Anonymous is taking credit for shutting down Mastercard's web site in retaliation for the credit card network refusing to process donations to Wikileaks. Mastercard says the shutdown isn't affecting transactions, but the BBC is hearing from merchants who say otherwise.
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In an embarrassing effort to be "political" or something, Khloe Kardashian went on George Lopez Tonight (great political forum) and said of the TSA screening process: "They basically are just raping you in public." No, Khloe. No they are not.
She went on to clarify her nuanced feelings about this delicate personal space vs. national security issue:
"The people are so aggressive! It's like, 'Chill out, you didn't find anything on me yet, calm down.' They say, 'OK, I'm going to be patting you down and I'm going to be touching the crease of your ass.' That is so inappropriate!"
Did they, Khloe? Did they really say "ass"? And that was basically the same thing as being publicly raped? Terrific. I'm glad that the low-rent, third-best Kardashian sister has used this issue to get attention in such a garish way.
She's not the only bargain basement celebrity to seek some sort of currency from the whole TSA body scanning thing. Former Baywatch meat model Donna D'errico claims she was subjected to a full-body scan simply because she is attractive, and that agents were laughing and whispering as she went through. Which, if that happened, it is awful and those employees should be fired. If D'errico is just exaggerating for an excuse to bring attention to how pretty she is, well she was fired by the court of public opinion many years ago, so who really cares.
What's important, Khloe Kardashian, is that D'errico didn't go on Lopez Tonight of all places and, as a fun bit of talk-show outrage, compare a clothed body pat at an airport to being raped in public. If it bothered you so much, why didn't you just go through the scanner? I mean, remember?
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Taking the pulse of preaching
Preaching is alive and well online, and in church the Mystery Worshipper project shows sermons remain significant, too
John Wesley, the preacher who crisscrossed Britain in the 18th century on a never-ending sermon tour, arrived in Deptford in 1739. He was hardly off his horse before he was preaching to a crowd jammed into the local hall.
Predictably, the floor collapsed.
"But two or three days before," Wesley coolly wrote, "a man had filled the vault beneath with hogsheads of tobacco. So that the floor, after sinking a foot or two, rested upon them, and I went on without interruption."
Wesley was a revolutionary preacher who knew how to improvise in a crisis and was unembarrassed by tobacco lending support to the gospel. He took preaching out of the church pulpit, where it had been stuck for centuries, and into the halls, markets, streets and fields – wherever ordinary people would give him a hearing – or pelt him with rotten fruit.
He accidentally recast preaching as an entertainment, which disgusted the clergy of his time but was seized on by the revivalists, huckster preachers and televangelists who followed him in the next two centuries.
Today, Wesley's spiritual heirs are running virtual churches, where you can park your pixelated bottom on a pew in Second Life and watch an avatar dressed as Elvis deliver a sermon in scrolling lines of text. Or slightly less bizarrely, they are physically preaching sermons before large crowds and posting them on YouTube.
Preaching is very much alive and well there, rubbing shoulders with Lady Gaga videos, bungee jumping and Snowball the dancing cockatoo. One 58-minute mega sermon by US evangelical preacher Paul Washer has clocked up 1.5 million views, while shorter "sermon jams", where mashed-up messages are set to hip hop and slideshows, are also clocking up decent hits.
The gaffe-loving spirit of YouTube is never far away, though. Caught on camera was a youth pastor attempting to preach about a Bible character who had "pitched his tents" next to Sodom and Gomorrah. To his own astonishment, the words fell out of his mouth as "pinched his tits" and he almost lost control of the audience.
But how is the traditional, pre-Wesley sermon doing in the churches of real stone and stained glass? Ship of Fools, the online magazine and community, runs a project called the Mystery Worshipper, where volunteer reporters visit Christian churches worldwide, sit in a back pew, complete a 20-point questionnaire and file a first-timer's impression of the service.
They answer the questions that anyone who goes to church really wants to know. How long was the sermon? How hard was the pew? How warm was the welcome? How cold was the coffee? Their answers are by turns critical, appreciative, awed, amused and irreverent. One of the final questions, "Did the service make you glad to be a Christian?" elicits answers ranging from "No, just bored" to "Not half!"
