One person killed in the name of truth and transparency. It is sad that even one person had to die, but what about the thousands of innocent people killed by the coalition of the willing. Do they count for anything?

The world needed to know. We are better off for knowing. Nothing is better than truth and transparency in government, and fortunately for all of us,there will always be people to fight for it.


Drone bombings killing thousands and they are counted as insurgents. Innocent people going about their daily business and blown up by the yanks.

Assange asked the US govt. to help sort out the sensitive information, they refused because they didn't want any information getting out into the wider community.

that is correct...
JS you talk garbage,... I guess... I think.... I'd think..." I'M  GUESSING HE NEVER blahblah......."

You are just guessing....  look at some of your earlier posts , not just on this topic, and you'll see a constant.... (if not these words then others) showing you are talking out of your arse./

but anyway in this particular, at least you are honest..... whatever your name is...  

O I love it when the truth is revealed. What a dirty, rotten, lying bunch of politicians we have.

Assange was right not to trust Australia, he's also right to sue their sneaky rs's off. Bob Carr, you scum bag, you stood in front of the people of Australia and told a despicable lie, you are filth.

When are we going to make our politicians accountable? They should be charged with lying to the people who pay their wages.

This is more proof that we are as corrupt as America.

Where is my beautiful Australia? What happened to you?

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US and Australia in cahoots for years over Assange intel

Australia has been handing key intelligence on Julian Assange to Washington for over two years. Newly-released cables indicate the US conducted an “active and vigorous enquiry” as early as 2010 to ascertain if they could try Assange for espionage.

­The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) revealed it had been in cahoots with the US over the Assange case for over two years, saying it had turned over documents as early as 2010 that pertained to the whistleblower’s activities.

One of the cables dated November 2011 includes a communiqué between former Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and former Attorney-General Robert McClelland on the subject of how best to prosecute Assange.

The cable stipulates that the most successful route to prosecution “would be to show that Mr. Assange had acted as a co-conspirator – soliciting, encouraging or assisting [US Army private] Bradley Manning, to obtain and provide the documents.”

US officials put pressure on Canberra following the release of thousands of cables, saying that “the WikiLeaks case was unprecedented both in its scale and nature.”

The government body also confirmed they had sent intelligence to the US government on June 1 prior to Assange’s appeal of his extradition to Sweden to be questioned over sexual assault charges.

The Australian government had previously refuted claims that they had any knowledge of a conspiracy to put Assange to trial in the US.

“I've received no hint that they've got a plan to extradite him to the US … I would expect that the US would not want to touch this,” said Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr in June.

However, in August Australian officials confirmed that the country's diplomatic mission in Washington has been prepping for Assange's possible extradition to the US calling it "contingency planning."

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Assange strikes back

Assange announced he would sue Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard over false claims that WikiLeaks acted illegally when they leaked 250,000 US diplomatic cables in 2010.

The whistleblower said that the PM’s claims prompted Mastercard Australia to join the financial blockade of WikiLeaks.

Assange told activist group Get Up! In an interview in the Ecuadorian Embassy where he is currently held up evading arrest that Gillard statements “directly affect the financial viability of WikiLeaks.''

''We are considering suing for defamation. So I have hired lawyers in Sydney and they are investigating the different ways in which we can sue Gillard over that statement,” said Assange.

Assange has been holed up for four months in London’s the Ecuadorian Embassy where he has been granted political asylum by the country’s government. However, he has thus far been unable to leave as UK authorities have threatened to arrest him and extradite him to Sweden should he set foot outside the embassy.

Assange has repeatedly voiced fears that once in Sweden he would be handed over to US authorities to be put to trial.

http://rt.com/news/australia-us-intelligence-assange-773/

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Oct 20^th, 2012 at 7:55am:


Here @ night again andrei? No social life? Are you going to be here ALL night again?

SOB

Right on Pansi...!!



To suggest there is NO conspiracy, over the punishment of Assange by the US, for his legal actions thru WikiLeaks,.. is farcical, facile and fascist.  And a whole lot more.
LEGAL in the sense that there seem to be no specific laws against what occurred, and that what did happen, and hopefully, will continue to happen,  is 

perfectly in line with the creed of freedom of speech,

..so loudly proclaimed by Americans as an inalienable right.!!
Such hypocricy is impossible to ignore.

That Carr and cronies lied about it, is no surprise. It is after all ,  part of the conspiracy. Part of the game they long to be part of. 

Perhaps he, and Gillard, don't realise just how much they have been used and manipulated by US agencies.. ?  after all, they think they are 'people of the world' ,  when in fact they are just minor players on the world scene,  to be used and abused as those more nefarious, and much more practised at this sort of gameplaying, see fit.

CARR has no excuse.  I'd say he's the worst 'foreign minister' since Downer.   
Albeit in a much more devious, weaselly fashion.! 

And , they got their reward...!!   Australia on the UN Security Council

And for those like ndrehicksville - go somewherelse... your nasty negativity is not welcome...you are a fascist and consumer, a rabid narcissist  ..  who has sold their 'soul' for money. Nothing you say is valid, but it annoys me just enough to reply.  Altho, considering I think you are a narcissistic parasite, I'll not mention YOU again.

I DO give Gillard the benefit of the doubt.... despite her determined statement that Assange had performed illegal activities. 
These sorts of intrigues,  are not hers, by her nature.
She was IMO very badly advised in respect of Assange, by who knows whom,??,  ...  and I hope she will redeem herself.