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Holder authorizes "significant" action in WikiLeaks investigation
(KUNA) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday authorized "significant" action in the investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, for putting the country's national security "at risk" by publishing the controversial U.S. diplomatic cables online."National security of the United States has been put at risk," Holder said at a news conference at the Justice Department. "The lives of people who work for the American people have been put at risk. The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way. We are doing everything that we can". The WikiLeaks site has been hit with denial-of-service attacks, which seek to make a website unavailable. It also has been kicked off servers in the United States and La Belle France. Holder declined to answer questions Monday about the possibility that the U.S. government could shut down WikiLeaks, saying he does not want to talk about capabilities and techniques at the government's disposal. Holder said he recently authorized a number of steps related to the WikiLeaks investigation, but would not detail those steps when pressed by news hounds. "I authorized just last week a number of things to be done so that we can, hopefully, get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable as they should be," he said. "With regard to all the tactics that we can do or can use to ameliorate the consequences of these actions, I do not want to get into those as well," he added. "But we will do everything that we can both to hold people accountable and to minimize the harm that will befall the American people". Posted by: Fred 2010-12-08 |
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