It's clear from the reports that preaching remains a significant event in services, especially in Protestant churches. In 2010, some 20% of Mystery Worshippers homed in on preaching as the one thing they took away from the experience. The average length of the sermon during the year was 17 minutes and 41 seconds: the shortest, two minutes, the longest, a coma-inducing 90.
And the qualities of preaching are what you would expect from any orator: good eye-contact, humour, warmth, solid preparation, spontaneity, conviction, insight, empathy, and not reading too closely from your notes.
It's a sermon, not a lecture. Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles was praised for leaving the pulpit to "walk about in front of the altar as he spoke, looking in all directions so as to include everyone".
That was fine, but too much departure from traditional delivery into flat-out entertainment plays badly. One pastor "came over more like a stand-up act than a preacher", said an unhappy Mystery Worshipper. "Not that I didn't appreciate his message, but in terms of content it was light as air, like the froth on a cappuccino."
Despite the pioneer spirit of their online brethren, offline congregations prefer their preaching as it's always been done: someone stands up and speaks with wit, passion and eloquence and knows "when to make an end", as Martin Luther said. Too much technology can simply get in the way of good local preaching, as one Sunday morning worshipper discovered: "At one point during the sermon, a message flashed up on the jumbo screen: 'Deborah Montgomery to Live the Adventure please.' I wondered just what adventure it was that Deborah was expected to live, but learned later that it's what they call their children's church."
Israeli rabbis' racist decree strikes at the soul of Judaism
Telling Jews not to rent houses to Arabs is religious fascism. So far, the state has failed to intervene
Israeli rabbi Mordechai Nagari signed the religious ruling barring Jews from selling or renting homes to non-Jews. Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP
More than 50 of Israel's leading rabbis have issued a religious decree forbidding Jews from renting or selling homes or land to non-Jews – namely, Arabs, migrant workers and African refugees. The letter was signed by rabbis across the country (many of whom are employed by the state as municipal religious leaders) and urged Jews to first warn and then "ostracise" fellow Jews who disobey the edict.
It's just the latest wave in a rising tide of religious fascism.
In Safed, less than two months ago, more than a dozen rabbis urged Jewish landlords to refrain from renting to Arab college students. This summer, a group of Tel Aviv rabbis signed a letter instructing Jews not to rent to "infiltrators" – the state's word for African refugees, most of whom have escaped genocide in Sudan or a brutal dictatorship in Eritrea. Ten estate agents answered the call.
And, in November, the municipality of Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, launched a campaign to rid the area of migrant workers and African refugees. By the end of the month, officials – government employees – were going door to door telling foreigners they had to leave.
The latest move, first publicised on Tuesday on Ynet's Hebrew site, is the largest step that Israel's religious community has taken against non-Jews. And it is, perhaps, the most alarming. Rabbis from all over the country signed the proclamation. And they didn't try to hide their intentions. "We don't need to help Arabs set down roots in Israel," one remarked to Haaretz.
"Racism originated in the Torah," another said.
For argument's sake, let's set aside the fact that the Palestinians had roots here long before the state of Israel existed. Let's pretend that they are "strangers" in this land, as these rabbis would surely claim. And let's turn to the same Torah that this group of rabbis is using as an excuse for racism and incitement. In Exodus, we are commanded not to expel others but to remember our exile in Egypt and to care for the strangers among us.
And, again for argument's sake, I'm going to set aside my many objections to Zionism and go to another root – Herzl, the founding father of the movement. What did he say about non-Jews? In his book Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State, Herzl wrote that "we should accord … honourable protection and equality" to "men of other creeds and different nationalities" because "we have learnt toleration in Europe".
Tuesday's proclamation – an act of state-sanctioned racism – shows that certain Jewish people have forgotten their history.
The decree was an open declaration of war. It's a strike against the soul of Judaism. And if the religious fascists win, what will we be left with? A country that is Jewish in numbers but not in spirit.
