US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[David Guyatt]

I feel that I should point out that the US, uk and Australia are 3 of the "5 Eyes". For me this is not happen chance.

[Peter Lemkin]

BREAKING: The Founder of WikiLeaks is DEAD!

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Sadly, while Julian Assange is held up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London without internet, we have learned tragic news. The founder and director of WikiLeaks, Gavin Macfadyen, has died.



At age 76, he was the the director of Wikileaks and also the founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

He was a mentor and friend to famous whistleblower and co-founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, as well as the director of the publication. Paying tribute to their head, WikiLeaks published a post on the group's Twitter account saying MacFadyen "now takes his fists and his fight to battle God."
The post is signed "JA," indicating that the phrase belongs directly to Julian Assange, with WikiLeaks claiming that, despite the whistleblower being deprived of internet access in his suite in the Ecuadorian embassy for a week now, he has been able to contact them and is "still in full command."
The CIJ team also published an address from MacFadyen's wife and member of Julian Assange's Defense Fund, Susan Benn, who described her husband as a "larger-than-life person," with gratitude and respect.
"He was the model of what a journalist should be… He spearheaded the creation of a journalistic landscape which has irrevocably lifted the bar for ethical and hard-hitting reporting. Gavin worked tirelessly to hold power to account.
"His life and how he lived it were completely in sync with the principles that he held dear and practiced as a journalist and educator to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," Benn wrote.
Recounting her husband's achievements, she said he had produced and directed more than 50 investigative documentaries covering diverse and multiple countries and problems. She also noted that he had been banned from apartheid South Africa and the Soviet Union for his investigative work, and was also attacked by British Neo-Nazis.

[Magda Hassan]

It's been a sad year for Wikileaks. Michael Ratner, Gavin MacFayden, and John Jones.

[John Knoble]

I feel that I should point out that the US, uk and Australia are 3 of the "5 Eyes". For me this is not happen chance.

It's no doubt a good indicator of which countries the US trusts above the rest of the others.

[Peter Lemkin]

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[TD]In a John Pilger Special, exclusively broadcast today by RT courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denies that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year have come from the Russian government.

"The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That's false we can say that the Russian government is not the source," Assange told the veteran Australian broadcaster as part of this special 25-minute broadcast.

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[David Guyatt]

Finally, the Swedish prosecutor has agreed to be present at an interview Julian Assange to answer the BS charges again him. I'm not exactly sure when the decision was taken to do this, because it has been repeatedly delayed since 2012. But I do wonder if it was decided before the result of the election when it was known that Hilary's White House ambition was no longer supported?

In any event it looks almost certain now that Hilary's and Obama's and the Neocon vengeance plan against Assange may now be over and he'll be able to leave the embassy and be a free man again. Fingers crossed anyway.

Btw, were the Guardian an honest and fair newspaper it would mention that the charges against Assange are seriously compromised.

Julian Assange faces Swedish prosecutor in London over rape accusation

WikiLeaks founder denies allegations and has sought asylum in Ecuador's UK embassy since 2012

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[/URL] Swedish prosecutor Ingrid Isgren arrives at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesEsther Addley, and David Crouchin Gothenberg
Monday 14 November 2016 10.00 GMTLast modified on Monday 14 November 2016 10.25 GM

A Swedish prosecutor has arrived in Ecuador's London embassy to interview Julian Assange more than six years after he was accused of rape in Sweden.

The long-delayed interview marks a milestone in a case that has been locked in stalemate since the WikiLeaks founder sought asylum in the embassy in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden over the allegation, which he denies. Sweden is likely to come under renewed pressure to issue formal rape charges or to drop the case altogether after he has been interviewed.

Some Assange supporters hope it could be a significant moment for the Australian, following the election of Donald Trump to the White House.

Dozens of photographers and film crews surrounded the embassy early on Monday awaiting the arrival of the Swedish prosecutor.

The Ecuadorean ambassador, Carlos Abad Ortiz, arrived with a number of officials shortly around 8.45am. At 9.30 precisely, Ingrid Isgren, Sweden's deputy chief prosecutor, arrived with another woman in a large people carrier. She paused briefly for photographs as she entered but made no comment to waiting journalists.

A handful of supporters later unfurled two banners opposite the embassy calling for the Australian to be freed.

