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US Air Force blocks media outlets that carried leaks

Air Force

Newscast Media — At least 25 websites that published leaked documents released by WikiLeaks will not be accessible through The US Air Force computer network, a spokeswoman for the armed forces said. Major Toni Tones, a spokesperson at Air Force Space Command in Colorado, said on Tuesday that the websites that carried WikiLeaks documents had been blocked and could not be viewed by any Air Force computer.

“The Air Force routinely blocks Air Force network access to websites hosting inappropriate materials or malware and this includes any website that hosts classified materials and those that are released by WikiLeaks,” Tones said.

She said the action was taken by the 24th Air Force, which is commanded by Major Generral Richard Webber and is responsible for cyber warfare and computer security for the service. The move was approved by Air Force lawyers, she said.

“If a site has republished the documents, then we block it,” she said, adding that the move to prevent access to the media sites was done recently. She said she was not sure of the date. Tones said The New York Times is the only major US newspaper included in the ban. Others media sites include Der Spiegel in Germany, the Guardian in Britain and Le Monde in France.

The White House formally reminded all federal employees and government contractors that anyone without a security clearance is not permitted to read classified documents, such as the diplomatic messages published by WikiLeaks, even on a personal computer at home outside work hours.

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WikiLeaks expose is a conspiracy by the US says Iran’s Ahmadinejad

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Newscast Media — Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, takes the recent expose by WikiLeaks with a grain of salt, and says that the revelations are a disinformation campaign engineered by Washington whose sole purpose is to destabilize the Middle East. Ahmadinejad suggested that WikiLeaks was an American tool to sow seeds of misinformation around the world.

“Let me first correct you. The material was not leaked, but rather released in an organized way,” said Mr Ahmadinejad. “We don’t give any value to these documents. It’s without legal value. Iran and regional states are friends. Such acts of mischief have no impact on relations between nations,” Ahmadinejad said.

WikiLeaks reported that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged America to cut the head of the snake, while the leaders of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates also urged a military solution.

However, Khaled al-Dakhil, a Saudi security expert said Iran should take the revelations as a warning that its neighbors were exhausted by its aggressive foreign policy.

“I don’t think Iran takes at face value public declarations coming from the Gulf, whether for a war or not – just as Gulf leaders do not believe declarations about how peaceful the Iranian nuclear program is,” he said.

WikiLeaks founder who has both Swedish and Australian citizenship is living in an undisclosed location in London. http://newscastmedia.com/expose-wikileaks.htm

WikiLeaks gunning for major U.S. bank in next wave of leaks

WikiLeaks to target major US bank

Newscast Media — In an interview with Forbes magazine, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that he plans to release tens of thousands of documents relating to a major U.S financial institution, comparable to the Enron trial. He referred to it as “an ecosystem of corruption” and confirmed that the expose would be about a big U.S. bank.

“It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume,” he promised.

Assange justified the future havoc he will wreak with his philosophy that leaking the information will mean good business for people who embrace ethical business practices and treat their employees well.

“Let’s say you want to run a good company,” he said. “It’s nice to have an ethical workplace. Your employees are much less likely to screw you over if they’re not screwing other people over.”

The mega leaks he said would come at the beginning of 2011.
You may read the entire transcript on here:

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Swedish court approves arrest warrant for Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder

Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder

Newscast Media STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish director of prosecutions Marriane Ny, got a victory
today when a Swedish court approved a request for the arrest of Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.

The decision by Stockholm district court’s decision on Thursday could allow authorities to issue an international warrant Asange’s arrest. The decision comes a few weeks after Assange released classified military documents about the war in Iraq detailing torture, civilian deaths blamed on US and Iraqi forces.

“I request the District Court of Stockholm to detain Mr Assange in his absence, suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion,” Marianne Ny said in a statement in English.

“The reason for my request is that we need to interrogate him. So far, we have not been able to meet with him to accomplish the interrogations.”

The 39-year old Australian says the allegations against him are fabrications and said that he had earlier been warned by Australian intelligence that he could face a campaign to discredit him. Bjoern Hurtig, his lawyer in Sweden, said the prosecutor’s petition was “exaggerated” and “out of proportion.”

In October, WikiLeaks released approximately 400,000 classified US files on the Iraq war, which Assange has said showed 15,000 more Iraqi civilian deaths than thought.

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