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[Underdog]

Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia

[alexamenos]

Originally Posted by Underdog

Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia

Yep, the Russians look to be having some fun with this one. Putin is describing the caging of Assange as "undemocratic" -- he's taking potshots at Mr. Hope-n-Change.

In other news...

Fairly interesting read here -- > Army v. Wiki (Warning: Clicking on this link may be a violation of national security. Reading the linked, and leaked, document could bring about the downfall of western civilization. You're probably a terrorist if you're even tempted to click the link.)

It seems a couple of years ago the Army thought that the best way to go about killing Wikileaks would be to successfully persecute the leakers--

Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the Web site that they will remain anonymous. The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public.

That is, what makes wikileaks different is the abject anonymity of it's sources, so the Army's thought (in March of 2008) was that to destroy Wikileaks (and others like it), they have to destroy the center of gravity, "trust".

Maybe that hasn't worked out so well over the last couple of years, so now we're on to Plan "B".