It could be argued that those who signed the proclamation – a group of men who are distorting Judaism to the point that I refuse to acknowledge them as rabbis – are extremists, that they don't represent the majority. Even if that is true, it doesn't change the fact that many are government employees. And, so far, the state has done nothing to put them in check.
Israel is handing the reins over to religious fascists – men who say Jews shouldn't rent to Arabs, migrant workers, or African refugees; settlers who build illegally and imperil any hope for peace and Palestinian sovereignty.
It's an ominous sign for the future. What's next? Will they find a way to claim that those of us who speak out, people like me, are no longer Jews? Will we then be subject to religious decrees that ban employers from hiring us and demand that landlords evict us?
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He said the case presents fascinating questions, such as whether the president may order "the assassination of a U.S. citizen without first affording him any form of judicial process whatsoever, based on the mere assertion that he is a dangerous member of a terrorist organization." But he said such questions must "await another day or another (non-judicial) forum."
‘Chaos’ at WikiLeaks Follows Assange Arrest
The arrest without bail of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday has left the organization in a state of uncertainty, despite transition plans laid out prior to his surrender to British police, according to one dispirited WikiLeaks activist who spoke to Threat Level on condition of anonymity.
Assange left Icelandic television journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson in charge of the group in his absence, the activist said. But now the embattled organization’s secrecy and compartmentalization are apparently hindering its operations.
Specifically, midlevel WikiLeaks staffers have been mostly cut off from communicating with hundreds of volunteers whose contact information was stored in Assange’s private online-messaging accounts, and never shared with others.
“There is an ongoing plan, but that plan was only introduced to a few staffers — key staffers,” explained the source. “We are experiencing chaos.”
WikiLeaks was scrambling to produce a statement in a dozen languages Tuesday to address Assange’s arrest.
Assange appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London Tuesday. The judge cited Assange’s itinerant lifestyle and denied him bail, despite the fact that he turned himself in.
The arrest came nine days after WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of more than 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, which are trickling out at a rate of about a hundred a day.
That publication schedule will continue uninterrupted, according to a tweet on WikiLeaks’ Twitter feed following Assange’s detention. “Today’s actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won’t affect our operations: We will release more cables tonight as normal,” read one message. A second tweet added: “Let down by the UK justice system’s bizarre decision to refuse bail to Julian Assange. But #cablegate releases continue as planned.”
Assange “is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010,” British police said.
Assange indicated in court that he would fight extradition to Sweden, according to reports. He is set to appear in court again Dec. 14.
Charismatic and driven, Assange has been WikiLeaks’ public face and prime mover for four years. It was Assange who personally managed the site’s most important leaker — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, according to Manning’s conversations with the ex-hacker who turned him in.
And when Assange’s autocratic leadership style was challenged by some staffers last year, he described his importance to the organization in no uncertain terms. “I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest.”
His absence, says the source, is being felt acutely. “The organization will most likely start to fall apart now.”
Photo: Kristinn Hrafnsson of Wikileaks
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Kevin Poulsen is a senior editor at Wired.com and editor of the award-winning Threat Level blog. His new book on cybercrime, KINGPIN, comes out February 22, 2011 from Crown.
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Tubeify Turns YouTube Into Slick Video Jukebox
A new streaming music service called Tubeify turns YouTube into an easy-to-use video jukebox.
“I tried to make it feel more like a traditional desktop music player, think iTunes or Spotify, but still web-based so you can use it anywhere,” said Tubeify creator Tomas Isdal in an interview with TorrentFreak. “Then I fixed the annoying parts of YouTube and added stuff that I always wanted in a music player.”
Isdal’s wish list resulted in a free music player with a user-friendly interface. Since Tubeify subjects users to YouTube’s hit-and-miss audio quality, it might feel a little like a poor-man’s Spotify. But it’s addictive enough to waste a few hours exploring.
With search functionality handled by the Last.fm API, Tubeify allows for quick assembly of playlists, which can be shared. The web-based service also taps into Billboard.com’s API to serve up lists from the current music charts; a cool “time travel” feature lets you explore chart-topping songs from any particular week since 1964. (Wired.com has a particular fondness for the sixth week in 1981.)
