TPM - Wikileaks Vows to Fight Court Shutdown

[L. Coyote]

Wikileaks Vows to Fight Court Shutdown
By Paul Kiel - February 20, 2008, 12:27PM - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/wikileaks_vows_to_fight_court.php


As we noted Monday (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/us_court_shuts_down_whistleblo.php), a Swiss bank convinced a California judge to issue an order blocking access to WikiLeaks.org. The New York Times makes clear this morning (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/us/20wiki.html?ex=1361250000&en=11aa4088a3554bdb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss) that it was a ham-handed and probably unconstitutional move.

Ham-handed because even though the injunction was sweeping in its scope (disabling access to the domain name), it will certainly not accomplish its goal, which was to restrict dissemination of the documents. Not only have dozens of mirror sites (http://binaryfreedom.info/node/312) cropped up to host the documents (http://www.wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks), but the publicity from the move has also increased scrutiny on the bank, Julius Baer, and heightened WikiLeaks' supporters' resolve. The documents allegedly show the bank's efforts to set up shell entities to hide money. And as for the unconstitutional part:

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[texastoast]

1. We gotta lot of corruption cleanout to do after the shit-for-brains is out of office

Working to retain the right of free speech is one of them.

Is there an alternate site up yet?

:evilgrin:

[musette_sf]

3. Rachel Maddow gave the alternate site address

last night on her show. it's an IP address and some verbiage. sorry, i do not remember it offhand, try Rachel's website maybe.

[L. Coyote]

4. wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks n/t

[Hydra]

2. Yay for wikileaks!

The more they try to shut it up, the more attention it draws.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. PDF of Gitmo's Operational Procedures

http://wikileaks.cx/leak/gitmo-sop.pdf

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