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## Re: Info - Wiki Founder

Released on 2012-08-15 00:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1653589
Date | 2010-12-01 21:26:54
From | sean.noonan@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com

I think that timeline misses new charges against him on Sept. 1???
also, here is the full Time interview and audio if that hasn't been sent
out yet:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article= /0,8599,2034040,00.html
On 12/1/10 2:21 PM, Melissa Taylor wrote:
Timeline of charges:
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href=3D"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/01/131722777/timeline-t=
he-international-arrest-warrant-for-wikileaks-julian-assange?ft=3D1&f=
=3D1004">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/01/131722777/timeline-=
the-international-arrest-warrant-for-wikileaks-julian-assange?ft=3D1&f=
=3D1004
Bayless Parsley wrote:
read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html?_=
r=3D1&pagewanted=3Dprint
On 12/1/10 2:15 PM, Lena Bell wrote:
this is a good feature piece The Age newspaper did back in May... a
lot of people were talking about it then because so little is known
about the man. Some of the more personal, historical background is
pasted below after URL. My personal opinion? I think he is very
intelligent but disenchanted and as journo writes:
In another life, Assange might have been a mathematician. He spent
four years studying maths, mostly at Melbourne University - with
stints at the Australian National University in Canberra - but never
graduated, disenchanted, he says, with how many of his fellow
students were conducting research for the US defence system. 'There
are key cases which are just really f---ing obnoxious,'' he says.
Assange isn't paid a salary by WikiLeaks. He has investments, which
he won't discuss. But during the 1990s he worked in computer
security in Australia and overseas, devised software programmes - in
1997 he co-invented ''Rubberhose deniable encryption'', which he
describes as a cryptographic system made for human rights workers
wanting to protect sensitive data in the field - and also became a
key figure in the free software movement.
http://www.theage.=
com.au/technology/technology-news/the-secret-life-of-wikileaks-founder-juli=
an-assange-20100521-w1um.html
The former teenage hacker from Melbourne, whose mystique as an
internet subversive, a resourceful loner with no fixed address,
travelling constantly between countries with laptop and backpack,
constitutes what you might call Assange's romantic appeal.
But then there's the flip side: a man who believes in extreme
transparency, but evades and obfuscates when it comes to talking
about himself in the rare interviews that he gives. In the past, at
least, these have hardly ever been face to face.
The secretiveness extends to those close to him. One woman who
speaks to me on the condition of total anonymity lived in the same
share house in Melbourne as Assange for a few months in early 2007,
when WikiLeaks was in its incubation period. The house was the hub,
and it was inhabited by computer geeks.
There were beds everywhere, she says. There was even a bed in the
kitchen. This woman slept on a mattress in Assange's room, and says
she would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to find him
still glued to his computer. He frequently forget to eat or sleep,
wrote mathematical formulas all over the walls and the doors, and
used only red light bulbs in his room - on the basis that early man,
if waking suddenly, would see only the gentle light of the campfire,
and fall asleep again. He also went through a period of frustration
that the human body has to be fed several times a day and
experimented with eating just one meal every two days, in order to
be more efficient. ''He was always extremely focused,'' she says.
Assange first visited Sweden in the 1990s - and WikiLeaks is hosted
on a main server in Sweden, where the identities of confidential
sources are protected by law.
This doesn't prove anything, of course - and WikiLeaks only moved
its main server to Sweden two years ago, after the Julius Baer Bank
tried to close down the website. Even so, I email Eva Gabrielsson,
Larsson's widow, to ask if the two of them ever met Assange -
explaining that he helped research a remarkable 1997 book,
/Underground/, about the exploits of an extraordinary group of young
Melbourne hackers, written by the Melbourne academic Suelette
Dreyfus. The hackers all had monikers in the book: Assange is said
to be the character Mendax. Assange convinced Dreyfus to release the
book online, and according to one source I spoke to, there was great
interest in the book in Sweden - and in China.
''About Julian Assange - well, why don't you ask him?'' Gabrielsson
emails back.
