WikiLeaks about to hit the fan

This is an open and shut case no matter how the defense try to turn this into a three ring circus.

Despite repeated assurances of openness and accountability from our elected leaders, they continue to lie, cheat and steal behind our backs, and cry like babies when exposed for doing it.

Julian Assange says he's launching TV chat show
(Associated Press, January 24, 2012)

LONDON — You've read his leaks. Now watch his show.

International secret-buster Julian Assange says he's launching his very own television series. The guests haven't been disclosed, but the 40-year-old Australian has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: Controversy.

WikiLeaks said in a statement late Monday that the show is intended to "draw together controversial voices from across the political spectrum — iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders — each to offer a window on the world tomorrow."

How the show will be produced and who will carry it remain open questions.

WikiLeaks referred queries about the series to the hitherto obscure Quick Roll Productions, whose website appears to have been created only about two weeks ago.

Yeah but when they get a steam shovel to crack a nut it's impossible to avoid thinking that something else is going on.

....The recommendations, which now go before the Special Court Martial Convening Authority, include the most serious charge of “aiding the enemy.” Legal observers who followed the Article 32 proceedings noted that military prosecutors never provided evidence of how these materials supposedly harmed national security.

“These charges contradict the administration’s own impact assessments which showed that these WikiLeaks revelations posed no threat to our national security” said Kevin Zeese, a legal adviser to the Bradley Manning Support Network. “But since the Obama administration appears dead set on railroading Bradley Manning through their show trial, we can’t expect them to allow such critical evidence or testimony to be considered. This evidence could have shown that these materials were improperly classified.”

while at the same time constantly arguing the law is an ass (in regard to your pet "causes") on other A2K threads.

Severe embarrassment of the US administration at its failure to protect their sources with appropriate security of the cables seems much closer to the mark to me.

No one said he was a minor.

Wikileaks' Jullian Assange to host Russian TV show
(United Press International, January 25, 2012)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will host a 10-part political discussion program on Russian television in March, the channel Russia Today said Wednesday.

Each half-hour installment of "The World tomorrow" will feature guests being interviewed by Assange, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.

The channel said guests will include politicians and revolutionaries, people that in the host's opinion will form tomorrow's agenda.

More than 600 million viewers are expected to watch the new show.

"We are proud and delighted that our channel will premier Julian Assange's project because the RT channel has gained a worldwide audience that's disappointed by the mainstream," said RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.

"The World Tomorrow" will be filmed in England where Assange is under house arrest. He is fighting an extradition request from Sweden to face charges of sexually abusing two women.

Assange is scheduled to appeal the extradition order in Britain's Supreme Court Feb. 1.

The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Julian Assange, Kremlin Pawn
(Jeff Bercovici, Forbes.com, January 25, 2012)

How foolish of me it was to question whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange really had a deal to distribute his new talk show to hundreds of millions of viewers. It turns out he does: with Russia Today, the English-language news network launched by the Russian government to massage its international image.

That’s right: Assange, self-styled foe of government secrets and conspiracies of the powerful, is going to be a star on a TV network backed by the Kremlin. The same Kremlin that has done suspiciously little to investigate or prevent the killings and beatings of journalists that have plagued Russia for more than a decade. The same Kremlin accused of blatant fraud in December’s parliamentary elections. The same Kremlin whose control of the country’s broadcast media allowed it to suppress coverage of the massive protests mounted in response to that fraud. The same Kremlin whose embrace of corruption led to Russia being named “the world’s most corrupt major economy” by Transparency International in 2011.

And so on. That Kremlin is Julian Assange’s new patron. The same Julian Assange who accused President Obama of putting “a chill across investigative journalism” by prosecuting Army leaker Bradley Manning.

Actually, though, maybe it makes sense. After all, Assange has said “it’s an international disgrace that so few western journalists have been killed in the course of duty, or have been arrested in the course of duty.” Russian journalists certainly aren’t disgraceful in that regard: They’ve been dying by the dozens, and their murders are seldom solved: Only three of the 33 murders of journalists committed in Russia since 1993 have been solved, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

In November 2010, in response to reports that Wikileaks was on the verge of releasing documents that would incriminate powerful Russian politicians and companies, Assange told my colleague Andy Greenberg that “we have material on many business and governments, including in Russia.” As is frequently the case with Assange, no such documents have ever emerged. Anyone want to bet on the chances that’ll ever happen now?

The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Julian Assange, Kremlin Pawn

One of the points of the Forbes writer was that revelations about the Kremlin, previously promised by Assange, will now not be forthcoming.