{"id":188155,"date":"2010-12-01T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-nothing-to-fear-from-the-cia-or-fbi\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:56:00","slug":"wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-nothing-to-fear-from-the-cia-or-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-nothing-to-fear-from-the-cia-or-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Nothing to Fear from the CIA or FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand, he would be worried about finding Polonium in his coffee, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/12\/with_russia_in_assanges_sights_is_he_in_theirs.php?ref=fpblg\">courtesy of the Russian FSB<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Yesterday, The Daily Beast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-11-30\/moscows-bid-to-blow-up-wikileaks-russians-play-by-different-rules\/\">reported<\/a> that the National Security Agency is aware that the FSB &#8212; the post-Soviet KGB &#8212; is closely monitoring Wikileaks, though the U.S. has no &#8220;direct evidence&#8221; that the Russians are behind the days-long denial-of-service attacks that have brought down the Wikileaks website over and over again. <\/p>\n<p>But why would the Russians care that much? In part, because Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said that between the leaked cables and other information he got separately, <b>high-level corrupt Russian officials should be worried<\/b>. And some observers think that Assange&#8217;s efforts to expose corruption in Russia could be more harmful to his site and himself than exposing America&#8217;s secrets have been. One law enforcement source told The Daily Beast, &#8220;The Russians play by different rules,&#8221; adding that they would be &#8220;ruthless&#8221; in their attempts to stop him. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Russian leaders don&#8217;t get worried, they get proactive, as in the subject of their concern ends up mailed to his family in a dozen parcel post packages, or they die mysteriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand, he would be worried about finding Polonium in his coffee, courtesy of the Russian FSB: Yesterday, The Daily Beast reported that the National Security Agency is aware that the FSB &#8212; the post-Soviet KGB &#8212; is closely monitoring Wikileaks, though the U.S. has no &#8220;direct evidence&#8221; that the Russians are behind &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1062,997,1033,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-espionage","category-internet","category-russia","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}