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By Drew Grant 8/16/12 1:02pm

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Outside the Ecuadorian embassy, where Julian Assange may or may not have flushed the toilet (Getty Images)

New York Times’s Article on Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian Asylum Scrubs Toilet Reference

Poor Julian Assange … even his bowel movements are being censored.

The WikiLeaks founder was granted asylum in Ecuador today, after two months holed up in the the country’s British embassy, where he was avoiding the long arm of Sweden’s justice system. (Britain, understandably, is not happy about this.)

Despite the good news for Mr. Assange, a tweet from the official WikiLeaks account took offense at The New York Times’s coverage of the story, which, it claims, “alleges that Mr. Assange neglected to flush a tiolet” [sic] even once the whole time he was in the embassy.

“We’re not joking.”

They’re not? Because search as we might, we couldn’t find a single reference to toilets in the entire NYT piece from last night, or in any of its follow-up articles. We were about to chalk it up to a misread (after all … “tiolet”) on WikiLeaks’ part, until  a Google News search revealed that the original article did mention Toilet-gate: Read More

By Steve Huff 5/19/12 11:06am

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(Future AU Senator??) Julian Assange

‘Senator Julian Assange’–Not as Crazy as it Sounds

Head Wikileaker and house arrestee Julian Assange has been pondering a run for the Australian Senate. Before you even quirk an eyebrow at the prospect of a “Senator Assange,” note that a recent survey by Australian Labor Party pollsters indicates Mr. Assange could garner nearly 25% of the vote. Agence France-Presse reports members of “the left-wing Greens party were most likely to be pro-Assange, with 39 percent saying they would vote for him.” Read More

By Steve Huff 2/27/12 12:32am

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Wikileaks front man Julian Assange

Anonymous-Wikileaks Stratfor Leak: Stratfor’s ‘Glossary’ May Be Huge Blow

Wikileaks will hold a press conference Monday at 12 p.m. in London to discuss its “Global Intelligence File.” The “File,” which the whistle-blowing site claims comprises over 5 million Anonymous-hacked emails from Texas-based Stratfor, contains a great deal of what appears to be highly sensitive information regarding Stratfor’s sources, how they pay sources and their operating techniques in general. One document circulated among Stratfor staff in 2007 may be of particular interest to the company’s customers, as its plain-spoken language appears to reflect an internal attitude toward Stratfor clientele as well as several federal agencies that was obviously never intended for public consumption. It also implies (perhaps jokingly) that Stratfor was willing to do extralegal work to covertly gather information. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 1/26/11 9:04pm

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WikiLeaks Already Calls Keller's Account Incorrect

The New York Times editor Bill Keller’s 8,000 word account of his relationship with Wikileaks and its leader Julian Assange has only been online for a few hours, but WikiLeaks has already issued a response:

We haven’t gotten all the way through it, and we don’t even have “an uncensorable system for untraceable mass Read More