http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE70B1SW20110112
WikiLeaks' Assange: Fighting "running battle with China"
* Website has "insurance" files on Murdoch and News Corp.
* U.S. using jailed Manning to make criminal case--Assange
By Michael Holden
LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - China is the worst state offender in terms of censorship but WikiLeaks is getting past its attempts to restrict access, the website's founder Julian Assange said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Assange, whose website has angered and embarrassed Washington by releasing confidential U.S. diplomatic cables, said China was the main technological enemy of WikiLeaks, not the United States.
"China has aggressive and sophisticated interception technology that places itself between every reader inside China and every information source outside China," Assange told Britain's New Statesman magazine.
"We've been fighting a running battle to make sure we can get information through and there are now all sorts of ways Chinese readers can get on to our site," he said in extracts of the interview published on the magazine's website.
U.S. officials have been examining whether criminal charges can be brought against Assange since WikiLeaks began publishing the cables. He again denied working with Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the files.
On Tuesday, a U.S. court ordered microblogging site Twitter to hand over account information on Assange and Manning as well as other WikiLeaks supporters. [IDnN08244942] Assange accused U.S. authorities of using Manning, who was arrested in the first half of last year, to build a case against him.
"Cracking Manning is the first step," he said. "The aim is clearly to break him and force a confession that he somehow conspired with me to harm the national security of the United States."
So far WikiLeaks has issued just a small proportion of the 250,000 cables it has obtained. Assange denied that the website was in trouble and repeated previous statements that files would still be released whatever happened to him or WikiLeaks.
He also told the New Statesman that as-yet unreleased "insurance" files included cables about Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp media empire (NWSA.O).
"There are 504 U.S. embassy cables on one broadcasting organisation and there are cables on Murdoch and News Corp," he said. WikiLeaks has previously said it would release documents relating to a major U.S. bank, believed to be Bank of America.
Assange is now staying at a country mansion in Britain while on bail awaiting possible extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes.
- posted on 01/12/2011
Jullian is starting a war against Rupert Murdoch, 太激动人心了。Murdoch’evil empire 欺骗我们太久了, 这真是福音…
Assange, 你有神助, be fearless….go for it…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he has a trove of private documents on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp empire and is prepared to release them in the event the whistle-blower website is taken down.
“If something happens to me or to WikiLeaks, 'insurance' files will be released,” he told The New Statesman. “There are 504 US embassy cables on one broadcasting organisation and there are cables on Murdoch and News Corp.”
The comments came a day after Assange told journalists in the UK that WikiLeaks planned to step up the publication of confidential US diplomatic cables following a lull in late December. The site will also move ahead with plans to publish tens of thousands of confidential documents depicting an “ecosystem of corruption” at Bank of America, CNBC reported.
Assange said WikiLeaks is mirrored on more than 2,000 websites.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks supporter Jacob Appelbaum said in a series of tweets he was detained for about 30 minutes by US customs officials earlier this week upon his return from Iceland.
“I was detained, searched, and CPB did attempt to question me about the nature of my vacation upon landing in Seattle,” he wrote in one dispatch, in an apparent reference to the US Customs and Border Protection. “The CPB specifically wanted laptops and cell phones and were visibly unhappy when they discovered nothing of the sort. I did however have a few USB thumb drives with a copy of the Bill of Rights encoded into the block device. They were unable to copy it.” ®
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