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U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks

by Philip Shenon

The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks.

The Obama administration is pressing Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allied Western governments to consider opening criminal investigations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and to severely limit his nomadic travels across international borders, American officials say.

Officials tell The Daily Beast that the U.S. effort reflects a growing belief that WikiLeaks and organizations like it threaten grave damage to American national security, as well as a growing suspicion in Washington that Assange has damaged his own standing with foreign governments and organizations that might otherwise be sympathetic to his anti-censorship cause.

American officials confirmed last month that the Justice Department was weighing a range of criminal charges against Assange and others as a result of the massive leaking of classified U.S. military reports from the war in Afghanistan, including potential violations of the Espionage Act by Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst in Iraq accused of providing the documents to WikiLeaks.

Now, the officials say, they want other foreign governments to consider the same sorts of criminal charges.

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okay it's official, I hate Obama and his administration. This was the straw that broke the camel's back.

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His admin is trying to paint AI as against them, too!

Amnesty, Soft on U.S.-British Human Rights Abuses, Refuses to Help WikiLeaks?

Posted: 2010/08/10
From: Mathaba

London (mathaba) -- Amnesty International, often accused of being soft on the abuse of human rights in the U.S., Britain and Australia, and other large established organisations, are leaving the entire costs of reviewing the around 100,000 files leaked on the Afghan War, to WikiLeaks.

However, Amnesty International spokeswoman Susanna Flood confirmed there was no authorized statement on WikiLeaks, while the U.S. is leaking unattributed statements that the organisations and others are turning against WikiLeaks.

The Amnesty International Human Rights Committee (AIHRC) is primary funded by the occupying forces of Afghanista - the U.S. and Britain, where it has its headquarters.

Establishment media networks such as the B.B.C., and the U.S. Pentagon, also will not assist in reviewing the material to minimise harm to innocents in the much criticised war in Afghanistan.

A new petition to defend WikiLeaks is now gaining prominent signatures and a World Can't Wait peace movement gaining momentum with people showing the Collatoral Murder video on the streets.

WikiLeaks says that while they have done much to minimize risk on innocents of releasing documents, in an ongoing war waiting and doing nothing is also a risk.

With no way home and no escape in Iraq too, the U.S. abandons Iraqi collaborators to reprisals, WikiLeaks points out.

Afghan civilian casualties rose 31 per cent in first six months of 2010, according to the United Nations.

WikiLeaks is calling on people not to be fooled by the U.S. claims that "human rights groups" are critical of WikiLeaks, saying that there is no formal statement. Instead reports from the U.S. are being given anonymously to the Wall Street Journal, a usual technique of planting C.I.A. propaganda into media.

Meanwhile, the U.S. pro-war president Obama, not content to be defending and expanding the U.S. involvement in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is now having fantasies on Iran too.

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The argument is just in matter of degree. There is a lot of stuff Assange didn't release.

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