It isn't the most urgent question I have for Assange, who I meet in
early May, the day after he slips back into Melbourne, his home
town. He arrived on a flight from Europe, via the US. Or so I
understand from the person acting as our inbetween.
The same contact provides a Melbourne address, and instructions.
''Don't call a cab, find one on the street; turn off your mobile
phone before you catch the cab and preferably, remove the
batteries.''
And here he is - a tall, thin, pale figure with that remarkable
white hair, looking very tired, and wearing creased, student-style
dark clothes and boots, and backpack.
As we shake hands, he inclines his head slightly in a courtly, old
world manner, at odds with his youthful, student-traveller looks.
When I remark that there's a lot to ask him, he replies, ''That's
all right - I'm not going to answer half of it.''
Is Assange his real name? Yes, he replies, then says it's the name
in his passport. ''What's in a name?'' he then adds mysteriously,
casting doubt on his first answer.
At the time of writing, his passport status was apparently back to
normal after immigration officials at Melbourne Airport said that
his passport was going to be cancelled on the grounds that it was
too tatty.
It has been in a couple of rivers, Assange allows of the state of
his passport. The first time, as he recalls, in December 2006, when
he was crossing a swollen river during heavy rain in southern
Tasmania, and was swept out to sea. He swam back in. ''My conclusion
from that experience is that the universe doesn't give a damn about
you, so it's a good thing you do.''
Why did he have his passport with him? He had everything he needed
for three weeks of survival, he replies. He needed his passport for
ID when he flew to Tasmania.
Doesn't he have a driver's licence? ''No comment.''
How true is the image of him as the enigmatic founder of WikiLeaks,
constantly on the move, with no real place to call home? Is this
really how he lives his life?
''Do I live my life as an enigmatic man?''
No - is it true you're constantly on the move?
''Pretty much true.''
Does he have one base he'd call home?
''I have four bases where I would go if I was sick, which is how I
think about where home is.''
He has spent the best part of the past six months in Iceland, he
says. And the next six months? ''It depends on which area of the
world I'm needed most. We're an international organisation. We deal
with international problems,'' he replies.
Assange mentions four bases, but names only two. The one in Iceland
and another in Kenya, where he has spent a lot of time, on and off,
in the past couple of years.
The Kroll report, released on WikiLeaks, reportedly swung the Kenyan
presidential election in 2007.
When he's in the country, Assange lives in a compound in Nairobi
with other foreigners, mainly members of NGOs such as Medecins Sans
Frontieres. He originally went to Kenya in 2007 to give a lecture on
WikiLeaks, when it was up and running. ''And ended up staying
there,'' I suggest encouragingly.
''Mmmm.''
As a result of liking the place or =E2=80=A6
''Well, it has got extraordinary opportunities for reforms. It had a
revolution in the 1970s. It has only been a democracy since 2004
=E2=80=A6 I was introduced to senior people in journalism, in human
rights very quickly.''
He has travelled to Siberia. Is there a third base there?
''No comment. I wish. The bear steak is good.''
Why did he go to Georgia?
''How do you know about that?''
I read it somewhere, I reply. It was a rumour. ''Ah, a rumour,'' he
says.
But he did go there? ''It's better that I don't comment on that,
because Georgia is not such a big place.''
Living permanently in a state of exile, which can become addictive,
means that you always have the sharp eye of the outsider, I suggest.
''The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures
gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to
see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a
sense of mental independence,'' Assange replies.
"You're not swept up in the trivialities of a nation. You can
concentrate on the serious matters. Australia is a bit of a
political wasteland. That's OK, as long as people recognise that. As
long as people recognise that Australia is a suburb of a country
called Anglo-Saxon.''
Could he ever live in one place again? A brief silence. ''I don't
think so,'' he says finally.
''I don't see myself as a computer guru,'' he remarks at one point.
''I live a broad intellectual life. I'm good at a lot of things,
except for spelling.''
