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midnight

(26,624 posts) Tue Feb 28, 2012, 04:42 PM Feb 2012

Private U.S. intelligence company,Stratfro, email show US secret charges against Assange.

UNITED States prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a confidential internal email obtained from a private US intelligence company, Stratfor.
In the email, sent to Stratfor intelligence analysts on January 26 last year, the company's vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, responded to a media report concerning US investigations targeting WikiLeaks. He wrote: "We have a sealed indictment on Assange."
Underlining the sensitivity of the information - apparently obtained from a US government source - he wrote "Pls protect" and "Not for Pub[lication]".

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/charges-against-assange-drawn-up-in-us-says-email-20120228-1u14c.html#ixzz1ni94tNCv

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Maybe the world will soon get a look Yavapai Feb 2012 #1

I vaguely remember that insurance file, but now that you brought it up.... midnight Feb 2012 #2

Yavapai

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1. Maybe the world will soon get a look

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 05:28 PM

Feb 2012

at what is contained in his "insurance" file that thousands have downloaded and saved. All that is needed
is the encryption code to unlock.

Have a feeling that that will be a can of worms that the US authorities will wish they hadn't opened!

midnight

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2. I vaguely remember that insurance file, but now that you brought it up....

Reply to Yavapai (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 08:40 PM

Feb 2012

I do recall something about this insurance file....

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