Pentagon spooks heavy Aussie battler for revealing secrets on WikiLeaks

[sabra]

Source: daily telegraph au

THE man behind financially challenged whistleblower website WikiLeaks is reportedly subject to an "aggressive surveillance operation" for exposing US military secrets.

WikiLeaks has posted an entry on Twitter claiming its editor, Australian Julian Assange, was tailed by surveillance agents in Iceland and another employee was detained for 22 hours, SBS World News reports.

"WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation. Following/photographing/filming/detaining," the Tweet reportedly says.

"If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible."

The comments apparently refer to documents posted recently on WikiLeaks purportedly revealing "nearly the entire order of battle" of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from April 2007.

Read more: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/pentagon-spooks-heavy-aussie-battler-for-revealing-secrets-on-wikileaks/story-e6freuy9-1225845309426

[Robb]

1. This should surprise no one. nt

[Ian David]

2. This will make an awesome HBO Original Film after they kill him.

Which unfortunately will also surprise no one.

I wish he had managed to do this all while remaining anonymous.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. They also claim to have broken US military video encryption, or so the story goes

and have incriminating stuff, i.e. the "Apr 5 film"

No, the Department of Defense are not happy at all.

[crikkett]

6. You mean, like the vid encryption on predator drones? n/t

[Dogtown]

4. K&R n/t

[bananas]

5. WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am

Maybe this is the "Apr. 5 film" referred to, not the 2007 documents:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/10860504725

WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact [e-mail]

10:43 PM Mar 21st via bit.ly

Here's the twitter mentioned in the OP:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10961128724

If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible.

7:33 PM Mar 23rd via bit.ly

[boppers]

7. Hmm...

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf

Looks like they need more contributors and sources.

[New Dawn]

8. Kick for truth.