WikiLeaks: Julian Assange has Rupert Murdoch 'insurance files'

[sabra]

Source: Guardian UK

Founder also confirms WikiLeaks has more than 500 US diplomatic cables on one broadcasting organisation

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, today said he is in possession of "insurance" files on Rupert Murdoch and his global media company, News Corporation.

WikiLeaks also holds more than 500 confidential US diplomatic cables on one broadcasting organisation, according to Assange.

Speaking to the campaigning journalist John Pilger for an interview to be published tomorrow in the latest edition of the New Statesman, Assange said: "There are 504 US embassy cables on one broadcasting organisation and there are cables on Murdoch and News Corp."

Assange refers to these specific cables as "insurance files" that will be released "if something happens to me or to WikiLeaks".

He said yesterday that the whistleblowers' site would "shortly" continue publishing its cache of 250,000 secret US embassy cables. Although the contents of these so far unpublished cables remain unknown, Assange told the New Statesman that they "speak more of the same truth to power".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/12/wikileaks-rupert-murdoch

[xchrom]

1. wouldn't i love to see those. nt

[fascisthunter]

2. wooooohooooooo

[DCKit]

3. That's blackmail Julian. Also a huge tease. Just release them already. nt

[molly77]

12. That's common sense with what is going on in the US .

[hedgehog]

20. +1 If the files can bring Murdoch down, why wait?

[molly77]

23. Glenn Greenwald

Got this from The Guardian today. Interesting comments on the right wing attack which the Guardian enabled. @zzbbddf

I would advise anyone following the Guardian's coverage of Wikileaks to read this article.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/12/propaganda/index.html

Having just read it, so would I:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/12/propaganda/index.html

(Got the wrong link before - Probably a conspiracy)

[DeSwiss]

30. Thanks! n/t

[sabrina 1]

36. Thank you for the links, molly77

[ooglymoogly]

37. + a gazillion....wish I could rec this.!

[Judi Lynn]

50. Thank you. n/t

[Electric Monk]

58. Well worth the read. Thanks for posting that. nt

[DeSwiss]

29. If its blackmail.....

...then what is he demanding from Murdoch or News Corp?


- Except maybe his life???

K&R

[DCKit]

32. Wasn't it El Rushbo, aka OxyRush, who claimed Rupert could take Assange out with a single word?

I believe I've read that in three or four different posts today.

[MattBaggins]

39. That's not blackmail

He is not asking for monetary gain; he is asking for his life to be respected.

[No Elephants]

46. Blackmail to say files will be released if you are killed?

[LanternWaste]

59. Blackmail vs. Insurance Policy. Six of one, half a dozen of the other

Blackmail vs. Insurance Policy. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. I imagine it depends on what side of the room one is sitting on...

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Dump the files onto the Net now." - Decent Human Beings Everywhere

"Mr. Murdoch, take down your darkside RepubliCorp propaganda catapults now."

- Decent Human Beings

[DBoon]

5. Interesting he would release classified diplomatic cables

but consider Murdoch's documents to be so sensitive and explosive that he holds them back as insurance

[EFerrari]

53. Our government over classifies on a massive scale. n/t

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. thats the one

more feared than files on banksters etc

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

7. Limbaugh said "Give Ailes the order and there is no Assange, "

Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to ‘Give Ailes the order and there is no Assange, I’ll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.’,

http://www.mediaite.com/online/julian-assange-prosecute-palin-limbaugh-and-huckabee-for-incitements-to-kill/

[global1]

11. Did Rush Really Say This?.....

are we talking contract killing now? Unbelievable!!!!!!

[freshwest]

17. When the bodies pile up, he'll say what he always does...

'I was just kidding, folks! Can't you take a joke?'

[defendandprotect]

35. And what does that tell us about the history of Roger Ailes?

From the press release:

“WikiLeaks staff and contributors have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin, who urged the US administration to ‘Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban’. Prominent US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program last November, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to ‘illegally shoot the son of a bitch.’ US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to ‘Give Ailes the order and there is no Assange, I’ll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.’, while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column ‘Assassinate Assange’ captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and ‘WANTED DEAD or ALIVE’ with the alive crossed out.”

[Turborama]

8. Is he saying Murdoch is out to kill him?

Help me out here. I don't get how they can be used as insurance files in case something happens to him or Wikileaks.

If he's hinting at having files on Faux and has files on Murdoch he should release them without delay.

[davidwparker]

48. Faux can whip up support for one issue or another with

the unsophisticated who watch it.

What I take him to be saying is that if Faux hastens Assange's demise or that of the organization, Murdoch will be cutting his own throat.

[Turborama]

52. This is true

However, if he has some really juicy stuff on Murdoch and his disinformation station maybe he should just pre-emptively release it and get rid of them once and for all?

[JDPriestly]

9. No wonder Assange has trouble with women.

Promises. Promises.

Just joking.

[molly77]

13. Not funny

[Renew Deal]

10. Obama is in the bag with Fox

I don't get why those would be considered "insurance"

[glinda]

14. That is an interesting tidbit that I would look forward to seeing.

[freshwest]

15. BWAHAHA!!!

Please, pretty please...

[stray cat]

16. When will wikileaks release all of our ss numbers, bank accounts and credit card numbers?

After all I have a right to know anything confidential that he can get his hands on

[DCKit]

18. Post yours. I'll make sure they get a copy. nt

[drm604]

21. Most likely, never,

And no, you do not have that right. Claims to that right seem especially odd coming from someone who hides their DU profile.