Get a Tubeify invite now and give the service a try.
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Righthaven Expands Troll Operation With Newspaper Giant
Copyright troll Righthaven, which sues blogs and websites for posting newspaper content without permission, is making good on its promise to expand its reach, and is now working on behalf of the nation’s second-biggest news chain.
Las Vegas–based Righthaven was formed this spring for the sole purpose of acquiring copyrights and suing to financially benefit from allegedly misappropriated intellectual property. It has filed more than 180 suits on behalf of Stephens Media’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, and has now begun suing on behalf of Denver-based MediaNews Group, which owns the San Jose Mercury News, the Denver Post and about two dozen other outlets.
Righthaven’s initial lawsuit on behalf of the Denver Post, first reported by the Las Vegas Sun, came three weeks after the paper published online a “notice to readers about Denver Post copyright protections.” The five-paragraph notice said the newspaper’s work “is illegally reproduced everyday on websites across the country.” The company wrote it was acceptable for blogs to “reproduce no more than a headline and up to a couple of paragraphs or summary of the story.”
MediaNews chief Dean Singleton, also chairman of the Associated Press, did not immediately respond for comment. Sara Glines, a MediaNews vice president, likewise did not return a telephone call.
Steve Gibson, Righthaven’s chief executive, said in a brief telephone interview that “We have a substantial number of clients and business relationships that you’ll be seeing additional activity with.” He said he believes his business model will help the media capitalize on their content.
Its suit on behalf of MediaNews targets lowcountry912.com, a blog on national and local politics. The site did not immediately respond for comment. The blog is accused of running (.pdf) an entire Denver Post column in September, titled “Rosen: A Letter to the Tea Partyers.”
In some of its previous lawsuits, Righthaven sued over the reposting of a few paragraphs from a news article, even when the post was done by a user on a discussion board. Righthaven changed the tactic after suffering a courtroom defeat in a Review-Journal lawsuit last month.
Righthaven has settled more than 70 of its cases out of court. Terms have not been not made public.
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Microsoft Builds Online Tracking Blocking Feature Into IE9
By Ryan Singel
The new feature, called “Tracking Protection,” will be bundled into IE9’s next beta release early next year, and is intended to give users control over what widgets and scripts display — and pull in data — when they visit a given website.
The announcement comes just a week after the Federal Trade Commission castigated the online-ad industry for not regulating itself and dragging its feet on being transparent with users about the data they collect and how they use it.
The FTC also called for browser makers to build a “do not track” feature that, when turned on, would send a “no tracking, please” message to every website you visit. While the FTC lacks the authority to force companies to obey the flag, it called on advertisers to comply, with the veiled threat that it could get the power from Congress, if need be.
IE9’s Tracking Protection feature would work differently, by blocking websites and third-party plug-ins outright. People who wanted the blocks could subscribe to a “tracking protection list.” So, for instance, if the blocking list you subscribe to bans Google’s Analytics tracking service or Facebook’s Like button when you visit a webpage using those features, your browser will simply not load them and pass no information to those companies.
“These are complementary approaches, and different ways to get to the same goal of helping consumers block tracking,” said Dean Hachamovitch, the company’s vice president in charge of IE development. “This path is different in that it actually blocks the tracking now.”
Hachamovitch, along with the company’s top privacy strategist Peter Cullen, announced the feature in a webcast for reporters at the same time Google was unveiling the Chrome web store and Chrome OS. Microsoft has tried to portray itself as better on privacy than Google, which many fear knows too much about them.
Tracking protection lists can be created by anyone and published on the web, using a format that Microsoft is publishing under a Creative Commons license. So, anyone is free to make a list and other browser makers could use the lists as well, without infringing on Microsoft’s intellectual property.
The service will be turned off by default in the browser, but once it is on, users can choose to subscribe to a list, and when the creator updates the list, the browser will automatically sync with it. Lists can include both approved and verboten sites.
Microsoft said it will not ship IE9 with any lists built-in, and hopes to see a wide swath of groups and individuals create lists.
