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Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London on Feb. 1, 2012. Assange's legal team is making a final effort at Britain's Supreme Court to avoid his extradition to Sweden.
Reuters reports from LONDON:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appealed to Britain's Supreme Court Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes, a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion.
The Supreme Court hearings will last two days and the court is expected to announce its decision some weeks later. Read the full story.
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People leaving the St Paul's Cathedral annual Thanksgiving service look at a protester, wearing orange prison-type clothing in support of Bradley Manning, in London, England, on Nov. 24. Imprisoned U.S. Army soldier Bradley Manning is accused of leaking classified material to Wikileaks.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears at Belmarsh Magistrates court on January 11 in London, England. Mr Assange is appearing in court today to fight against his extradition to Sweden, where he is sought for questioning over alleged sex crimes.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, sitting at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London, on January 11. Assange continues his fight against extradition to Sweden for alleged sexual assault.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports:
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to increase the release of revelations related to secret U.S. diplomatic cables after he appeared in British court Tuesday as part of his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Assange said the website is "stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials."
New revelations "will shortly be appearing through our newspaper partners around the world, big and small newspapers and some human rights organizations," he told reporters outside a London court.
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A 'Free Julian Assange' protester demonstrates outside of the High Court during WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's bail hearing in London, Britain on December 16, 2010.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court inside a prison van with red windows on Dec. 14, 2010 in London, England. Assange is expected to seek bail during his extradition hearings.
Getty Images moved these frames shot through the red-tinted windows of the prison van transporting Julian Assange to his London court hearing this morning.
Full story HERE.
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WikiLeaks supporters wear masks of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a mask of the "Anonymous" internet activist group during a demonstration calling for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in Malaga, southern Spain December 11, 2010. The WikiLeaks website has released a trove of U.S. State Department cables exposing the inner workings of American diplomacy, including candid and embarrassing assessments of world leaders.
Read more on WikiLeaks HERE.
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A man walks inside the Pionen high-security computer storage facility of Swedish Bahnhof , one of the companies to host WikiLeaks servers on Dec. 9, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Pionen White Mountain data center, once a cold-war era bunker and nuclear shelter, is now home of one of the most intesnse data centers in the world.
This data center inside a mountain reminds me of the Superman's Fortress of Solitude. Ironically, the hackers don't need to be Supermen to get to their servers and do their mischief.
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British press photographers take photographs of a prison van as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is expected to arrive at Magistrates Court in London on Tuesday, Dec. 7. Assange, who is the founder of the whistle-blowing website, has been arrested by police in London.
I'm thankful the old "pray and spray" method of photojournalism is still alive and well.
You can read up on the latest develpments in the Assange Wikileaks story HERE.
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US Sec. of State Hillary Clinton arrives to give a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, Nov. 29, 2010. Clinton said that the United States "deeply regrets" the release by WikiLeaks of confidential US documents, as she sought to reassure American allies. Internet whistleblower Wikileaks has begun releasing a quarter of a million confidential US diplomatic cables, detailing embarrassing and inflammatory episodes in what the White House called a "reckless and dangerous action".
While I understand the need for secrecy when it comes to foreign affairs, I wish we lived in a world where it wasn’t necessary. I wonder if the last few high-profile leaks are just the beginning. Is the genie out of the bottle? Maybe the ease of Internet distribution has changed affairs of state forever.
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state,” Cardinal Richelieu (1585 – 1642)
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