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Jonfairway Great Old One Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Total posts: 1163 Gender: Unknown |
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so let me get this straight
the first womans evidence with the ripped condom has no dna from assange
but the case continues
the second woman now says she was ok to have sex without a condom, which she apparently lied about first
but the case continues
hmmmmm |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 8820 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 18-09-2012 20:09 Post subject: |
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Yes, it's weird.
Wouldn't producing faked up evidence be enough to throw the case out? |
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| Marco_Polo Grey Joined: 25 Oct 2012 Total posts: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 05-11-2012 02:25 Post subject: |
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| WhistlingJack wrote: | I feel it may be useful to maintain this thread as a depository for stories about Wikileaks, rather than them being scattered randomly across the boards, so here goes: -
| Quote: | UK air traffic control goes after Wikileaks
Good luck with that
By John Oates
Posted in Government, 9th December 2009 15:23 GMT
The National Aviation and Transport Services (NATS) is threatening legal action against Wikileaks because the website has published a recording of the crashing of BA flight 038, call sign Speedbird 38, which came down just short of the Heathrow runway in 2008.
Earlier this month Wikileaks published an audio recording of air traffic controllers seeing, and reacting to, the crash and images of the control system. The Boeing 777 hit the ground just on the threshold of the runway at Heathrow. There were injuries, but no deaths.
NATS is claiming absolute copyright over the recording.
Richard Churchill-Coleman, general counsel and company secretary for NATS wrote to Wikileaks claiming copyright but also justifying the move. He said the tape was part of an ongoing investigation and that the confidentiality of evidence in such an inquiry was vital.
Churchill-Coleman said this atmosphere of confidentiality allowed air traffic controllers and pilots to give evidence freely without fearing the consequences. This atmosphere makes it easier for lessons to be learned and therefore air safety improved.
He added that the recording: "adds little to the public good apart from satisfying the public's general curiosity".
Wikileaks does not often obey such takedown notices and is unlikely to do so in this case.
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Whatever happened to the gentlemen who created Wikileaks? |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20322 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-01-2013 12:03 Post subject: |
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate: first look
The first production shots of WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate show Benedict Cumberbatch playing Julian Assange.
By Alice Vincent
1:39PM GMT 23 Jan 2013
The first glimpses of Benedict Cumberbatch playing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have been released by DreamWorks Studios. The Sherlock star appears in the film, The Fifth Estate, which depicts the foundation and early days of the controversial website.
Cumberbatch acts alongside Inglourious Basterds star Daniel Brühl, who plays Wikileaks co-founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Domscheit-Berg, who later became WikiLeaks spokesman, separated from the website in 2010. Assange is currently residing in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after facing extradition from the British government regarding an investigation for sexual assault.
The Fifth Estate is the work of West Wing screenwriter Josh Singer and director Condon, who was also responsible for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, said of the film, "It may be decades before we understand the full impact of WikiLeaks and how it's revolutionised the spread of information. So this film won't claim any long-view authority on its subject, or attempt any final judgment. We want to explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope, enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked.”
Singer used Domscheit-Berg's 2011 book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website to inform the film's plot. The Fifth Estate will be released in US cinemas in mid-November.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9821056/Benedict-Cumberbatch-as-Julian-Assange-in-The-Fifth-Estate-first-look.html |
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| Anome_ Faceless Man
Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2002 Total posts: 5328 Location: Left, and to the back. Age: 44 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-01-2013 09:38 Post subject: |
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Much as I like Humperdinck Cumberbund, couldn't they have found an actual Australian to play the role? I'm sure he's capable of an almost passable accent, but they got a German to play the other guy.
I shudder to think who they might have cast as Geoffrey Robertson... |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 25-01-2013 09:43 Post subject: |
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It's a tradition. The yanks always get a Limey to play the chief villain. And, Cumberland can give the role all the extra creepy, arrogant and odd, that will be required. He's this generation's Boris Karloff.
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 838 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 05-08-2013 09:17 Post subject: |
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Where the "values" really lie...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/what-bradley-mannings-sen_b_3679015.html
| Quote: | What Bradley Manning's Sentence Will Tell Us About Our Military Justice System
Posted: 30/07/2013 6:40 pm
Today Bradley Manning was convicted on 20 of 22 counts, including violating the Espionage Act, releasing classified information and disobeying orders. That's the bad news. The good news is he was found not guilty on the charge of "aiding the enemy." That's 'cause who he was aiding was us, the American people. And we're not the enemy. Right?
Manning now faces a potential maximum sentence of 136 years in jail. When his sentence is announced tomorrow, we'll all get a good idea of how seriously the U.S. military takes different crimes. When you hear about how long Manning - now 25 years old - will be in prison, compare it to sentences received by other soldiers:
Col. Thomas M. Pappas, the senior military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib and the senior officer present the night of the murder of Iraqi prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi, received no jail time. But he was reprimanded and fined $8,000. (Pappas was heard to say about al-Jamadi, "I'm not going down for this alone.")
Sgt. Sabrina Harman, the woman famously seen giving a thumbs-up next to al-Jamadi's body and in another photo smiling next to naked, hooded Iraqis stacked on each other in Abu Ghraib, was sentenced to six months for maltreating detainees.
Spec. Armin Cruz was sentenced to eight months for abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and covering up the abuse.
Spc. Steven Ribordy was sentenced to eight months for being accessory to the murder of four Iraqi prisoners who were "bound, blindfolded, shot and dumped in a canal" in Baghdad in 2007.
Spc. Belmor Ramos was sentenced to seven months for conspiracy to commit murder in the same case.
Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for committing the four Baghdad murders. The military then granted him clemency and reduced his sentence to 20 years, with parole possible after seven.
Marine Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich received no jail time for negligent dereliction in the massacre of 24 unarmed men, women and children in 2005 in the Iraqi town of Haditha. Seven other members of his battalion were charged but none were punished in any way.
Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry Shumate and Lance Cpl. Tyler Jackson were both sentenced to 21 months for the aggravated assault of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, a father of 11 and grandfather of four, in Al Hamdania in 2006. Awad died after being shot during the assault. Their sentences were later reduced.
Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington was sentenced to eight years for the same incident, but served only a few months before being granted clemency and released from prison.
Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III was sentenced to 15 years for murder in the Awad case but his conviction was soon overturned and he was released.
No soldiers received any punishment for the killing of five Iraqi children, four women and two men in one Ishaqi home in 2006. Among the U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by Bradley Manning was email from a UN official stating that U.S. soldiers had "executed all of them." When Wikileaks published the cable, the uproar in Iraq was so big that the Nouri al-Maliki government couldn't grant any remaining U.S. troops immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts, thus forcing the Obama administration to abandon its plans to keep several thousand U.S. soldiers in Iraq permanently. All U.S. troops were removed at the end of 2011.
My guess is Bradley Manning will spend more time in jail than all of the other soldiers in all of these cases put together. And thus, instead of redeeming ourselves and asking forgiveness for the crimes that Spc. Manning exposed, we will reaffirm to the world who we really are. |
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