The feature is likely to be controversial for ad and tracking firms, which argue that much of the internet’s free services are dependent upon targeted advertising. Third-party advertising and tracking systems use cookies and JavaScript to watch what users do and read around the web in order to build a profile of interests about you, with the hopes of showing sports fans and knitting fanatics different ads.
Plug-ins from third parties have become increasingly popular in the last few years, and when you visit a news story on Wired.com or the Wall Street Journal your browser will load in ads, cookies, tracking beacons, content, commenting systems and scripts from sometimes dozens of third-parties.
For the most part, these tracking systems don’t know who you are, and simply create a unique ID, such as ADT187423, which it associates with that browser. Data collected over time is used to build up profiles by making guesses about you, to prevent you from seeing the same ad over and over, and to let websites understand how much traffic they get and how loyal their visitors are.
Current tools for preventing such tracking include using opt-out cookies for third-party advertising networks, browser plug-ins and, for hard-core geeks, using the computer’s host list to explicitly block sites they do not want their computer to connect to.
IE9’s new feature is most like the latter, but simplifies the process by making it easy to subscribe to other people’s lists and keep them updated over time.
One other key difference, however, is that when you visit a website, IE9 will pass along the information that you are using a “tracking protection list” to that site, which can then prompt you to unblock certain features, or even decide not to show you a news story until you do.
It’s unclear yet if the new feature will be so easy to use and widely adopted that it creates an arms race between advertisers and users.
History suggests not. Google, for instance, puts links on its display ads that take users to a page that lets them see their advertising profile, edit it and opt out if they like. But Google says that the small percentage of its massive user base who visit the page generally don’t opt out.
X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time
A new hypothetical particle could solve two cosmic mysteries at once: what dark matter is made of, and why there’s enough matter for us to exist at all.
“We know you have to have these two ingredients to the universe, both atoms and dark matter,” said physicist Kris Sigurdson of the University of British Columbia, coauthor of a paper describing the new particle. “Since you know you need those ingredients anyway, it seems like a natural thing to try to explain them from the same mechanism.”
Cosmologists think the same amount of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang, and particles and antiparticles immediately started colliding and extinguishing each other. But the fact that stars, planets and physicists exist now is proof that that’s not what happened.
“If matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the early universe, they would all have annihilated [each other],” said theoretical physicist Sean Tulin of the Canadian physics institute TRIUMF. “There has to be some asymmetry that was left over.”
Together with physicists Hooman Davoudiasl at Brookhaven National Lab and David Morrissey of TRIUMF, Tulin and Sigurdson suggest a way to solve the problem of missing antimatter: Hide it away as dark matter. The details are published in the Nov. 19 Physical Review Letters.
“If our theory is right, it would tell you what dark matter is,” Tulin said.
Most of what we know about dark matter is that it is mysterious stuff that makes up a quarter of the energy density of the universe, but refuses to interact with regular matter except through gravity.
The most popular candidate for dark matter is a theoretical weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP, that connects only with the weak nuclear force and gravity, making it undetectable by eyes, radios and telescopes at all wavelengths. Based on current theories, WIMPs are expected to be about 100 times as massive as a proton, and to be their own antiparticle — whenever two WIMPs meet up in space, they annihilate each other.
The new theoretical particle “is completely different from the WIMP idea,” Tulin said. The proposed particle, named simply “X,” has a separate antiparticle called “anti-X.” Equal amounts of X and anti-X were created in the Big Bang, and then decayed to lighter particles. Each X decayed into either a neutron or two dark-matter particles, called Y and Φ. Every anti-X converted to an anti-neutron or some anti-dark matter.
But the hypothetical X particle would rather decay into ordinary matter than dark matter, so it produced more neutrons than dark matter. Anti-X preferred decaying into anti-dark matter, and so produced more of it.
After all the particles and anti-particles that could find each other collided and eliminated each other, the universe was left with some extra neutrons and a corresponding number of extra anti-dark matter particles.
“The protons and neutrons can’t annihilate completely with their antiparticles, because there’s not enough to annihilate with,” Tulin said. “The same story happens in the hidden sector as well…. Some dark matter can’t annihilate with anything. So you’re left with some extra dark matter in the universe.”