At one point, thinking about some of the material leaked on
WikiLeaks, I ask Assange how he defines national security. ''We
don't,'' he says crisply. "We're not interested in that. We're
interested in justice. We are a supranational organisation. So we're
not interested in national security.''
How does he justify keeping his own life as private as possible,
considering that he believes in extreme transparency?
''I don't justify it,'' he says, with just a hint of
mischievousness. ''No one has sent us any official documents that
were not published previously on me. Should they do so, and they
meet our editorial criteria, we will publish them.''
Assange isn't paid a salary by WikiLeaks. He has investments, which
he won't discuss. But during the 1990s he worked in computer
security in Australia and overseas, devised software programmes - in
1997 he co-invented ''Rubberhose deniable encryption'', which he
describes as a cryptographic system made for human rights workers
wanting to protect sensitive data in the field - and also became a
key figure in the free software movement.
The whole point of free software, he comments, is to ''liberate it
in all senses''. He adds: ''It' s part of the intellectual heritage
of man. True intellectual heritage can't be bound up in intellectual
property.''
Did being arrested, and later on finding himself in a courtroom,
push him into a completely different reality that he had never
thought about - and eventually in a direction that eventually saw
him start thinking along the lines of a website like WikiLeaks, that
would take on the world?
''That [experience] showed me how the justice system and bureaucracy
worked, and did not work; what its abilities were and what its
limitations were,'' he replies. ''And justice wasn't something that
came out of the justice system. Justice was something that you bring
to the justice system. And if you're lucky, or skilled, and you're
in a country that isn't too corrupt, you can do that.''
In another life, Assange might have been a mathematician. He spent
four years studying maths, mostly at Melbourne University - with
stints at the Australian National University in Canberra - but never
graduated, disenchanted, he says, with how many of his fellow
students were conducting research for the US defence system.
''There are key cases which are just really f---ing obnoxious,'' he
says.
According to Assange, the US Defence Advance Research Project Agency
was funding research which involved optimising the efficiency of a
military bulldozer called the Grizzly Plough, which was used in the
Iraqi desert during Operation Desert Storm during the 1991 Gulf War.
''It has a problem in that it gets damaged [from] the sand rolling
up in front. The application of this bulldozer is to move at 60
kilometres an hour, sweeping barbed wire and so on before it, and
get the sand and put it in the trenches where the [Iraqi] troops
are, and bury them all alive and then roll over the top. So that's
what Melbourne University's applied maths department was doing -
studying how to improve the efficiency of the Grizzly Plough.''
Assange says he did a lot of soul-searching before he finally quit
his studies in 2007. He had already started working with other
people on a model of WikiLeaks by early 2006.
There were people at the physics conference, he goes on, who were
career physicists, ''and there was just something about their
attire, and the way they moved their bodies, and of course the bags
on their backs didn't help much either. I couldn't respect them as
men''.
His university experience didn't define his cynicism, though.
Assange says that he's extremely cynical anyway. ''I painted every
corner, floor, wall and ceiling in the 'room' I was in, black, until
there was only one corner left. I mean intellectually,'' he adds.
''To me, it was the forced move [in chess], when you have to do
something or you'll lose the game.''
So WikiLeaks was his forced move?
''That's the way it feels to me, yes. There were no other options
left to me on the table.''
WikiLeaks, he says, has released more classified documents than the
rest of the world press combined.
''That's not something I say as a way of saying how successful we
are - rather, that shows you the parlous state of the rest of the
media. How is it that a team of five people has managed to release
to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the
rest of the world press combined? It's disgraceful.''
Where does Assange see WikiLeaks in 10 years? "It's not what I want
the world to be. It's what I want the rest of the world to be," he
replies.
He would like to see all media develop their own forms of WikiLeaks.
That would put his own website out of business, I point out.
''We have a proposal to [an American foundation] for a grant to just
that,'' he replies, explaining that WikiLeaks could create systems
for all media organisations.
A thought: has he ever met Rupert Murdoch? ''No.''
