Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Torture Program - Australian Official (s) Participation

Australia joined Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Italy in conducting formal investigations into American renditions to Torture Program operations on their soil or involving their government personnel


Published on Jan Jan 18, 2011 - Harper's Magazine : No Comment - by Scott Horton

Australia Opens Probe of CIA Rendition

http://harpers.org/archive/2011/01/hbc-90007921



Friday, June 11, 2010

Pentagon Manhunt for Australian-born Julian Assange , founder of the secretive website Wikileaks

UPDATE: February 20, 2014

Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

By and 18 Feb 2014,

AT:
 
 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/

 



The Daily Beast - June 11, 2010

"Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: "Assange is in Some Danger."

FULL TEXT AT The Daily Beast:

Pentagon Manhunt - June 11, 2010
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-10/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hunted-by-pentagon-over-massive-leak/


See also:
"Assange in some Danger " by Samuel P.Jacobs - Daily Beast - Jan 11, 2010

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-11/daniel-ellsberg-wikileaks-julian-assange-in-danger/

Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers said he fears for the safety of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks

See transcript:" Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder" at:

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/


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