now wants to release docs stolen from a major US bank
The WikiLeaks site has come under an extended seige today... it's about time, good grief:
The WikiLeaks website said it came under a forceful Internet-based attack on Tuesday morning, making some of the content, including the controversial “Cablegate” documents, inaccessible for hours to users in the U.S. and Europe. The site appears to have responded by switching its main hosting base from Sweden to the U.S., making it available again. On Tuesday, traffic to the site went to Amazon.com Inc.’s server-for-rent service, based in the U.S.
The site, which distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents on Sunday, said in a Twitter message on Tuesday morning that it was under a “distributed denial of service attack,” a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites. WikiLeaks didn’t identify the attackers.
“We are currently under a DDOS attack,” according to one tweet early Tuesday. Shortly after 9 a.m., another tweet was sent, saying, “DDOS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.” The site, which is devoted to releasing anonymously submitted documents, also came under attack Sunday, but Tuesday’s attack appeared to be more powerful.
And endangering troops and US security is not enough for this cyber-vermin, it seems: now he's threatening to take down a major US bank...
Cubachi via Riehl:
However, Assange an admitted anarchist who loves to commit crisis, is not done.
As if he hasn’t wreaked havoc enough, now Assange told Forbes magazine that his next expose will be on big businesses and a major American bank. He claims it’ll be comparable to Enron.
Nice to know that the media loves to glorify this character....
After Rep Peter King (R-NY) and others suggested we should charge Assange under the Espionage Act and label WikiLeaks a terrorist organization, generally-useless Eric Holder is actually threatening to go after him... Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday.
What action did the Obama administration take to prevent the impending release of such volatile information?
State Department legal adviser Harold Koh sent a strongly worded letter urging WikiLeaks to cease publishing classified materials. I'm sure that made Assange think twice.
Is the Obama administration going to do anything - anything at all - to stop these serial disclosures of our nation's most closely guarded secrets?
Just this past week, the federal government took decisive action to shut down more than 70 Web sites that were disseminating pirated music and movies. Hollywood is safe, but WikiLeaks is free to disseminate classified documents without consequence.
With this latest release, Assange may now have illegally disclosed more classified information than anyone in American history. He is in likely violation of the Espionage Act and arguably is providing material support for terrorism.
But unlike leakers who came before him, Assange has done more than release information; he has created a virtual system for the ongoing collection and dissemination of America's secrets.
The very existence of WikiLeaks is a threat to national security. Unless something is done, WikiLeaks will only grow more brazen - and our unwillingness to stop it will embolden others to reveal classified information using the unlawful medium Assange has built...
Perhaps somebody ought to tap ole Julian on the shoulder right about now and make sure he's aware that there's an organization called the CIA that's in the business of neutralizing those who pose a threat to US national security... just sayin.
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