Head of House Homeland Security Committee demands Obama place WikiLeaks/Assange on "enemies list "

[Better Believe It]

Editorial - WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
12 Jan 2011 23:00
"WikiLeaks condemns US embargo move"

WikiLeaks today condemned calls from the chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security to "strangle the viability" of WikiLeaks by placing the publisher and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, on a US "enemies list" normally reserved for terrorists and dictators.

Placement on the US "Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List" would criminalize US companies who deal with WikiLeaks or its editor. "The U.S. government simply cannot continue its ineffective piecemeal approach of responding in the aftermath of Wikileaks’ damage," King wrote in a letter to the Secretary of the US Treasury, Geithner. "The U.S. government should be making every effort to strangle the viability of Assange’s organization."

’The Homeland Security Committee chair Peter T. King wants to put a Cuban style trade embargo around the truth—forced on US citizens at the point of a gun,’ said Julian Assange.

’WikiLeaks is a publishing organization. It is time to cut through the bluster. There is no allegation by the US government or any other party, that WikiLeaks has hurt anyone, at any time during its four-year publishing history, as a result of anything it has published. Very few news organizations can say as much.’

’WikiLeaks has "terrorized" politicians from Kenya to Kansas over the last four years. Quite a few have lost office as a result. That doesn’t mean we are "terrorists"—it means we doing our job. We intend to "terrorize" Peter King, Hillary Clinton, corrupt CEOs and all the rest for many years to come, because that is what the people of the world demand.’

King noted that some U.S. companies had voluntarily cut off ties to Wikileaks, but that a New York publisher had recently agreed to pay Assange for an autobiography. Assange has said the eventual book royalties would help ’keep Wikileaks afloat’.

’By targeting WikiLeaks and the US publisher Knopf for economic censorship, King reveals his abiding hatred for the US constitution. When the founding fathers wrote, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press", they did not provide an exception for blustering fools like Peter T. King.’

http://www.wikileaks.ch/WIKILEAKS-PRESS-RELEASE.html


US Rep Wants To Bar Companies from Dealing With Wikileaks
By Ryan Tracy, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
January 13, 2011

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R., NY), the Republican who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Wednesday to prohibit people and companies within the U.S. from doing business with the Wikileaks website that has publicized hundreds of thousands of secret government documents.

King said the prohibition should also extend to Wikileaks' founder, Julian Assange. Both ought to be placed on the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List, which the Treasury Department can use to bar companies and individuals subject to U.S. jurisdiction from conducting business with a given entity, King said.

"The U.S. government simply cannot continue its ineffective piecemeal approach of responding in the aftermath of Wikileaks' damage," King wrote in a letter to Geithner. "The U.S. government should be making every effort to strangle the viability of Assange's organization."

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201101121933dowjonesdjonline000522&title=us-rep-wants-to-bar-companies-from-dealing-with-wikileaks

[Autumn]

1. Fuck Peter King and his Specially Designated

National and Blocked Persons List, we are seeing who the real "enemies" are. K/R

[DCKit]

2. My Take: They've just made illegal to extradite him to the U.S.. nt

[Better Believe It]

3. Treasury Says It Cannot Sanction Wikileaks Or Julian Assange

Treasury Says It Cannot Sanction Wikileaks Or Julian Assange
By Samuel Rubenfeld
Wall Street Journal
January 14, 2011

Responding to Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who asked the department to add it to its blacklisted entities list maintained at the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Treasury said none of its current programs can reach either Wikileaks or Assange. The Treasury administers but doesn’t create the criteria for sanctions; that power comes either legislatively or by executive order.

“We do not have evidence at this time as to Julian Assange or Wikileaks meeting criteria under which may designate persons and place them on the” sanctions list, a Treasury representative said in a statement.

http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2011/01/14/treasury-says-it-cannot-sanction-wikileaks-or-julian-assange/



Congressman Peter King

[MilesColtrane]

4. King is either a moron or he's grandstanding.

Well, probably both.

If he doesn't understand the functions and limits of the Treasury Department he should quit the House and go take a course in government.

But, that's not going to stop him from talking tough to rile up his base.