Assange's position is that he has resisted extradition to Sweden because leaving the embassy would make him vulnerable to onward extradition to the US for potential prosecution over WikiLeaks' releases of classified US embassy cables.

During his campaign, Trump declared "I love WikiLeaks!", thanks to its repeated publication of Democratic party emails that proved highly damaging to his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Many supporters of Assange and Trump have called on the president-elect to "pardon" him when he assumes office.

But the WikiLeaks founder has faced heated criticism since the election from other supporters who dispute the site's assertions that its releases during the campaign were non-partisan. The site's damaging leaks related only to Hillary Clinton's campaign, in releases apparently timed to cause her maximum damage.

Ecuador severed Assange's internet connection at the embassy during the campaign over fears he was using it to influence the election.

His US attorney, Barry Pollack, told the Guardian that some of Trump's comments about WikiLeaks were encouraging. "I think they indicate that Mr Trump understands that [the site] is like any other journalist making information public because it views it as in the public interest."

Trump could pardon Assange even though he has not been convicted in the US, Pollack said, citing the precedent of Gerald Ford's pre-emptive pardon of Richard Nixon. "So, absolutely President Trump could pardon Mr Assange and obviously we would welcome that."

However, Pollack said: "There is still a giant chasm between recognising WikiLeaks's value with respect to certain stories and closing any investigation for past publications ... We have no idea what stance, ultimately, they are going to take with respect to Mr Assange."

Monday's interview in the embassy follows a tortuous legal and diplomatic wrangle between Ecuador and Sweden before prosecutors consented to interview the Australian in London, and then until the two sides agreed arrangements.

According to the agreement finally hammered out by the two countries, the questioning will be attended by Sweden's deputy chief prosecutor Ingred Isgren and police inspector Cecilia Redell but will be conducted by an Ecuadorean prosecutor putting forward questions they have already submitted. The Swedes will be allowed to ask for clarification of Assange's responses, but not put any fresh questions. His answers will be transcribed and sent to the Swedish authorities.

Per E Samuelson, Assange's Swedish lawyer who will be present at the interview, told the Guardian the Australian's team had been calling for the interview to happen in the UK since 2010. "The responsibility for this [delay] lies only [with] the prosecutor."

A spokeswoman for the chief prosecutor, Marianne Ny, said questioning through a foreign prosecutor was common practice in matters of international legal assistance, but that this protocol had been one of the reasons for Ny's prolonged insistence that Assange should come to Sweden for questioning, since "[she] was of the opinion it would affect the quality of the interview".

In November 2014, Sweden's appeal court rejected Assange's appeal against the warrant, but criticised Ny stating that her "failure" to examine alternative avenues of investigation "is not in line with [her] obligation in the interests of everyone concerned to move the matter forward".

Last year, the deadline passed for Ny to charge Assange over allegations of sexual assault by a second woman, forcing prosecutors to drop that part of their investigation.

What will be the first actions Trump takes as president?Sources close to the Swedish investigation told the Guardian that a further reason for Ny's insistence on interviewing Assange in Sweden was she was confident that she could secure an indictment and would therefore be able to arrest and charge Assange immediately.

However, PÃ¥l Wrange, professor of international law at Stockholm university, said, "The value of a person's memory decreases over time," and the delay would inevitably affect the chances of security a conviction.

Samuelson said he had concerns over the use of translation during the questioning, which increased the risk of misunderstandings, but "in spite of all this Julian Assange has decided to give his statement on Monday. This seems to be the only way to bring the case forward and we demand that the pre-investigation is dropped immediately thereafter."

Ecuador's minister of foreign affairs Guillaume Long said the country had been urging Sweden to interview Assange in the embassy "since the very first moment that we granted asylum to Mr Assange. So we are pleased that the interview will finally take place, though we wish that it would have occurred much earlier."

