Rendez-vous au tribunal, M. Assange! En diffusant un nombre sans précédent de documents diplomatiques confidentiels, Julian Assange –et son site WikiLeaks– vont peut-être nous permettre de répondre à une question laissée en suspens depuis bientôt quarante ans avec l’affaire des Papiers du Pentagone: peut-on être traduit en justice pour avoir publié des informations véridiques obtenues de manière illégale par sa source, sans être protégé par le premier amendement de la Constitution américaine?
Lorsque ce type de conflit oppose deux parties d’importance, la réponse du droit constitutionnel est souvent la même: «Cela dépend». Mais si l’on s’appuie sur la jurisprudence (et sur l’actuelle composition de la Cour suprême, ce qui est presque aussi important), il semble que l’on puisse intenter un procès à Julian Assange. Reste à savoir comment parvenir à le faire comparaître. publicité La Cour suprême ne s’est jamais directement prononcée sur le sujet depuis l’affaire dite des Papiers du Pentagone. _Response_v6.pdf (Objet application/pdf) WikiLeaks under attack: the definitive timeline. On Sunday 28 November WikiLeaks began releasing the first of its 250,000 leaked US embassy cables.
Almost immediately, a hacking attack known as a "DDoS" – distributed denial of service – attack tried to knock it off the net. These are the attacks that have followed in the succeeding days. Sunday 28 November 2010 • TECH: DDoS attack hits WikiLeaks as first set of US diplomatic cables is published. Wednesday 1 December 2010 • TECH: Tableau Software, which offers free software for data visualisation, removes the public views of graphics built using information about the diplomatic cables. . • POLITICS: Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security, calls for WikiLeaks to be taken offline. . • TECH Amazon removes WikiLeaks's content from its EC2 cloud service, but later insists it did so because the content could cause harm to people and did not belong to WikiLeaks – and that it was not due to political pressure or the hacker attacks against the site. Friday 3 December 2010. Supporters dismissed rape accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange... but the two women involved tell a different story.
By Angella Johnson Updated: 10:57 GMT, 29 August 2010 Fling: WikiLeaks founder faced charges of rape and sexual molestation, but they were withdrawn It is a story as intriguing and confusing as a Stieg Larsson blockbuster: celebrated internet whistleblower becomes embroiled in a complex sex scandal involving two women, not long after he had masterminded one of the biggest intelligence leaks of all time - against the U.S.
That the action takes place in Sweden, Larsson’s home country, and that the protagonist is the flag-waver for freedom of information Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, provides added piquancy. Assange, 39, was attending a seminar in Stockholm earlier this month when he found himself facing charges of rape and sexual molestation - charges that were then, amid much confusion, withdrawn and which he strenuously denies.
What does not seem to be in dispute is that he had sex with the two women within four days. The website plans to release more documents.