And yes, the above is snark.

What you are doing is attacking a straw man.

[GillesDeleuze]

22. If the State Department wanted yours

they'd just spy on you at the un

[freshwest]

24. I understand your concern and respect it. But there is little true confidentiality now.

I'm sure our ISPs got all that information when we paid our bills. All websites can be hacked, just like bank and online shopping sites, etc. Years ago, even before I was online, I was a victim of identity theft. It's all out there somewhere.

Over the years, RW fanatics have released every personal detail of their political opponents lives online, no matter how insignificant or how small that person was in the fray.

That includes SS numbers, bank accounts, credit history; their home addresses, phone numbers, work addresses and numbers; the names, pictures and schools of their children and grandchildren; even google photographs of their homes.

It was done and will continue to be done, to terrorize and silence liberals, progressives, whistle blowers and law-abiding citizens, because it works and fanatics have no sense of boundaries.

A few examples:

http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?/archives/2782-The-Invisible-Man.html

I don't think that's what Wikileaks is about. I'm not worried about them and hope you won't be. It's the RW fanatics and regular criminal types we need to be concerned with.

Peace!

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[Luminous Animal]

40. Yet again, you confuse the Contitutional right to personal privacy with govt. secrecy.

[davidwparker]

49. Your personal information is of no interest to me. But, as

a citizen of this country, I DO have the right to know what the gov't is doing in my behalf.

Gov't employees and the governments serves us. Not the other way around -- though they are all working hard to change that.

[LanternWaste]

60. I doubt you hold enough relevance or importance

I doubt you hold enough relevance or importance for any of your files to be on a flash drive in his pocket.

On the other hand, I imagine that information is already available via your bank if you've forgotten your PIN number.

[Robb]

19. All hat.

Let's see the Granai video. :eyes:

[jeff47]

25. Um....

If Assange truly believes that secrets are bad....why is he keeping secrets?

[earcandle]

26. Will shaming the repug machinary do any good at all?

[bobthedrummer]

31. Only a wackjob would believe that some employees of our free press

are government sanctioned political operatives conducting illegal propaganda campaigns as news.
:sarcasm:

Propaganda Disguised as Journalism by John Pilger (6-16-07)
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/0616-Propaganda.html

Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda (The National Security Archive/Electronic Briefing Book 177 posted 1-26-06)
Secret Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries" between "information operations" abroad and at home but provides no actual limits as long as US doesn't "target" Americans
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm

CIA FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service) Transforms Into Open Source Spying (CIA pdf via Cryptome 1-3-11)
http://cryptome.org/nara/cia/cia-04-0106.pdf

[Bragi]

33. I'm glad he is being strategic and playing the long game

He has absolutely no reason to release information on any timetable other than his own.

I'm prepared to trust his judgment on this. He's shown good judgment so far, certainly better judgment that the Obama White House, which has been chasing its tail on this for months, and acting like Dick Cheney is managing their ham-fisted response.

[defendandprotect]

34. Julian Assange: Prosecute Palin, Limbaugh And Huckabee For “Incitements To Kill”

This should be a separate OP ....

Julian Assange: Prosecute Palin, Limbaugh And Huckabee For “Incitements To Kill”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/julian-assange-prosecute-palin-limbaugh-and-huckabee-for-incitements-to-kill/

[Spider Jerusalem]

38. "500 confidential US diplomatic cables on one broadcasting organisation" = Al Jazeera, no doubt

I can't really think of any other single "broadcasting organisation" that would have attracted the same level of interest from the US State Department over the past decade.

[TaffyMoon]

41. Julian, please

release a few!

[Joanne98]

42. WikiLeaks has Rupert Murdoch 'insurance files'

Source: SMU

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims he has "insurance" files on media mogul Rupert Murdoch that will be released if "something happens" to him.

Mr Assange has enraged the United States with his website's release of leaked diplomatic cables, and the Australian's defence team believe efforts are under way to send him to the US where they claim he could face the death penalty.

In an interview Britain's New Statesman magazine, conducted by veteran journalist John Pilger who is a prominent supporter of the Australian hacker, Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had "504 US embassy cables on one broadcasting organisation" and "cables on Murdoch and News Corp", without going into more detail on what they contained.

Advertisement: Story continues below "If something happens to me or to WikiLeaks, 'insurance' files will be released," Mr Assange was cited as saying.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-has-rupert-murdoch-insurance-files-20110113-19pix.html

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Protecting Fox News?

[xchrom]

43. i wanna see those -- SO BAD. nt

[FreakinDJ]

44. No kidding - Oh this is going to be juicy

[pleah]

45. K&R

[bobthedrummer]

47. Kick to protest the discredidation of KO n/t

[wordpix]

56. hope wikileaks gets files on the comcast-nbc-fireKO deal

[Imagevision]

51. Lay it on me!!!!

[sendero]

54. We were supposed to get a bankster dump..

.... this month. I hope Assange sticks to his own published timeline.

[wordpix]

55. OK, now we're talking---let's see them

[sarcasmo]

57. Julian is a bit to much like my high school relationship. Heavy petting and no fireworks.

[captain jack]

61. yawn

And if released, what changes? What has changed thus far from what has been released? Other than movie rights and a book deal.