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Assange's hiding place: U.K. club for journalists
MSNBC ^ | Dec. 9, 2010 | Ian Johnston

Posted on 12/09/2010 2:20:06 PM PST by fightinJAG

The Frontline Club in London is the kind of place where war correspondents and investigative reporters mingle with admirers and wannabes, fired by a shared passion for exposing government spin, revealing the truth — and fine dining.

So when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange found himself at the center of an international firestorm over the website's publication of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, he knew where he would be well-fed and, more importantly, safe.

Amid calls for Assange's assassination or prosecution under espionage laws and condemnation from U.S. commentators like Sarah Palin — who dubbed him "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" — the Frontline Club closed ranks and kept his whereabouts to themselves.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: criminalconspiracy; cultureofcorruption; harboring; interpol; ivorytower; mediagate; pravdamedia; wikileaks

1 posted on 12/09/2010 2:20:07 PM PST by fightinJAG
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To: fightinJAG

He is a self described American hater. Obama should issue an intelligence finding that he is an enemy of the US and then have him hunted and killed, or imprisoned at Gitmo.


2 posted on 12/09/2010 2:33:34 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: fightinJAG

If BSNBC is saying it’s the Frontline Club, then it isn’t.


3 posted on 12/09/2010 2:38:06 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Oldexpat

Doesn’t he know The Dark Knight
was a movie not a blue print.


4 posted on 12/09/2010 2:39:58 PM PST by MissyMack66 (ROMNEY SUCKS: don't be fooled like we were in MA.)
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To: fightinJAG

well he ain’t hidin’ there no more pal is he?


5 posted on 12/09/2010 3:23:08 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT ( JC Webster's fav words: "the boiling pits of sewage" roflmao)
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