Fred Burton wrote:
Lena - What is this dude's Aussie background?=C2=A0 He seems like
a lunatic
or a left-winger?=C2=A0 Angry Aussie w/an axe to grind.=C2=A0 B=
elongs in Swedish
politics.
FBI is in bed w/the Aussies.=C2=A0 I'm sure we are listening in to
every call
the jamoke is making.
Lena Bell wrote:
=C2=A0
Not sure that's happening re Oz; federal police have opened up
an
investigation to see whether or not any Australian criminal laws
were
broken. - where did Nick get the insight about an agreed
extradition -
there is nothing about this on OS and of course it would mean
Assange
would have to come home first. Something he is very unlikely to
do.
GovGen hasn't ruled out canceling his passport incidentally.
His mother has recently been interviewed by the ABC and she is
scared
that he will be "hunted down and jailed"...=C2=A0 will make it
difficult to
pursue the scenario painted below. Australians are likely to
back him.
You wouldn't believe how much press/public sentiment david hicks
created in Guantanamo Bay. It really forced the Howard govt to
change
tactics... esp when polling results overall were so poor.**
Bayless Parsley wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
The main thing I was trying to ask about earlier was in
regards to
the logistics of actually detaining the guy.
I got the sense that Fred was saying US agents could
physically do it
in another country. Perhaps I just misunderstood what he was
trying
to say, because I find that really hard to believe (as
rendition is
not an option in this case, which is why I brought up the fact
that
some Republican congressmen are trying to call Assange a
"terrorist"
now).
Basic fact is that any move to arrest the guy (assuming they
get an
indictment for him) would require that a friendly government
do it
and then extradite him. Nick Miller told me the Australians
have
already offered to do this, as Assange is an Australian
citizen, and
Australia is the Canada of the southern hemisphere when it
comes to
its relations with the US.
Also, Karen had a very good point about the sex charges.
Weren't
those dropped months ago after the initial allegations? What
do ya
know, after the US explictly warned him time and again to stop
publishing the cables, it pops back up all of a sudden...
On 12/1/10 12:36 PM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
can you charge them with anything if they paid for the
information?
On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
You mean by helping Manning get the information off the
networks? Training, computer codes, flash drives,
etc??=C2=A0 That's a good point. On 12/1/10 12:31 PM,
George Friedman wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
He might have facilitated or suborned the access. For
example,
provided the means for distirbuting it.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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*From: *Sean Noonan <sean.n= oonan@stratfor.com>
*Date: *Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:19:09 -0600 (CST)
*To: *Analyst List<analysts@= stratfor.com>
*ReplyTo: *Analyst List <analysts@= stratfor.com>
*Subject: *Re: Info - Wiki Founder
I think it's very difficult to indict him on anything
though. MAYBE espionage, but even those laws are still
too old.=C2= =A0 I think
your FBI contact is right (sadly).=C2=A0 the US can
really only get the
person who did the leak, not who published it--George
also pointed
this out over the weekend. What would the sealed
indictment be for?
(this is also why they will get him on some other
charges in
another country....)
On 12/1/10 12:15 PM, Fred Burton wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
Sealed indictment.=C2=A0 Ha= nd the warrant over to
the USMS to execute.
Happens everyday.=C2=A0 The USMS works w/their
counterparts and lock
the dude
up.
Bayless Parsley wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0
How would it work if the US wanted to catch such a
high profile
target
like this? Despite what one Republican senator may
have said the
other
day (can't remember who, or if it was even a
senator), he's not a
"terrorist," and so rendition..... wouldn't really
be an option.
But legally, you'd have to have the host
government's
cooperation. Is
there any way aside from that scenario that could
lead to his
arrest
on charges of breaking US laws?
On 12/1/10 12:12 PM, Fred Burton wrote:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
=C2=A0=C2=A0
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=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
>From a very good contact @ the FBI --
How come you guys haven't picked this left-wing
lunatic
WikiLeaks founder up on
some sort of trumped up charge?=C2=A0
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1st Amendment overprotects journalists.
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Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com</= a>
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Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com
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Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com