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[Tobias Zackrisson]

Executive Summary

Julian Assange, founder and editor of Wikileaks, has not been seen in public or made a verifiable live appearance since October 3 2016.
It is the purpose of this subreddit to call attention to Mr. Assange's conspicuous absence, and to review any and all evidence pertaining to his whereabouts and well beings. Below, please find a timeline of events.
Corrections and additions to this timeline are welcome in the comments below.
Chronology
2 August 2016 Democratic Strategist and CNN host, Bob Beckel, called for Assange's assassination on TV. His exact words were "Just kill the sonofabitch!" video link
22 August (2:47 AM): Attempted break-in at Assange's embassy home; Ecuador questions London's inadequate response'. link
3-21 September: Documents that suggest blackmail attempt, threats against Assange and attempts to frame Assange as a pedophile and Russian spy ""Our source has provided information that Julian's stay in Ecuador will not be permanent. Exit visas are imminent onto London streets. This dramatic turn of events is planned to have a "spectacular" conclusion. If Julian wishes to avoid ADX Florence, we suggest he considers [etc]" (Wikileaks released the document on Oct 18) tweet link / pdf link / Background and Documents
3 October 2016: @wikileaks tweets document of Hillary Clinton asking about assassination of Assange link
7 October: Podestamails leaks first batch link
12 October: Wikileaks announces: now publishing on a schedule created by our new impact maximizing publishing algorithm the "Stochastic Terminator". link
12 October: Mike Cernovich tweets about getting info that 33K deleted emails exist
15 October (morning): WikiLeaks releases Hillary Clinton's Goldman Sachs transcripts. link
15 October (Lunch): Pamela Anderson visits Assange link and her artcile on it: link
15 October: Final tweet from account known to be controlled by Julian Assange (@EmbassyCat) link
15 October: Cut off Assange's internet access 5:00 pm GMT
15/16 October (dawn): Wikileaks DNS Server was suddenly pointed elsewhere (not confirmed)
16 October: John Kerry lands in London. link
16 October (between 11:00pm /11:30 pm GMT): Wikileaks releases 3 pre-commitments (1: Kerry; 2:
Ecuador; 3: UK FCO) link 1 link 2 link 3
16 October: Last time wikileaks signs release with PGP. Short primer on what PGP is.
17 October (6:33 am GMT): "Wikileaks announces the Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party" and that "We have activated the appropriate contingency plans". link
17 October (8:27 pm GMT): on a second tweet (almost 14 hours later) announces that "We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday (15 october), 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speechs." link
17 October the cancellation of planned interview by Swedish prosecutors at the Ecuadorian Embassy. link
17 October: GUCCIFER_2 tweets: "i'm here and ready for new releases. already changed my location thanks @wikileaks for a good job!"
17 October: the Wikileaks employee visit/tweet on 17 October (since disavowed) link
17 October: Bystander reports of police/swat activity outside the Ecuadorian Embassy on 17 October and a forcible abduction. link
18 October (morning): Photo of "Heavily armed policed outside Ecuadoran Embassy" (Wikileaks posts photo on Oct 21) link
18 October: Fox News announces Julian will be arrested within hours. video link
18 October: Wikileaks announces that : "Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations". link
18 October: Wikileaks announces "The John Kerry private meeting with Ecuador was made on the sidelines of the negotiations which took place pricipally on Sep 26 in Colombia." link
18 October: Wikileaks announces that "A front has released through US Democratic media an elaborate story accusing Julian Assange of paedophillia & taking US$1million from Russia" publishes all docs about this case link
18 October: Ecuador admits to restricting' Assange communications over US election. link
18 October (unverified) Wikileaks website says "Wikileaks insurance file may have been release" for about 1 hr. link
19 October: Canadian comedian Bobby Mair stands outside Ecuador's embassy reading to Julian Assange through a megaphone. He did not catch a glimpse of Assange. link
19 October: Craig Murray posts on his blog that "went to see Julian Assange for a whisky in the Ecuador Embassy" (….) "I left Julian after midnight. He is fit, well, sharp and in good spirits". link
20 October: Cryptome tweets "Wrong building for Assange's EC bolt hole. Orator perch still waving flag. 51°29'56.62″ N 0°09'40.51″ W"
20 October: Wikileaks announces "We have a suprise in store for @TimKaine and @DonnaBrazile." link
20-21 October: Wikileaks tweets 5 tweets with misspelled words. The incorrect letters spell "H E L P HIM". link Spelling mistakes, however, are relatively frequent on @wikileeks tweets link
21 October, 16:00 BST: London City Airport evacuated in 'chemical' scare. (potentially used as cover to fly Assange out of country.) link
21 October: Dyn DDoS cyberattack DYN Status link / wikipedia link
21 October: Wikileaks tweets "Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point". link
21 October: Wikileaks tweets: "The Obama administration should not have attempted to misuse its instruments of state to stop criticism of its ruling party candidate". link
21 October: Mark Halperin of Politico attempted to meet with Assange on Friday 21, but was refused by a goon: "Assange too busy"- video link
22 October: Wikileaks announces Stochastic Terminator Algorithm update (no explanation) link
22 October: Gavin MacFadyen death 23 October: Wikileaks tweets "A bloody year for WikiLeaks: Jones/Ratner/Gavin" link
