The Department of Homeland Security has gone after California domain name registrar Dynadot, using a clause within the USA PATRIOT Act to demand the company hand over any and all information they have on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
The sealed order (PDF) cites an ongoing criminal investigation and demands that the company hand over everything it has on any subscribers “associated with WikiLeaks,” including their credit card numbers.
The Obama Administration has been attempting to find some sort of legal rationale for moving against Assange, albeit so far without success. WikiLeaks has released massive numbers of classified documents revealing embarrassing and sometimes criminal actions by State Department officials. A number of other documents have been released detailing military crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The PATRIOT Act provisions are nominally aimed at terrorism, and its use against WikiLeaks underscores the Obama Administration’s willingness to expand its use wherever it may be convenient.
It must be terrible for poor Fatherland Security that they don't have jurisdiction over everyone on the planet. Although give the US government credit, they're working on it.
Too right.
Ach! Soon ve haff work camps. Ist gut, ja? Just like under Onkel Adolf.
Light forces darkness to give way and this is why a money dictatorship like Empire USA must not allow even the smallest light to shine. The goal being a people who act like ignorant babies locked in darkness and afraid to move no knowing what terror awaits. As Howard Zinn did always say, “If you don’t know history, its as if you were born yesterday.”
This should be an eye-opener for those who foolishly believed that the Patriot Act was solely intended to combat terrorism or that Obama, the Democrat Deliverer, would never use the tools provided by the Patriot Act to crush an act of defiance…or silence an attempt to reveal the truth. Put an innocent man (though I will argue Obama has never been innocent) in a position of authority and tell him he can do anything and he will never have to worry about consequences (see Bush and Cheney, et al) and as sure as the sun rises in the east, he will act with impunity and feel like a God. And he (or she) will always stand ready to justify what was done for the betterment of everyone. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez…
I doubt Obama feels like a God – he is under very tight control by our behind the scene dictators, exactly like Baby Bush was. They ask permission to go to the bathroom. This is why we see a continuance of the Bush policy with Obama.
The US government has such a high interest in getting Assange, because they will use the same interpretation of a law to control the world press if they can take down WikiLeaks. This is a big deal for the behind the scene American dictators.
"The US government has such a high interest in getting Assange, because they will use the same interpretation of a law to control the world press if they can take down WikiLeaks."
Great point! There is a very important precedent being set here.
Scary part in all of this is, it is only a matter of time before the powers in charge of the Vaterland will say screw the rules, screw the law, and go after Assange anyway; like they did in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. etc. etc…
Loop holes – that is what the law has become. A vast crocheted bathtub and now we are all swimming with the fish.