Do you see the fear of the internet? The fear of the people? Anybody who speaks up?

Just a general "file criminal charges"", anything will do.

And all the denials.

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

...who knew that the governments were trying to shut down Wikileaks? News to me.

Political dissidents and leakers. Governments-- particularly corrupt governments that just service a tiny plutocracy-- view these types as the real threat.

their 'human network'. Those who accessed the wikileaks website which includes me and millions of other people.

Nailed it in a nutshell.

The docs indicate a manhunt. And the docs indicate that the government discussed designating him as a malicious actor. No definitive answer whether they did or not. That is why we conduct investigations.

You could read the article.

happen to think that's exactly what he should be designated.

Specifically, Assange's work with Manning went beyond journalism.....

Gotta give you credit for tenacity!

Well, back to my day job. Excuse me while I go artificially inseminate some cows.

proven true, beyond a reasonable doubt, and thus Manning was convicted on the corresponding counts.

Sadly...it was only Manning who paid the price for doing Assange's web searches and the like.

I note you avoided Israel Shamir...because having a vicous anti-Semite as your bosom buddy, defender, and employee is indefensible.

BRD, and formed the basis of conviction on several counts.

You aren't saying I am smearing Israel Shamir, are you? Dear sweet Jeebus...don't tell me you are defending that person.

the documents. I had thought about donating to Wikileaks myself and I remember going over there to read some of the revelations recommended in DU posts.

How many of us who checked out Wikileaks are now in the data base of NSA as "suspects" to be monitored. I ended up not donating but what if I had donated using my credit card. Since I know I went over there a few times to read their document releases wouldn't that also put me in their data base. What about DU as a Website who had posters linking to Wikileaks? Would that mean that all posters here who logged in using a link from DU make DU or Daily Kos or other Website subject to surveillance?

These new revelations are very disturbing in that these programs are ongoing and not just old Bush era spying that some claim has been discontinued by the Obama administration. I doubt anything has been discontinued but has only morphed into ever more intrusive and complicated surveillance programs that can be covered up with clever words/twisted language from James Clapper, DiFi and others.

The whole article with new documented revelations and Assange's lawyer's reply is worth the long read.

Even if the White House was told it stopped.

That's what happens when you allow your DNI to lie to congress without any consequences.

MICHAEL RATNER: Well, what I was really shocked by was the extent the U.S. and U.K. have gone through to try and get and destroy WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and their network of supporters. I mean, it’s astounding. And it’s been going on for years. And it also, as Julian pointed out, tells us why he is in the Ecuadorean embassy and why Ecuador has given him asylum. He has every reason to heavily fear what would happen to him in this country, in the United States, if he were to be ever taken here. So I think, for me, that’s a very, very critical point, justifies every reason why Ecuador gave him asylum.

And the document you’re addressing, Amy, what they call the manhunt timeline, which is extraordinary because it groups him among, you know, a whole bunch of people who the U.S. considers terrorists, it also, interestingly, groups them—groups them among Palestinians, which is pretty interesting in itself. But to have Julian on that list as a manhunt timeline, and it says prosecute him wherever you can get him, is pretty extraordinary. It doesn’t say you necessarily need a good reason to prosecute him; it just says, basically, prosecute him. And what it’s reminiscent, to me, is of the program that took place in this country in the '60s and the ’70s, COINTELPRO, counterintelligence procedures, when the FBI said, "We have to basically destroy the black civil rights movement, the New Left and others, and prosecute them, get them however you can, get rid of them." And so, the manhunt timeline, even its name is chilling. But that's what it is. It’s an effort to try and get WikiLeaks and their personnel, wherever they are in the world.

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14207

“This is a very troubling report,” said Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director. “Publishers who disclose abuses of government power should not be subjected to invasive surveillance for having done so, and individuals should not be swept up into surveillance dragnets simply because they’ve visited websites that report on those abuses. Further, the United States should not be urging allied countries to pursue prosecutions that would be unconstitutional if undertaken here at home.”

https://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/us-and-uk-targeted-wikileaks-surveillance-and-political

Lots of conclusion without underlying support. Meaning that these conclusions may be exaggerated just like everything else on this topic.

Britain's Labour party isn't going to be any more kind to the bail jumpet, and his time in the embassy grows short.