22 October: Redditor tries visitying Assange in Ecuador Embassy is told Mr. Assange isn't in. link
22 October: Riseup.net deleted "fingerprints" for verifying certificates on various of their subdomains, fingerprints which had been kept/ updated for years. link
23 October: Wikileaks announces that "We will release a statement tomorrow about Assange. Our editor is safe and still in full command despite reduced communications with staff." link
24 October: WikiLeaks publishes "Editorial Board statement on the status of Julian Assange, Ecuador and the US election" link
23 October: Wikileaks annouces "poll": "Thousands keep demanding Assange proof of life. Not unreasonable. He's in a tough spot and is WikiLeaks best known validator. Preference?" Video option won. link
23 October: Wikileaks publishes video Moore's video(from June) link
24 October: Wikileaks announces that "While in London for #SHOCircus, Mark Halperin attempts to interview #wikileaks' founder julian assange (Video with "Assange´s reply: "Everything" about what the MSM is missing about Podesta leaks).
24 October: Assange lawyer ‪@BarnsGreg gives interview to "ABC Radio National2 (Australia)", and states that spoke with Assange "yesterday". (interview link not working anymore)
25 October: CISL Conference schedule and posters change (Announcement of Assange "live connection" from London"
25 October: Pamela Anderson tweets photo with toy "For Julian's cat" link
26 October: Assange "speaks" at CISL (Argentina) phone call. video link
26 Oct 2016: (9: 25 am): Kim DotCom insinuating wikileaks has the deleted emails
26 Oct 2016: (12:07 pm): Kim DotCom again insinuating wikileaks has the deleted emails
26 Oct 2016: (12:42 pm) Kim DotCom telling Gowdy and Trump how to legally obtain deleted 33k emails
26 Oct 2016(4:15 PM): Kim DotCom restating legal way to obtain emails so that when the release comes from wikileaks, to convict Hillary, congress / prosecutors can get valid evidence for US .gov
26 Oct 2016: Wikileaks tweets about Pardon for Manning and about Obama lying about Hillary's server Podesta leaks starting to show Obama name.
27 october: WikileaksTaskForce tweets: "The video from #Assange's talk at @CISL_Argentina is legit. It was scheduled sometime ago. #CISL2016"
28 october: Wikileaks announces that "Sweden has rejected Mr. Assange's request to be escorted by police to the funeral of Gavin MacFadyen on Monday." link
28 October: Wikileaks releases "statement from Mr. Assange" about Swedish decision. link
28 October: FBI reopens hillary's email case
29 October: Wikileaks tweets about John Pilger's article "on Clinton, Trump, the media, WikiLeaks and war", where Pilger states that "Assange knows the truth. And let me assure those who are concerned, he is well, and WikiLeaks is operating on all cylinders."
30 October: Wikileaks announces "We commence PHASE 3 of our US election coverage next week." link
30 October: Pilger Interview inside the embassy. link / tweet link
31 October: Wikileaks publish a "poll": "Who will US president Barack Obama pardon (for distributing documents marked classified) on his way out of office? Chelsea Manning/Hillary Clinton/Julian Assange/Edward Snowden"
3 November: Interview with John Pilger announced
5 November: Pilger interview released. Both parties never shown together. No mention of when this was filmed. Update: Nov 19, John Pilger tweeted the interview took place inside the embassy on Oct 30th. link
6 November: Huge DDoS takes down Wikileaks for first time in years. @wikileaks tweets "Our email publication servers are under a targeted DoS attack since releasing #DNCLeak2" link
7 Nov: Various entities notice hundreds of Podesta and DNC emails are missing from recent leaks, accessed with direct entry.
8 Nov @wikileaks tweets "@desantis We have been under unrelenting DDoS attacks over the last 24h" link
10 Nov: @wikileaks does an AMA on reddit. They are unable to verify (they claim they cant upload to imgur) however the AMA mod says they received verification by PM. That mod later deletes his entire account. link
13 Nov: Pamela Anderson visits the embassy again. link
14 Nov: Assange meets with Swedish prosecutor regarding rape allegations, lawyers barred from attending, meeting conducted via an Equadorian ambassador (not face to face). link
Julians lawyer Jennifer Robinson's statement and says his "health has deteriorated": link
14 Nov: Wikileaks releases insurance files, SHA-256 hashes do not match those tweeted in October.
14 Nov: Embassy Cat appears at the window in a tie. link
15 Nov: Swedish assistant prosecutor Ingrid Isgren continues 2nd day of the interview, which was conducted by an Ecuadorian prosecutor. link
15 Nov: Assange's laywer Jennifer Robinson makes a statement outside the Eucador Embassy admits she was not in the room with Julian. link
16 Nov: @wikileaks offer explaination to why pre-commitment hashes don't match. Also claim Julian is fine. link
17 Nov: /r/wikileaks mods post a request on /r/the_donald for people to send messages for Julian. Claim they have ability to delivery messages to him. Post is heavily censored by mods. link
17 Nov: Julians lawyer Jen Robinson ‏@suigenerisjen tweets: "Assange grateful to Ecuador for political asylum & facilitating the process for him to give his statement to Sweden" link
17 Nov: ""Wikileaks is gone" ( A series of posts regarding 4chan messages) link
18 Nov: Riseup.net hasn't updated their canary (due 2 days ago), suggesting they were compromised and gagged, and thus that the WL twitter account was compromised (Riseup provides the email WL uses for its Twitter account). link
19 Nov: mod of /r/wikileaks claims Assange is "clearly fine" and claims proof will be offered soon. link

