Top Secret - Julian Assange Is a Journalist

On the one year anniversary of a massive release of Top Secret Cables, Wikileaks has been honored with an Australian Walkley Award for Journalism.

For, "Most outstanding contribution to journalism- WikiLeaks applied new technology to penetrate the inner workings of government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup,” - Walkleys.com

In November of last year, Congressman Peter King called on Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to figure out a way to prosecute the group’s founder, Julian Assange.

He said that Wikileaks release of information was "worse than a military attack".

A statement from the White House: “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.”

However, according to their website, Wikileaks has ceased publication: "Since 7th December 2010 an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade has been imposed by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union. The attack has destroyed 95% of our revenue. The blockade came into force within ten days of the launch of Cablegate as part of a concerted US-based, political attack that included vitriol by senior right wing politicians, including assassination calls against WikiLeaks staff. The blockade is outside of any accountable, public process. It is without democratic oversight or transparency. The US government itself found that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a US financial blockade. But the blockade of WikiLeaks by politicized US finance companies continues regardless."

The banks, payment and credit card companies support extremist organisations by authorising transfers and donations to them. You can use VISA and MasterCard to donate to the Ku Klux Klan and the English Defence League. You can donate to Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization...VISA and MasterCard do not mind if you decide to use your cards to buy pornography on the internet or a rifle identical to the one used by the right-wing extremist Andreas Breivik to murder 69 people in Norway. To justify such associations the banks erect a facade of political neutrality. But there is one conspicuous exception where the finance companies show their true face.Kristinn Hrafnsson,
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