Another sign that a U.S. of Julian Assange, editor of the WikiLeaks indictment may be imminent, his lawyer said that a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia is currently weighing of criminal charges.
"We have heard of the Swedish authorities that there was a grand jury secretly impaneled Alexandria", said Mark Stephens, a lawyer from the ISP Office based in London.
Stephens said Al-Jazeera over the weekend that he believes that he has "collusion" between the Swedish Government accused of sexual assault and the United States Assange. "We understand [Swedish authorities] said that if Sweden, they referred their interest in him the Americans," said attorney.
While the Department of justice in the United States has not confirmed the existence of a grand jury, Attorney General Eric Holder said recently that a criminal probe in WikiLeaks is underway. Analysis CNET published today shows that the Assange can be prosecuted under the espionage, which was previously used in extraterritorial prosecution of an American citizen Act, although it would probably claim that the law is unconstitutional under the first amendment.
Today, a State Department spokesman declined to comment on questions about the grand jury. On accusations of the Sweden extradition hearing is scheduled for tomorrow in a courtroom in London.
Some of the more hawkish members of Congress have called for Assange be prosecuted under part of the Act of espionage, in some cases prohibits the disclosure of information "defence". Rep Peter King (R - NY), incoming head of the House Intelligence Committee seeks full charge of espionage, intelligence leaders Committee Dianne Feinstein (D - California) Act Assange and Kit Bond (R-Miss.). "Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joseph Lieberman (Conn-I) was publicly ask why an indictment and extradition act" has not yet arrived. »
Also today:
• Saying Reddit.com discussion - without any evidence - that the CIA has established a mirror WikiLeaks thread. Thread has proved to be a hoax. But Techdirt.com reported as apparently true, as did GameKult, removed his original story, which ran a retraction.
• Speaking of Wiki-hoaxes, Declan Walsh from Islamabad U.K. guardian has a report saying that two Pakistani newspapers has admitted that they were duped by a fake account WikiLeaks cables which depicts the General Indians that vain, "addicted" and engaged in a "genocide" against Muslims in Kashmir. And a note of supposed to come from an Australian Twitter MP calling Assange "aggressively interrogated" also appears to be a hoax.
• It is a Ballad of Julian Assange on YouTube. And look for more focused on WikiLeaks games soon.
• Here is a profile of Geoffrey Robertson, born Australian lawyer based in London, which lies between Assange and deportation.
• Netcraft.com has a list of sites affected by outages in the last 24 hours. Top: warlogs.wikileaks.org cablegate.wikileaks.org anonops.net, anonops.eu (used by anonymous) sarahpac.com wikileaks.de wikileaks.nl, marketplace.mastercard.com.
• Time magazine has closed its survey for the personality of the year. Assange arrived in first place, and the results will be announced Wednesday morning on the show "today."
• Australian journalists argue WikiLeaks. An editorial in the Washington Post Saturday called these "bad idea" espionage Act prosecution
• WikiLeaks.org domain name (Wikileaks.ch is now the primary) is a new online after that EveryDNS it embarrassing about a week he y a. WikiLeaks.org uses now based in San Mateo, California Dynadot.com DNS and is hosted at Silicon Valley in San Jose Web hosting. The site currently redirects to WikiLeaks.info, site which is on the coast, with hosting and DNS in Russia.
And tonight.
• The British Government is preparing attacks on its Web sites if Assange is extradited to the Sweden. (The Assange rejects charges).
• Assange has provided a statement of Wandsworth Prison in London by his mother, Christine. He says: "my beliefs are flawless. I remain faithful to the ideals that I always said. These circumstances should not shake the. If anything, this process has increased my determination that they are true and correct. "(He also told his mother has cameras CCTV followed his cell because of fears that it might be killed.)
• In another article posted by Sunshine Coast News Australia, Christine Assange said: "this hearing is a precursor to the United States to extradite." If the United States get their hands on him, he will be forever imprisoned or it will be killed... This is serious.
• If the judge of the Court of magistrates in Westminster grants bail of Assange, it cannot be freed immediately. This is because prosecutors U.K., representing the Swedish Government may appeal.
• Here is a look at an article Assange wrote at the time WikiLeaks was founded. An excerpt: "Authoritarian regimes are the forces opposed to their pushing against individual and collective commitment to freedom, truth and the realization of itself." Plans to help plan, once discovered, induce resistance. This is why these plans are hidden by authoritarian powers successfully. It is enough to define their behavior as a conspiracy. »
• A survey that CNN has commissioned some 2,000 British found reports Reuters, "44 percent believed that the allegations of sex against Assange are a pretext for him in police custody, so the United States could continue to release secret documents."
• Not all Republicans are in the camp of the King of the Republic. Jack Goldsmith, a former official of the Ministry of justice of Bush, who wrote: "what a dream that Assange does, the U.S. Government response is counterproductive." It cannot stop the publication of documents that have already been disclosed and should stop looking for doing so makes the appearance of the United States very low and give documents greater importance they deserve. And the inimitable Rep Ron Paul, Texas Republican, said: "rather than worry about the disclosure of the embarrassing secrets, we should focus our delirious foreign policy." We are ourselves joke when we believe spying, to intrigue and military intervention altogether can maintain our international as a superpower status while our domestic economy chips in an orgy of the debt and currency debasement.
• Representative of the Organization of the United Nations for the freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, said Assange should not be continued: "in reference to what has been published in WikiLeaks, I think there is no criminal responsibility for the environment."
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