The OMB Watch has a story on the Office of Management and Budget memo that updates the initial agency assessment ordered following the WikiLeaks disclosures. The memo “contains more than 100 questions developed by the National Archives and Records Administration’s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).” The WSJ reports…
The Associated Press reports that WikiLeaks will step up its release of secret documents while Julian Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden. Bloomberg reports on Julian Assange’s plan to give the press his arguments against extradition from England to Sweden. Further, Bloomberg reports that Assange’s lawyers plan to argue it would be a breach of…
Bloomberg reports on an interview with Julian Assange by the French language paper Tribune deGeneve in which Assange states that it will be some time before WikiLeaks publishes the banking documents it has in its possession. Below is an excerpt from the article (Translation by Google Translate): – You have announced new revelations about a…
The leading news surrounding WikiLeaks is that the US Justice Department sought the account information of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Rop Gongrijp and Birgitta Jonsdottir. Twitter fought to have order unsealed, and Salon.com has posted a copy. The NYT reports on the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, under which the US Justice Department sought…
The NYT has a report on Bank of America making preparations in response to Julian Assange’s statement that WikiLeaks had information on a major US bank that it would be releasing. The Washington Post reports that the WikiLeaks release is prompting the federal government to complete detailed security reviews by month’s end to try to…
Julian Assagne MSNBC Interview
Jeff Bleich, U.S. Ambassador to Australia
