"Website allowing whistle-blowers to anonymously post gov. and corp. doc's taken offline in US"
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Geeeez- Do you think they could post the documents that Sandy Berger took???
For now there are many ways to get around it and the court looks like a third world donkey. Way to go Judge!
The demand absolute privacy for people that leak things that are very possibly not even based in fact, but at the same time they demand that their sources and those that discuss things must be kept completely secret regardless of if they intentionally work to harm others through lies or though disclosing things that no one else has a legitimate right to know.
There are leaks about individuals on that site. There are leaks about our military's rules of engagement. There are national security issues that if true could put our people at risk on that site.
These aren't people supporting civil liberties. These are people who are attacking civil liberties and wanting to do so under a veil of secrecy.
These are the same folks who published the supposed Rules of Engagment (for US Military in Iraq) that were/are still classified.
DON’T VISIT THE URL POST ABOVE, IF YOU DID, YOU NEED TO DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET AND GO OFF-GRID, YOU MUST NEVER RETURN, YOU HAVE BEEN MARKED.
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Here’s another article on this:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080218214544.b8qg68q6&show_article=1
A website designed to let whistleblowers publish sensitive documents has been ordered shut down by a US federal judge at the request of a Swiss bank and its Cayman Islands subsidiary, court documents showed Monday.
US District Judge Jeffrey White in California, in an injunction order dated Friday, ordered the shutdown of the website known as Wikileaks.org
The judge ruled in favor of Swiss-based Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and its Cayman Islands subsidiary Julius Baer Bank & Trust, saying that “immediate harm will result to (the bank) in the absence of injunctive relief.”
White ordered the California web hosting company Dynadot to “immediately clear and remove” records from Wikileaks and “prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank page,” until the court can review the case further.
Wikileaks was launched in early 2007 with the help of Chinese dissidents to help whistleblowers in authoritarian countries post sensitive documents on the Internet without being traced.
It was aimed at “oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East,” but also was being used to post “unethical” behavior in Western countries.
The shutdown came after the website posted documents relating to offshore activities of Julius Baer. A series of documents cited in the court order have titles that include “tax avoidance,” “tax evasion,” and “offshore tax scheme.”
Wikileaks said in an e-mail statment: “The order was entirely written by Cayman Islands Bank Julius Baer lawyers and was accepted by Judge White without amendment, or representations by Wikileaks or amicus. The case is over several Wikileaks articles, public commentary and documents dating prior to 2003.”