Conveniently, this picture could explain another particle-physics puzzle: why there is only five times more dark matter than regular matter in the universe. To physicists, five is a really small number. If dark matter and regular matter didn’t spring from similar origins, there’s no reason why there should be roughly the same amount of both of them.
But in the new model, there should be the same absolute number of regular-matter particles and dark-matter particles left after all the particles that can destroy each other are gone. If the dark-matter particles each have a mass between two and three times the proton’s mass, then the universe ends up with five times more dark matter than regular matter.
“That’s why the light stuff, the visible matter that we all know and love and are used to, is in exact balance with the excess in the dark matter,” Sigurdson said. He compares the balance to a yin-yang: “You end up with a little bit more matter and a little bit more antimatter, but they’re in exact compensation with each other.”
The signatures of this new form of dark matter could be detected by existing experiments. In this model, dark matter doesn’t interact with regular matter very often — but it can happen. A dark-matter particle can sometimes smack into a proton or a neutron and destroy it, creating a signature similar to a proton decaying.
Proton decay isn’t allowed by the standard model of particle physics, but some theories that go beyond the standard model allow it. An enormous underground tank of water in Japan, called SuperKamiokande, was designed to look for the decaying protons, but has so far found nothing. If physicists at SuperKamiokande went back through their data and looked at slightly different energies, they may be able to find traces of dark matter.
“It’s a pretty novel idea,” said astroparticle physicist Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford, who has suggested detecting a different possible form of dark matter by observing its buildup in the sun. The signature of dark matter destroying protons “can be easily tested by the even bigger proposed underground detectors” planned to be built somewhere in Europe.
“This is only the beginning,” Sigurdson said. “There’s other puzzles out there in particle physics, and we’d like to connect as many of those as possible.”
WikiLeaks’ Assange Arrested in London, Denied Bail
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks leader, was arrested Tuesday in London on Swedish rape accusations after agreeing to meet with the police.
Hours later, he appeared in Magistrates Court in Westminster, where he was denied bail, CNN reported.
The arrest came nine days after WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of more than 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, which are trickling out at a rate of about 100 a day.
That publication will continue uninterrupted, according to a tweet on the WikiLeaks twitter feed following Assange’s detention. “Today’s actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won’t affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal,” read one message. A second tweet added: “Let down by the UK justice system’s bizarre decision to refuse bail to Julian Assange. But #cablegate releases continue as planned.”
Metropolitan police said in a statement that Assange volunteered to surrender at a London police station.
“He is acused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August, 2010,” the police said.
Assange indicated in court that he would fight extradition to Sweden, according to reports. He is set to appear in court again on December 14.
Update 13:00 EST: The Guardian has the first detailed breakdown of the allegations under investigation in the case.
Gemma Lindfield, for the Swedish authorities, told the court Assange was wanted in connection with four allegations.
She said the first complainant, Miss A, said she was victim of “unlawful coercion” on the night of 14 August in Stockholm.
The court heard Assange is accused of using his body weight to hold her down in a sexual manner.
The second charge alleged Assange “sexually molested” Miss A by having sex with her without a condom when it was her “express wish” one should be used.
The third charge claimed Assange “deliberately molested” Miss A on 18 August “in a way designed to violate her sexual integrity”.
The fourth charge accused Assange of having sex with a second woman, Miss W, on 17 August without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home.
Update 14:00 EST Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny commented on the arrest in a statement. “Apart from the arrest, nothing new has happened in the investigation, but the arrest is a prerequisite for continuing the investigation. I cannot give information on the next step, as the matter at the moment is handled by British authorities,” she said.
“I would like to clarify that there have by no means been any political pressure on my decision making. I act as a prosecutor due to suspicions of sexual crimes in Sweden in August. Swedish prosecutors are completely independent in their decision making,” she added..
See Also:
- No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Transparency
- Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- WikiLeaks’ Assange To Meet With U.K. Police Over Swedish Warrant
- WikiLeaks Founder ‘Detained in Absentia’ in Swedish Rape Probe
- U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
