'When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed the UN via a satellite video call from the Ecuadorian embassy in London last week, his usual steadfast, cocky demeanor was conspicuously absent. His body language communicated a nervous - even fearful - man who, at some 659 days into his detention without a charge, looked like a third-grader making an unsteady stand against the sixth-grade bully. Calling the U.S. government a “a national regime of obfuscation,” Assange demanded that the Obama administration cease its dogged persecution of his organization and its supporters. Strong words from a visibly shaken man, but then, who wouldn’t be visibly shaken after being named an enemy of the state by the U.S. government?
'According to recently declassified Air Force counter-intelligence documents, any military personnel who support or contact WikiLeaks will be charged with article 104-D of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, aka “communicating with the enemy.” Obtained via a FOIA request by the Sydney Morning Herald, the documents detail an Air Force Office of Special Investigation review into a UK-based cyber systems analyst’s alleged support of WikiLeaks, aka “the enemy”.
'An excellent exercise in government paranoia, these documents show a jumpy U.S. administration that calls society the victim of the site’s antics and ultimately levels no charge against the analyst or WikiLeaks itself. Essentially, the papers revealed a rather intense worry that the analyst in question could possibly disseminate information to the Assange crew - not that that had already happened, putting lives in risk in the process.' (Philly Post article).
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