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(78,777 posts) Wed Jul 22, 2015, 08:35 AM Jul 2015

Julian Assange: Wikileaks is 'Drowning in Material' [View all]

from Der Spiegel:

SPIEGEL: Mr. Assange, WikiLeaks is back -- releasing documents proving United States surveillance of the French government, publishing Saudi diplomatic cables and posting evidence of the massive surveillance of the German government by US secret services. What are the reasons for this comeback?

Assange: Yes, WikiLeaks has been publishing a lot of material in the last few months. We have been publishing right through, but sometimes it has been material which does not concern the West and the Western media -- documents about Syria, for example. But you have to consider that there was, and still is, a conflict with the United States government which started in earnest in 2010 after we began publishing a variety of classified US documents.

SPIEGEL: What did this mean for you and for WikiLeaks?

Assange: The result was a series of legal cases, blockades, PR attacks and so on. With a banking blockade, WikiLeaks had been cut off from more than 90 percent of its finances. The blockade happened in a completely extrajudicial manner. We took legal measures against the blockade and we have been victorious in the courts, so people can send us donations again.

SPIEGEL: What difficulties did you have to overcome?

Assange: There had been attacks on our technical infrastructure. And our staff had to take a 40 percent pay cut, but we have been able to keep things together without having to fire anybody, which I am quite proud of. We became a bit like Cuba, working out ways around this blockade. Various groups like Germany's Wau Holland Foundation collected donations for us during the blockade. .................(more)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-with-wikileaks-head-julian-assange-a-1044399.html

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Julian Assange: Wikileaks is 'Drowning in Material' [View all] marmar Jul 2015 OP

CIA wants to blockade Truth from US! Octafish Jul 2015 #1

Do you think the CIA killed Michael Hastings?...nt SidDithers Jul 2015 #2

I don't know. Octafish Jul 2015 #5

I didn't ask you what you know... SidDithers Jul 2015 #6

You should read about Lt. Cmdr. William Bruce PITZER. Octafish Jul 2015 #10

They had the Ability bahrbearian Jul 2015 #7

Hacker remotely crashes Jeep from 10 miles away Octafish Jul 2015 #13

They also had a motive. bahrbearian Jul 2015 #25

There was nothing unusual about Hasting's crash. nt hack89 Jul 2015 #3

Apart from how it happened and when it happened and to whom it happened. Octafish Jul 2015 #8

His wife and brother think is was an accident hack89 Jul 2015 #12

Exactly. It's only the Alex Jones / Wayne Madsen tin-foil loons of the world... SidDithers Jul 2015 #9

Nice smear, especially considering how FBI was targeting Occupy Wall Street for assassination. Octafish Jul 2015 #11

Lindorff. LOL... SidDithers Jul 2015 #14

Dave Lindorff writes for The Nation, as well. Octafish Jul 2015 #15

Nevermind that people reading that "smoking gun" memo NuclearDem Jul 2015 #16

Yup... SidDithers Jul 2015 #18

Show the ''CT.'' Otherwise all you are doing is smearing by allegation. Octafish Jul 2015 #30

And never will. elias49 Jul 2015 #34

. randome Jul 2015 #38

Thanks Randome. But I don't look like that any more. elias49 Jul 2015 #41

Truth hurts you now doesn't it!? Rex Jul 2015 #55

I don't mind people disagreeing... Octafish Jul 2015 #43

Truth hurts the tiny group here that TEE HEE giggles about the BFEE and their warmongering ways. Rex Jul 2015 #56

Thanks, Rex! For some reason, what's on DU isn't on ABCNNBCBSFakeNoiseNutworks. Octafish Jul 2015 #59

Notice that too did you? Also do you notice how they seem to know so much about the Foxnews noise Rex Jul 2015 #60

Anyone remember PFC Manning and what Manning did with WikiLeaks? Octafish Jul 2015 #64

Wait wait wait....we're supposed to READ the documents? jeff47 Jul 2015 #20

I can't believe that willful mis-reading still has life in it. randome Jul 2015 #28

Here's the FBI memo. Your ''interpretation'' is nowhere in it. Octafish Jul 2015 #29

So, a memo saying "someone is planning to kill leaders via sniper fire" jeff47 Jul 2015 #31

That's not what I wrote, though, is it? Octafish Jul 2015 #32

It was the implication of what you wrote. That the government would be pulling the trigger. jeff47 Jul 2015 #33

That's not what I wrote, though. Octafish Jul 2015 #36

Here is the entirety of what you wrote in the post I am responding to jeff47 Jul 2015 #40

11. Nice smear, especially considering how FBI was targeting Occupy Wall Street for assassination." NuclearDem Jul 2015 #42

Yeah, because the memo. Octafish Jul 2015 #45

Yet neither the memo nor the article make such an argument. NuclearDem Jul 2015 #47

GroupThink Octafish Jul 2015 #50

"Groupthink" is not exclusive to people who disagree with your position. jeff47 Jul 2015 #54

J Edgar Hoover is one who didn't tolerate dissent. Not me. Octafish Jul 2015 #58

Hrm...still no answers to the questions I asked. How odd. jeff47 Jul 2015 #61

I did answer. You don't like it: too bad, so sad. Octafish Jul 2015 #63

Where exactly do you get this interpretation that the FBI was planning to kill OWS leaders? NuclearDem Jul 2015 #35

It is in the FBI memo. Octafish Jul 2015 #37

No, it's not. NuclearDem Jul 2015 #39

No misreading. It's what the memo says. Octafish Jul 2015 #46

...by the third party the FBI was investigating. NuclearDem Jul 2015 #48

Of course, that must be in the redacted portion, as it's not in what readers can see. Octafish Jul 2015 #49

I thought Julian had pretty much been ousted from Wikileaks. randome Jul 2015 #4

Then release some already. Jesus Christ. NuclearDem Jul 2015 #17

It is odd how it is being portrayed as difficult to publish documents on the Internet. (nt) jeff47 Jul 2015 #19

Oh, it's not that it's difficult. NuclearDem Jul 2015 #21

What? It's not like Wikileaks announced they got a trove of Russian documents jeff47 Jul 2015 #23

Oh it's not even necessarily the Russian documents. NuclearDem Jul 2015 #24

Yes, was just an example. jeff47 Jul 2015 #27

K&R elias49 Jul 2015 #22

He is right about that JonLP24 Jul 2015 #26

kick for Marmar, Octafish and Wikileaks. nt navarth Jul 2015 #44

Wake me if he ever starts exposing Russian secrets... Blue_Tires Jul 2015 #51

So the USA is so exceptional that we don't need to clean up our own house? MattSh Jul 2015 #52

Well when JA says the U.S. is the world's biggest Blue_Tires Jul 2015 #62

Assange hiding in Ecuador. Snowden hiding in Russia. Our plan is working. randome Jul 2015 #53

K&R of pissing off all the Right people! Rex Jul 2015 #57

This thread is hilarious! How did I miss it before?! riderinthestorm Jul 2015 #65