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Possibly related:
2013 - article about calls for Julians assassination
April 21: Julian Assange's laweyer, John Jones, 48, was killed on August 15, 2016, when he was run over a by a commuter train in Britain. Though authorities were quick to rule the lawyer's death a suicide, WikiLeaks has countered that claim, stating it was foul play. link
May 11 2016: Michael Ratner, the civil and human rights attorney who represented Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in the US, died Wednesday at age 72 link

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Bitcoin Activities
18 October: large number of Wikileaks bitcoin transactions link
26 October (01:21:35): Anon's reveal how use bitcoin data to produce cables. link -Time zone unverified
26 October (02:00:00) Bitcoing transaction fees increase dramatically -Again time zones unverified but on the surface it appears to occur 39 minutes after the above post. link
26 October - sometime during this day there are 43,000 unconfirmed NEW transactions added to BTC mempool. -This suggests someone is trying to muddle the WL data.
26 Oct: The blockchain is blocked with fees and 43000 unconfirmed transactions appear in the mempool. $10 fees. Bitcoin 0.13.1 is released and a 'soft fork' begins: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comment...ith_large/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comment..._absurdly/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments..._hijacked/

Wikileaks is probably compromised.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/...ppearance/

[David Guyatt]

This is a false scanario, I think.

Check out the Wikileaks Twitter post HERE 2 days ago. They say that:

"Black PR campaign posts going round recently trying to suppress submissions to Wikileaks. False but who benefits?"

[Tobias Zackrisson]

This is a false scanario, I think.

Check out the Wikileaks Twitter post HERE 2 days ago. They say that:

"Black PR campaign posts going round recently trying to suppress submissions to Wikileaks. False but who benefits?"

I can provide you with some nore substantial evidence showing that Riseup.net and wikileaks might well be compromised. Riseup.net haven't yet updated their canary which they are supposed to do every 3 month, the due date was 16 of November. There is a peaceful protest outside the Ecuadorian embassy as we speak. People trying to get some life sign from Assange.

Unfortunately I am unable to access this site from my PC since my last post, not sure if my router is at fault.

[David Guyatt]

This is a false scanario, I think.

Check out the Wikileaks Twitter post HERE 2 days ago. They say that:

"Black PR campaign posts going round recently trying to suppress submissions to Wikileaks. False but who benefits?"

I can provide you with some nore substantial evidence showing that Riseup.net and wikileaks might well be compromised. Riseup.net haven't yet updated their canary which they are supposed to do every 3 month, the due date was 16 of November. There is a peaceful protest outside the Ecuadorian embassy as we speak. People trying to get some life sign from Assange.

Unfortunately I am unable to access this site from my PC since my last post, not sure if my router is at fault.

If you have substantial evidence, Tobias, then please feel free to post as many of us here are friends of Wikileaks.