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| Holder authorizes "significant" action in WikiLeaks investigation |
| 2010-12-08 |
| (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 |
| #10 He sent the New Black Panthers to bust some keyboard. Apparently they owe him. |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins**** 2010-12-08 18:57 |
| #9 All Holder has to do is stall, something well within his skill-set. Assange "believes he is promoting democracy" and is very well-funded--I'm still marveling over the Swedish James Bond bunker he uses for storage. I smell Soros money behind Wikileaks and since he has also dictated Obama's policies, this could be the biggest terrorist attack we have never even dared to imagine. We haven't begun to realize the fall-out but hopefully their sinister plan to collapse the US will all backfire. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-12-08 13:34 |
| #8 Didn't he leave the "in..." off the beginning of "...significant? |
| Posted by: Highlander 2010-12-08 12:12 |
| #7 InAcTioN JaCKSoN -iN-WaCK THe WiKi |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-12-08 12:08 |
| #6 ameliorate the consequences Holder, there is nothing you can do to ameliorate them. You can't even mitigate them. You might have prevented their increase had you acted effectively in a timely manner. But you have let several herds out before even thinking about closing the barn door. And you don't even know the English language, just obsfucational bureaucratese. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-12-08 07:19 |
| #5 #4 must be something damaging coming down the pike. Posted by Martini Could Julian Assange also be a nasty ...... birther? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-12-08 04:51 |
| #4 must be something damaging coming down the pike. |
| Posted by: Martini 2010-12-08 04:46 |
| #3 "But we will do everything that we can both to hold people accountable and to minimize the harm that will befall the American people". Damascus road experience? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-12-08 04:23 |
| #2 What? Did WikiLeaks release the names of members of the new Black Panthers Party or something? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-12-08 01:20 |
| #1 Eric Holder is stirring in his heavy slumber. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-08 00:27 |