldier sentenced to life in prison. Manning was charged with 22 counts, the most serious of which is “aiding the enemy,” for allegedly turning over a trove of classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks in one of the most serious intelligence breaches in US history.

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Bill Keller: WikiLeaks, a postscript

New York Times | Opinion page :: THIS is apparently the revenge of Julian Assange: everyone who runs afoul of the rock-star leaker is condemned to spend eternity discussing the cosmic meaning of WikiLeaks. As the editor of The Times during our publication of many articles based on that treasury of military and diplomatic secrets, and as the lucky man the WikiLeaks founder singled out as his Least Favorite Journalist, I have participated in half a dozen panel discussions, and turned down at least that many.

[Bill Keller:] My consistent answer to the ponderous question of how WikiLeaks transformed our world has been: really, not all that much. It was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald,..., some new digital age of transparency. In fact, if there is a larger point, it is quite the contrary.

In the meantime, WikiLeaks responded to Bill Keller's piece via Twitter:

The only explanation for Bill Keller's bizarre attacks on Wikileaks, his former benefactor, is fear. The question is, of what?

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 20, 2012

Here's what Bill Keller wrote - Continue to read www.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks - Bradley Manning arraignment scheduled for Feb. 23

New York Post :: Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking confidential US diplomatic and military cables to WikiLeaks, will be arraigned Feb. 23, the military announced Thursday. Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, theft of public property or records, transmitting defense information, fraud and other related charges. The 24-year-old faces life in prison if convicted of aiding the enemy -- the most serious of the charges he is facing.

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Precedent warning as Julian Assange extradition case ends

Reuters :: Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardising extraditions to many neighbouring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued on Thursday. For Assange, lawyer Dinah Rose told them on Wednesday that the arrest warrant issued against him in 2010 was invalid under English law on the grounds it was not issued by an impartial "judicial authority" but by a public prosecutor in Stockholm.

Continue to read Estelle Shirbon, uk.reuters.com

Fox News: WikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say

Fox News :: Julian Assange’s investors are in the process of purchasing a boat to move WikiLeaks’ servers offshore in an attempt to evade prosecution from U.S. law enforcement, FoxNews.com has learned. Multiple sources within the hacker community with knowledge of day-to-day WikiLeaks activities say Assange’s financial backers have been working behind the scenes on the logistics of moving the servers to international waters.

Continue to read Jana Winter | Jeremy A. Kaplan, www.foxnews.com

Wikileaks: Julian Assange enters final stage of extradition battle

Guardian :: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is to enter the final stage of his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex crime allegations. After failing to persuade a magistrates and the court of appeal that the cross border warrant issued for his arrest was invalid, the Australian's legal team will appeal to the supreme court in London to prevent his deportation.

Continue to read Robert Booth, www.guardian.co.uk

Exclusive TV series hosted by Julian Assange to premiere on RT TV in March

RT TV :: RT news executive Nikolay Bogachikhin held talks with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to secure the show for RT TV. He is convinced working with Assange would be any channel’s dream right now, as the new host is full of fresh ideas.

“When we talked, Julian was very calm and relaxed about it all, which you wouldn’t expect from someone who’s been under house arrest for more than 400 days. He was very full of ideas, some of them were born as we talked, so I think this will be a very hard-hitting show,” Bogachikhin stated.

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WikiLeaks: Is Julian Assange's talk show for real? (Well, it's one way to survive.)

The question is: what else should he do? WikiLeaks is financially under pressure (The Guardian, Oct 24, 2011)  and TV shows is one way to earn a lot of money if you're successful, of course. If it will be successful heavily depends on if his production company succeeds in selling licenses and if he will find people willing to be interviewed.

Forbes :: Larry King…Charlie Rose…Julian Assange? - Well, maybe. The voluble, volatile Wikileaks founder is getting his own talk show, or so he says. Beginning in March, Assange will be “hosting a series of in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world,” according to an announcement posted on Wikileaks.org.

Jeff Berkovici: It seems incredible when you consider that Assange’s track record as a TV interviewer pretty much consists of this awkward, accusatory tete-a-tete with PBS’s Martin Smith, which Assange insisted on as a precondition for granting an interview to “Frontline.” Assange’s history of relations with big media companies is one of conflict.

Continue to read Jeff Berkovici, www.forbes.com

Video: WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade www.guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks Julian Assange to launch his own TV series, airing in mid-March

WikiLeaks.org :: Julian Assange will be hosting a series of in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world. The theme: the world tomorrow. Upheavals and revolutions in the Middle East have commenced an era of political change that is still unfolding. In the West, the deterioration of the rule of law has demonstrated the bankruptcy of once leading political institutions and ideologies. The internet has never been so strong, or so much under attack.

At this pivotal moment there is an awareness of the need to radically rethink the world around us.

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WikiLeaks - unfortunate trend to make court processes less open and transparent

New York Times :: This much is known: In its hunt for information about three people it believes to be associated with the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, the Justice Department has sought to extract details about them and their communications on Twitter. What is not yet known is where else the Justice Department went looking. On Friday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a federal court in Virginia to reveal the names of the other Internet companies from whom the Justice Department solicited information.

Continue to read Somini Sengupta, bits.blogs.nytimes.com