Julian Assange loses extradition case – live coverage

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Gareth Peirce, a lawyer representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, addresses the media outside the supreme court this morning. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

8am: Good morning. The supreme court will rule this morning on whether Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. The WikiLeaks founder denies the accusations..

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Flashback: An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

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Forbes 11/29/2010

Admire him or revile him, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world’s secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago.

Over the last year his information insurgency has dumped 76,000 secret Afghan war documents and another trove of 392,000 files from the Iraq war into the public domain–the largest classified military security breaches in history.

Sunday, WikiLeaks made the first of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department cables public, offering an unprecedented view of how America’s top diplomats view enemies and friends alike…

Source: http://www.forbes.com

Did Bradley Manning leak U.S. Intelligence documents to al-Qaida?

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Pfc. Bradley Manning had previously been charged with aiding the enemy among a total of 22 counts, but on Thursday the military identified the enemy Manning’s actions aided. Manning and his attorneys are appearing at a hearing at a military courtroom at Fort Meade, near Baltimore, for two days of hearings in the case..

Source: http://news.yahoo.com

Publisher and Author Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

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Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet publisher and blogger, died early this morning at age 43. A statement posted on his website said that Breitbart died “unexpectedly from natural causes” this morning…

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Revealed: US plans to charge WIKILEAKS’ Assange…

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UNITED STATES prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a confidential email obtained from the private US intelligence company Stratfor…

Source: www.smh.com.au

Wikileaks case: Soldier Bradley Manning had ‘gender issues’

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Bradley Manning is accused of leaking 720,000 diplomatic and military documents. The US soldier accused of leaking thousands of government secrets struggled with emotional problems and gender issues, a court has heard…

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk

WikiLeaks TV? Julian Assange says he’s launching TV show

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Cyber-transparency activist Julian Assange says he’s launching a career in television, hosting what he’s billing as a new brand of talk show built around the theme of “the world tomorrow.”..

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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from the going-out-with-a-bang dept…

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Bradley Manning pre-trial hearing: what we learned

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For the past week, a military court has been considering the case of Bradley Manning, alleged to have leaked more than 250,000 embassy cables to Wikileaks. What have we learned?..

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Bradley Manning hearing – live updates

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So the first day of the Bradley Manning “article 32 hearing” has ended, raising the question: what, if anything, have we learned from it?..

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